Seabiscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Monday, April 27, 2020, 12:30pm
Monday, April 27 through Friday, May 22, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming. With knobby knees and crooked legs, Seabiscuit was no one's idea of a race horse, but looks aren't everything. His quality, an admirer once wrote, "was mostly in his heart." Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of the horse who became...
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Monday, April 13, 2020, 12:30pm
Monday, April 13 through Friday, April 24, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming. (Project Gutenberg and other publishers. CreateSpace ISBN-10: 1505297729 ) Theme: Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches, "To a Wild Rose, Will o' the wisp, At an Old Trysting Place"; James Barbagallo, piano (Marco Polo 8.223631)
Laurentian Divide: A Novel by Sarah Stonich
Monday, March 23, 2020, 12:30pm
Monday, March 23 through Friday, April 10, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What...
The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
Monday, March 2, 2020, 12:30pm
Monday, March 2 through Friday, March 20, 2020. Read by Norman Gilliland The incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving...
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis
Monday, February 3, 2020, 12:30pm
Monday, February 3 through Friday, February 14, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming (Knopf; ISBN-10: 0385353421 ) Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of...
The Eye of Edna from Essays of E.B. White
Friday, January 31, 2020, 12:30pm
Friday, January 31, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming. "The Eye of Edna" is an essay from the collection "The Essays of E.B. White." The author, one of the founders of The New Yorker magazine, lived in Maine at the time and writes of spending a day listening to the radio while announcers track the progress...
Head Of The Lakes by Anthony Bukoski
Monday, January 27, 2020, 12:30pm
Monday, January 27 through Thursday, January 30, 2020. Read by Norman Gilliland. Stories about Superior's Polish Americans and blue-collar community from its peak after World War II to its later decline. (Nodin Press: ISBN-10: 1947237063 ) THEME: “A Legend of the Skerries” by Hugo Alfven; Swedish...
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Friday, January 3, 2020, 12:30pm
Friday, January 3 through Friday, January 24, 2020. Read by Susan Sweeney. In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she...
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Thursday, December 26, 2019, 12:30pm
Thursday, December 26, 2019 through Thursday, January 2, 2020. Read by Michael Hanson. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a...
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Monday, December 23, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, December 23 through Wednesday, December 25, 2019. Read by Ken Ohst. From the 1979 Chapter a Day archives, Ken Ohst reads Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" which was published in December of 1843. It tells the story of bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from visits by...
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
Monday, December 9, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, December 9 through Friday, December 20, 2019. Read by Michele Good. Word by Word brings to life the hallowed halls (and highly idiosyncratic cubicles) of Merriam-Webster, a startlingly rich world inhabited by quirky and erudite individuals who quietly shape the way we communicate. (Pantheon...
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Monday, November 18, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, November 18 through Friday, December 6, 2019. Read by Karl Schmidt. At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir Tender at the Bone is the...
The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman
Monday, October 28, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, October 28 through Friday, November 15, 2019. Read by Norman Gilliland. Joe Leaphorn may have retired from the Tribal Police, but he finds himself knee-deep in a perplexing case involving a priceless artifact—a reminder of a dark time in Navajo history. Joe’s been hired to find a missing...
The Poison Squad by Deborah Blum
Monday, September 30, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, September 30 through Friday, October 25, 2019. Read by Jim Fleming. 2019-2020’s Go Big Read Selection! From Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times-bestselling author and UW Alumni Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the...
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Monday, September 16, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, September 16 through Friday, September 27, 2019. Read by Karl Schmidt. "A River Runs Through It" is a semi-autobiographical account of Maclean's relationship with his brother Paul and their upbringing in an early 20th-century Montana family in which "there was no clear line between religion...
The Civilian Conservation Corps In Wisconsin by Jerry Apps
Monday, September 9, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, September 9 through Friday, September 13, 2019. Read by Jim Fleming. In his latest book, acclaimed Wisconsin writer Jerry Apps presents the first comprehensive history of the CCC in Wisconsin. Apps guides readers around the state, from the Northwoods to the Driftless Area, creating a map of...
The Williamson Turn by P.F. Kluge
Monday, August 19, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, August 19 through Friday, September 6, 2019. Read by Norman Gilliland. Will Post, a celebrated and sometimes controversial columnist, is a professor on the MV Explorer's Semester at Sea program, sailing around the world teaching the ups and downs of travel writing, while navigating the...
Robert’s Rules: North of the Tension Line by J.F. Riordan
Monday, July 22, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, July 22 through Friday, August 16, 2019. Read by Jim Fleming. As the new Chairman of the Town Board, Fiona Campbell finds that life has become a series of petty squabbles, dull meetings, and papers everywhere, all complicated by her guardianship of the as yet unidentified screaming goat. In...
The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny
Wednesday, July 3, 2019, 12:30pm
Wednesday, July 3 through Friday, July 19. Read by Susan Sweeney. As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and feels the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen-year-old Cielle endures a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father. On a balmy summer afternoon, she...
