Monday, April 8, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, April 4 through Friday, April 26, 2019. Read by Catherine Brand. Terry Ryan's mother Evelyn was amazing. She raised 10 children, and supported her alcoholic husband, by entering -- and winning one out of four -- popular contests in the 1950's. She wrote jingles, and poems, and a hundred...
Monday, March 18, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, March 18 through Friday, March 29, 2019. Read by Norman Gilliland Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates...
Monday, February 25, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, February 25 through Friday, March 15, 2019. Read by Jim Fleming and Susan Sweeney January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb. . . . Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises and of finding connection in the most surprising ways. (Dial Press: ISBN-10: 0385340990 | ISBN-13: 9780385341004) THEME: Eric Coates: Summer Days Suite; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - John Wilson, conductor (Avie AV 2070)
Monday, February 4, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, February 4 through Friday, February 22, 2019. Read by Cynthia Woodland This is a story, as the title says, of justice and redemption, but it’s more. It’s about the criminal justice system in this country, and about the death penalty…and about people. Mostly it’s about people. (Spiegel...
Monday, January 7, 2019, 12:30pm
Monday, January 7 through Friday, February 1, 2019. Read by Jim Fleming. Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother. Then, one day, Willa receives a startling phone call from a stranger. (Knopf; ISBN: 0525521224 ) THEME: “Just Like A Woman” by Bill Frisell from the album “Have A Little Faith”
Thursday, December 27, 2018, 12:30pm
Thursday, December 27, 2018 through Friday, January 4, 2019. Read by Jim Fleming. This 1844 Charles Dickens’ novella concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his...
Monday, December 17, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, December 17, 2001 through Wednesday, December 26, 2018. Read by Jim Fleming in 2001. Luther and Nora Krank, having sent their daughter off to work for the Peace Corps, sense an opportunity. "We won't do Christmas," says Luther, and books a cruise instead. Their neighbors find this decision unseemly, to say the least, and the humor of the story is in how the Kranks respond to pressure. The Kranks may want to skip Christmas, but you won't. (Doubleday; ISBN: 0385505833 )
Monday, December 3, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, December 3 through Friday, December 14, 2018. Read by Carol Cowan in 1990. In this sixth book in the Little House series, the town of De Smet is hit hard by the brutal winter of 1880. Laura and her family face the winter as best they can. (HarperCollins; ISBN-10: 0060264608 )
Friday, November 30, 2018, 12:30pm
Friday, November 30, 2018. 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...
Monday, November 12, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, November 12 through Thursday, November 29, 2018. Read by Jim Fleming. Raymond Kaquatosh was born in 1924 on Wisconsin’s Menominee Reservation. The son of a medicine woman, he spent his boyhood immersed in the beauty of the natural world and the traditions of his tribe and his family. When...
Monday, October 29, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, October 29 through Friday, November 9, 2018. Read by Norman Gilliland and Sam Wood. A young cartoonist becomes one the early “embedded journalists” when he serves as a volunteer infantryman during World War I documenting the harsh realities of combat life for his Iowa newspaper. (University...
Monday, October 1, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, October 1 through Friday, October 26, 2018. Read by Jim Fleming. It's New York in the late 30s and a twenty-five-year-old woman, armed with intellect, wit, and nerve, embarks on a journey from Wall Street secretary to the upper layers of New York society. It's also a story of how decisions...
Monday, September 10, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, September 10 through Friday, September 28, 2018. Read by Carol Cowan in 1989. It's 1949 and four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet over lunch. They share their trails and losses, and their hopes for their American-born daughters. ( Penguin Books; ISBN-10: 0143124846 )...
Thursday, September 6, 2018, 12:30pm
Thursday, September 6 through Friday, September 7, 2018. Read by Norman Gilliland. This Wisconsin author brings back 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...
Monday, August 6, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, August 6 through Wednesday, September 5, 2018. Read by Susan Sweeney. Celine and her partner track down missing persons with unusual success, but someone desperately wants to keep this case closed. Vintage (Penguin Random House): ISBN-10: 110197348X ) THEME: Artist: Julian Lage; Song:...
Monday, July 16, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, July 16 through Friday, August 3, 2018. Read by Jim Fleming. With his valet Passepartout, Phileas Fogg attempts to travel around the globe in just eighty days in order to win a £20,000 wager. The novel describes his passage through exotic lands and dangerous locations using whatever...
Monday, July 9, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, July 9 through Friday, July 13. Read by Norman Gilliland. Seven years of research went into this detailed biography of this commander-in-chief and defender of equal rights in post-Civil War America. (Random House; ISBN-10: 1400069025 ) THEME: “The Voices That Are Gone” by Stephen Foster and...
Monday, June 18, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, June 18 through Friday, July 6. Read by Michele Good. Constance Kopp, one of the nation’s first deputy sheriffs, prowls the streets of New York tracking down victims, trailing leads, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers. (Mariner Books; ISBN-10: 0544409949 | ISBN-13: 978-...
Monday, May 28, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, May 28 through Friday, June 15. Read by Jim Fleming. Robert Root moves to a small town in southeast Wisconsin and walks the same terrain traveled by three Wisconsin conservation luminaries. Wisconsin Historical Society: 0870207865 | ISBN-13: 978-0870207860)
Monday, May 7, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, May 7 through Friday, May 25, 2018. Read by Norman Gilliland. Tom Miller creates a story of historical fantasy set during World War I that mixes romance, gunplay, and social awareness into a steampunk adventure. This is the debut novel from this Wisconsin native. (Simon & Schuster; ISBN...
