Monday, June 18, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, June 18 through Friday, July 6. 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 28, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, May 28 through Friday, June 15. 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 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...
Monday, April 23, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, April 23 through Friday, May 4, 2018. Read by Carol Cowan in June, 1988. A memoir about starting life over as a beekeeper in the Ozarks and the joys of a life attuned to nature. (Mariner Books; ISBN-10: 0544310292
Monday, March 26, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, March 26 through Friday, April 20, 2018. Read by Jim Fleming. Lawrence Anthony devoted his life to protecting the world's endangered species, but then he was asked to accept a herd of wild elephants on his game reserve in Zululand. (Thomas Dunne Books: ISBN-10: 1627793097 | ISBN-13: 978-...
Monday, March 5, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, March 5 through Friday, March 23, 2018. Read by Michele Good. Ten year old Willow Havens worries about the health and lifestyle of her mother Polly, a cantankerous, larger than life southern woman who doesn't quite fit into their small Texas town. (Viking: ISBN-10: 0399562095 ) | ISBN-13...
Monday, February 19, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, February 19 through Friday, March 2, 2018. Read by Jim Fleming. Volume II of Sidney Blumenthal’s acclaimed, landmark biography, "The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln" , reveals the future president’s genius during the most decisive period of his political life when he seizes the moment,...
Monday, January 22, 2018, 12:30pm
Monday, January 22 through Friday, February 16. Read by Norman Gilliland. A new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo–winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls –is also a master of this genre. Russo’s characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity...
Monday, January 15, 2018, 11:00pm
Monday, January 15 at 11:00 pm only (Due to MLK Day Tribute). 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...
Friday, December 29, 2017, 12:30pm
Friday, December 29 through Friday January 19 (pre-empted on 1/15/18 for MLK Day Tribute). Read by Jim Fleming. Joe McDowell wants things that a poor farm boy can never have. On the cusp of adolescence and major decisions, he must make an irrevocable choice between his personal desires and his...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017, 12:30pm
Tuesday, December 26 through Thursday, December 28, 2017. 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...
Monday, December 25, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, December 25. Read by Karl Schmidt, Ken Ohst, Cliff Roberts and Jim Fleming. This book is a collection of letters and speeches reflecting the spirit of Christmas and New Years by such individuals as John Steinbeck, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, George Washington, Thomas Mann, as well...
Monday, December 4, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, December 4 through Friday, December 22, 2017. Read by Norman Gilliland. Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to only a handful of people, is a harsh and lonely place. So when James Campbell’s cousin Heimo Korth asked him to spend a summer building a cabin in the rugged Interior, Campbell hesitated about inviting his fifteen-year-old daughter, Aidan, to join him: Would she be able to withstand clouds of mosquitoes, the threat of grizzlies, bathing in an ice-cold river, and hours of grueling labor peeling and hauling logs? (Broadway Books; ISBN-10: 0307461246 )
Monday, October 30, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, October 30 through Friday, December 1, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming. In 1922 an unrepentant aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol Hotel. If he steps outside he will be shot. Inside, however, life goes on. (Viking Press; ISBN-10: 0670026190 ) Theme: Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C...
Monday, October 2, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, October 2 through Friday, October 27, 2017. Read by Michele Good A lively novel about a forgotten woman, Constance Kopp. She was one of very first female deputy sheriffs. (Houghton Mifflin; ISBN-10: 0544409914 ) / ISBN-13: 978-0544409613) Theme: Charleston Rag from Memories Of You, Eubie...
Monday, September 4, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, September 4 through Friday, September 29, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming. The author of “The Sherlockian” and “The Imitation Game” takes on Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla among others in their battle to bring electricity to the modern world of the Nineteenth Century. (Random...
Monday, August 7, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, August 7 through Friday, September 1, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming. As curator Chloe Ellefson begins work on a Civil War reenactment at Old World Wisconsin in Waukesha County, a man is found dead near one of the German farms. Past and present intermingle as always at a historical site, but as...
Monday, July 24, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, July 24 through Friday, August 4, 2017. Read by Norman Gilliland. The stories of Latin Americans who get through the wall separating the US from Mexico, the ranchers who oppose them, and the humanitarians caught in between. (Beacon Press; ISBN-10: 0807001309 / ISBN13: 9780807042274) Theme:...
Monday, June 19, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday June 19 through Friday July 21, 2017. Read by Susan Sweeney. V.I. Warshawski goes to help an old friend and ends up in a fight with Chicago political bosses. (Signet; ISBN-10: 0451477154 ) Theme: “Latin Shuffle” from the album “Combustication” Medeski Martin & Wood
Monday, May 22, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, May 22 through Friday, June 16, 2017. Read by Norman Gilliland Being in Caesar’s line is a lot to put on a boy, and Nero is no exception. In the Roman Empire, he discovers, it is best to be cruel to avoid being dead. (Berkly; ISBN-10: 0451473388 ) Theme: Holst: The Planets: Mars; Boston...
