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: 978-0544947139)
THEME: Charleston Rag from Memories Of You, Eubie Blake
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-10: 1476778159 | ISBN-13: 9781476778150
THEME: Aram Khachaturian: Secret Mission: “Surrender” by Armenian Philharmonic/Loris Tjeknavorian
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: 978-1250007810)
THEME: “Unomathemba” and “Golgotha” by Ladysmith Black Mambazo; from the album Shaka Zulu
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 9780399562099
THEME: “Vertigogo [Closing credits]” by Combustible Edison from the soundtrack for the movie “Four Rooms”
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, finds his voice, and helps create a new political party.
This is the second volume which covers the turbulent time from 1849 to 1856. Sidney Blumenthal’s first volume was "A Self-Made Man."
(Simon & Schuster; ISBN-10: 1501153781)
THEME: “Ashokan Farewell” from the album “Harvest Home: Music for All Seasons” with Jay Ungar & Molly...
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 to the blue-collar citizens we’re familiar with from many of his novels. In “Horseman,” a professor confronts a young plagiarist. In “Intervention,” a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father’s shadow while he presses forward–or not. In “Voice,” a semiretired academic is conned by his increasingly estranged brother into coming along...
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 while announcers track the progress of the hurricane they say is heading his way.
(Harper & Row; ISBN-10: 0060145765)
Theme: “Sh boom” by The Crewcuts, “Mr. Sandman” by Chordettes
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 family’s needs.
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing; ISBN-10: 1542785618)
Theme: “Lauren’s Walking” by Angelo Badalamenti from the soundtrack “The Straight Story”
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 the ghosts from his past, present and future.
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing; ISBN-10: 1503212831)
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 as many others. This episode originally aired on Christmas Day 1978.
This was a limited, numbered book privately printed for friends of World Publishing in 1965.
THEME: Various Christmas Carols performed by Singers Unlimited
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, Op 48 – 2nd mvt; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – Neville Marriner, cond.
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 Blake
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 House; ISBN-10: 0812988906)
Theme: Cliff Martinez: I’m in the Pink & Falling off a Bicycle Plus, from “The Knick” soundtrack
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 the death toll rises history becomes ever more important.
(Midnight Ink Books; ISBN13: 9780738745152 | ISBN10: 1410495213)
Theme: “Ashokan Farewell” from the album “Harvest Home” with Jay Ungar & Molly Mason (Angel Records)
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: Ponce: Instantaneas Mexicanas-I. Canto A La Malinche; Enrique Batiz & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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 Pops/John Williams; (Philips 420-177-2)
Friday, May 19, 2017, 12:30pm
Friday, May 19, 2017. 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 of the hurricane they say is heading his way.
(Harper & Row; ISBN-10: 0060145765)
Theme: “Sh boom” by The Crewcuts, “Mr. Sandman” by Chordetts
Monday, May 1, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, May 1 through Thursday, May 18, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming.
When Mel Miskimen’s mom died her dad’s life changed as well. Knowing his passion for his springer spaniels Mel thought she might reach him by asking for help in training her black lab Seamus. However, “training” may be a word that simply has no place in the world of a carefree follow-my-heart dog like this one.
(Sourcebooks; ISBN-10: 1492632279)
Monday, April 24, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, April 24 to Friday, April 28, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming.
Galen Winter's tales of Major Nathaniel Peabody (U.S. Army, retired) have engaged readers of Shooting Sportsman for years. This collection offers the listener the opportunity to meet the eccentric Major and enjoy some of his more colorful misadventures.
(Country Sport Press; ISBN-10: 0892725400)
Theme: Astor Piazzolla: Libertango, Yo-Yo Ma, cello, from the album "Soul of the Tango" (Sony SK 63122)
Monday, March 13, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, March 13 through Friday, April 21, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming.
The author of "Driftless" takes us back to Words, Wisconsin and a new cast of characters who must take on the burdens of the past.
(Milkweed; ISBN-10: 1571311009)
Theme: Haydn: The Seven Last Words - introduction; Emerson Quartet (DG B0002053-02)
Monday, February 13, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, February 13 through Friday, March 10, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming
Published in 1917, the year Wisconsin Public Radio began, this is a novel of the Great War. Mr. Britling is much like Wells himself, one of those who thought Europe would never come to war but discovers that while ideas count, reality is very personal.
Monday, January 23, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, January 23 through Friday, February 10, 2017. Read by Norman Gilliland
Washington, D.C. was a place full of intrigue at the end of World War II. In this thriller a young naval intelligence officer must solve a murder and keep the Soviets from discovering the secrets of the atomic bomb.
Monday, January 9, 2017, 12:30pm
Monday, January 9 through Friday, January 20, 2017. Read by Susan Sweeney
This is how Library Journal describes it: Though Markham is known for setting an aviation record for a solo flight across the Atlantic from East to West-hence the title-she was also a bush pilot in Africa, sharing adventures with Blor Blixen and Denys Finch-Hatton of Out of Africa fame. Hemingway, who met Markham during his safari days, dubbed the book "bloody wonderful."
Thursday, December 29, 2016, 12:30pm
Thursday, December 29, 2016 through Friday, January 6, 2017. Read by Jim Fleming.
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and a New Year In .
Wednesday, December 21, 2016, 12:30pm
Wednesday, December 21 through Wednesday, December 28, 2016. Read by Jim Fleming.
Like “A Christmas Carol” this story looks like it will end unhappily but the festive cheer of the season turns it all around.
Monday, December 19, 2016, 12:30pm
Monday, December 19 through Tuesday, December 20, 2016. Read by Norman Gilliland.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson join in the search for a missing gem and a found goose.