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Seabiscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

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...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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)...

In The Time Of Coronavirus Distancing, A Wisconsin Teen Moves His Daily Storytime Session Online

March 30, 2020 - 6:45am

Oscar Telschow wants to be a teacher and was reading to preschoolers in person every day until the coronavirus closed schools. Instead of discontinuing storytime, he moved it online.

Laurentian Divide: A Novel by Sarah Stonich

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 is...

The Empire Writes Back: Author Discusses Explorer David Livingstone's Complicated Legacy

March 13, 2020 - 5:15pm

Nineteenth century European explorer David Livingstone died of malaria nearly 150 years ago, but as author Petina Gappah explains, Africans are still debating his legacy today as they assess the impact of European colonialism.

The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone

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 puzzles...

Poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson's 'Imperial Liquor' Draws On Themes Of Protectiveness, Racism, Empathy

March 2, 2020 - 6:00am

A new book from University of Wisconsin-Madison poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson, "Imperial Liquor," taps into themes of paternal protectiveness, the pervasiveness of racism and the possibility of empathy.

Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald

February 17, 2020 - 12:30pm

Monday, February 17 through Friday, February 28, 2020. Read by Jim Fleming.

Joshua Glover was bought in St. Louis to be a "servant for life," broken out of jail after his escape by Wisconsin abolitionists, and helped to escape to Canada and freedom.

(Wisconsin Historical Society Press; ISBN-10: 0870203827)...

Ecologist Culls Perspectives From Naturalists Throughout Wisconsin's History

February 17, 2020 - 5:55am

Ecologist Sumner Matteson compiled perspectives from numerous naturalists who have been impacted by Wisconsin's landscape throughout its history. The biographies and observations of 19 naturalists are featured in the recently-published first volume. Matteson plans on writing two more volumes.

Animal Rights Activist's New Purpose Is Helping Factory Farmers

February 14, 2020 - 6:30am

After working with animal advocacy groups across Europe, Asia and South America — to combat bullfighting, whaling, bear-bile farming, working horses and captured dolphins — factory farming was the worst display of abuse Leah Garcés had ever seen.

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Seabiscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

In The Time Of Coronavirus Distancing, A Wisconsin Teen Moves His Daily Storytime Session Online

Laurentian Divide: A Novel by Sarah Stonich

The Empire Writes Back: Author Discusses Explorer David Livingstone's Complicated Legacy

The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone

Poet Amaud Jamaul Johnson's 'Imperial Liquor' Draws On Themes Of Protectiveness, Racism, Empathy

Finding Freedom: the Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slave by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald

Ecologist Culls Perspectives From Naturalists Throughout Wisconsin's History

Animal Rights Activist's New Purpose Is Helping Factory Farmers

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