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The Fate of the World in the Hands of Two Teenagers Updated: 2011-12-13 14:00:58 Description: To others at his new high school, Kaden is a typical teenage boy. To her friends and teachers, Aren is a typical teenage girl. But neither is what they appear to be, in Charles Pulsipher‘s fantasy novel “The Crystal Bridge.” Kaden, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Fate of the World in the Hands of Two Teenagers Updated: 2011-12-13 14:00:58 Description: To others at his new high school, Kaden is a typical teenage boy. To her friends and teachers, Aren is a typical teenage girl. But neither is what they appear to be, in Charles Pulsipher‘s fantasy novel “The Crystal Bridge.” Kaden, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Love Story Across the Centuries Updated: 2011-12-07 21:00:52 Description: Over a hundred years ago, in a small town near the California coast, lived a young woman named Daphne Lindstrom. 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD ‘American Psycho’ Meets ‘Sex & the City’ Updated: 2011-11-21 14:00:42 Description: After years of sexual abuse, then the loss of his mother, then the loss of his faith and finally the loss of his one true love, David Howard finally cracks. Buy the book In S.C. Cunningham‘s intense thriller “The Penance List” David...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Her “Addiction” Will Delight You Updated: 2011-11-16 20:00:18 Description: Mina Kitchen is a forty-something single woman, a New Jersey native currently living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania — and true to her surname, Mina loves to cook. In fact, you could say Mina has a “catering disorder.” Buy the book We me...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD One Man’s Search for a New Life – On An Asteroid Updated: 2011-11-14 12:00:51 Description: Have you ever wondered what it might feel like if the world just started moving too fast for you to keep up with it? 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Small Town, Big Intrigue Updated: 2011-11-04 19:59:10 Description: Small towns in America aren’t always like Mayberry or River City or Lake Wobegone. Sometimes they’re like Exeter, Massachusetts, the setting of Jennie Coughlin’s book “Thrown Out: Stories from Exeter.” Buy the book This ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Will This Teenager Step Up and Save His World? Updated: 2011-11-01 20:58:20 Description: Sometime in the near future, a bright fourteen-year-old named Nick Lyons is trying to get back home – to the Lunar Colony from which he was brought to Earth a few years earlier by his parents. Buy the book Nick has it figured out. All he has to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Does He Really Want to Know The Family Secrets? Updated: 2011-10-11 13:08:27 Description: What do you know about your ancestors? You know what they look like, if you have photo albums. Perhaps they left some letters, maybe an old newspaper clipping. 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What Got This (Good) Dad Arrested Updated: 2011-10-11 13:04:17 Description: As parents we’ve all done things from time to time that, if we’d taken a minute to think about it, we probably wouldn’t have done. Virtually every parent has, at some point, threatened to make their misbehaving kid walk home from ch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Then a Stunning, Leggy Blonde Walks In… Updated: 2011-10-11 13:00:50 Description: A sexy blonde with a missing, and maybe dead, husband wants Reed Ferguson’s help in finding him. Reed is a private eye. Or will be as soon as he gets his first client, and this dame looks like she could be just the ticket. Oh, that’s not ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Roz Chast "The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z!" Updated: 2008-02-19 01:21:54 Description: What happens when you pair one of America's most-beloved comedians with one of the nation's premier cartoonists? 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vince Flynn "Protect and Defend" Updated: 2007-12-30 22:22:59 Description: A nuclear Iran is something the U.S. and Israel would never tolerate, and in Vince Flynn's new thriller "Protect and Defend," Israel carries out an audacious operation deep inside Iran that leaves a gaping hole in the ground and an Iranian government...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sir David Frost "Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews" Updated: 2007-12-30 20:54:34 Description: History has paired television interviewer Sir David Frost and former President Richard Nixon in a way neither may have ever anticipated. A series of landmark interviews in 1977 afforded the disgraced Nixon a means to begin his rehabilitation with the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A.J. Jacobs "The Year of Living Biblically" Updated: 2007-12-30 19:54:35 Description: Many people follow Biblical rules, starting with the basics, the Ten Commandments. 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joseph Grenny "Influencer" Updated: 2007-12-22 03:34:45 Description: How much influence do you have, and would you like to have more? And we're not talking just about influence as a business or political leader. Parents have influence, and just ordinary folks have and use influence. So how DO you get more? Joseph Gre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Laurence Bergreen "Marco Polo" Updated: 2007-12-22 03:32:52 Description: The adventures of Marco Polo are world renowned. His 13th-century trade-diplomatic-possibly-espionage travels to Mongolia and China have become the stuff of legend - in fact, many people think it is just a legend. There's always been doubt that Polo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rachel Louise Snyder "Fugitive Denim" Updated: 2007-12-19 00:24:03 Description: Ever wonder where your clothes come from? Before you say The Gap or Sears or Abercrombie and Fitch, think .. before that. The wholesaler? 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Danica McKellar "Math Doesn't Suck" Updated: 2007-12-15 01:49:43 Description: Only boys can be good at math. At least that's what millions of girls have been led to believe. But girls need to hear Danica McKellar's message. McKellar may be best known for her television role as Winnie Cooper on "The Wonder Years," but she also...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Amy Bloom "Away" Updated: 2007-12-12 00:42:13 Description: Russian Jewish immigrant Lillian Leyb has "endured the murder of her family, the loss of her daughter, an ocean crossing like a death march, intimate life with strangers in her cousin's two rooms, smelling of men and urine and fried food and uncertai...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Basedow "Fitness Made Simple" Updated: 2007-12-12 00:40:18 Description: You're out of shape. You know it. You see the looks people give you. 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LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Garry Wills "Head and Heart" Updated: 2007-12-07 00:39:02 Description: There is a common assumption that underlies almost any discussion of faith in America, and that is the notion that the founding fathers sought to establish a Christian nation, and that we have strayed steadily further from their vision. The new book ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vicente Fox/Robert A. Schuller/Tom Brokaw Updated: 2007-12-06 01:08:18 Description: Vicente Fox was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. Fox has remained active and high-profile in his country. His memoir is called "Revolution of Hope." As the son of one of the nation's best-known evangelists, the Reverend Robert H. Schuller, fou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus "Break Through" Updated: 2007-12-03 01:32:53 Description: In the 1960s and '70s, we made impressive progress in restoring the environment, through new laws and initiatives designed to conserve resources and protect earth's ecology. But as they used to say, this is not your father's Buick. The old ways won't...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Donald McCaig "Rhett Butler's People" Updated: 2007-11-18 03:48:28 Description: Seven decades on, Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" continues to fascinate and captivate readers. Of course, having her book made into one of the greatest movies of all time didn't hurt. But Mitchell never wrote a sequel - indeed, never wrote ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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