Speaking of Writers
432 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ [email protected].
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James Patterson- E.R. Nurses
January 24, 2022 03:58 - 11 minutes - 8.5 MBThey save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes. “The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.” –Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN "James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things...
Maya Washington- Through The Banks of The Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
January 21, 2022 01:30 - 12 minutes - 8.67 MBGrowing up Maya Washington didn’t see her father as the world knew him to be—Michigan State University and Minnesota Viking football legend, Gene Washington—she knew him as Dad. Based on Maya’s award-winning documentary, THROUGH THE BANKS OF THE RED CEDAR: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game follows her journey of uncovering just how difficult Gene’s youth in segregated Texas was, and his unorthodox rise to college football stardom at MSU during the height of the Civil Rights movem...
Jaycie Mandrell- Think Like The Killer
January 18, 2022 02:22 - 8 minutes - 5.79 MBHarmon Bliss thinks he's a psychopath. Harmon has an odd obsession with death, especially when it revolves around murder. He knows about many popular crimes but when a local girl introduces him to a eight-year-old cold case it's the only thing he can think about. Who killed Julia Manhattan and why? Suddenly, this case is taking over his life and he thinks he may actually be able to solve this unsolved murder and the case of his missing classmate in the process. Can he do it? Jaycie Mandrel...
Juliet Funt- A Minute to Think
January 16, 2022 22:20 - 10 minutes - 7.18 MBDo you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the day? Does busyness deprive you and your burnt-out team of the oxygen your talents need to catch fire? Many have felt that way, yet taking a pause has seemed impossible—until now. In A Minute to Think, Juliet Funt, a globally recognized warrior in the battle against busyness, provides a powerful guide that will give you the permission,...
Alan Sullivan- Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting
January 14, 2022 14:06 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBAs one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924–1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. His career followed Kentucky's rise to prominence as he announced the first four NCAA championship titles under Coach Adolph Rupp and covered scrimmages during the canceled 1952–1953 season following the NCAA sanctions scandal. Sullivan also revolutionized the coverage of the UK football program with the introduction of a coach's show...
Richard J. Coffey On The Vengeance Trail
January 13, 2022 17:43 - 11 minutes - 8.61 MBA homesteading family, consisting of a mother, father and their son Colt, have their quiet life interrupted with the arrival of a wounded bounty hunter, named Jeb. The mother removed two bullets and nurses him back to health. While recovering, he teaches the son the art of the fast draw with a six shooter. When the bounty hunter was fully recovered, he accompanied the son into town for supplies. On their return they find the cabin burnt, Mother dead and Father dying. Before the father takes ...
Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson - W.E.B Griffin's Rogue Asset
January 09, 2022 18:27 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBIn ROGUE ASSET, Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel—his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Cohen calls for Charley Castillo to come out of retirement to direct a new Presidential Agent, one Captain P. K. "Pick" McCoy, USMC. Charley may be too old to kick down doors and take names, b...
Jeffrey Deaver - The Midnight Lock
January 06, 2022 02:14 - 11 minutes - 8.05 MBA woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself “the Locksmith,” can break through any lock or security system ever devised. With more victims on the h...
Ted Bell- Sea Hawke
January 01, 2022 17:42 - 11 minutes - 8.33 MBThe next high-octane novel from legendary bestselling author Ted Bell featuring Lord Alexander Hawke, the sixth-richest man in England, gentleman spy, and one of the thriller genre’s most well-liked heroes: SEA HAWKE (Berkley Hardcover). This gripping, breathtaking new adventure is a great jumping on point for new readers wanting to get to know an author who has been lauded by other giants in the field such as Clive Cussler, Nelson Demille, and James Patterson. After saving the kidnapped ...
David Rubenstein- The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream
December 23, 2021 23:59 - 8 minutes - 6.86 MBDavid M. Rubenstein—visionary co-founder of The Carlyle Group, and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show— has long dedicated himself to interviewing some of the world’s greatest minds and highest performing leaders. In The American Story, Rubenstein brought us conversations from the nation’s most revered historians on critical lessons from American history. In the bestselling How to Lead, he distilled conversations with the world’s most successful leaders into an essential leaders...
Michael Leppert- Flipping The Circle
December 19, 2021 20:43 - 14 minutes - 10.6 MBWill O’Courtney is the ultimate insider. Having worked as an experienced contract lobbyist in Indianapolis for over a decade, he knows all the ins and outs of back-room deals and trading information. Shortly after his divorce is finalized, Will resolves to turn his life around, and just when he starts to think of leaving the winning course, he lands a contract with a national tobacco company that would change his life forever. But when he discovers a scheme involving potential legislation f...
Rikem J Philippe- The Neo Sophia of the 21st Century
December 10, 2021 14:50 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBFrom poet-author Rikem Philippe comes an anthology of poetry that brings forth expressive and profound ideas and ideals which make readers think, remember, understand, accept and act on. In this new poetry collection, “The Neo Sophia of the 21st Century”, there might be some poems that seem to be too profound but when readers go through them, they will realize that these are actually some of the sentiments or experiences or hopes that they had. The emotions evoked in this poetry book are re...
Dirk Cussler- Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea
December 05, 2021 16:23 - 11 minutes - 8.4 MBFearless adventurer Dirk Pitt, “oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones” (Associated Press), must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in CLIVE CUSSLER’S THE DEVIL’S SEA, the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Dirk Pitt Adventure® series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler and written by his son Dirk Cussler. In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But ...
Richard Sills- Christmas Story
December 01, 2021 02:23 - 7 minutes - 5.61 MBAuthor Richard Sills draws from his experience as a former teacher of elementary classes in writing children’s books. In his book, “Christmas Story”, he retells the well-known holiday narrative “The Night Before Christmas” so both the young and adults can enjoy this classic tale. In this story, he lets the adults experience the Christmas magic. While the children remain sleeping in their beds, it is the adult who gets to witness the wonders of Christmas. He meets Santa Clause and goes on a ...
Greg Peters- Our National Forests
November 24, 2021 02:18 - 15 minutes - 11.2 MBStories from America’s Most Important Public Lands Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests provide a multitude of uses as diverse as America itself. Welcoming 170 million visitors each year to hike, bike, paddle, ski, fish, and hunt, “the people’s lands” offer more than just recreation. Timber is harvested, lost habitats are recovered, and endangered wildlife is protected as part of the Forest Service’s enduring mission. In Our ...
Genevieve Piturro- Purpose, Passion and Pajamas
November 20, 2021 02:37 - 10 minutes - 6.7 MBGenevieve M. Piturro took a big risk when she gave up the security of a successful job as the vice president of creative services for a television syndicate to launch the national nonprofit Pajama Program, which gives children cozy pajamas and inspiring storybooks , while providing critical sleep health education resources for parents, caregivers, and educators. Genevieve was inspired to start the Pajama Program by a little girl she met when she volunteered in a New York City shelter. Notic...
Tom Clavin- Lightning Down
November 09, 2021 01:54 - 11 minutes - 8.22 MBAn American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with fl...
Todd Doughty- Little Pieces of Hope Happy Making Things in a Difficult World
October 27, 2021 01:36 - 9 minutes - 7.21 MBIn March 2020 Todd Doughty knew he needed to do something to help him stay connected to the everyday joys of daily life, so he made a list on Instagram of things that make him happy: Someone believing in you. Your foot sticking out from under a blanket in order to find the cool spot. Freshly cut yellow tulips. A really good burger. In the following weeks, as he continued to post lists and as a community started to build up around them, Doughty realized that staying connected to everyday joys...
Samantha Durbin- Raver Girl
October 18, 2021 01:39 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBAbout the book: Set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's 90s rave scene, Raver Girl details Samantha’s double life as she teeters between self-indulgence and sobriety, chaos and calm, all while sneaking under the radar of her entrepreneur father. About the author: SAMANTHA DURBIN’S writing has appeared in POPSUGAR ,Yahoo Style , Real Simple , PureWow , Zagat , The Bold Italic , and The San Francisco Chronicle , among others. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband...
Hank Phillippi Ryan- Her Perfect Life
October 14, 2021 01:03 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBBestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan returns with a lightning-paced novel of suspense that will keep readers guessing until the last page: HER PERFECT LIFE (A Forge Hardcover, eBook, and Macmillan Audio). Touching on issues of privacy, family secrets, social media, and living life in the public eye— that’s something Ryan, the longtime on-camera investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, understands more than anyone. And that makes HER PERFECT ...
George F. Will- AMERICAN HAPPINESS AND DISCONTENTS: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
October 06, 2021 02:19 - 13 minutes - 9.52 MBSince 1974, George F. Will has been a steadfast voice of wisdom and reason for the American people. One of this country’s leading columnists and the author of fifteen previous books, Will has been called “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America” by the Wall Street Journal. Now, he returns with his ninth and most expansive collection reflecting on American culture and the many attacks on expertise, rationality, and conduct by American institutions, courts, political arenas, and social...
Linda Sands- Precious Cargo
September 28, 2021 01:08 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBAfter helping a frightened girl who flagged down their Kenworth in Austin and delivering her to safety, trucker Jojo Boudreaux and co-driver Gator Natoli believe that’s the end of it. Until they find her again in Oklahoma City, and this time she doesn’t want to be saved. They soon find themselves pulled into dangerous territory. Somali Mafia territory. A place where powerful people manipulate a hundred-billion-dollar industry of prostitution, drugs and international sex trafficking. A place...
Jai Chakrabarti- A Play For The End Of the World
September 22, 2021 01:51 - 13 minutes - 11.9 MBJaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has just entered a new relationship with Lucy Gardener—a southerner, also newly arrived in New York—when he learns his oldest friend, Misha, has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there alone to collect his ashes, Jaryk soon realizes this won’t be as simple a trip as he thought once he learns that Misha had been in the midst of staging a play there, Rabindranath Tagore’s The Post Office. Performed ...
Marc Straus- One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
September 21, 2021 01:07 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBSet in 1950s New York in the shadow of the execution of the Rosenbergs, the memoir documents two pivotal years of Straus’s childhood on Long Island, beginning with him being forced by his parents to leave public school and commute four hours a day to a Yeshiva in Queens where the kids studied the Talmud—in the original Aramaic—for half a day five days a week and fought with words, not fists. But it was fists that Straus was used to after years of fighting off bigger kids who harassed his you...
Matthew FitzSimmons- Constance
September 12, 2021 22:01 - 12 minutes - 8.87 MBIn the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying. After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness—stored for that inevitable transition—something goes wrong. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later. Her recent mem...
Susan Ronald - The Ambassador
September 12, 2021 21:30 - 11 minutes - 8.48 MBIn THE AMBASSADOR: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 (St. Martin’s Press) acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald examines a controversial period in the career of America’s legendary political dynasty founder. Meticulously researched Ronald gained access to many newly available sources and reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born and raised in the United States, Susan Ronald is a Brit...
Tom Flynn- A Girl Named Dara
September 05, 2021 02:38 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBWhen Jeff Newcastle meets Dara, a beautiful Belarusian girl, on the first day of poetry class at UCLA, he imagines he’s stumbled onto the perfect college romance. Unfortunately, his fixation on Dara’s beauty prevents him from seeing the truth about her tragic life. Doubting a normal relationship could ever be possible, Dara pulls some mysterious strings to redirect Jeff’s affection toward Carey, a sweet and kindhearted coed in Jeff’s circle of friends. Jeff’s romance with Carey blossoms st...
Christopher Clarey- The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
August 28, 2021 19:38 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBABOUT THE BOOK There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick. In THE MASTER, New York Times correspondent Christopher Clarey sits down with Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis. Roger Federer has often made it look astonishingly easy through ...
Megan Collins - The Family Plot
August 27, 2021 00:32 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBSharon Tate, Andrew Borden, Charlie Lindbergh, Black Dahlia—if you immediately recognize these murder victims, then you’re a Murderino just like Megan Collins. Her third thriller, The Family Plot (Atria), hailed “the quintessential summer thriller for true crime enthusiasts” by Apartment Therapy, follows an unconventional family obsessed with true crime—until they’re at the center of one. The Lighthouse siblings were raised in a secluded Rhode Island mansion by true crime-obsessed parents, ...
Kent Babb- Across The River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City
August 22, 2021 18:34 - 10 minutes - 9.45 MBThere are two New Orleans: the glamorous party city that tourists see and the day-to-day reality of the heavily segregated Black neighborhoods outside the French Quarter. That more real New Orleans is defined by economic inequality, street violence, drugs, and institutional racism. For the young people born and raised there, it is the land of no opportunity—indeed, many struggle just to survive to adulthood. One of the few paths to success for teenage boys is football, which offers a way ou...
Michael Blanding- North by Shakespeare
August 21, 2021 20:12 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBIn North by Shakespeare, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar Dennis McCarthy, called “the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community,” and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the previously undiscovered source for Shakespeare’s plays. For the last fifteen years, Dennis McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true source of Shakespeare’s works—with fascinating results. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Ham...
Tracey Lange- We Are The Brennans
August 19, 2021 02:14 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBWhen 29-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation, and they’ve got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she st...
Ben Coes- The Island
August 19, 2021 01:45 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBBen Coes is a NYT bestselling author of political thriller and espionage novels who draws upon his early career at the White House, and his Godfather’s experience as a Navy Seal, to write realistic books with plots that could be ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. In Coe’s latest book, THE ISLAND (St. Martin’s Press), America faces the worst terrorist attack since 9/11 as Iran puts a plan in motion to exact revenge for years of sanctions. Another of Iran’s goals is to neutralize the CIA’s ...
Ace Atkins- The Heathens
August 15, 2021 23:14 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBWith his Quinn Colson novels, New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins has created one of today’s most atmospheric and critically acclaimed literary series. But Atkins delivers something far more complex and rewarding than brilliantly crafted whodunits—he delivers essential summer reading full of wit, thrills, and heart. “It’s a satisfying mix of modern Southern gothic atmosphere and thrilling action, salted with crackling humor,” according to the Tampa Bay Times. “Readers get more than ...
Leigh Montville TALL MEN, SHORT SHORTS: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and A Very Young Sports Reporter
August 15, 2021 22:42 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBLegendary, award-winning sportswriter Leigh Montville—former Boston Globe columnist, Sports Illustrated senior writer, and New York Times bestselling author of biographies covering the lives of athletes like Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and Dale Earnhardt—has entertained sports fans and readers for five decades with his wry voice and razor-sharp insights. But even after his six critically acclaimed, bestselling biographies, Sports Illustrated cover stories, and decades of Globe co...
Michelle Seiler Tucker and Sharon Lechter- EXIT RICH
August 07, 2021 20:20 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBMichelle Seiler Tucker and Sharon Lechter, authors of EXIT RICH share how to build sustainable, scalable and when you are ready- sellable business and everything they learned along the way. Michelle is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated, an M&A firm that has sold over a thousand businesses. Sharon is the CEO of Pay Your Family First and she co-authored the international bestseller Rich Dad Poor Dad. Steve Forbes calls EXIT RICH a "goldmine for entrepreneurs." Sharon Lechter ...
Sandra Brown- Blind Tiger
August 07, 2021 00:48 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBSandra Brown has written masterful romantic suspense novels for decades—72 New York Times bestsellers with more than 80 million copies in print worldwide in 34 languages. In BLIND TIGER (2021), Sandra returns to historical fiction with one of her best books ever. The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing story where Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas. And it just so happens that “blin...
Hadassah Lieberman- Hadassah An American Story
August 01, 2021 20:50 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBIn 1949, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated from the Czech Republic to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in government and dramatics and an MA in international relations and American government from Northeastern University. She built a career devoted largely to public health that has included positions at Lehman Brothers, Pfizer, and the National Research Council. After her first marriage ended in divorce, she married Joe Lieberman, a US senator fro...
Chandler Baker - The Husbands
August 01, 2021 20:28 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBDo you ever feel like you’re doing more than your fair share of chores at home, that no one else sees the dishes piling up or remembers the school bake sale? That kind of “mom rage” is the fuel for Chandler Baker’s sharply observed, darkly funny, and deeply suspenseful follow-up to her New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon book club pick Whisper Network: THE HUSBANDS, “[a] delightful and furious take on Stepford Wives” (CrimeReads). Just ahead of publication, MGM announced the acq...
Bracken MacLeod Closing Costs
July 25, 2021 22:48 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBNelle and Evan Pereira were thrilled to close on their “forever home,” a spacious paradise nestled against a state forest in Massachusetts. Three months later, on a brisk Saturday morning, their peace is destroyed when an intruder captures Nelle home by herself. Quickly overpowered by the aggressive stranger, she’s forced down to the cold, musty basement where he ties her to a chair. The intruder has a singular, if unusual, demand: he wants her to make a phone call. One that Nelle isn’t conf...
P. J. Vernon Bath Haus
July 24, 2021 13:11 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBAbout BATH HAUS: P.J. Vernon’s BATH HAUS (Doubleday) opens with Oliver as he tentatively gathers the courage to enter a gay DC Bath Haus while his partner is out of town. A recovering addict, Oliver has now settled into a much more subdued way of life with Nathan, a wealthy surgeon with even wealthier parents. But while Nathan is away on business, Oliver finds himself pulled towards this exciting escape. However, his Bath Haus visit becomes more thrilling than he intended when he enters a p...
Elinor Lipman- Rachel To The Rescue
July 24, 2021 12:44 - 10 minutes - 9.77 MBRachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises, she is hit by a speeding car, driven by what the press will discreetly call “a personal friend of the President.” Does that explain the flowers, the get-well wishes at a press briefing, the hush money offered by a lawyer at her hospital bedside? Rachel’s recovery is soothed by comically doting parents, matchmaking roommates, a new job as aide to a jou...
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
July 20, 2021 01:35 - 14 minutes - 8.9 MBAbout THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN: In THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, Belle da Costa Greene is given the opportunity of a lifetime, to be the personal librarian to prominent financier and banker John Pierpont Morgan. The newly built Pierpont Morgan Library is hers to curate, and she soon becomes a fixture in the art world and J.P. Morgan’s personal confidant. With impeccable taste, shrewd negotiation skills, and an unparalleled fashion sense, Belle takes New York City by storm and helps Morgan build a w...
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray - The Personal Librarian
July 20, 2021 01:35 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBAbout THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN: In THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, Belle da Costa Greene is given the opportunity of a lifetime, to be the personal librarian to prominent financier and banker John Pierpont Morgan. The newly built Pierpont Morgan Library is hers to curate, and she soon becomes a fixture in the art world and J.P. Morgan’s personal confidant. With impeccable taste, shrewd negotiation skills, and an unparalleled fashion sense, Belle takes New York City by storm and helps Morgan build a w...
Harry Rosenfeld - In Memoriam
July 17, 2021 15:29 - 10 minutes - 9.79 MBHarry M. Rosenfeld died this week at his home in Slingerlands, NY. He was a child refugee from Nazi Germany. Harry was a key figure in the Washington Post's coverage of The Watergate break in and scandal as managing editor. He even hired Bob Woodward. He had a 50 year career in the newspaper business including working at The New York Herald Tribune, and being the top editor of two Albany NY newspapers. His philosophy on journalism from his 2013 memoir was "holding to account the accountable,...
William Rawlings Lighthouses of The Georgia Coast
July 16, 2021 01:52 - 12 minutes - 11.1 MBOnce an essential part of nautical navigation and commerce, the world's lighthouses have become historical relics of days past, their primary function now replaced by modern technology. Yet these magnificent structures continue to fascinate us, not only for their intrinsic beauty, but also as monuments to our shared history, and as symbols of hope and salvation to those cast adrift on the stormy seas of life. From the mid-eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, the waterways of coa...
Chris Matthews This Country My Life in Politics and History
July 16, 2021 01:27 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBA sweeping memoir of American politics and history from Chris Matthews, New York Times bestselling author and former host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. In This Country, Chris Matthews offers a panoramic portrait of post–World War II America through the story of his remarkable life and career. It is a story of risk and adventure, of self-reliance and service, of loyalty and friendship. It is a story driven by an abiding faith in our country. Chris Matthews Chris Matthews is a vi...
Jessica Chiarella- The Lost Girls
July 11, 2021 14:32 - 12 minutes - 11 MBAbout THE LOST GIRLS: It's been more than twenty years since Marti Reese's sister, Maggie, disappeared. Only eight-years-old at the time, Marti can't remember what happened, just that Maggie got into a car and never returned. After years of grief and countless false leads, Marti is coping as best she can: abandoning her marriage, drinking to forget, and documenting her never-ending search via a true-crime podcast. But when the podcast becomes an unexpected hit and Marti thinks she's finally...
Kenneth Whyte- The Sack of Detroit General Motors And The End of American Enterprise
July 11, 2021 14:05 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBIn the 1950s, America enjoyed massive growth and affluence, and no companies contributed more to its success than automakers. They were the biggest and best businesses in the world, their leadership revered, their methods imitated, and their brands synonymous with the nation’s aspirations. But by the end of the 1960s, Detroit’s profits had evaporated and its famed executives had become symbols of greed, arrogance, and incompetence. And no company suffered this reversal more than General Moto...
Benjamin Hochman- 11 in '11: A Hometown Hero, La Russa's Last Ride in Red, and a Miracle World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals
July 07, 2021 01:11 - 9 minutes - 8.52 MBOf the 11 World Series titles the St. Louis Cardinals have won in their formidable history, 2011's victory stands out as something different, something magical. It was the work of a team that seemingly had no business even playing in October yet one that stared down defeat over and over again, refusing to back down until the trophy was theirs. In the new book 11 in '11: A Hometown Hero, La Russa's Last Ride in Red, and a Miracle World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Post-Dispat...