Latest Biogaphical Podcast Episodes
Deadly River - Ralph Frerichs
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - July 14, 2016 04:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWhen cholera arrived unexpectedly in Haiti in October 2010, a great mystery unfolded as disease and death decimated the population. Deadly River (Cornell University Press/ILR Press, 2016), and this supplement tell the story of cholera in Haiti, of French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux’s determine...
Matthew Palmer - The Wolf of Sarajevo
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - June 30, 2016 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingA riveting novel of international suspense from acclaimed author and veteran diplomat Matthew Palmer.Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs ov...
Matthew Palmer - The Wolf of Sarajevo
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - June 30, 2016 04:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingA riveting novel of international suspense from acclaimed author and veteran diplomat Matthew Palmer. Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs ...
National Geographic Celebrates 100 Years - Ford Cochran
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - June 30, 2016 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingTravel with National Geographic photographers as they explore the most fascinating travel adventures in the United States. Take a peak the some of the most interesting "stops" along the way. Explore the world of wonderment as you travel across the U.S. with your kids! Take them to places you woul...
Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - May 27, 2016 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIntegration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America’s xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah, we meet ed...
Patrick O'Donnell - Washington's Immortals
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - April 18, 2016 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIn August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a sudden and disastrous end. General George Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, and it looked like ...
Clint Emerson - 100 Deadly Skills, The SEAL's Operative Guide.mp2
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - April 05, 2016 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingNOW ON iTUNESFor nearly five years, Greg Grasso has been interviewing noted authors stateside and abroad. What started out as a hobby, is now consuming his free time and interest in Spy, Thriller, Historical and Biographical Authors, looking into what makes them tick, how they process information...
Hal Niedzviecki - Trees on Mars
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - March 02, 2016 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started belie...
Roberto Gonzales - Lives in Limbo
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - March 02, 2016 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingOver two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who ...
John Jacobs - Life is Good - Casual Interview
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - February 25, 2016 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingLife is not perfect. Life is not easy. Life is good.We see it when we believe it. Each one of us has a choice: to focus our energy on obstacles or opportunities. To fixate on our problems, or focus on solutions. We can harp on what’s wrong with the world (see most news media), or we can cultiv...
Stephen Alvarez - Rarely Seen, Photographs of the Extraordinary
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - February 16, 2016 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the world's finest photographers, New York Times bestseller Rarely Seen features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heir...
Simon Singer - America's Safest City
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - January 14, 2016 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingWinner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology Since the mid-1990s, the fast-growing suburb of Amherst, NY has been voted by numerous publications as one of the safest places to live in America. Y...
Robert Crais - The Promise
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - January 13, 2016 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingElvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais. Loyalty, commitment, and the fight for justice have always driven Elvis Cole a...
Robert Crais - The Promise
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - January 13, 2016 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingElvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais. Loyalty, commitment, and the fight for justice have always driven Elvis Cole and...
Tess Gerritsen - Playing with Fire
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - January 13, 2016 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 1 rating“When you look at her, what do you see?” “She’s my daughter. Of course I think she’s perfect in every way. But…” “But?”My throat chokes to a whisper. “I’m afraid of her now.”Imagine if you were home alone and your three-year-old daughter violently attacked you.Julia doesn’t understand what is...
Tavis Smiley - The Covenant with Black America; Ten Years Later
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - January 12, 2016 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues facing African Americans. The Covenant with Black America, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller, ran the gamut from health care to criminal j...
Joseph Finder - Suspicion
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - December 18, 2015 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingSingle father Danny Goodman would do anything — anything — to protect his teenaged daughter, Abby, from more unhappiness after her mother’s death. Struggling to keep her at the private school she loves, he accepts a favor from an unexpected benefactor: Thomas Galvin, father of Abby’s best frien...
Cecelia Tichi - Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - November 13, 2015 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingJack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwid...
Sally Loughridge - Daniel and His Starry Night Blanket: A Story of Illness and Sibling Love
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - November 03, 2015 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThis is the tale of a young boy whose older sister gets cancer and, from his perspective, too much of their family's attention. Written and illustrated by Sally Loughridge, the book focuses on the emotional impact of his sister's illness and treatment on him. The author's unique background as a p...
Sally Loughridge - Daniel and His Starry Night Blanket: A Story of Illness and Sibling Love
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - November 03, 2015 05:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThis is the tale of a young boy whose older sister gets cancer and, from his perspective, too much of their family's attention. Written and illustrated by Sally Loughridge, the book focuses on the emotional impact of his sister's illness and treatment on him. The author's unique background as a p...
David Strange - A Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 17, 2015 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingAlthough the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto Gonzales and David Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcement over the past thirty years has been inadequate. This failure by federal leaders has resulted in a widespread introduction of state immigration ...
Bert & John Jacobs - Life is Good
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 15, 2015 04:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingFrom Life is Good founders and brothers Bert and John Jacobs, this inspiring book of wisdom celebrates the power of optimism: the driving force behind their beloved, socially conscious clothing and lifestyle brand, now worth more than $100 million.Following the chronology of their personal and pr...
David Baldacci - The Keeper
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 09, 2015 04:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingVega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with danger and death. And she believed it - until the night she stumbled across a secret that proved that everything she knew was a lie.Now just one thing s...
Nick Bunker - An Empire on the Edge, How Britain Came to Fight America
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 09, 2015 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingFinalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWritten from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could...
Laurie King & Les Klinger—A Study in Sherlock
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 01, 2015 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode King and Klinger discuss the story collection they edited entitled a Study in Sherlock. Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of...
David Laskin—The Children's Blizzard
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 01, 2015 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingAn award-winning classic of creative non-fiction, The Children’s Blizzard is the true story of an epic winter storm that hit the Upper Midwest on January 12, 1888. Laskin unfolds this blizzard of unprecedented suddenness and ferocity by focusing on half a dozen pioneer families – most of them imm...
Sandra Brown—Operation Thriller
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 01, 2015 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode Brown discusses her book Operation Thriller. Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-two New York Times bestsellers, including LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL(2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006),CHILL FACTOR (2005), and W...
Alex Grecian—The Devil's Workshop
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - September 01, 2015 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingThey thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more.Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestsellers The Yard and The Black Country...
Sandra Brown - Friction
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - August 31, 2015 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction.Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork an...
Mike Bond—House of Jaguar
Chapter One with Greg Grasso - August 27, 2015 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 1 ratingChopper pilot and Vietnam war hero Joe Murphy finds himself in the middle of the brutal Guatemalan revolution when he witnesses an attack on a Mayan village by the Guatemalan Army and its CIA “advisors”. Badly injured, he escapes on a nightmare trek through the jungle, hunted by the Army, the CIA...
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