Best Stephen F Austin Podcasts (2024)

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Tim Ecott, "Sigmundur and the Golden Ring" (Sprotin, 2024) 38:15

10m ago38:15

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Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his attention to the history and culture of the Faroe Islands. High in the North Atlantic, half-way between Scotland and Iceland, the islands' inhabitants remain closely connected to the Viking settlers who established communities on Faroe over one thous…

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Nat Reeve, "Earlyfate" (Cipher Press, 2024) 51:02

6d ago51:02

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Pip Property is no stranger to disaster. Typically, they’ve got a plan, but now Dallyangle’s favourite dandy & part-time criminal is locked in the morgue of the crime-fighting Division gone rogue, accused of far more crimes than they’ve actually committed, with (at least) two bucolic burglars out to strangle them with their own cravat. Their lover …

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Vanessa Kelly, "Murder in Highbury" (Kensington, 2024) 50:25

9d ago50:25

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For a woman who published only four novels during her lifetime, with two others appearing shortly after her death and several incomplete or shorter works released into print much later, Jane Austen has had an astonishing and enduring legacy, with spinoffs, sequels, prequels, and remakes galore. Vanessa Kelly’s Murder in Highbury (Kensington Books, …

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Cynthia Reeves, "The Last Whaler" (Regal House, 2024) 28:42

15d ago28:42

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After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a remote whaling station in the Arctic, where he spends every whaling season hunting belugas. In heartfelt journal entries, Astrid describes being stranded in a whaling hut through the dark season of 193…

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Anna Rasche, "The Stone Witch of Florence" (Park Row, 2024) 35:30

17d ago35:30

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Anna Rasche's debut novel A Stone Witch of Florence (2024, Park Row) brings reader on a historical fiction adventure to Florence. As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile. Ginevra has a gift--harnessing the hidden powers of gemstones, she can heal the sick. But when word spr…

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Emma Hinds, "The Knowing" (Bedford Square Publishers, 2024) 33:04

26d ago33:04

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In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating and full of suspense. The Knowing (Bedford Square Publishing, 2024) by Emma Hinds is a darkly spellbinding novel about a girl fighting for her survival in the decaying criminal underworlds. Whilst work…

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Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020) 1:21:06

1M ago1:21:06

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In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020) spans two very different decades from the Nazi concentration camp of Dora-Mittelbau to the coast of central Florida in the late 1960s; the book tells the story of the real life intersections between the horror of the Third Reich's V-2 rocket program …

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Christina Dodd, "A Daughter of Fair Verona" (John Scognamiglio, 2024) 38:19

1M ago38:19

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It takes a certain gall to update one of William Shakespeare’s most enduring and most beloved tragedies. Anyone who has survived an English literature class at a US high school or college knows that neither Romeo nor Juliet lives to old age; and those few who have not read the play, for pleasure or under duress, have probably seen one of the screen…

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F. J. Watson, "Lies of the Flesh" (Polygon, 2024) 46:13

1M ago46:13

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When evil stalks the land, who can you trust? Autumn 1314. In the aftermath of the Scottish victory at the Battle of Bannockburn, the villagers of Warcop wait desperately for the return of loved ones. When brothers Wat and Rob Dickinson bring news of the death of their companion, Adam Fothergill, as they fled home, there is no one to mourn him. But…

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Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024) 50:15

2M ago50:15

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Macau was supposed to be a sleepy post for John Reeves, the British consul for the Portuguese colony on China’s southern coast. He arrived, alone, in June 1941, his wife and daughter left behind in China. Seven months later, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, invaded Hong Kong, and made Reeves the last remaining British diplomat for hundreds of miles, …

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Indianettes of Port Neches-Groves HS--The First 22 Years 1:50:07

2M ago1:50:07

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So here's to you/May your dreams come true/ May old father time/Never be unkind/ And through the years/Save your smiles and your tears/ They're just souvenirs/They'll make music in your heart.../ --Lyrics to "My Best to You," by Isham Jones and Gene Willaden The Indianettes have been an iconic figure in the tradition of Port Neches-Groves High Scho…

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Madeline Martin, "The Booklover's Library" (Hanover Square Press, 2024) 35:28

2M ago35:28

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The Booklover's Library (Hanover Square Press, 2024) has one of the most dramatic openings I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot of novels. It’s 1931 in Nottingham, England, and seventeen-year-old Emma, ensconced in her father’s bookshop, is engrossed in her favorite novel, Jane Austen’s Emma, when she realizes the building around her has caught fire…

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Jake Lamar, "Viper's Dream" (Crooked Lane Books, 2023) 50:18

2M ago50:18

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Jake Lamar's novel Viper's Dream (Crooked Lane Books, 2023) is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man’s dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep him down. Harlem, 1936. Clyde “The Viper” Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician…

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Heather Redmond, "Death and the Visitors" (Kensington, 2024) 46:04

3M ago46:04

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Today I talked to Heather Redmond about her new novel Death and the Visitors (Kensington, 2024). In this second Regency-era mystery featuring Mary Godwin Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, the sixteen-year-old heroine (still Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin at this point in her life) and her stepsister and close lifetime companion, Jane Clairmont, are …

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Wrinkle Family Fiddlers 1:09:14

3M ago1:09:14

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Time to bust out the fiddle and rosin up the bow! Today's guests--Sheryl, Reggie, and Jenifer Wrinkle--are fiddle virtuosos of the highest order. Hear them share how their early experiences playing the fiddle in Southeast Texas led them each on a musical journey of a lifetime. Their conversation with Buck and Wanda Carole covers a wide range of top…

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Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers 1:14:30

4M ago1:14:30

1:14:30

In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many successful book series set in the past and present of the Islamicate, including her Sufi Mysteries Quartet set in 10th Century Baghdad. In this interview she tells Saeed Khan and Salman Sayyid about her…

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Eve J. Chung, "Daughters of Shandong" (Berkley Books, 2024) 38:31

4M ago38:31

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Daughters of Shandong (Berkley Books, 2024), the author’s first and based on the life of her grandmother, follows the fortunes of a mother and three daughters abandoned by their wealthy family in soon-to-be Communist China. It is 1948, and Chairman Mao’s forces have moved into Shandong Province, driving the Nationalist Army into retreat. Although t…

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Nat Reeve, "Nettleblack" (Cipher Press, 2022) 49:33

4M ago49:33

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1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she’ll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy life isn’t as simple as she thought. Ambushed, robbed, and then saved by a mysterious organisation – part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch – a desperate Henry disguises herself and enlists. Sent out to investigate a …

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Joanna Lowell, "A Shore Thing" (Berkley Books, 2024) 45:57

5M ago45:57

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Joanna Lowell is known for her witty historical romances set in late Victorian England, a period both undergoing and resisting dramatic social change. Her previous novels in this series pair a young artist from the East End with her tortured muse, a duke; a runaway duchess with an admirably calm young man convinced she is a plant lover like himself…

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Katherine Mezzacappa, "The Maiden of Florence" (Fairlight Books, 2024) 26:15

5M ago26:15

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Florence, 1584. Rumours are spreading about the virility of a prince marrying into the powerful Medici family. Orphan Giulia is chosen to put an end to the gossip. In return she will gain her freedom, and start a new life with a dowry and her own husband. Cloistered since childhood and an innocent in a world ruled by men, Giulia reluctantly agrees,…

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Sasha Vasilyuk, "Your Presence Is Mandatory" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 26:01

5M ago26:01

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In 2007 Ukraine, following the death of her husband, Yefim Shulman, Nina finds a letter he wrote to the KGB confessing the secret he’d kept for over 50 years. If it came out that his unit was wiped out and he was taken as a prisoner of Germany during WWII, he would have been considered a traitor to the USSR. After surviving the Red Army, Nazi priso…

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A. Engels, "A Fool for an Heir" (2024) 40:22

5M ago40:22

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Few destinies are more challenging than life in the orbit of a man obsessed with expanding his power at all costs. Such is the fate endured by Ivan Ivanovich (Ivan the Young), eldest son of Russia’s Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and the narrator of A. Engels’s novel, A Fool for an Heir. While his father focuses on extending his reach into neighboring pri…

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S4 E4--Port Neches-Groves High School--2023 State Football Champions 1:38:35

6M ago1:38:35

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The Port Neches-Groves Indians--Texas 5A D2 State Football Champions of 2023. Six seniors from that 2023 Indian squad--Shea Adams, Mario Miguel, Isaiah Nguyen, Giovanni Oceguera, Reid Richard, and Maxwell Scroggs--tell the story of that historic championship run. It's a unique and insightful perspective from the players themselves. Their remembranc…

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S4 E3--Jeff Joseph 1:01:41

6M ago1:01:41

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In February of 2022, Jeff Joseph was named the 20th head football coach at Port Neches-Groves High School. It was his first head coaching job. Two years later, Coach Joseph is the undisputed Coach of the Year recipient from practically every Texas organization that honors high school football coaching excellence! How did Coach Joseph achieve this s…

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S4 E2--Phil Brannan 1:10:30

6M ago1:10:30

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St. Francis of Assissi said, "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” Phil Brannan is a wood carving artist who has spent a lifetime pursuing a passion. It is a passion that has burned within him always, through his life'…

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"Akmaral" (Regal House, 2024): A Discussion with Judith Lindbergh 49:58

6M ago49:58

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Inspired by the legends of Amazon women warriors told by ancient Greek historian Herodotus and evidenced by recent archaeological discoveries in Central Asia, Akmaral (Regal House Publishing, 2024) is the latest historical fiction novel by author Judith Lindbergh. Through the story of its eponymous main character, a nomadic warrior woman living in …

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Ruth Reichl, "The Paris Novel" (Random House, 2024) 42:30

7M ago42:30

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Stella St. Vincent, a thirty-something copy editor in 1980s New York, has survived a relationship with her mother, Celia, so complicated that even the words “my daughter” give Stella pause. Celia lived life to the fullest, reinventing herself and discarding anything that no longer pleased her, including Stella’s father, whom Celia refused even to n…

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Zhang Ling, "Aftershock" (Amazon Crossing, 2024) 31:12

7M ago31:12

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In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonising decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In that devastating split second, her seven-year-old daughter, Xiaodeng, is separated from her br…

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Robin Oliveira, "A Wild and Heavenly Place" (Putnam, 2024) 37:59

8M ago37:59

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When Samuel Fiddes and Hailey MacIntyre meet by chance in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1878, their worlds appear to be far distant from each other. Samuel lives with his little sister, Alison, in a tenement—the two of them scrabbling to keep themselves fed and clothed. Hailey enjoys a comfortable middle-class life, although the expectations placed on her …

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Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024) 21:02

8M ago21:02

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What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. In Wages of Sin (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024), by Dr. Harry Turtledove, a patriarchal society reacts to this devastating disease in the only way it knows how: it sequesters women as much as possible, limiting …

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Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, "The Phoenix Crown" (William Morrow, 2024) 47:55

8M ago47:55

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Kate Quinn and Janie Chang are independently acclaimed authors of historical fiction, both of whom have previously appeared on this podcast channel. Here they combine their skills to tell a story about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake from multiple points of view. One line follows the story of Alice Eastwood, a botanist whom we meet in London five…

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S4 E1--Bart Bragg and Wayne Rogers 1:09:17

9M ago1:09:17

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words.... If this is true, then the photo production of Bart Bragg and Wayne Rogers would be prolific enough to fill a library! Bart and Wayne talk with Buck about their 60-plus years of photographing the people and events of Southeast Texas, including: Their early interest in photography; Working alongside Mu…

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Teresa H. Janssen, "The Ways of Water" (She Writes Press, 2023) 29:47

9M ago29:47

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Josie Belle Gore is only six years old when we meet her in 1908, yet her father has tied a rope around her waist and is lowering her into a dark well to retrieve a dead animal that is poisoning the water. The third daughter of a growing family, Josie has moved with her family from western Texas to Arizona, then eastward again, settling in the New M…

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Jon Clinch, "The General and Julia" (Atria Books, 2023) 40:00

9M ago40:00

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Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after day. Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family might have some financial security and he some redemption, Grant journeys back in time. He had once been the savior of the Union, …

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Andrea Penrose, "The Diamond of London" (Kensington Books, 2024) 38:41

10M ago38:41

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I’ve interviewed Andrea Penrose before about her mysteries set in the Regency period—most notably, her ongoing series starring the Earl of Wrexford and Lady Charlotte Sloane. In this latest novel, she takes a break from dead bodies and the complicated plots associated with them to tackle a real-life question: how did a supposedly sheltered nineteen…

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Katherine Vaz, "Above the Salt" (Flatiron Books, 2023) 24:24

11M ago24:24

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Today I talked to Katherine Vaz about her new novel Above the Salt (Flatiron Books, 2023). In 1843-1846, on the Portuguese island of Madeira, five-year-old John Alves lived in jail and starved alongside his heretic mother, who was condemned to death for converting to Protestantism from Catholicism. Finally freed, John befriends young Mary Freitas, …

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Isa Arsén, "Shoot the Moon" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023) 34:07

11M ago34:07

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Annie Fisk—an only child in Los Alamos, New Mexico—spends a lot of time investigating the treasure trove of objects at the back of her garden. Her father, with whom she is close, works long hours on the nuclear bomb project, her mother seems distant and preoccupied, and Annie has trouble making friends. But she is a gifted student, and she leaves h…

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S3 E7--Stephen F Austin High School--1979 Regional Finalists 2:00:16

11M ago2:00:16

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On the Wings of Eagles.... 1979 was a Cinderella football season for the Stephen F Austin Eagles of Port Acres, Texas. Projected to finish 7th in tough District 18-2A, the Eagles overcame an 0-3 pre-district record to capture SFA's first District title since 1965. Seniors Chuck Anderson, Ty Coburn, David Lutcher, Richard Smith, and Ricky Sonnier we…

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Alix Christie, "The Shining Mountains" (High Road Books, 2023) 25:10

11M ago25:10

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Angus McDonald had to escape from Scotland or risk arrest. In 1838, he contracted with the Hudson Bay Company to trade in the Pacific Northwest. There he discovers majestic mountains, raging rivers, and buffalo. He meets and marries Catherine, who is related to Nez Perce royalty, and together they face competing claims of British fur traders and go…

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Alice Simpson, "The Winthrop Agreement: A Novel" (Harper Paperbacks, 2023) 34:20

12M ago34:20

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Rivkah Milman is just one of the thousands of young women who fled their homes in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century, looking for better prospects in New York—where the streets, people said, would be paved with gold. In Rivkah’s case, she is sixteen and pregnant, sailing to join her husband, who doesn’t even bother to meet her at the doc…

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Annie Dawid, "Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown" (Inkspot, 2023) 24:51

12M ago24:51

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Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown by Annie Dawid, (Inkspot Publishing 2023), opens long after 917 people died by drinking cyanide or by lethal injection on November 18, 1978. It’s 2008, and one of the survivors, who made it out earlier that day, is speaking to a reporter on the 30th anniversary of the “Jonestown Massacre.” When Jim Jones and hi…

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Kim Taylor Blakemore, "The Good Time Girls Get Famous" (Sycamore Creek Press, 2023) 23:06

12M ago23:06

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Today I talked to Kim Taylor Blakemore about her new book The Good Time Girls Get Famous (Sycamore Creek Press, 2023). Get ready for the latest rip-roaring "Good Time Girls" adventure with Ruby Calhoun and Pip Quinn, two accidental outlaws now on the run for too many crimes to count. As the silent film industry booms and Westerns steal the spotligh…

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S3 E6--Ronnie Thompson and Todd Dodge 1:36:15

1y ago1:36:15

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"Ooh...let's go... boom...boom...boom... Another one bites the dust!"--by Queen bassist John Deacon Coach Ronnie Thompson and quarterback Todd Dodge were football legends at Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson High School. Under Thompson's coaching genius, and Dodge's quarterbacking excellence, the #1-ranked Yellow Jackets rode the "Another One Bites the …

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Stephanie Cowell, "The Boy in the Rain" (Regal House Publishing, 2023) 35:32

1y ago35:32

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Robert Stillman, an eighteen-year-old Londoner, has few expectations when he travels to Nottingham to study with the Reverend George Langstaff. Life has not treated Robbie well recently: his mother’s death has left him in the custody of an uncle who has neither the patience to deal with nor the ability to appreciate a young man whose greatest pleas…

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Sherif M. Meleka, "Suleiman's Ring" (Hoopoe, 2023) 36:46

1y ago36:46

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Today I talked to Sherif Meleka about his novel Suleiman’s Ring (Hoopoe, 2023) An enchanted ring brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player in this compelling novel combining elements of magical realism with political history Can one man or a mere ring alter the events of one’s life and the history of a country? Combining elements of magical rea…

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S3 E5--Allen Wrinkle 2:06:37

1y ago2:06:37

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"Runnin' down a dream...that never would come to me... Workin' on a mystery...goin' where ever it leads... Runnin' down a dream..."--Tom Petty Allen Wrinkle, one of Texas' premiere ultra trail runners, is here to talk with us about a few of his many experiences seeking out challenges that push the envelope of human endeavor. Hear Allen talk with Bu…

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Louise Hare, "Harlem After Midnight" (Berkley Books, 2023) 29:31

1y ago29:31

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After a tumultuous journey across the Atlantic (detailed in last year’s Miss Aldridge Regrets), Lena Aldridge has reached New York City only to discover that the Broadway show that lured her away from London will not run. While waiting to board a ship home, she accepts an invitation to stay with the Linfields, longtime friends of Will Goodman, the …

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A Better Way to Buy Books 32:44

1y ago32:44

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Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has already raised more than $27,000,000. In this interview, Andy Hunter, founder and CEO discusses his journey to creating one of the most revolutionary new organizations in the book world. Bookshop has found …

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Kelsey Nelson: Discusses Commanders, Wizards and More 29:53

1y ago29:53

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Wilton sits down with Kelsey Nicole Nelson, an award-winning freelance sports reporter, event host, media professor and marketing specialist from Washington D.C. Kelsey is no stranger to hard work as it is evident with the many roles she contributes to in the media industry. A graduate of The University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journ…

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S3 E4--Butch Troy 1:13:37

1y ago1:13:37

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"Always be Faithful... To Purple and White..." No one exemplified these words than Beaumont High graduate and longtime PN-G educator Butch Troy. Hear Coach Troy, in his last public communication, talk with Buck and Brad about: pitching the Beaumont High Royal Purples to the 1959 state baseball championship; pursuing his dreams of playing profession…

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