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Trumix.com listings available of NPR: Books Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. NPR Books: May 15, 2008 1) Bertie Bowman's memoir tells his story "Step By Step" - after he left his home in South Carolina, he started in Washington DC sweeping the stairs of the Capitol building. Six decades later, he schedules hearings for the Senate Foreign Relations committee; 2) Simone de Beauvoir's centenary is celebrated this year with a re-examination of her works, including her famed "The Second Sex" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: May 12, 2008 1) Author of "The Host" Stephenie Meyer, whose "Twilight" series has replaced Harry Potter at the top of bestseller lists; 2) Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel "The Great Man"; 3) In "The New Paradigm for Financial Markets," financier George Soros looks at the current financial crisis; 4) Save species by eating them? Author Gary Nabhan's "Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: May 8, 2008 1) Barbara Walters on her new memoir "Audition"; 2) Alan Cheuse looks at a trio of imaginative new novels by Joyce Carol Oates, Jeanette Winterson, and Ursula K. Le Guin; 3) A West Virginia college must decide whether or not to accept a million dollar grant to teach author Ayn Rand's economic philosophy; 4) "Boots on the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman" by the mother of the football star turned soldier. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: May 5, 2008 1) Beloved independent bookstore Dutton's closes its doors in Los Angeles; 2) Louise Erdrich's new novel "A Plague of Doves" blends actual historical events of North Dakota with the intertwined lives of her characters; 3) "The Girl With No Shadow" by Joanne Harris continues the story begun in her best-selling book "Chocolat"; 4) Raymond Chandler's private detective Philip Marlowe "In Character" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: May 1, 2008 1) Vladimir Nabokov's son decides to publish rather than to destroy his father's final novel "The Original of Laura"; 2) Senator Harry Reid's memoir "The Good Fight" shines a light on the Senate's workings; 3) The Poetry Out Loud national recitation competition; 4) The winning Poetry Out Loud recitation by Shantay A. Henry; 5) "A Voyage Long and Strange" by Tony Horwitz explores American history from Columbus to the Jamestown colonists. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: April 28, 2008 1) Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the final days of past American authors in "Wild Nights"; 2) Reviewer Alan Cheuse on two coming-of-age novels: "Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen" by Susan Gregg Gilmore, and "The Flowers" by Dagoberto Gilb; 3) Ursula K. Le Guin extends Virgil's "Aeneid" with "Lavinia"; 4) "My Beautiful Mommy," a book for children of plastic surgery patients. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: April 21, 2008 1) "Dear First Lady" - Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson's collection of letters written to presidential wives; 2) E. Ethelbert Miller and Liane Hansen celebrate National Poetry Month; 3) "Story of Forgetting" is a first novel by Stefan Merrill Block exploring Alzheimer's Disease and imagination; 4) Parenting advice from Rose Rock, author of "Mama Rock's Rule" (and mother of Chris Rock) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: April 17, 2008 1) Harry Potter in the courtroom - the author of an encyclopedia of the characters and events from the novels of J.K. Rowling faces a copyright battle; 2) In "Bad Money" Kevin Phillips warns that the enormous influence of the credit industry threatens the U.S. economy; 3) Richard Price discusses the "Lush Life" of the Lower East Side of New York on the Bryant Park Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: April 15, 2008 1) In Memoir, Isabelle Allende Reveals Life to Late Daughter; 2) "Knockemstiff" Writer Donald Ray Pollock Pulls No Punches; 3) In "Bonk," Mary Roach Explores Science of Sex; 4) William Safire: 'Change' and Other Old Political Phrases Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR Books: April 15, 2008 1) In Memoir, Isabelle Allende Reveals Life to Late Daughter; 2) "Knockemstiff" Writer Donald Ray Pollock Pulls No Punches; 3) In "Bonk," Mary Roach Explores Science of Sex; 4) William Safire: 'Change' and Other Old Political Phrases Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 04-13-2008 Books Stories: 1) In Memoir, Allende Reveals Life to Late Daughter 2) 'Knockemstiff' Writer Pulls No Punches 3) Cooking Contest Winner Offers 'Ungarnished Truth' 4) Finding a Familiar Loneliness in 'The Yearling' 5) Safire: 'Change' and Other Old Political Phrases 6) In 'Bonk,' Mary Roach Explores Science of Sex Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 04-07-2008 Books Stories: 1) At 80, Maya Angelou Reflects on a 'Glorious' Life 2) Forgotten Americans' 15 Pages of Fame 3) 'BPP' Book Club Announces Its April Selection 4) 'Parenting Inc.' Charts Rising Costs of Baby Gear 5) The Myths of 'Mortal Syntax' 6) Welcome! The 'Bryant Park' Book Club Meets Today Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-30-2008 Books Stories: 1) Alton Brown: 'Feasting on Asphalt,' Town by Town 2) The Advent of Podcast Novels 3) A Man and His Mitt: A Love Story 4) From Busy to Business: Exploring 'Semantic Antics' 5) Biographer Tracks Mugabe's Decline 6) Author Confronts Religious Stereotypes in New Book Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-23-2008 Books Stories: 1) 'Sharp Teeth' Gives Werewolves an Epic Treatment 2) Dogs Are Publishers' Best Friend 3) 'Sundays in America' Traces Yearlong Pilgrimage 4) In 'Dracula,' a Metaphor for Faith and Rebirth 5) Baseball: From Child's Play to America's Pastime 6) Cooking Gourmet with 99¢ Food Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-16-2008 Books Stories: 1) Fresh Foods Ring in Persian New Year of Nowruz 2) 'Buzzard' Sings Glory of Radio Station's Heyday 3) Racism and Family Secrets in 'Mudbound' 4) An Artist's How-To for Graphic Novels 5) Author Spends a Year with the Cheerleaders 6) Dovey's 'Blood Kin' a Study of Human Behavior Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-09-2008 Books Stories: 1) Eccentric Mom Colors Childhood of a 'Beautiful Boy' 2) Tracking the Violent Life of Milosevic's 'Tiger' 3) Author Wright Surveys Middle East Politics 4) Poet's Intimate Stanzas Explore Grief and Salvation 5) A Tale of Starting Over: 'The Outcast' 6) Former Mob Enforcer Takes on Boston in Novel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 03-02-2008 Books Stories: 1) Hester Prynne: Sinner, Victim, Object, Winner 2) 'New Cold War' Examines Russia's Threat to U.S. 3) Breslin Finds Star 'Rat' in a New York Mafia Tale 4) 'Bryant Park' Book Club: 'In the Country of Men' 5) 'Remembering the Bones' 6) Listeners Talk More on Kosovo, Closing of Popular Bookstore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-24-2008 Books Stories: 1) Book Examines Connection Between Humans, Birds 2) Documenting a Diplomat's Quest in 'Flame' 3) Rehabbing a Villain from Henry VIII's Court 4) 'Commoner' Peeks Past Japan's Royal Walls 5) Dissecting People's 'Predictably Irrational' Behavior 6) Darkness and Light in 'The Secret Garden' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-17-2008 Books Stories: 1) 'Covert' Mob Infiltrator Still Blows the Whistle 2) Book Chronicles Amateur's Year in a Winery 3) A 'Father's Heart' Leaves Enduring Legacy for Son 4) American Dream Tracked Down the Hard Way 5) Ted Kooser Shares the Poetry of Valentine's Day 6) 'My Mistress's Sparrow' Gives Love a Bad Name Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-10-2008 Books Stories: 1) Guppy to Guillotin: The Namesakes of Words 2) Reporter Hunts for Author of Bogus Saddam Book 3) Book Scrutinizes U.S. Ideas That Led to Iraq War 4) Six-Word Memoirs: Life Stories Distilled 5) Real Estate Downturn Doesn't Diminish 'House Lust' 6) Sudhir Venkatesh Becomes 'Gang Leader for a Day' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 02-03-2008 Books Stories: 1) Passion, Privilege Fuel Russell Banks' 'Reserve' 2) 'Wimpy Kid' Keeps Kids of All Ages in Stitches 3) Michael Chabon: Charmed by a Dashing Brigadier 4) A Famous Hallucination: Ahab's Phantom Leg 5) Shrewd, Selfish Scarlett: A Complicated Heroine 6) Book Details the Defection of 'Comrade J' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-27-2008 Books Stories: 1) Grisham's 'Appeal' Tackles Down-and-Dirty Politics 2) From Cannoli to Chapati: A Baker's Culinary Journey 3) From Law to Cold Cases to Chicago Crime World 4) Pollyanna: Spirit of Optimism Born Out of War 5) Fate of Nabokov's Last Novel Lies with Son 6) Book Picks from London Cabbie Will Grozier Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-20-2008 Books Stories: 1) 'Hitman' Shares Secrets of Negative Campaigning 2) Quirky Poetry Collection a Salute to Silly Stanzas 3) Melodrama, Terror Propel New Grisham, King Books 4) Pulp Fiction Murdered Long Sentences 5) Stories of Magic, Medieval Times Win Book Awards 6) The Lone Ranger: Justice from Outside the Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-13-2008 Books Stories: 1) Nobel Winner Rethinks Business from Ground Up 2) Museum of Masterpieces Made for a Coffee Table 3) 'In the Beginning' a Guide for the Curious 4) Gilligan Turns to Fictional Love Story in 'Kyra' 5) Foreign Policy Experts Ponder Geopolitical Future 6) At Home, at War: Tahmima Anam's 'Golden Age' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 01-06-2008 Books Stories: 1) 'The Science of Leonardo' 2) 'Bliss' Follows Globetrotting Grump's Search for Joy 3) Secrets of the Ultimate Vegan Cookbook 4) Dr. Fang the Dentist and 'Other Funny Names' 5) In Dark Winter, Chekhov Brings Comfort and Joy 6) 'Max and Pinky' an Adorable Dynamic Duo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 12-30-2007 Books Stories: 1) Author Attempts to Make Speaking Latin Hip 2) Former '60s Radical Recalls Days of Rage 3) Celebrating Dirty and Divine Travel Experiences 4) 'Mister Pip' Brings Dickens Tale to the South Pacific 5) A Brutal British Mystery Novel for Boxing Day 6) The Ones That Got Away: Books Not to Miss Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 12-23-2007 Books Stories: 1) Wine Made Across the U.S.A. 2) A Slave's Passage in 'God of Luck' 3) Nashville's WSM Chronicled in 'Air Castle' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 12-16-2007 Books Stories: 1) Book Reflects on Overlooked Role of Aunts 2) Independent Booksellers' Picks: Fiction and Food Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 12-09-2007 Books Stories: 1) In the Winter Cold, Warmth and Light on the Page 2) Examining the Tragedy within 'Opium Season' 3) Taking 'Atonement' from the Page to the Screen 4) Michael Knight Explores Families in 'Holiday Season' 5) Author Recommends a Sherwood Anderson Classic 6) Search for Authentic Ravioli Forges Family Bonds Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 12-02-2007 Books Stories: 1) Alaska Trip Helps Heal Father and Son in 'Backcast' 2) Girls Get Their Guide to Adventure 3) Muldoon Is New Poetry Editor for 'New Yorker' 4) A 'Fear and Loathing' for the '08 Campaign 5) Afghan Bookseller Disputes Book About Him 6) Steve Martin: 'Born Standing Up' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 11-25-2007 Books Stories: 1) Looking Back on Shuttles Facing 'Final Countdown' 2) Mitford Sisters' Letters Collected in New Book 3) "High Fidelity" Author Has New Young Adult Book 4) Naomi Wolf Likens Bush to Hitler Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 11-18-2007 Books Stories: 1) Remembering the Turbulent Life of a 'Gonzo' Writer 2) 'Tenth Muse' Recounts an American Food Revolution 3) The 'Dirt on Clean' in an Oversanitized World 4) Alan Cheuse: 'The Fires' 5) Harvard for the Home-Schooled, Christian Crowd 6) Guy de Maupassant, a Jeweler of Language Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 11-11-2007 Books Stories: 1) Finding Music in 'Finnegan's Wake' 2) Screenwriter Adapts 'Love' for the Silver Screen 3) Norman Mailer, Author and Social Critic, Dies at 84 4) Author Ken Wells on 'Crawfish Mountain' 5) U.S. Airmen and Tribe Face Enemy in Survival Story 6) Newly Released Photos Reveal Lennon's Final Days Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 11-04-2007 Books Stories: 1) Immigrant Struggles to Find Meaning in 'A Free Life' 2) New Biography of Roosevelt Daughter 3) West Point and War Transform English Teacher 4) Cue Ready, Kid Delicious Finds Calling on 'the Felt' 5) Large Women in the Lens of Leonard Nimoy 6) 'Abstinence Teacher' Might Be Better on Screen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 11-04-2007 Books Stories: 1) Immigrant Struggles to Find Meaning in 'A Free Life' 2) New Biography of Roosevelt Daughter 3) West Point and War Transform English Teacher 4) Cue Ready, Kid Delicious Finds Calling on 'the Felt' 5) Large Women in the Lens of Leonard Nimoy 6) 'Abstinence Teacher' Might Be Better on Screen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 10-28-2007 Books Stories: 1) Digging Into the History of the Humble Toothpick 2) 'Dog Whisperer' Implores Owners to Reclaim Pack 3) Millard Kaufman Writes First Novel at 90 4) In 'Quarantine,' a Great Story Mercilessly Retold 5) Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Alphabet Book 6) New 'Letters from Mississippi' Addresses Omissions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 10-21-2007 Books Stories: 1) Via 'Musicophilia,' Sacks Studies Music and the Brain 2) 'Soldiers' Looks at Children of War 3) Faulks Follows a Disturbed Life in 'Engleby' 4) Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll: Clapton After 'Cocaine' 5) Trudeau Compiles Dispatches from 'The Sandbox' 6) Disease, Politics Permeate 'The Air We Breathe' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 10-14-2007 Books Stories: 1) Novel Explores a 'Dominican-American Sci-Fi Geek' 2) 'The Indian Clerk' Who Changed Mathematics 3) Unconventional Education Fuels Author's First Novel 4) The Many Faces of Dracula 5) Sagal Explains How to be Naughty in 'Vice' 6) Haiku Poet Documented Life in Japanese Camps Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 10-07-2007 Books Stories: 1) Bringing 'The King' to the 8-to-12-Year-Old Set 2) U.S. Revolution Inspired Imitators, Fleetingly 3) The Art of War: An Illustrated '1776' 4) Movie Boosts Traffic to 'Into the Wild' Shrine 5) Clarence Thomas Takes a Chance on Memoir 6) Bush Daughter Begins Book Tour Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 09-30-2007 Books Stories: 1) Reclusive Philanthropist Steps into Spotlight 2) Grisham Tackles Football Tale in 'Playing for Pizza' 3) 'Sputnik: The Shock of the Century' 4) Justice Clarence Thomas' Memoir Unveils Bitterness 5) Banned Writers Find Refuge in U.S. Cities 6) Prinicipal Takes on the Summer Reading List Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 09-23-2007 Books Stories: 1) 'Dough' Tells Story of a Bakery with a Secret 2) Did 'Siege of Mecca' Give Birth to Al-Qaida? 3) Hamill's New Novel Set in Depression-Era N.Y. 4) Holocaust Victim's Lost Novels Help Daughter Heal 5) Author Sherman Alexie Targets Young Readers 6) Tracking How Consumers Use 'Inner Economist' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 09-16-2007 Books Stories: 1) Haitian Immigrant's Memoir Honors Two Fathers 2) Famous Authors' Rejection Letters Surface 3) Surviving Deafness and Deprivation in Remote Africa 4) Sen. Dodd Recalls Father's Role at Nuremberg Trials 5) Toobin's 'The Nine' Reveals Politics of High Court 6) Pollster's Book IDs Society's 'Microtrends' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 09-09-2007 Books Stories: 1) Novel's Mind-Bending Plot Clones Grandma 2) New Book Sheds Light on Explorer Vespucci 3) Auster Novel's Ancillary Tale Gets New Life on Film 4) L'Engle's Fiction Inspired Real Science 5) L'Engle, Author of 'A Wrinkle in Time,' Dies at 88 6) Nobody Home: Earth Without Man Would Recover Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 09-02-2007 Books Stories: 1) Discovering the Man Behind a Boy's Protest 2) Summer Readers Weigh In with Favorites 3) Breaking Down the, Uh, Blunders of Speech 4) A Spy Tale, Fully Revealed in 'ZigZag' 5) 'On the Road' at 50 6) Documenting the Duke Rush to Judgment Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-26-2007 Books Stories: 1) Retired Athlete Writes Children's Novel 2) 'Mary Smith' Wakes Up Village Sleepyheads 3) Real People Inhabit Michael Connelly's Fictional L.A. 4) Modern Girls and the Modesty Movement 5) Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies at Age 84 6) This 'Lovely Wife' Has a Voice that Carries Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-19-2007 Books Stories: 1) An 'Americano' Revolutionary in Castro's Cuba 2) In Science Fiction Novel, Present Feels Like Future 3) Blogger Picks Classic Novels, Modern Short Stories 4) 'The Wall' Brings a Grim World Back to Life 5) Try, Try Again: A Guitarist's Second Time Around 6) Running for President Through the Bookstore Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-12-2007 Books Stories: 1) Navajo Poet Turns to Fiction of Her Peers 2) Debut Book Explores History of Software 3) Novel Tells Sad Tale of 'It Girl' in 1970s SoHo Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-12-2007 Books Stories: 1) Navajo Poet Turns to Fiction of Her Peers 2) Debut Book Explores History of Software 3) Novel Tells Sad Tale of 'It Girl' in 1970s SoHo 4) The Origin of 'Dog Days,' And Dealing with the Heat 5) A Summer Thriller, Smartly Turned Out in 'White' 6) Lessing's 'The Cleft' Ponders Origins of Life Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 08-05-2007 Books Stories: 1) Education Secretary Prefers Summer Escapist Fare 2) Novelist Gordon's Personal Memoir of Her Mother 3) 'Penelopiad' Opens on Stage 4) Tony Blair's Spokesman Has Stories to Tell 5) Unhappy Paradise in 'The Descendants' 6) A Tenuous Transition to Paradise Lost Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 07-29-2007 Books Stories: 1) Tween Series Marks Fresh Start for Popular Author 2) Philip K. Dick Collection Aimed at New Generation 3) Annie Dillard's Tale of Bohemian Love by the Sea 4) Poppa Neutrino, Still Sailing Along 5) A Summer in Suspension, Waiting for Life's Start 6) Final 'Harry Potter' Answers Mystifying Questions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 07-22-2007 Books Stories: 1) Saddam's Past with U.S. Has Implications for Iraq 2) Spy Novelist Silva's 'Secret Servant' 3) Mysteries' Colorful Characters Reel in Readers 4) Elevating the World's Oldest Profession in Chicago 5) Nancy Cunard: Rebellious Heiress, Inspired Life 6) Series to Keep Kids (and Adults) Under Books' Spell Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 07-15-2007 Books Stories: 1) A 'Redemption Song' for The Clash's Frontman 2) A Promising Playwright's Summer Authors 3) Potter Publisher Predicted Literary Magic 4) Tracking a Vanished Civilization in the Southwest 5) Frank Deford's 'The Entitled:' A Baseball Novel 6) Wizard Rock: Harry Potter Goes Punk Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 07-08-2007 Books Stories: 1) A History of the Pentagon Building 2) Hailing the History of New York's Yellow Cabs 3) Book Argues America Is Defined by Its Limits 4) Maine Guide Intrigued by the Civil War, Koran 5) Literary Detective Details Sousa's Other Talent 6) Jack Kerouac's Famous Scroll, 'On the Road' Again Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 07-01-2007 Books Stories: 1) Lost Pearl Buck Manuscript Recovered 2) Freedom Fabric: A History of the Stars and Stripes 3) 'Peony in Love' Explores Chinese Women's Lives 4) Honoring the Very Best of the Worst in Fiction 5) Writing the Story of Huck Finn's Father 6) Landscapes Join Cast of Literary Characters Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 06-24-2007 Books Stories: 1) A Busy Brewmaster's Summer Book Stack 2) Flirting with Fiction and Fantasy in 'Austenland' 3) Michael Parker: Writing That Really Sings 4) How Monkey's Eyebrow, Ky., Got Its Name 5) Don't Believe the (Organic) Hype 6) 'Right Livelihoods' Offers Top-Notch Short Fiction Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 06-17-2007 Books Stories: 1) Behind a Nazi Plot to Seize the Pope 2) Book: Falling Through the Earth 3) Summer Book Shelf 4) Popes, Piazzas and Parenthood in the Eternal City 5) Sen. Webb on Military Sons and Fathers 6) It Took a Sisterhood to Create Nancy Drew Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 06-10-2007 Books Stories: 1) Tunnel to Terminus: The Story of Penn Station 2) Booksellers' Picks for the Beach -- or the Backyard 3) Coelho Explores Goddesses in 'Witch of Portobello' 4) Essayist Fadiman Revives Familiar Literary Art 5) Szymborska's 'View': Small Truths Sharply Etched 6) Origin of 'No Jack Kennedy' Comment Disputed Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 06-03-2007 Books Stories: 1) The Thrill of the Trill: Capturing an Insect Symphony 2) Recalling a Summer at Tiffany 3) The Many Layers of Michael Ondaatje's 'Divisadero' 4) Try This at Home: Book Captures Boyhood Nostalgia 5) Subjects of 'Kabul Beauty School' Face New Risks 6) Latest Nixon Biography Portrays an Isolated Leader Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: 05-27-2007 Books Stories: 1) Summer Books from Utah's Remote Librarian 2) Plunging into Public Pools'Contentious Past 3) Bunk Busters Unravel the Art of Spin 4) Al Gore:'The Assault on Reason'in America 5) New Books Ask: Who Is Candidate Clinton? 6) Victoria Rowell:'The Women Who Raised Me' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, May 20 2007 Stories: 1) Will Work for Food: Couple Fills Plates Locally 2) Author Alexander Made Hits Out of Myths 3) Gridiron Guts: The Story of Football's Carlisle Indians 4) Cartoonist: From Bloom County to Moms on Mars 5) Browsing the 'Atomic Bazaar' 6) John Feinstein Goes Inside the PGA's 'Q School' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, May 13 2007 Stories: 1) Young, Shunned and Thrown Off Course 2) Czech Partisans, Love, and the'Visible World'3) Joking, and Learning, About Philosophy 4) A Mother's Muse Breaks Away 5) U.S. Considered Shelter for Jews in Alaska 6) Faith Matters for Kristin Armstrong Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, May 06 2007 Stories: 1) Chinese Food Novel Feeds Hearts, Stomachs 2) Too'Kewl'for School: Making Science Click 3) Retro Cooking with the King of Bling 4)'Where's My Jetpack?'Looks for the Missing Future 5) Profiles from the Front Lines of Africa's AIDS War 6) From Michael Chabon, Noir and Niftorim in the North Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Apr 29 2007 Stories: 1) Life in'The Republic of Pirates'2) Back to Basics: Kingsolver Clan Lives off Land 3) Poets and Gangsters: Discovering Roberto Bolano 4) Rybczynski on America's Love Affair with the Town 5) The Story of Vietnam's'Perfect Spy'6) Former CIA Deputy Discusses Tenet's New Book Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Apr 22 2007 Stories: 1) Love, War and History: Israel's Yehuda Amichai 2) Author Ian Rankin Makes Crime Pay Nicely, Thanks 3) A Caution on Violent Writings 4) Finding'The Beautiful Things'in an Immigrant's Life 5) Powerful Yet Despised: Clarence Thomas'Story 6) Poet Ruth Forman Reads from'Callin out the Moon' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Apr 15 2007 Stories: 1) New Primo Levi Stories Published 2) Gwendolyn Brooks Captures Chicago 'Cool' 3) 'The River Queen' Travels Down the Mississippi 4) Granta Honors Young American Authors 5) Novelist Vonnegut Remembered for His Black Humor 6) 'Mistress's Daughter' Tells of Unfulfilled Promises Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Apr 08 2007 Stories: 1) The 'Savage Peace' of 1919, Relevant Today 2) Jennifer Ouellette, Studying Buffy's 'Physics' 3) Christopher Buckley's Modest Proposal 4) Zack Hample on 'Watching Baseball Smarter' 5) Current Events Inspire Thrillers for the 21st Century 6) Making Lies Work for You at the Office Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Apr 01 2007 Stories: 1) A Tribute to a Child's Best, Bedraggled Friend 2) New Bio Tells the Jerome Robbins Story 3) Debut Novel Chronicles Coming of Age in the West 4) Spring Signals the Return of Baseball (Haiku) 5) Albright Casts a Critical Eye on U.S. Foreign Policy 6) A First Novel that Pits the Far East with Canada Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Mar 25 2007 Stories: 1) Tips to Survive the Cubicle Circus 2) Rees Takes Middle East from Fact to Fiction 3) Author Harline Traces 3,000 Years of Sundays 4) Teacher, Student Recall a Segregated Classroom 5)'Feathers'Looks to Sixth Grade for Life's Lessons 6) Caille Millner's'Golden Road' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Mar 18 2007 Stories: 1) Recalling Basketball Dazzler 'Pistol' Pete Maravich 2) 'Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire' 3) One Irishman's Take on St. Patrick's Day 4) 'Dry Manhattan' Traces Prohibition's Failure 5) Groopman: The Doctor's In, But Is He Listening? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Mar 11 2007 Stories: 1) Lionel Shriver Helps Chick Lit Grow Up 2) Reading the Journals of Tennessee Williams 3) The Simply Elegant 'Letters of E.B. White' 4) It's Easy to Appreciate 'Mr. Pusskins' 5) 'Redbone' Tells Story of Murder in Atlanta 6) Book Details Journey from the Streets to the Stove Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Mar 04 2007 Stories: 1) Parenting Advice from a Polish Holocaust Hero 2) Finding the Beauty in'Skin: A Natural History'3) Fifty Years of'The Cat in the Hat'4) Bob Woodruff and Wife Pen Recovery Memoir 5) Lorraine Gordon, Keeper of a Shrine to Jazz 6)'Red River'Examines Reconstruction-Era Massacre Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Feb 25 2007 Stories: 1) Revisions at the Heart of Understanding Texts 2) Aimee Liu,'Gaining'Perspective on Eating Issues 3) Lisa Margonelli, Concerned with'Oil on the Brain'4) Posthumous Sci-Fi: Octavia E. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Jan 21 2007 Stories: 1) Looking Beyond Gershwin's'Rhapsody in Blue'2) Spinning Around the Globe by Bicycle in 1884 3) Conflict, Difficulties Marked Life in'Biosphere II'4) Black Artists Plot Diverse Themes for Graphic Novels 5) Maureen Corrigan's Love of Reading 6)'ViolinDreams': Chasing Bach's Elusive Chaconne Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Jan 14 2007 Stories: 1) Getting a New Read on Homer's Classics 2) 'Sacred Games:' An Epic of Mumbai's Underworld 3) Between Two Worlds: 'My Name Is Iran' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Dec 31 2006 Stories: 1) Before Harry, the Most Popular Potter Was Beatrix 2)'Life and Death and Other Stories'3) A Turbulent Year for Book Publishers 4) Writer Changed His Tune on Ford's Place in History 5) Worst Places to Live: How Does Your City Rate? 6) The Accidental Historian of Laporte, Indiana Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Dec 24 2006 Stories: 1) Covert, Michigan: A History in Black and White 2) The Pomp and Pleasure of an English Breakfast 3) 2006 Was a Novel Year at the Movies 4) Exposing'The Secret Life of Houdini'5) The Saga of a Sulfa Drug Pioneer 6) Book World Loses Narrator Kate Fleming Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Dec 17 2006 Stories: 1) Books for Kids, for Every Winter Holiday 2) Author of O.J.'s Book Deal Fired 3) Dream World to Cosmopolis: Authors' Shanghai 4) Great American Writers and Their Cocktails 5) Books for Everyone on Your Holiday Gift List Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Dec 10 2006 Stories: 1)'The Book of Dave': A Cabbie's Review 2)'Next'from Crichton: Genetic Technology 3)'Naughty Lola': London's Lonely Hearts Seek Love 4)'Heartless Stone'Tracks Rough Diamond Trade 5) How Military Wives Kept Love Alive in World War II 6)Book Tracks Holocaust's'Lost Stories' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Dec 03 2006 Stories: 1) Word for Word,'Ali Rap'Tracks'The Greatest'2) Writer's Subject? Diagramming Sentences 3) Voltaire's Story Revealed in'Passionate Minds' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Nov 26 2006 Stories: 1) Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward 2)'AK-47: The Weapon Changed the Face of War'3) The Traits That Make Us Humans 4)'Second Acts:'Presidents After the Oval Office 5) Triple Crown: A Literary Empire of Hard Knocks 6)'Where We Lived': America's Homes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Nov 19 2006 Stories: 1) Kate Atkinson:'One Good Turn'2)'Echo Maker'Wins National Book Award for Fiction 3) A Guide to Being James Bond 007 4) A Wartime Diary Touches Vietnamese 5) John Edwards and the Virtues of Home 6) Jewell Parker Rhodes''Porch Stories' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Nov 12 2006 Stories: 1) Book Explores Intellectual Power of William James 2) Antonia Fraser Peers into the Heart of Louis XIV 3) Unique Language Lives On in Quotation Collection 4) Tillie Olsen's Tender Portrait of a Marriage 5) Allende Reimagines Life of Conquistador 'Ines' 6) Mandela Friend Pens Authorized Biography Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Nov 05 2006 Stories: 1) Getting Ford's 'Lay of the Land' 2) Prokofiev's Diaries Await New Audience 3) Prize-Winning Novelist William Styron Dies at 81 4) Eggers Blends Fact, Fiction of Sudanese 'Lost Boys' 5) The Father of the Addams Family 6) It's Time to Put Ghost Writing in its Place Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Oct 29 2006 Stories: 1) A Halloween Book Recommendation, If You Dare! 2) Writer Explores Comforts, Community of Food 3) Bill Bryson: Time Traveling in 'Thunderbolt Kid' 4) True Crime from the 1820s: Shades of Capote 5) Pigskin Poets, Teamed in 'Great Football Writing' 6) Ellen Burstyn Chronicles Life's Turbulent Journey Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Oct 15 2006 Stories: 1) 'Tough Choices,' the Rise and Fall of Carly Fiorina 2) Lemony Snicket Reaches 'The End' 3) A West Won by 'Blood and Thunder' 4) 'Scroll of Seduction' Tells Juana of Castile's Tale 5) Not All Turks Admire New Nobel Literature Winner 6) Literature and Lullabies from the 'Axis of Evil' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Oct 08 2006 Stories: 1) Musharraf Finds an Audience in India 2) 'The Neddiad': A Hollywood Adventure for Kids 3) Cousin's Memoir Recalls Don Larsen's Impact 4) The Global Economy's 'New Argonauts' 5) South Asia's Clash Between Tradition and Modernity 6) New Leibovitz Collection Reveals Personal Side Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Oct 01 2006 Stories: 1) French Gather to Celebrate North American Writers 2) Alexander McCall Smith's Mysteries of Philosophy 3) Celebrated Military Nurse, Poet Revealed as a Fraud 4) Unknown Robert Frost Poem Unearthed 5) Tracey Ullman Takes on Knitting 6) Shanghai Detective Fiction Reflects a Changing China Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Sep 24 2006 Stories: 1) Japan (Sans Geishas) in 'Literary Companion' 2) Mullen's View from 'The Last Town on Earth' 3) A Reporter's View of 'Imperial Life' in Iraq 4) Orwell on Writing: 'Clarity Is the Remedy' 5) Century-Old Race Riot Still Resonates in Atlanta 6) 'On the Couch': Cartoonists Aim Ink at Shrinks Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Sep 17 2006 Stories: 1) Capturing Biafra's Brief Day in the 'Yellow Sun' 2) Rudner Finds Mystery (and Silliness) in Sin City 3) The Man Who Built Sears & Roebuck 4) Newswoman Sherr Looks in from 'Outside the Box' 5) DePalma's Disjointed 'Black Dahlia' 6) Guantanamo Through a Prisoner's Eyes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Sep 10 2006 Stories: 1) 'Futile Gesture,' a Serious Bio of Funnyman Kenney 2) 'Middlemarch': Juvenile Pleasure, Grown-Up Insight 3) Music and Mayhem in 'Laurel Canyon' 4) Author Frey, Publisher, Announce Refund Deal 5) A Poet Returns to Turkey in 'Snow' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Sep 03 2006 Stories: 1) The Long, Hard History of the Work Song 2) Final Chapter: Listening to Your Suggestions 3) Karen Russell, Telling Fantastic Tales 4) A Final Word from F.X. Toole: 'Pound for Pound' 5) Seven Novels and Why They 'Matter' 6) Floating Treasures Capture Authors' Imaginations Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rise and Fall of the Chilean Sea Bass Story: Bruce Knecht's book Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish is the story of the Chilean Sea Bass. It's an ugly, oily fish that became a favorite dining option in upscale restaurants, until it was nearly fished out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Aug 27 2006 Stories: 1) Edward P. Jones'Tales of'Aunt Hagar's Children'2) Novelist Lee, Playing with Three'Lost Hearts'3) Charles Johnson, Combing the Historical Record 4)'Fathers and Sons': A Ravishing Knockout of a Book 5) Miami Schools Try to Ban Cuba Book 6) The Sept. 11 Commission Report as Graphic Novel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Aug 20 2006 Stories: 1)'The Cremation of Sam McGee'2) A Tale Told over Cocktails:'Bottle of Rum'3) Tales of a Blind Traveler 4) On Learning to Appreciate John Cheever's Stories 5) A Writer Tells (and Appears in) Daring Stories 6)'Oz'Family Apologizes for Racist Editorials Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Aug 13 2006 Stories: 1) Philip Connors, Fired Up About Books 2) Pomfret's Tales Out of School: 'Chinese Lessons' 3) Hooked on the Most Important Food Writer Alive 4) The Porch: A Place of Literary Prominence 5) For Black Women, Little Justice After Reconstruction 6) Juan Williams on African-American 'Victimhood' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, Aug 06 2006 Stories: 1) People and Passions: Ice Fishing, Josh Groban 2) Biker Billy: A Man with a Burning Desire to Cook 3) Chef Sang Yoon, Cookin' and Bookin' 4) 'Winter's Bone': Superlative Teen Angst 5) Novels from F.X. Toole, Pelecanos 6) Susan Straight: 'A Million Nightingales' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 30 Jul 2006 Stories: 1) Ship's Captain Remembered in 'Simple Courage' 2) 'Now You See It' Takes a Look at Small-Town Life 3) 'Londonstani': A Streetside Slice of Culture 4) 'The Librettist of Venice:' Mozart's Poet 5) A Prayer Book's Secret: Archimedes Lies Beneath 6) Publishing Kerouac's 'On the Road' Scroll Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 23 Jul 2006 Stories: 1) 'Weekend Book' Charms Its Way Back into Print 2) Former Treasury Secretary's Summer Reading Picks 3) Charlie Chaplin, in the Lens of History 4) Author Faces Trial for 'Insulting Turkishness' 5) 'Hammer' Author Mickey Spillane Dies at 88 6) Book Marketing Goes to the Movies Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 16 Jul 2006 Stories: 1) Fact and Fiction Overlap in Weber's 'Triangle' 2) John Davis: 'Bully' for Him, Books for You 3) Jazz Writer Crouch, 'Considering Genius' of Jazz 4) Early Shakespeare Folio Auctioned for Millions 5) Caution: These Books May Make You Skip Work 6) Katrina Books Shed New Light on Disaster Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 09 Jul 2006 Stories: 1) Why 'Lolita' Remains Shocking, and a Favorite 2) 'Talking Right': Why the Left Is Losing, Linguistically 3) 'Double Crossed' Details Decline of American Nuns 4) The Richness of Language, Enshrined 5) Mosley's Intergalactic Coming-of-Age Tale: '47' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 02 Jul 2006 Stories: 1) Alison Bechdel's Family Life? Tragicomic 2) Harper Lee Pens Second Public Work 3) A Viet Kieu Shares His 'Perfume Dreams' 4) The Drawbacks of Fighting Terrorism with Torture 5) A Modern, Far-Fetched, Pirate Tale 6) Harper Lee Keeps on Reading Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 18 Jun 2006 Stories: 1) Books That Are Just What the Doctor Ordered 2) A Boxing Trainer's Lessons on Life 3) Author, Private Eye Carolina Garcia Aguilera 4) Andrew Revkin, Exploring the 'Top of the World' 5) Heirs Sue to Regain Steinbeck Rights 6) Summer Pages for the Mind, Heart and Tastebuds Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 25 Jun 2006 Stories: 1) Marq de Villiers, Carried Away by the Wind 2) Foundations Help Rebuild Gulf Coast Libraries 3) Evangelical: Religious Right Has Distorted the Faith 4) 'Still Hungry in America': A Return to Mississippi 5) Gault Book Details 'Africa's Renaissance' 6) Gary Younge's Tour of a 'Disunited States' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NPR: Books for Sunday, 25 Jun 2006 Stories: 1) Marq de Villiers, Carried Away by the Wind 2) Foundations Help Rebuild Gulf Coast Libraries 3) Evangelical: Religious Right Has Distorted the Faith 4) 'Still Hungry in America': A Return to Mississippi 5) Gault Book Details 'Africa's Renaissance' 6) Gary Younge's Tour of a 'Disunited States' Listen | Listen in your iPhone |