February/March 2013
Chautauqua
Tuesday
– Saturday 4 a.m.
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The Social Conquest of
Earth
Nonfiction
by Edward O. Wilson, 2012.
11
La Seduction, Nonfiction by Elaine Sciolino, 2012. 15
Consider the Fork, Nonfiction by Bee
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Past is Prologue
Monday
– Friday 9 a.m.
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Past
to Present, Nonfiction by William Stevenson, 2012. 11
Former People, Nonfiction by Douglas
Smith, 2012. 18
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Bookworm
Monday
– Friday 11 a.m.
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The Dressmaker, Fiction by Kate Alcott,
2012. 11
Léon and Louise, Fiction by Alex Capus, 2012. 9
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The Writer’s Voice
Monday
– Friday 2 p.m.
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Most
of Me, Nonfiction
by Robyn Michele Levy, 2012. 8
Floyd Patterson, Nonfiction by W.K.
Stratton, 2012. 8
Louis Agassiz, Nonfiction by Christoph Irmscher, 2012. 17
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Choice
Monday
– Friday 4 p.m.
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Overseas,
Fiction
by Beatriz Williams, 2012. 15 broadcasts. Begins March 4. When Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson
attracts the notice of legendary Julian Laurence, she is baffled by his
interest. Why would this handsome British billionaire pursue a bookish young
banker who hadn’t had a boyfriend since college? But the answer may lie with an
incident in
The Life of an Unknown
Man, Fiction
by Andrei Makine, 2012. 7
Read by Phil Rosenbaum.
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PM Report
Monday
– Friday 8 p.m.
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Time
to Start Thinking, Nonfiction by Edward Luce, 2012. 12
broadcasts. Begins March 4.
The Passage of Power, Nonfiction by Robert A.
Caro, 2012. 36 broadcasts. Begins
March 20. By 1958, Lyndon Johnson had become the greatest Senate Leader
in history. He traded that to become the powerless vice-president under John F.
Kennedy in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. But it
was that role that put him in line for the presidency. L - Read by Leila Poullada.
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Night Journey
Monday
– Friday 9 p.m.
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Harbor Nocturne, Fiction by Joseph Wambaugh, 2012. 12
You Don’t Want to Know, Fiction by Lisa Jackson,
2012. 18
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Off the Shelf
Monday
– Friday 10 p.m.
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The Ordinary Truth, Fiction by Jana Richman,
2012. 13
Ghosting,
Fiction
by Kirby Gann, 2012.
12
The Technologists, Fiction by Matthew
Pearl, 2012. 20
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Potpourri
Monday
– Friday 11 p.m.
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Presumed Guilty, Nonfiction by Jose Baez,
2012. 17 broadcasts. Began February
14. Caylee Anthony was reported missing in
July, 2008. Jose Baez captured national attention when he won a not-guilty
verdict for Casey Anthony, a woman the nation had
assumed was guilty of her daughter Caylee’s death.
Read by Tom Speich.
Dangerous Ambition, Nonfiction by Susan Hertog, 2011. 23 broadcasts. Begins March 11. Born on opposite sides of the Atlantic but
friends for more than forty years, Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson lived
strikingly parallel lives, placing them at the center of social and historical
upheavals of the twentieth century in a pre-feminist era, when speaking truth
to power could get anyone blacklisted. Read by Sally Browne.
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Good Night Owl
Monday – Friday midnight
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The
Frozen Rabbi, Fiction by Steve Stern, 2010. 18 broadcasts. Began February 13. Teenaged Bernie Karp discovers a secret
in a block of ice that has survived pogroms, a trans-Atlantic voyage, a
Thunder
and Rain, Fiction by Charles Martin, 2012. 10
broadcasts. Begins March 11.
It’s Fine by Me, Fiction by Per Petterson, 2012. 7 broadcasts. Begins March 25. Audun Sletten, working-class teen in
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After Midnight
Tuesday
– Saturday 1 a.m.
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Sidney Sheldon’s Angel
of the Dark, Fiction by Tilly Bagshawe,
2012.
12
broadcasts. Begins March 1. Danny’s first big murder
case had a unique footprint: elderly multi-millionaire murdered, while tied to
his beautiful young wife. Wife survives, and disappears, with millions left to
charities. Now, the son of that first murder points out that there are killings
like this around the globe. L,S - Read by Joy Fogarty.
Shades
of Desire, Fiction by Virna DePaul, 2012. 11
broadcasts. Begins March 19. Natalie Jones,
lucky survivor of a killer who preys on young women, is now paralyzed by fear
and failing vision. Special Agent Liam “Mac” McKenzie has scars of his own.
Despite the attraction between the two of them, he needs Natalie’s help to
catch a predator. She uses her camera and imagines a life with Mac, never
guessing that the clues in her photographs are drawing them into a
confrontation with a madman. L,S - Read by Beth Marie
Hansen.
Abbreviations: V -
violence, L – offensive language, S - sexual situations.
March/ April 2013
Chautauqua
Tuesday – Saturday 4
a.m.
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Consider the Fork, Nonfiction by Bee
What Are You Looking At? Nonfiction
by Will Gompertz, 2012.
16 broadcasts. Begins
April 17. Art historian Will Gompertz is also
the BBC Arts editor, and probably the world’s first art-history stand-up
comedian. In What Are You Looking At?, his goal is to change the way
people look at modern art, from Claude Monet to Andy Warhol. Gompertz does not want to tell people if a work of art is
good; he wants to give people the knowledge to decide for themselves. Read by
Leila Poullada.
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Past is Prologue
Monday – Friday 9 a.m.
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Former People, Nonfiction by Douglas
Smith, 2012. 18
L - Read by John Potts.
Rise to Greatness, Nonfiction by David Von Drehle, 2012. 18
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Bookworm
Monday – Friday 11 a.m.
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Those We Love Most, Fiction by Lee Woodruff,
2012. 11
Two-Part Inventions, Fiction by Lynne Sharon
Schwartz, 2012. 9
Read by Esmé Evans.
The Book of Summers, Fiction by Emylia Hall, 2012. 12
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The Writer’s Voice
Monday – Friday 2 p.m.
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Louis Agassiz, Nonfiction by Christoph Irmscher, 2012. 17
Opium Fiend, Nonfiction by Steven Martin, 2012. 13
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Choice
Monday – Friday 4 p.m.
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The Ruins of Lace, Fiction by Iris Anthony,
2012. 8
Wife 22, Fiction by Melanie
Gideon, 2012. 12
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PM Report
Monday – Friday 8 p.m.
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The Passage of Power, Nonfiction by Robert A.
Caro, 2012. 36 broadcasts. Began
March 20. By 1958, Lyndon Johnson had become the greatest Senate Leader
in our history. But he traded that in, in 1960, to become the powerless
vice-president under John F. Kennedy in an administration that disdained and
distrusted him. Yet it was that position by which the presidency, the goal he
had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an
assassin’s bullet to reach its mark. L – Read by
Leila Poullada.
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Night Journey
Monday – Friday 9 p.m.
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You Don’t Want to Know, Fiction by Lisa Jackson,
2012. 18
The Woman Who Died a
Lot, Fiction
by Jasper Fforde, 2012. 12
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Off the Shelf
Monday – Friday 10 p.m.
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The Technologists, Fiction by Matthew
Pearl, 2012. 20
Sutton, Fiction by J.R. Moehringer,
2012.
15
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Potpourri
Monday – Friday 11 p.m.
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Dangerous Ambition, Nonfiction by Susan Hertog, 2011. 23 broadcasts. Began March 11. Born on opposite sides of the Atlantic but
friends for more than forty years, Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson lived
parallel lives, placing them at the center of social and historical upheavals
of the twentieth century in a pre-feminist era, when speaking truth to power
could get anyone blacklisted. Read by Sally Browne.
The Unconquered, Nonfiction by Scott
Wallace, 2011. 19 broadcasts. Begins
April 11. There are tribes in the Amazon rainforest that have avoided
contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world,
they are the unconquered, the last survivors of a culture that predates
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Good Night Owl
Monday – Friday midnight
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The Chocolate Money, Fiction by Ashley Prentice
Norton, 2012. 8
What Comes Next, Fiction by John Katzenbach, 2012. 18
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After Midnight
Tuesday – Saturday 1
a.m.
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Harvesting Ashwood –
10 broadcasts. Begins
April 3. Hard work and determination have brought a sense of security to
Anne and her family. Anne’s greatest concern is finding people who can harvest
the crops in 2037, now that government-assigned labor is no longer available. L,S - Read by Carol Lewis.
Illusion, Fiction by Frank Peretti, 2012.
17
Abbreviations:
V - violence, L – offensive language, S - sexual
situations.