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Caption: "Orphan Train" by author Christina Baker Kline
In the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries unwanted children from east coast cities were the cargo of what were ...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Author: Peter Geye
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "Vacationland" by Sara Stonich
Sara Stonich is the best-selling author of internationally acclaimed novels "These Granite Islands," "The Ice Chorus," and the memoir "Shelter." St...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 18:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron." by Mary Losure
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...

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  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 19:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Ordinary Grace" by Willian Kent Krueger
In this Real Good Words interview Heidi Holtan talks with William Kent Krueger about his latest novel, "Ordinary Grace." "Ordinary Grace" is a depa...

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  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jon Hassler, Credit: Greg Becker
The late Jon Hassler was an author, an educator, a playwrite, and an artist. Hassler didn't begin writing until age 37. Nevertheless he published f...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 19:43
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Prairie Silence" by Melanie Hoffert
Minnesota author Melanie Hoffert's new book deals with the persistent ties one raised in a rural community may feel years later, even after their l...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Long-Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "It's Fine By Me" by Per Petterson
Dan Sinykin very cleanly illuminates the strength and appeal of this new novel from published by Graywolf Press and written by Per Petterson called...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
Dan Sinykin gives us a succinct, clear, and intriguing synopsis of Molly Beth Griffin's coming of age novel.

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Caroline Fraser
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. Now T...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Elmer Left" by Kate Leibfried
Author Kate Leibfried talks to Heidi Holtan about her novel "Elmer Left" in a Real Good Words interview.

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 14:18
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani
Beloved bestselling author Adriana Trigiani talks with Heidi Holtan about her latest "The Shoemaker's Wife" a novel based on the love affair of her...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Headaches Can Be Murder" by Marilyn Rausch and Mary Conlon
These two authors that met in a writing class at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis talk to Heidi Holtan about their new mystery thriller nove...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 18:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
Dan Sinykin brings us a review of Jim Heynen's new book "The Fall of Alice K."

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "A Passage of Redemption" by Pat McGauley
Pat McGauley is an Iron Range Historian and author. His most recent novel is titled "A Passage of Redemption." Heidi Holtan has a broad conversatio...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 21:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Heidi Holtan and Stewart Van Cleve have an in-depth conversation about the history of "queer" in Minnesota. Stewart Van Cleve's book "Land of 10,00...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 39:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Yorkville Twins" by Joseph and John Gindele
Joseph and John Gindele are twin brothers that grew up on the unforgiving streets of Yorkville on Manhattan’s ethnic Upper East Side over 60 years ...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Mind Game" by Bob Rueff
Bob Rueff is a native Minnesotan and a long-time resident of Bloomington. Rueff is a retired Advertising Executive and a US Army Reserve Lieutenant...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Lineage" by Joe Hart
Joe Hart is an author living in the Grand Rapids area. Heidi Holtan and John Bauer talks with Joe Hart about his new supernatural thriller, and abo...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Mayor of the Universe" by Lorna Landvik
Lorna Landvik is the author of eight previous novels including the best selling "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, "Oh My Stars," and "The View Fro...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 20:20
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Praying To A Laughing God" by Kevin McColley
In this Real Good Words interview Maggie Montgomery and Robert Saxton were joined in the studios of Northern Community Radio by northern Minnesota ...

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Frozen" by Mary Casanova
Mary Casanova has written and published 30 books. Her most recent effort "Frozen" is the story of 16 year old Sadie Rose in the Rainy Lake area on ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: "First Year" by J. O. Salls
“First Year” is a 2011 novel by retired teacher, J.O. Salls. It’s the story of 23 year old English teacher, Robert Baker. The story takes us throug...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Convergence at Two Horbors by Dennis Herschbach
Publisher of three previous novels, Dennis Herschbach returns with a new suspense novel titled "Convergence at Two Harbors." In this Real Good Word...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 1