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This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels to Egypt for a little bit of history and a little bit of mystery with author Janice Hamrick's Death o...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the dystopian drama of Veronica Roth's young adult hit, Divergent.
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on the run with a pair of hired guns in Gemma Halliday's Play Nice.
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin does a little bit of spring gardening with Jill Mansell's Nadia Knows Best.
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin tavels back in time to old Amsterdam with Richard Mason's History of a Pleasure Seeker.
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes a juicy look at murder and mayhem with Kate White's So Pretty It Hurts.
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
Heidi Holtan talked with Bemidji author Will Weaver about young adult novels and his latest “The Survivors” a sequel to the bestselling “Memory Boy...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 00:59:02
We want to raise awareness and encourage people to know how many children are not able to read. It is our responsibility to build a bright future f...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 00:00:30
This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin gets a case of the creepy-crawlies with Bedbugs by Ben H. Winters.
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
Wendy Welch has written a memoir about what it means to open an independent bookstore at a time when physical books seem to be disappearing. Alliso...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 00:02:31
When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 00:29:01
(un)covering the media
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 00:04:58
This week on Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on a pilgrimage with the medieval noir of Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson.
- Added: Apr 03, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 00:29:03
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin explores the lighter side of fiction with the contemporary romance of Sophie Kinsella's I've Got Your Number.
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes a look at the political satire of Taft 2012 by Jason Heller.
- Added: Mar 20, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin takes a look at the latest young adult literary phenomenon, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 00:03:00
In this short and simple vox-pop, high school senior Makele White and sophomore Lauren Washington ask teenagers, "What is the most influential book...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 00:02:59
- Purchases: 2
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...
Bought by WNPR and WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Jun 29, 2011
- Length: 00:49:27
- Purchases: 2
Episode thirty-two is just below, right behind that little arrow. It’s hiding there. If you don’t believe me, go ahead, click that little arrow and...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 00:28:03
- Purchases: 1
The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, in its cozy setting on the University Hill, is a place for poetry-lovers. Dedicated only to poetry, this n...
- Added: Feb 21, 2011
- Length: 00:04:03
In a used bookstore, I recognize that I view beloved books as family, as paper-bound kin
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 00:05:31
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 00:02:09
- Purchases: 1
Vermont Public Radio's Jane Lindholm sits down for a wide-ranging interview with novelist John Irving at his home in Vermont. Short and long versio...
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 00:46:43
- Added: Mar 30, 2010
- Length: 00:28:09
- Purchases: 1
