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BookMark
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The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg | WPSU’s Kristine Allen, our arts and culture reporter, reviews a book about why we do what we do. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg looks at how habits are created and how we can change them. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison | Can you imagine being one of the last people to speak your language? High schooler Sophia Fricke reviews The Last Speakers by K. David Harrison. | 5/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland | Susan Vreeland’s latest novel, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, is this year’s selection for One Book Bradford, a community reading event. As part of the event, Vreeland will visit the Pitt Bradford campus on Tuesday, May 1st at 7:30 pm. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan | Our reviewer, Linda Short, is an avid mystery reader. Her latest endorsement in the genre goes to writer Harry Dolan. She reviews his first novel, Bad Things Happen. The sequel, Very Bad Men, is out now. | 4/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak | The author of The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, will speak at the Mt. Nittany Middle School auditorium via Skype video call Tuesday, March 20th, at 7 pm. WPSU’s Patty Satalia will moderate. You can find more information about Centre County Reads and other u | 3/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Matter of Simple Justice by Lee Stout | Our reviewer, Nancy Eaton, helps kick off Women’s History Month by sharing a book about a Penn State alumna who worked in the Nixon administration. The book, A Matter of Simple Justice, premiers on March 8th at a Women’s History Month event at the Nat | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Underground Railroad by Judith Redline Coopey | To celebrate Black History Month, Harriet Gaston reviews a fictional story about the Underground Railroad in central Pennsylvania | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Push by Sapphire | Semhar Mengisteab, a high school student from State College, recommends a novel that will help you commemorate Black History Month, which begins this week. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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On Canaan's Side: A Novel by Sebastian Barry | Irish writer Sebastian Barry brings us this fictional history of an Irish-American family told by its matriarch. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas with Tucker by Greg Kincaid | Cheryl Bazzoui, an author and Bradford resident, reviews a young adult Christmas novel. Christmas with Tucker, by Greg Kincaid, is about a young boy struggling through his first Christmas after the death of his father with the help of a neighbor’s dog. | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen | Paige Cooperstein, a Penn State University Park student, reviews Rebecca Rasmussen’s debut novel. Rasmussen received one of her Master of Fine Arts Degrees at Penn State. | 12/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais | Looking for a great book about food this Thanksgiving? Anthony Bourdain called this novel, "Outstanding!" Let our reviewer, Sheila Squillante, tell you more about this culinary journey that travels from India to France. | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities by Witold Rybczynski | Hear how some Pennsylvania cities fared in a new book by the architecture critic and University of Pennsylvania professor, Witold Rybczynski. | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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For Better, For Worse: Patient in the Maelstrom by Carolyn Perry | Retired Lock Haven University Professor, Carolyn Perry, came out with her memoir this year. It details her survival of Hurricanes Agnes and Katrina. Our reviewer, Marjorie Maddox, is the director of the Creative Writing program at Lock Haven University. | 10/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spiral by Paul McEuen | Pamela Kavanaugh, a former science teacher and high school librarian, brings her love of science and reading together when she reviews the debut novel of Cornell physicist, Paul McEuen. That novel is Spiral. | 10/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball by Rebecca Alpert | If you’re gearing up for major league baseball playoffs, you’ll want to read Rebecca Alpert’s new book, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball. | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Burning Soul by John Connolly | John Connolly, the author of The Burning Soul, will speak at Schlow Library in downtown State College on Tuesday, September 27th at 7 pm. Mystery fans will not want to miss this. | 9/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists by David and Matt Pencek | Penn State Football kicks off this weekend. Gear up for another season of sports with David and Matt Pencek’s new book, The Great Book of Penn State Sports Lists. Our reviewer, Joshua Guiher, says it would be a great feature at any tailgate. | 8/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bright’s Passage by Josh Ritter | Josh Ritter was scheduled to open at the Dispatch concert on Sunday August 28th at the Bryce Jordan Center. But Hurricane Irene prevented his arrival. In lieu of hearing him perform live, Rachel Sweeney reviews Ritter’s debut novel, Bright’s Passage. | 8/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett | Kathryn Stockett’s 2009 novel, The Help, was just released as a film. The film stars Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Octavia Spencer. Our reviewer, Sarah May Clarkson, is a frequent contributor to BookMark. | 8/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Strange Land by Shara McCallum | This Strange Land is a collection of poems written by Shara McCallum and released with an audio CD of her reading. It is McCallum’s third book of poetry. Our reviewer, Marjorie Maddox, is a poet and prose writer. | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Did You Get This Number? by Sloane Crosley | Sloane Crosley published a new collection of essays, How Did You Get This Number?, last year in 2010. If you remember her debut collection, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, you can be assured of another hilarious read. | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline | Lisa Scottoline is a mystery writer visiting State College this Saturday as a part of BookFestPA. A local writer, Maggie Gould, reviews one of Scottoline’s suspenseful stories. | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Headhunter’s Daughter by Tamar Myers | Author Tamar Myers was born in the Belgian Congo. Her latest mystery series takes readers there. Myers will visit State College on Saturday, July 16th as part of BookFestPA. | 7/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Weather Whys: Facts, Myths and Oddities by Paul Yeager | Weather Whys: Facts, Myths and Oddities explains weird weather phenomena with wit and efficiency. The author, Paul Yeager, will be in State College as a part of 2011’s BookFestPA. | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | Today’s reviewer, Linda Short, has reported on racial issues for the monthly newspaper Voices. She takes that interest to the book world by reviewing The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flawless Ruins by Kieryn Nicolas | Kieryn Nicolas, a State College Area High School student, has written her second novel. It’s out today and her high school English teacher, Kate Hoffman, has reviewed it for BookMark. Hoffman also reviewed Nicolas’ first novel, Rain. | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal | Six months ago Book Mark producer Sarah Blake was anticipating a baby. She just gave birth to a baby boy last Wednesday. We’re rebroadcasting her review of Spoon to celebrate. | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dog on It by Spencer Quinn | A new mystery series will have you barking for more! Narrated by a fun-loving canine, these books follow a dog and his owner as they run the Little Detective Agency. | 5/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball | When a NYC journalist visits State College and falls in love with a farmer, what happens next? Our review will tell you about the exciting new book that tells this true story. | 5/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine | Fiction can help us through difficult truths and can move us to act. One novel recently captivated a local college student, and she came to WPSU to share her review. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women of the West by Dorothy Gray | A local author captures the stories of many amazing pioneer women of the West in this historical nonfiction book that's been brought back to print. | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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World Tree by David Wojahn | For the last week of National Poetry Month, we take a look at a book published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Find out more about a poet that's working everything from Reagan to Scrabble into his exciting poems. | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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God, Seed by Rebecca Foust and Lorna Stevens | It's our third week of National Poetry Month! Our book this week is half poetry and half paintings and drawings. No matter the form, the book explores nature and the amazing world that surrounds us. | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Domain of Perfect Affection by Robin Becker | For the second week of National Poetry Month, we take a look at the most recent collection of poetry from the talented Penn State laureate. | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry by Jim Daniels | National Poetry Month begins, and BookMark starts the celebration with a book by a Pittsburgh poet reviewed by an Altoona poet! | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Wisdom of Wooden by John Wooden and Steve Jamison | Wrap up March with a little more March Madness! As the final game of the tournament approaches, listen in for our review of a book by a basketball legend. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: More by Barbara Crooker | Learn more about a moving new book of poetry by a local poet, who recently read at Lock Haven University. You may have heard her poems on The Writer’s Almanac. | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Catina’s Haircut by Paola Corso | Start March off with a book that will take you to Italy! This novel, composed of linked short stories, follows four generations of an Italian family. They immigrate to Pittsburgh, and many stories take place there as well. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism by Keith Gilyard | It's the final week of Black History Month! Listen in to learn more about a forthcoming biography of a literary activist. A Penn State professor authors the book, and a Penn State student offers her review! | 2/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The River Is Rising by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley | This week is our third book for Black History Month! A professor at Penn State's Altoona campus recently won a Liberian Award, recognizing her work as critic, professor, and poet. Hear more about her poetry in this review. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Black Like Me by John Griffin | Black History Month continues on BookMark. This week we're featuring a book of nonfiction that just reached its 50th year in print! Hear more from two local high school students. | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Lighthead by Terrance Hayes | BookMark kicks off Black History Month with this year's National Book Award winner in Poetry. It's sure to delight, and the poet, Terrance Hayes, will be reading in State College on February 10th! | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls | Find out more about this year's pick for Centre County Reads. Described as a true-life novel, by the award-winning author of The Glass Castle, this new book is sure to be a treat. | 1/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | In 1951, tissue samples from Henrietta Lacks arrived in a lab. Amazingly, the cells still survive today. One book tells the story of this woman and her legacy. | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Time Traveler by Ronald L. Mallett | After a sudden tragedy, a child is inspired to take a lifelong journey into science. Hear more about this Penn State alum's exploration of time travel with this week's book review. | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: American Rust by Philipp Meyer | In this striking debut novel, readers are taken into a small Pennsylvania steel town. The author won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the LA Times. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Seal of Honor by Gary Williams | This book tells the amazing story of a Penn State alum who went on to serve our country as a Navy Seal and later received the Medal of Honor. | 12/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Aftershock by Robert B. Reich | Reich shares his insights on the current economic crisis. Our own, Kristine Allen, offers her review. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal | We have a great children's book for any holiday shopping list. The Pennsylvania Center for the Book recommends it, too! | 11/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais | Looking for a great book about food this Thanksgiving? Anthony Bourdain called this novel, "Outstanding!" Let our reviewer tell you more about this culinary journey that travels from India to France. | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley | Find out more about a new collection of essays that David Sedaris called, "Perfectly, relentlessly funny." This book is perfect to brighten up the winter evenings. | 11/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland with Vince Rause | Learn more about the incredible life and achievements of Bill Strickland. He has made an amazing difference in the lives of thousands in the Pittsburgh area and beyond. | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum | Invite a little creepy into your book-reading this Halloween! This book is sure to entertain as it twists through facts and stories all about poison. | 10/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Trouble with the Alphabet by Caryn West | Using poetry, portraits, and a wealth of research, this book tackles big issues. Listen to learn more about this book and about the human rights of children around the world. And don't forget—October 24th is United Nations Day! | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Fragile Beasts by Tawni O’Dell | Head into western Pennsylvania coal country with Tawni O’Dell’s newest novel. You might know her first book, Back Roads, which is an Oprah Book Club Selection. | 10/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Unscheduled Stop by Paula Zitzler with Susie O’Brien | In 1893, a circus train crashed near Tyrone. Listen to this review to find out more about what happened! | 10/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Hart’s Grove by Dennis McFadden | A stunning collection of short stories is out by a Brookville native. Listen to our review, and then meet the author in Brookville on October 4th! | 9/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead | The winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal is a mysterious book that will have you thinking about time travel and the hidden lives of middle school students. | 9/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song by Rebecca Foust | This new book of poetry is by an author who grew up in Hollidaysburg, and you'll see signs of central Pennsylvania throughout the poems. | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Rain by Kieryn Nicolas | A teenage girl makes for an amazing spy in this new novel. Maybe more exciting is that the author is also a teenager! | 8/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: American Rust by Philipp Meyer | In this striking debut novel, readers are taken into a small Pennsylvania steel town. The author won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the LA Times. | 8/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Coffee Trader by David Liss | With this work of historical fiction, you don’t just travel to Amsterdam—you travel to Amsterdam in the 17th century. Listen here to learn more about this New York Times Notable Book. | 8/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Maze Runner by James Dashner | If you're looking for a little suspense, try this new book. It's a perfect read for ages 11 to 15. | 8/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais | Anthony Bourdain called this novel, "Outstanding!" Let our reviewer tell you more about this culinary journey that travels from India to France. | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Fragile Beasts by Tawni O’Dell | Head into western Pennsylvania coal country with Tawni O’Dell’s newest novel. You might know her first book, Back Roads, which is an Oprah Book Club Selection. | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead | The winner of the 2010 Newbery Medal is a mysterious book that will have you thinking about time travel and the hidden lives of middle school students. | 7/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: More by Barbara Crooker | Learn more about a moving new book of poetry by a local poet. You may have heard her poems on The Writer’s Almanac. | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Born to Run by Christopher McDougall | Follow the author as he journeys through Mexico and discovers his love for running. And catch him as he runs through State College this Sunday at the Arts Festival 10K race. | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains by Dave Hurst | Newspaper columns have been compiled for this delightful book about the rich history and hidden treasures of Pennsylvania. There are plenty of ideas for summer day trips! | 6/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton | Add a little mystery to your summer. In the most recent book in the alphabet mystery series, Grafton sends Kinsey Millhone looking for a kidnapper. | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Rules by Cynthia Lord | Hear a middle school student tell you what he thinks about this Newbury-award winning novel. | 6/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Coffee Trader by David Liss | With this work of historical fiction, you don’t just travel to Amsterdam—you travel to Amsterdam in the 17th century. Listen here to learn more about this New York Times Notable Book. | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Great Match Race by John Eisenberg | It’s a big week for horse racing with the Belmont Stakes on June 5th. If you’re a fan, you’ll love this book about a horse race that took place all the way back in 1823. | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Devil’s Alphabet by Daryl Gregory | A talented local author brings the classic story of the journey home into the world of science fiction, where monsters and mysteries are everywhere. Publisher’s Weekly named it one of the Best Books of 2009. | 5/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Button Up! by Alice Schertle | This book of children’s poetry won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award from our very own Pennsylvania Center for the Book. | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Help by Kathryn Stockett | This novel takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, nearly 50 years ago. Learn about a difficult time in our country’s past through an endearing tale. | 5/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps by Dave Isay | What conversation would you like to have with your mother this Mother’s Day? Read this touching collection of interviews. | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner | This book of poetry might be puzzling at first, but before too long, it will win your heart. | 4/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Least of These by Todd Davis | One poet will show you another way to look at the world around you—through nature, the body, and all that’s spiritual. | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Stranger Manual by Catie Rosemurgy | Miss Peach is a quirky fictional character who will teach you “what it means to be strange” as you read the poems in this delightful book. | 4/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Open Interval by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon | Join us for National Poetry Month! This book of poetry, a finalist for the National Book Award, has beautiful poems that go into the swamps and out to the stars. | 4/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains by Dave Hurst | Newspaper columns have been compiled for this delightful book about the rich history and hidden treasures of Pennsylvania. | 3/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Ryan Seacrest Is Famous by Dave Housley | Pop culture is a buzz in this collection of short stories that’s sure to make you laugh. | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Losing Season by Jack Ridl | A book of poetry about high school basketball will remind you of what it was like to be a teenager in the big gymnasium. | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Jazz Fiction Anthology by Sascha Feinstein and David Rife | This book finds jazz at the heart of short stories that span from the 1920’s to the present. | 3/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Still Alice by Lisa Genova | In this heartbreaking novel, a brilliant Harvard professor learns she has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. | 3/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton | In the most recent book in the alphabet mystery series, Grafton sends Kinsey Millhone looking for a kidnapper. | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Mr. Agreeable by Kirk Nesset | Mr. Agreeable is a collection of flash fiction that is both funny and unsettling. | 2/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Patch Boys by Jay Parini | This coming-of-age story takes place in a Pennsylvania mining town in the 1920’s. | 2/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963 by by Christopher Paul Curtis | This young adult fiction novel takes place at the height of the civil rights movement. | 2/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Slamming Open the Door by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno | Pennsylvania poet Kathleen Bonnano has written a shocking and moving collection of poems about the murder of her daughter. | 1/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Rules by Cynthia Lord | This Newbury-award winning novel for young adults captures the life of a family with an autistic child. | 1/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Fit for Table by Mike Robinson | Pennsylvania publisher Stackpole Books has a new offering for hunters--a book that tells you what to do with wild game. | 12/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Pine Creek Villages by David Ira Kagan | The “Images of America” series offers concise histories of American towns in picture-postcard format. This installment features the logging towns that grew up along Pine Creek in the late 19th century. | 12/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Of the Wing by Georgia Anne Butler | This book, set in the Pennsylvania woods, is an action-packed adventure that also helps kids learn about birds. | 12/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | Like the classic “1984,” this post-apocalyptic tale presents a world where leaders keep the populace pacified--but with television rather than drugs. In a warped version of the TV show “Survivors,” teens must compete to the death. | 12/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Gettysburg Gospel by Gabor Borit | President Abraham Lincoln’s best known speech may also be his most misunderstood. This book cuts through the myths. | 11/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: World War II in Their Own Words by Brian Lockman | Thirity-three Pennsylvania veterans talk about their experiences during World War II in a book that’s a companion volume to a popular TV series on Pennsylvania Cable Network. | 11/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Fellowship by Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman | Frank Lloyd Wright is celebrated as America’s pre-eminent architect--but his personal life was complicated and stormy. The Fellowship tells the story of the landmark training program Wright created for young apprentices--and the overbearing way in whic | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak | Director Spike Jonze has turned a children’s book with just 300 words into a feature-length Hollywood movie. As “Where the Wild Things Are” hits theaters, it’s worth a look at the book to see how it holds up in its original format, 40 years afte | 10/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Measuring America by Andro Linklater | Never mind the American Revolution; author Andro Linklater’s thesis is that democracy was launched by an innovative tool for surveying land. | 10/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Ice Cream U by Lee Stout | If you’re a Penn State alum--or a football fan--a visit to the University Park campus probably is not complete without a trip to the Penn State Creamery. A generously illustrated new book from Penn State Press gives fans the history of this venerable in | 9/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: For the Animals Who Missed the Ark, by Jim Barton | The Pennsylvania Poetry Society just held its annual poetry contest. And the winner is . . . a poet from Arkansas. Dana Washington says, you should read his new book. | 9/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Mifflin County (Images of America) by Forest K. Fisher | Written by a former president and historian Forest K. Fisher, this book on Mifflin County offers a unique glimpse into one of the historic areas of Pennsylvania. Pictures, letters, and detailed descriptions of influential people and places map out the co | 8/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poetry by John Felstiner | This book, recently featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, examines the Earth through a multifaceted lens. On one level, John Felstiner has compiled a noteworthy collection of nature poems and poets, many of whom are from Pennsylvania. On another level, t | 7/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E.O. Wilson | This small book by renowned entomologist and humanist E.O. Wilson asks some big questions. What happens when science and religion are necessary to save creation (both the spiritual and natural kind)? Couched in a letter to an imaginary Southern Baptist | 7/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz | This Pulitzer Prize winning tale of overweight “ghetto nerd” Oscar Leon is Junot Diaz’s debut novel. In a narrative rich in Spanglish, history and culture, it spans the lives of Oscar and several of his family members as they struggle with the fami | 7/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader | This book follows the life of nutritionist turned author Joan Dye Gussow as she embarks on a journey to create a life based on sustainable agriculture. By farming her own soil, she produces healthy, organic produce, and creates some interesting recipes (i | 7/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters by Cokie Roberts | This re-issue of the essay collection by NPR personality Cokie Roberts spans generations of women in every field and occupation imaginable. Roberts paints pictures of strength, heroism and courage. The vignettes both inspire and prove that regardless of | 6/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson | The human desire to leave behind something lasting is the concept behind this novel. The narrator, Reverend John Ames, knows his health is failing; as an inheritance for his seven-year-old son, he pens the intricate story of his life. Marilynne Robinson | 6/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark # 231: Heartwood by P.J. Picirillo | Award-winning author P.J. Piccirillo is no stranger to the land and history of Pennsylvania. As a native of the state, he has taken his expertise and experiences and crafted an inspiring debut novel of two men in a small logging town in the Alleghany Pla | 6/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark # 230: Five novels for middle school students | Memory Boy by Will Weaver (HarperTeen, 2003) Under a War-Torn Sky by L,M Elliott (Hyperion, 2003) Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Aladdin, 2006) Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Square Fish, 2008) Blood Trailby Nancy Sprin | 6/9/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark # 229: What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Today’s Leading Minds Rethink Everything by John Brockman | In this collection of thought-provoking essays from edge.org, members from every field of study contemplate what it means to change your mind about something. From thoughts about God and the universe, to scientific findings and human biology, these exper | 6/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark # 228: Shadows of War: Prelude to Memorial Day by Janice Sweet McElhoe | Since the emergence of Memorial Day in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, it has been become a day of reflection on the sacrifices other Americans have made for our country. One resident of Boalsburg has taken this a step further and written a story that takes us b | 5/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Beautiful Angiola & The Robber with a Witch’s Head by Laura Gonzenbach | Laura Gozenbach has crafted a collection of Sicilian folk and fairy tales that transcend the test of time. Her skill at storytelling transforms these old tales into detailed, thrilling accounts of magical encounters, princes and princesses and other adve | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: American Fractal by Timonthy Green | A fractal is a patterned object that looks the same whether you view it from close up or far away. Poet Timothy Green sees an analogy in the structure of American society. | 5/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Diamond Willow by Helen Frost | The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award is given each year by local organizations to recognize the most outstanding new book of children's poetry published in the previous calendar year. This year, the committee selected Diamond Willow, by Helen Frost, whic | 5/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power | Irish-American journalist and government official Samantha Power recently released this debut book, which explores America’s response to genocides in the 20th century. Power touches upon everything from the Armenian genocide to “ethnic cleansing” in | 4/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, The Free Negro in North Carolina , The Militant South by Jo | Author and historian John Hope Franklin passed away a few weeks ago at the ripe old age of 94. He is best known for his landmark book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans. The book, first published in 1947, sold more than three million | 4/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Like a Rolling Stone by Steven Kurutz | Pennsylvania native and Penn State alum Steven Kurutz translates his love for rock-n-roll music into a debut book that observes life at the “lower altitudes of the music industry.” Kurutz follows the tribute band “Sticky Fingers” as the Rolling | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Barry Marx (Editor) | Author Alan Moore is one of the few authors to bring graphic novels into the mainstream. Most recently, his graphic novel Watchmen was adapted into a major motion picture. The events unfold in a United States with an alternate history, where superheroe | 3/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror | On March 28, 1979, a cooling malfunction caused a partial melt-down at the Three Mile Island nuclear power facility. The accident resulted in a significant release of radioactivity over an eastern Pennsylvania town. In The Warning: Accident at Three Mi | 3/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark # 231: Heartwood by P. J. Picirillo | Award-winning author P.J. Piccirillo is no stranger to the land and history of Pennsylvania. As a native of the state, he has taken his expertise and experiences and crafted an inspiring debut novel of two men in a small logging town in the Alleghany Pla | 3/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems by Marjorie Maddox (Reviewer Daniel Story) | Award-winning author and Lock Haven University professor Marjorie Maddox is best known for her works of poetry. In her new book, due out this April, Maddox pays tribute to America's favorite pastime--baseball. | 3/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo (Reviewer Nikki Wasserman) | This New York Times bestseller is based on a popular episode of Sex and the City. Now it’s a movie. Reviewer Nikki Wasserman reviews this humorous self-help book. | 3/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Books; 2007) | Author Khaled Hosseini is best known for his 2003 award-winning novel, The Kite Runner. The Afghan-American novelist recently followed up with another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. A Thousand Splendid Suns covers three decades of anti-Soviet j | 2/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Walkin' the Line: A Journey from Past to Present Along the Mason-Dixon by William Ecenbarger (M. Evans and Company, I | When the Mason-Dixon Line comes up in discussion, most people think of the Civil War, or segregation. Pulitzer prize- winning journalist William Ecenbarger thinks differently. In his latest book, Walkin' the Line: A Journey from Past to Present, Ecenbarge | 2/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (Clarion Books; 2002) | Many Koreans suffered oppression in the mid 1900s, when Japan took over their country. When My Name was Keoko, describes the struggles one family faced. The young-adult novel is loosely based on the historical experiences of author Linda Sue Park's parent | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler (Simon Spotlight Entertainment; 2008) | Standup comic and late-night television host Chelsea Handler is known for her ruthless sense of humor. Her second book, Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, is a collection of autobiographical essays about her life. This book is Handler's second on the | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin (HarperCollins; 2004) | Now in its second year, 'One Book Bradford' is a communitywide project designed to encourage reading and stimulate discussion. This year the Bradford committee has selected David Laskin's award winning book The Children's Blizzard, a non-fiction literary | 1/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig (Penguin Press; 2008) | Scientific American has named Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig one of the Top 50 Visionaries in 2008. He is best known as proponent for loosening the restrictions of copyright and trademark laws. In his final book about copyright, Lessig describes h | 1/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon 2003) | Each year the literary organization Centre County Reads encourages members of the community to read the same book and discuss it with their neighbors. This year Centre County Reads selected the graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi for the community | 1/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award Winning Food Show by | The Splendid Table, is a weekly NPR cooking program known for is modern approach toward food and cooking. In the show's recently released cookbook, the program's host Lynne Rossetto Kasper, and its producer, Sally Swift, shares simple recipes and stories | 1/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books, 2002) | Renowned surgeon a Atul Gawande has written extensively on medicine and public health. In his first book, he shares his true feelings about the medical field: that like its human counterparts, it is often flawed. With riveting true accounts from the op | 12/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses, by Marjorie Garber (Anchor Books, 2000) | Harvard professor Marjorie Garber is known for her love of pop culture. Her latest book covers an aspect of American culture most people can't get enough of: Houses. Through a series of essays, Garber takes a look at literature, history, cinema, and psy | 12/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish, by Joe Mackall (Beacon Press, 2007) | Writer and professor Joe Mackall is not Amish, but he has lived in Ohio's Amish country for more than 16 years. In Plain Secrets: an Outsider Among the Amish, Mackall explores the heart of the Amish tradition, and uncovers the meaning behind the hundreds | 12/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: I Was Told There'd Be Cake, by Sloan Crosley (Riverhead Books, 2008) | Most people think life as a twentysomething means days without a care in the world. Sloane Crosley's debut book, lets you in on the not so carefree life" of the current generation's young adults. | 11/18/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, by Rick Riordan (Scholastic Press, 2008) | New York Times bestselling author Rick Riordan has written the first installment in a projected series that will include books by different authors,trading cards, and an online game where readers play a part in the story and compete for more than $100,00 | 11/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Commerce of Moments, by Sofia M. Starnes (Pavement Saw Press, 2004), Corpus Homini: A Poem for a Single Flesh, by S | Award winning author and poet Sofia M. Starnes once said, 'We write for ourselves and for a stranger.' In her two latest books, Starnes takes her readers on a quest to understand herself and one another. The two diverse collections focus on the spiritual | 11/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Horseshoe Curve: Sabotage and Subversion in the Railroad City, by Dennis P. McIlnay (Seven Oaks Press, 2007) | The Horseshoe Curve Altoona, is one of the most famous railroad curves in the United States and an extremely important part in the U.S. railroad industry ... so important that the Nazis tried to blow it up during World War II. Dennis P. McIlnay's latest | 10/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World, by Susan Brind Morrow (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004) | The Finger Lakes region in Central New York is, like Central Pennsylvania, rich with the beauty of nature . . . lakes, forests, and wildlife. Author Susan Brind Morrow's latest book, is a collection of essays on the history and natural history of the pl | 10/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Rabbis Of the Air, by Phillip Terman (Perfect Paperback, 2007) | Oscar Wilde once said, 'Ones past is what one is.' Award winning author Philip Terman describes this sentiment well in his latest book Rabbis of the Air. In his third major collection of poetry, Terman writes of his Jewish ancestry and his current home in | 10/14/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The First Circle, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (North Western University Press, 1997) | Russian author and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn made the world aware of the Soviet Union labor camps through his writing. Although he was exiled from Russia in 1974, Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, for his ongoing commi | 10/7/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Whiskey Rebels, by David Liss (Random House, 2008) | Pennsylvania is a state rich in American history--especially during the Revolutionary era, when the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were both signed in Philadelphia. David Liss's latest historical novel takes readers back to that monument | 9/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Black Notebooks: an Interior Journey, by Toi Derricotte (Norton, 1999) | University of Pittsburgh professor and author Toi Derricotte is one of the most honored African American poets in the literary world today. Her poems often focus on reality and pressing issues in society today. In this book, her first memoir, which she be | 9/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion Books, 2008) | Author Randy Pausch was named 'Person of the Week' on ABC's 'World News with Charlie Gibson' September 21, 2007. His book and speech, The Last Lecture, has attracted international attention, from the media and millions of readers. The book is based on t | 9/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Attack, by Yasmina Khadra (Anchor Books, 2005) | Newsweek magazine calls Yasmina Khadra one of the rare writers 'capable of giving the meaning of violence' in the Middle East today. His latest book, The Attack focuses on the continuing hostilities between Israel and the Arab world. The plot involves a r | 9/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A History of Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania, by Dr. George P. Donehoo (Wennawoods Publishing, 1997) | Native American names grace many of the cities, counties, rivers, mountains, and lakes in Pennsylvania. In fact, according to historian George P. Donehoo, 'No state in the entire nation is richer in Indian names or Indian history than Pennsylvania.' This | 9/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, by Augusten Burroughs (St. Martin's Press, 2008) | Entertainment Weekly has ranked Augusten Burroughs as one of the “25 Funniest People in America” His books are also some of the most heart wrenching. In this, the fifth of Burroughs's memoirs, he tells for the first time about his psychotic father, a | 8/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Atlas of Pennsylvania, edited by David J. Cuff, William J. Young, Edward K. Muller, Wilbur Zelinsky, and Ronald F. Ab | If you love maps, you'll love this compendium that tells you practically everything you could want to know about the Keystone State. Far more than a how-to-get-there collection of road maps, this atlas has info about everything from ancient Indian culture | 8/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It by Jonathan Zittrain (Yale University Press, 2008) | After years of wild success, have we "come to the end of the Internet?" The message of this book is that the internet is moving from innovation to regulation, where access is limited and the government takes control. Zittrain knows what he's talking abou | 7/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 by J. H. Powell ( University of Pennsyl | How would America handle a major outbreak of an infectious disease? Our nation has weathered terrible epidemics in the past-not necessarily launched by terrorists. This volume documents one of the earliest, the "Great Plague" of 1793 where yellow fever r | 7/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Going Local: an Adventurer's Guide to Unique Eats, Cool Pubs, and Cozy Cafes, by Ken Hull | Here in Central Pennsylvania we have lots of farms and lots of fresh produce-and many owner-operated eateries that make the most of the abundance. Boalsburg artist Ken Hull has put together an offbeat guide to his favorite places to get a really great m | 7/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Robobots by Matt Novak (Dorling-Kindersley Children, 1999) | Here's a book for children from kindergarten to second grade that sneaks in a lesson about accepting diversity while at the same time being wildly amusing. The day the Robobots move in next door is the day the neighborhood goes downhill. They look and a | 7/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: H. Beam Piper: A Biography by John F. Carr | One of the world's greatest science fiction writers was a native of Central Pennsylvania! H. Beam Piper, the author of Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, spent his early years in Altoona and his old age in Williamsport. Another Pennsylvanian, John F. Carr, has | 6/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen | The title of the book refers to a proverb from a region in Pakistan. The first time you share a cup of tea with a villager, you are a stranger; the second time, you are an honored guest; the third time you become family. Mortensen, an experienced climbe | 6/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Five Novels for middle school students | Memory Boy by Will Weaver (HarperTeen, 2003) Under a War-Torn Sky by L,M Elliott (Hyperion, 2003) Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Aladdin, 2006) Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples (Square Fish, 2008) Blood Trail by Nancy Spri | 6/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel | Do you think of blogs as web pages where teenagers vent their private lives? Nowadays they're more likely to be essential business tools, and in Naked Conversations, you can learn how to make one work for you. | 6/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Wingless Crow by Charles Fergus (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008) | From the late 1970s to the early 1990s, Pennsylvania naturalist Charles Fergus wrote a monthly column for the Pennsylvania Game News. The columns about such topics as the delights of topo maps and the pastime of stump-sitting were collected into an appeal | 5/27/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow (William Morrow, 2008) | Reviewers have called the works of State College science fiction writer James Morrow, "Wild Vonnegutian satires full of fantastical . . . events." Buckle your seat belt when you settle into an armchair with his newest book, because you're headed for a | 5/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Locktender's House, by Steven Sherrill (Random House, 2008) | Acclaimed local author Steven Sherrill is known for his quirky works: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break and Visits from the Drowned Girl. His newest novel has a Pennsylvania setting, an abandoned locktender's house along an old canal. But despite the | 5/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Pennsylvania Speculator and Patriot: The Entrepreneurial John Nicholson 1757-1800 by Robert Arbuckle (Pennsylvania S | If you were asked to name famous Pennsylvanians, you might list William Penn, and Ben Franklin. You probably wouldn't think of John Nicholson. The life of the Commonwealth's colonial Comptroller General makes for fascinating reading, though, with implic | 5/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Dough: a Memoir by Mort Zachter (HarperCollins 2008) | Dough. It means bread, the stuff you eat . . . but also moolah, green stuff, money. It's the perfect title for this tough and tender memoir by Mort Zachter. Zachter grows up in a family of workaholics, consumed by the family business, a "bakery" that | 4/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: So I Will Till the Ground by Gregory Djanikian (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007) | For National Poetry Month. here's a selection by a Pennsylvania poet, from a Pennsylvania press. Award-winning poet Gregory Djanikian confronts the horror of the Armenian genocide of 1915; his poems also relate his boyhood in Egypt and his eventual emig | 4/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Going Local: an Adventurer's Guide to Unique Eats, Cool Pubs, and Cozy Cafes,by Ken Hull | Here in Central Pennsylvania we have lots of farms, lots of fresh produce . . . and lots of owner-operated eateries that make the most of the abundance. Boalsburg artist Ken Hull has put together an offbeat guide to his favorite places to get a really g | 4/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Deadline by Chris Crutcher (HarperTeen 2007) | Country singer Tim McGraw tells us to "live like we were dying." For the teen protagonist of this book, high school senior Ben Wolfe, it's an all-too-real challenge; he's been diagnosed with incurable leukemia. Ben decides not to tell his parents or frie | 4/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry by Marjorie Maddox (Wordsong, 2008) | A new book by local poet Marjorie Maddox, just released by Pennsylvania publisher Wordsong, is all about the whimsical names for groups of animals. You know that a bunch of birds is a flock and an aggregation of fish is a school . . . but did you know th | 4/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Books For Women's History Month | Cool Women, the Thinking Girl's Guide to The Hippest Women in History, by Dawn Chipman, Mary Lawrence and Naomi Wax (Scholastic, Inc. 1998) Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells, by Phillip Dray (Peachtree Publishers, 2008) Something Out of Nothing, Marie Cur | 3/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Pennsylvania Women by Kate Hertzog (Twodot Books, 2007) | March is Women's History Month, a good time to take a look at the "More Than Petticoats" series. Each volume identifies a set of women who made a difference in one U.S. state. Remarkable Pennsylvania Women brings us the story of such notables as pioneeri | 3/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway (Charles Scribners' Sons, 1929) | This spring, the Center for American Literary Studies sponsors a Community Read of “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway for the Penn State University Park campus. This semi-autobiographical novel about the love between an ambulance driver and a nu | 2/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Last Street Novel, by Omar Tyree (Simon and Schuster, 2007) | Best-selling Philadelphia author Omar Tyree's books have been a hit with black women. His latest book is aimed at the "urban male." It's not the typical "gangsta" book where the protagonist dies, goes to jail, or wises up; this book's hero is a romance | 2/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl, by Kate McCafferty (Penguin, 2002) | It's a little known chapter in colonial history-between 1558 and 1603, the British government sent tens of thousands of Irish citizens to the new world, technically as indentured servants but in practice as slaves. This novel tells the story of Cot Daley | 2/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Bellefonte and Early Airmail: 1918-1927 by Kathleen Wunderly (American Philatelic Society) | Valentine's Day is coming up, the second busiest mailing day of the year. You take it for granted that our valentines will get to their destinations within a few days . . . thanks to air mail. A new book by local author Kathleen Wunderly documents the k | 2/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Coldest Winter Ever, by Sister Souljah (Pocket Books, 2000) | Hip-hop star and political activist Sister Souljah made a splash with this story of drugs and violence in the inner city. It's the coming-of-age story of 17-year-old Winter Santiago, daughter of a drug dealer, who must deal with challenges ranging from a | 1/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ismael Beah (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007) | Wars are being fought worldwide, and aid agencies estimate that as many as 300,000 of the soldiers involved are children. Long Way Gone is a memoir by one of them. The deeply upsetting story of Ishmael Beah is a depressing account of man's inhumanity to | 1/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: When the Emperor Was Divine, by Julie Otsuka (Penguin Books, 2004) | Centre County Reads is a community organization that each year selects a worthwhile book for the community to read together. The group talks, discussion groups, and other literary events related to the book. This year's book is When the Emperor Was Divin | 1/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: We the Living, by Ayn Rand | Ayn Rand's first novel was her first denouncement of communism . . . and the book she said comes closest to an autobiography. Set in post-revolutionary Russia, it's the heart-wrenching story of a woman who sacrifices everything for the man she loves-and | 1/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Bang Bang, by Lynn Hoffman (Kunati, Inc., 2007) | This week's selection is a novel ripped from the headlines . . . of your local paper. This fall, Pennsylvania's Governor and General Assembly have been fighting over gun control legislation. What better time for a darkly comic novel, by a Pennsylvania | 1/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Groundhog Day, by Don Yoder (Stackpole Books 2003) | All your questions about this wacky holiday are answered in one concise volume. Author Don Yoder is a pioneer in the study of American regional and ethnic cultures; he was cofounder of the Pennsylvania Folklife Society, longtime editor of the journal Penn | 12/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: How to be a Baby by Me The Big Sister and Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap< (Schwartz and Wade Books, 2007) \The Wedne | It's gift-shopping season, and this week BookMark has gift suggestions for avid readers of all ages. Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way by Leonard Marcus (Golden Bo | 12/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and other Boneheaded Bureaucrats are Turn | When legislators ban smoking in public places or transfats on restaurant menus, are they looking out for your well-being, or acting like facists? That's the question posed by libertarian Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi, and his answer is clear: he th | 12/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon (Mariner Books, 1982) | This year marks the 50th anniversary of the granddaddy of American road-trip books: Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. 25 years ago, William Least Heat Moon wrote a less frenetic road-trip book‚ a trip through small towns with funny names, talking to guys i | 12/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Elegy for Sam Emerson [Encore] by Hilary Masters (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006) | Carnegie Mellon creative writing professor Hilary Masters writes about Sam Emerson, a Penn State alumnus and Pittsburg restaurant owner with an unconventional past and complicated present. Foodies will love the restaurant ambiance and kitchen info. Detai | 11/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A History of Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania by Dr. George P. Donehoo (Wennawoods Publishing, 1997) | Native American names grace many of the cities, counties, rivers, mountains, and lakes in Pennsylvania. In fact, according to historian George P. Donehoo, No state in the entire nation is richer in Indian names or Indian history than Pennsylvania. This bo | 11/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Moonlight Hotel [Encore] by Scott Anderson (Doubleday, 2006) | Civil unrest in a small kingdom in the Middle East. Diplomats and journalists hunker down in a grand hotel as the bullets fly and world leaders quibble. This novel by journalist Scott Anderson is about an invented country, but if you read the morning pap | 11/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins, 2006) | This week marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” when German stormtroopers smashed the windows of Jewish shops . . . an event often referred to as the start of the Holocaust. A recent book about the Holocaust is “The Lo | 11/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Too Many Pumpkins | Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White, illustrated by Megan Lloyd (Holiday House, 1997) The Little Old Lady who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda White, illustrated by Megan Lloyd (HarperTrophy, 2002) No Place for a Pig by Suzanne Bloom (Boyds Mills Press, | 10/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Resolute: The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage, by Martin W. Sandler (Sterling, 2006) | Explorers in the 1800s were the astronauts of their day, and the race was, not to the moon, but to find the fabled “Northwest Passage‚” that would speed the shipping of precious cargo from East to West. This thrilling new historical account tells th | 10/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy, by Joan Quigley (Random House, 2007) | This summer the headlines were all about a mine disaster in Utah. Meanwhile a Pennsylvania mine disaster that got its start in the 1960s is still unresolved today. An underground fire in an abandoned mine ultimately forced the evacuation and abandonment | 10/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Some Heaven, by Todd Davis Michigan State University Press, 2007 | A new collection from a local poet explores our connection to the natural world. The publisher writes: “Here are poems about Amish gardens, changing seasons, friends at school, tractors, and deer . . . poems about universal themes: love, loss, life | 10/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Boy Books II | The River by Gary Paulsen The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer The Smugglers by Iain Lawrence Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James L. Patterson How do you get a teenaged boy to read? Reviewer Martha Freeman posed that question for us a | 10/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott (Random House, 2007) | You've heard of the best little whorehouse in Texas? The most famous whorehouse in American history was the high-class establishment run by the notorious Everleigh sisters (pun perhaps intended) in turn-of-the-century Chicago... until a campaign to shut d | 9/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, 2007) | This summer BookMark featured a series of books that reflect, in different ways, on the phenomenon of the "local food" movement. As farmer's markets reach their glory, the show takes a look at one more, novelist Kingsolver's engaging non-fiction account | 9/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Enders Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor Books, 1991) | Students! If you think going back to school is hard, consider this: What if your school were like the grueling, sadistic space-based military academy attended by Ender Wiggin, the hero of the legendary work of science fiction, “Ender's Game?” | 9/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Muses, Madmen & Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science and Meaning of Auditory Hallucinations by Daniel Smith (Pen | We associate the hearing of voices with madness - yet research shows, the phenomenon is not so rare and not necessarily pathological. This book is a multifaceted review of the phenomenon; author Daniel Smith got interested in the subject because his fath | 8/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Atlas of Pennsylvania edited by David, J. Cuff, William J. Young, Edward K. Muller, Wilbur Zelinksy, and Ronald F. Ab | If you love maps, you'll love this compendium of maps that tell you practically everything you could want to know about the Keystone State. Far more than a how-to-get-there collection of roadmaps, this atlas informs about everything from ancient Indian c | 8/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: No Dogs Allowed by Bill Wallace (Holiday House, 2004) | Children's author Bill Wallace is known for books that address tough issues in a tender way. This one deals with love and loss. The heroine, Kristine, is coping with the death of her beloved horse Dandy. So, when her grandfather gives her a puppy as | 8/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Penguin Press, 2006) | Do you know where your food comes from? In this ambitious book, New York Times columnist Michael Pollan lays it all out for you in great detail; reviewers say, "You'll never look at a Chicken McNugget in the same way again." | 8/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The No A**hole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, by Robert I. Sutton (Business Plu | This book addresses a distressing fact of the modern workplace: you want to soar with the eagles, but sometimes you work with turkeys. The author, a Stanford management science professor, has the solution: get rid of those jerks! | 7/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Project Everlasting by Mathew Boggs and Jason Miller (Simon & Schuster, 2007) | What is the recipe for a happy marriage? Psychologists have been cooking up answers for years, but Project Everlasting turns to the experts: that is, couples who have been married for more than 40 years! In this book, couples share their time-tested wis | 7/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: How Can I keep from Singing: Pete Seeger by David Dunaway (De Capo, 2008) | Pete Seeger's music-iconic songs such as "If I had a Hammer"--raised the consciousness of a generation. Dunaway's biography is the first inside look at the long life of a man who worked for social change through his songs. | 7/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel by Kiran Desai (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006) | Globalization and economic inequity are some of the themes in this novel from up-and-coming writer Kiran Desai, as each of the members of a makeshift family living in the foothills of the Himalayas struggles with questions of identity in a rapidly moderni | 7/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: What to Eat by Marion Nestle (North Point Press, 2007) | It's easy to become confused about what to eat. With today's increasingly clever advertising, even a bag of chips can sound nutritious. But nutritionist Marion Nestle, in her new book, What to Eat, offers straightforward information in the often mislea | 7/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Mistakes that Worked, by Charlotte Jones (Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 1994) Steve Caney's Invention Book by S | So your teenaged son thinks reading is roughly as much fun as cleaning his room? Despair not. Today on BookMark, some books and some tips sure to entice the eyeballs of the most video-game obsessed teen. | 7/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Sold, by Patricia McCormick (Hyperion, 2006) | Every year, thousands of girls in Nepal and India are sold into prostitution. Patricia McCormick researched the trade of sexual slavery and interviewed women who have been through it. Her novel, “Sold”, honors the women who have undergone the perils | 6/26/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Custard's Last Stand by Tamar Myers (Signet, 2004) | Magdalena Yoder has another mystery to solve in this Pennsylvania Dutch Series. Colonel George Custard has just come to the cozy town of Hernia to set up a glamorous hotel, when he suddenly gets murdered! Of course, Yoder gets on the case. Liven up th | 6/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Elegy for Sam Emerson by Hilary Masters (Southern Methodist University Press, 2006) | In his latest novel, Carnegie Mellon creative writing professor Hilary Masters writes about Sam Emerson, a Penn State alumnus and Pittsburg restaurant owner. He takes readers through the tumult of Sam's unconventional past, while drawing on familiar them | 6/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman (Little Brown and Company, 20 | Feeling bad about your messy desk? Well, say good bye to guilt with A Perfect Mess, a book about the benefits of disorder in the corporate world. | 6/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Gift of Valor Random House | The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest award given for military bravery. The first recipient of this award since the Vietnam War was Corporal Jason Dunham, a marine serving in Iraq who sacrificed his life to save his men. Reporter Michael Phill | 5/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Two Books for Memorial Day | A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry (Viking Adult, 2005) My Detachment, by Tracy Kidder (Random House, 2005) May 28 is Memorial Day, a day to remember the nation's fallen soldiers. Here are two books to read for the holiday, one a work of fiction, the | 5/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Giovanna's 86 Circles, by Paola Corso (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005) | In the 20th century, South American writers made famous the literary genre called magical realism, which blends real-world events with fantasy. Today's book applies magical realism to the author's hometown of Pittsburgh. Paolo Corso's debut collection of | 5/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night, by James Patterson (Mira, 2006) | In the mood for a short little spine-tingle? James Patterson is known as an expert author of thrillers. In this volume, he's gathered 30 short stories by some of the best known names in the mystery-thriller field. | 5/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Born on a Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet (Free Press, 2007) | “Rain Man” was just a movie . . .”Born on a Blue Day” is the real-life memoir of Danel Tammet, a man with the rare form of Asperger's disease known as "Savant Syndrome." He can learn a new language in a week and perform extraodinary mathematical | 5/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Wislawa Szymborska, Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997 (Harcourt, 1998) | April is National Poetry Month, and BookMark brings listeners a month's worth of poetry book reviews. This week's selection is a collection of poems by the surprise winner of the 1996 Nobel prize for literature: an elderly Polish woman most scholars had | 4/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky, (Greenwillow, 2004); The Dream Keeper, edited by Brian Pinkney (Knopf, 1994) ( | April is National Poetry Month, and BookMark brings listeners a month's worth of poetry book reviews. This week . three poetry books kids will actually enjoy! A collection of elegant haikus that are also guessing games about animals, an anthology of cla | 4/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Hurricane Blues: Poems About Katrina and Rita, edited by Phllip C. Kolin and Susan Swartwout | We continue our celebration of National Poetry Month with a collection of poems that share a common theme: The impacts of two devastating hurricanes, Katrina and Rita. These works had special resonance for reviewer Dana Washington. | 4/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Hometown for an Hour, by Jennifer Rose (Ohio University Press, 2006) | April is National Poetry Month, and BookMark brings listeners a month's worth of poetry book reviews, starting with Hometown for an Hour. It's a collection of short postcard-like poems about places and displacement. Speaking of sense of place: poet Jennif | 4/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Colonel and Little Missie by Larry McMurtry (Simon and Schuster, 2005) | Larry McMurty uses his novelists' chops in this nonfiction account of the lives of Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley, the two "demigods of western mythology." McMurtry, who remembers hearing his uncles tell of having seen the legendary Wild West Show, | 3/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Intuitionist: A Novel, by Colson Whitehead - (Anchor Books, 1999) | During the spring semester, Penn State University Park's new Center for America Literary Studies is sponsoring a "community read." The novel you should pick up is The Intuitionist, a social allegory in a city of the future where the sprawl is up, not out, | 3/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Assassin's Gallery, by David L. Robbins (Bantam, 2006) | The protagonist in this thriller is a professor who asks, "Can one man change the course of history?" And in this book, which presents an alternate version of American history during World War II, the answer is "yes." A daring killer has been hired to a | 3/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Guy Not Taken: Stories by Jennifer Weiner (Atria, 2006) | Jennifer Weiner made a name for herself with her "chick-lit" bestsellers: Good in Bed, Little Earthquakes, and In Her Shoes . . . the latter famously made into a Hollywood blockbuster starring Cameron Diaz. Avid fans will delight in picking out details | 3/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy | The Road is a grim, post-apocalyptic tale of a father and son who cross a burned landscape, pushing their meager belongings in a shopping cart, avoiding savage bands of marauders out to rape and enslave their fellow survivors. McCarthy's latest work is | 2/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Color Him Father: Stories of Love and Rediscovery of Black Men by Haki R. Madhubuti, Stephana I Colbert, and Valerie | During Black History Month the spotlight focuses on important figures on history. This book, a collection of essays, celebrates another kind of hero: black men who are fathers. The powerful true-life stories challenge the prevailing stereotypes of Africa | 2/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession by Paul Coelho (HarperCollins, 2005) | A woman-journalist goes missing in Paris, along with a man who may or may not be her lover. Left behind is her husband, a self-centered writer. Was the woman killed? Was she kidnapped? Or did she simply escape a rotten marriage? The Arabic word "zahir | 2/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward (Simon and Schuster, 2006) | Legendary investigative journalist Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) takes a close look at how the Bush administration has conducted the war in Iraq. The message you'll walk away with is "Lies were told." | 1/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This, by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page (Houghton Mifflin, 2003); Clip Clop, by Nicola | Children's picture books have gotten glitzy, what with pop-ups, glitter, and doctored photographs. Tired of all the hype? Here are three new books that stick to old-fashioned ways of making an impression on kids. A version of this review previously app | 1/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More, by Chris Anderson (Hyperion, 2006) | Forty years ago, we Americans were more likely to all watch the same TV show, read the same best-seller, and eat the same breakfast cornflakes. Today, that, “common culture‚” is dead, says Wired editor Chris Anderson, and niche diversification is th | 1/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A History of Indian Villages and Place Names in Pennsylvania by Dr. George P. Donehoo (Wennawoods Publishing, 1997) | Native American names grace many of the cities, counties, rivers, mountains, and lakes in Pennsylvania. In fact, according to historian George P. Donehoo, no state in the entire nation is richer in Indian names or Indian history than Pennsylvania. This bo | 1/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Jimmy Stewart, A Biography, by Marc Eliot (Harmony 2006) | What makes Jimmy Stewart so wholesome? America’s favorite boy-next-door actor got his start in small-town Pennsylvania. Author Marc Elliot has written an exhaustive but error-dotted biography. | 12/19/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Run-up to the Punch Bowl, by John Nolan (X-Libris, 2006) | Many books have been written about World War II and Viet Nam, but almost no literary works document the Korean War. DC attorney John Nolan fills the gaps by detailing his experiences as a Marine rifle platoon leader in 1951, the pivotal year of the Korea | 12/12/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1996) | This best-selling fantasy tale of a twelve-year-old girl who lives in an alternate universe, where the bad guys do terrible things to children, is about to be released as a major motion picture. That’s reason enough, says reviewer Steven Herb of the Pe | 12/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Along the Allegheny River: The Northern Watershed AND The Southern Watershed, by Charles E. Williams (Arcadia Publi | Arcardia Publishing specializes in titles about regional and local history. This week’s book is part of the publishing company’s‚ “Postcard History Series." It tells the history of the Allegheny River’s northern watershed through reprints of an | 11/21/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Just a Whisper Away by Lauren Nichols (Harlequin/Silhouette Intimate Moments, 2006) | This romance-thriller is the seventh by St. Marys resident Lauren Nichols. Set in fictional Laurel Ridge, PA (an amalgam of St. Mary’s and Kane) the book features such familiar Harlequin romance plot devices as the bad boy who makes good, high school sw | 11/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Here, Bullet, by Brian Turner (Alice James Press, 2005) | This selection for Veteran’s Day is the first-ever collection of poems by a veteran of the Iraq War. Brian Turner served a year as infantry team leader with the 3rd-Stryker Brigade Combat Team. These gripping narratives, which talk about the day-today | 11/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR‚ Correspondent Anne Garrels [Encore] Pubished by Farrar, Straus and G | Anne Garrels is National Public Radio’s senior foreign correspondent, which means she has reported from such war zones as Bosnia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Kosovo. Her experiences in Iraq are the subject of a compelling memoir. | 10/24/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Zorro: A Novel, by Isabel Allende | You know Zorro as the swashbuckling guy with the sword and the cape, skewering bad guys in the name of justice. But what’s his back story? What was he like as a little kid? This novel tells the imagined story of the young Zorro: the events that shape | 10/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Doll People by Ann Martin and Laura Goodwin (Hyperion, 2000) | If you liked the children’s classic The Borrowers, you’ll love a new book called The Doll People it‚ the story of some real living dolls. They can move and talk and have adventures . . . and Annabelle Doll even solves a mystery. | 10/10/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Giniralla Conspiracy, by Nihal de Silva (Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2005) | Award-winning author Nihal de Silva’s novel wraps its plot around real events the ongoing bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. The story of a fight against injustice has universal appeal but also gives readers intimate details of daily life in Sri Lanka. | 10/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Moonlight Hotel by Scott Anderson (Doubleday, 2006) | Civil unrest in a small kingdom in the Middle East. Diplomats and journalists hunker down in a grand hotel as the bullets fly and world leaders quibble. This new novel by journalist Scott Anderson is about an invented country but if you read the morning | 9/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson (Broadway, 1999) | This entertaining account of Bryson’s marathon end-to-end hike along the famous Appalachian Trail is this year’s selection for Centre County Reads, an annual initiative to get everyone in the community reading and talking about the same book. | 9/5/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Weeknights at the Cathedral, by Marjorie Maddox | Award-winning local poet Marjorie Maddox (the director of Creative Writing and a professor of English at Lock Haven University) explores spirituality and religious practice in this new collection of poems. | 8/29/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Roadside Giant, Brian and Sarah Butko (Stackpole Books, 2005) | Colossal doughnuts in Beaver County. A supersized stocky Santa statue in Indiana. Kittanning's majestic “Cowboy Sam.” Many businesses in Pennsylvania -- and across America -- rely on these wacky roadside advertisements-run-amok to attract business. Pe | 8/1/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Backpacking Pennsylvania [Encore], by Jeff Mitchell, published by Stackpole Books (2005) | If you’re a backpacking enthusiast, this reliable new guide will help you plan your Pennsylvania outings. | 7/25/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Backpacking Pennsylvania, by Jeff Mitchell, published by Stackpole Books (2005) | If you’re a backpacking enthusiast, this reliable new guide will help you plan your Pennsylvania outings. | 7/25/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Racing the Sun by Paul Pitts (An Avon Camelot Book, 1988) | Grade school students looking for a good summer book will enjoy this story of an ordinary boy named Brandon. He lives in the suburbs and is proud to be a member of UGA (Underacheiving Goof-offs of America). Then Brandon’s grandfather leaves the reserva | 7/18/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson (published by HarperCollins, 2005) | It isn’t every day that a history book rates a review in Entertainment Weekly . . . but then, history books are rarely as entertaining as this account of the hunt for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. | 7/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Rum Punch and Revolution, by Peter Thompson (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) | As we celebrate the 4th of July, it’s well to consider how ideas shared over a friendly beer played a role in the birth of our nation. Author Peter Thompson, an historian at Oxford, explores the role of Philadelphia taverns as a setting for political | 7/4/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Electric Michaelangelo by Sarah Hall (Faber and Faber, 2004) | The “electric Michaelangelo” of the title is a Coney Island tattoo artist, and his canvas is the human body. This critically praised book, nominated for a Booker in 2004, is like a tattoo, beautiful but painful -- a love story that is also an account | 6/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: White on Black and Black on White by Tana Hoban; More More More Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams Urban Babies Wear | Heading for a baby shower this summer? Looking for a gift that’s educational yet sure to please? Frequent BookMark book reviewer Steven Herb has the lowdown on the season’s best board books for babies | 6/20/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice: A History of Women at Penn State University Park, PA, by Carol Sonenklar. (Penn | The first women to enroll at the Pennsylvania State University faced a host of challenges. They were shunted into less-than-challenging courses of study and barred from career-oriented extracurriculars such as the student newspaper. This volume documents | 6/13/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Zoe Sophia in New York: The Mystery of the Pink Phoenix Papers (Chronicle Books, 2006) | State College resident Claudia Mauner and her friend Elisa Smalley are the authors of Zoe Sophia’s Scrapbook: Adventure in Venice the story of an adventurous 9-year-old in spectacles. Now Zoe Sophia--a pigtailed heroine based on Mawner’s real-life da | 6/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Hello, Goodbye Window, by Norton Juster, illustrated by Chris Raschka (Michael Di Capua Books, 2005) | This charming picture book about a little girl and her grandparents won the Caldecott award for illustration for Huntingdon native Chris Raschka. | 5/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, published by Broadway, 1979 | Soldiers carry many things into war: their guns, back packs, ammunition, food. Then there are the intangibles: Fear. Fellowship. Memories. Just in time for Memorial Day, “The Things They Carried” is a collection of autobiographical stories about the | 5/23/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferigno (Scribner, 2006) | Resident mystery buff and Altoona librarian Debbie Weakland reviews this hot new thriller, set 35 years in the future, after terrorists conquer America and civil war divides the nation into a Muslim north and Bible Belt south. The heroine is a young histo | 5/16/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Noodlehead Stories: World Tales Kids Can Read and Tell, by Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weis (August House, 2000) | Storytelling is an ancient art, and even in the electronic age, stories still have the power to fascinate. If you’ve ever dreamed of being a storyteller, this week’s book is a collection of 23 enduring tales from around the world, with how-to-tell-i | 5/9/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth (Harper Perennial, 1994) | If Jane Austen had lived in India in the 1950s, she would have written this richly detailed novel of love and marriage. And at 1500 pages, it’s an entirely suitable book to take on a 24-hour plane ride. | 5/2/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Books, 2005) | Just in time for National Poetry Month, a collection of poems about ordinary experiences that are anything but ordinary in the way they connect to a young woman’s inner world. Penn State Education grad student Lisa Hopkins is the reviewer. | 4/25/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Roadside Giants by Brian and Sarah Butko (Stackpole Books, 2005) | Colossal doughnuts in Beaver County. A supersized stocky Santa statue in Indiana. Kittanning's majestic ‚”Cowboy Sam.” Many businesses in Pennsylvania--and across America--rely on these wacky roadside advertisements-run-amok to attract business. Pen | 4/18/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Season of Fire: Four Months on the Firelines in the American West, by Douglas Gantenbein ( Penguin, 2003) | Turn on the nightly news these days, and you’ll see footage of flames, burning homes, and soot-blackened firefighters . . . . evidence that we‚Äôre at the beginning of the 2006 wildfire season in west Texas. All the more reason, says reviewer John | 4/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Flush [Encore], by Carl Hiaasen, published by Knopf, 2005 | Two years ago, humorist Carl Hiassen was a Newbery honor award winner for “Hoot”, his eco-thriller for young adults set in Florida. Now Hiassen’s got a new novel for younger readers, featuring a spunky brother-sister who out to bust a casino boat | 4/4/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, published by Harvest Books (2004) | Time travel is a science fiction staple. But Henry De Tamble, the “chronologically challenged” protagonist of this inventive tale doesn’t zip around in time to save the universe; instead he keeps unintentionally disappearing without warning, only t | 3/28/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson, by Claire Harmon, published by HarperCollins (2005) | When writer Robert Lewis Stevenson died in 1894, he left behind a wide-ranging literary legacy: story-teller, essayist, dramatist, children’s author, poet, travel writer. A new biography will give readers new appreciation for his accomplishments. | 3/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Rebel Angels, by Libba Bray, published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers (2005) | ”Magical events happen to an orphan at a British boarding school.” This plot synopsis sounds like a new installment in the Harry Potter series, but actually, the spunky heroine is named Gemma Doyle, and the book is Rebel Angels, second installment in | 3/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: A Wreath for Emmet Till, by Marilyn Nelson, published by Houghton Mifflin (2005) | Black History Month is over, but it’s always a good month to read worthwhile books about the Black experience in America. Today’s selection looks like a kids picture book, but don’t judge THIS book by its cover. | 2/28/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, published by Putnam Juvenile (2005) | February is Black History Month, and history means more than grand events and famous people, it includes personal stories, too. Librarian Dotty Delafield recommends a story for Black History Month that families will enjoy reading together. | 2/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Criss Cross, by Lynne Rae Perkins, published by Greenwillow (2005) | This gentle coming-of-age novel, described by critics as “deliberately random” just won the writer’s equivalent of an Academy Award. It’s the The Newbery Medal, given for the best written children’s book of the year. Local librarian Steven Her | 2/14/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell, published by Little Brown, 2005. | Do you make spontaneous decisions? That may be a wiser strategy than you think, according to author Gladwell. | 2/7/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Ambler Warning by Robert Ludlum, published by St. Martin‚ Press, 2006 | Author Robert Ludlum died in 2001, yet he’s still churning out bestsellers . . . thanks to a succession of ghostwriters. The latest release has a plot that combines elements of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “The Fugitive”. | 1/31/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova, published by Little, Brown, 2005 | The legend of Dracula is a constant source of inspiration for novelists. In the hands of Elizabeth Kostova it’s fresh and enthralling. If you liked “The DaVinci Code” and “The Rule of Four” you’ll enjoy this thriller, in which an ancient book | 1/17/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Weird Pennsylvania , Your Travel Guide to America's Best Kept Secrets [Encore] | If you want to explore the Keystone State , there are plenty of conventional travel guides to choose from. Or you could try this unconventional NEW guide. | 1/3/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Flush by Carl Hiaasen, published by Knopf, 2005 | Two years ago, humorist Carl Hiassen was a Newbery Award Honor winner for Hoot, his eco-thriller for young adults set in Florida. Now Hiassen’s got a new novel for younger readers, featuring a spunky brother-sister who out to bust a casino boat o | 12/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Penderwicks: a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall, published | If you’re looking for holiday gift ideas for a youthful avid reader -- say, age 8 to 12 -- Steven Herb has a couple of books to recommend. Both are being considered for the John Newbery Medal, the oldest children’s book prize in the world. | 12/13/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Areas of My Expertise: A Complete World Almanac by John Hodgman, published by Dutton (2005) | The newspaper humorist Dave Barry was famous for describing outrageous events, then saying, “I am not making this up.” The author of today’s book IS making it all up and proud of it. Reviewer Bill Carlsen talks about the power of lying. | 11/29/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling | The latest Harry Potter movie hit cineplexes last Friday. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire‚ is based on Book 4 in the series, which was published way-y-y back in 2002 . . . so, just in case you need a plot refresher before you plop down in the theatr | 11/22/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Looking Back At Veterans' Day | Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, published by Vintage (2003) A Month in the Country by J.L Carr, published by Saint Matthews Press (1983). Veteran’s Day, which we celebrated last week, used to be called Armistice Day. Nov. 11 is day when, back in 19 | 11/15/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Wha’s the Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America | Pennsylvania communities held municipal elections this week -- a good time to reflect on the state of politics in America today. | 11/8/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania | This unique collection of contemporary works evokes the essence of Pennsylvania. Poems explore the state’s physical landscape: the hills and valleys, the farmland and forest, but also its cultural terrain: the coal towns and, steel factories, the Pennsy | 11/1/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Who Stole Halloween? | In a previous book, eleven-year-old Alex and his next door neighbor Yasmin solved the mystery of Who is Stealing the 12 Days of Christmas. Now, in Martha Freeman’s latest, the young sleuths track down a passle of missing cats. | 10/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: I Am A Pencil | A few years ago, children’s author Sam Swope volunteered to teach writing to some third-graders in Queens. He liked it so much, he stuck around for three years and got a book out of the experience. It's called “I Am a Pencil”. | 10/18/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World | For more than 20 years, Dr. Paul Farmer has worked to improve health care in the desperately poor nation of Haiti. Tracy Kidder, known for his close-focus works of nonfiction, has put together a compelling biography of this hardworking humanitarian. Bill | 10/4/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Riding the Bus With My Sister | Dotty Delafield "Centre County Reads" is a local effort to get all the folks in one community reading-- and talking about‚ the same good book. This year's selection is “Riding the Bus With My Sister,” Rachel Simon's acclaimed memoir about the year i | 9/27/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Weird Pennsylvania , Your Travel Guide to America's Best Kept Secrets | If you want to explore the Keystone State , there are plenty of conventional travel guides to choose from. Or you could try this unconventional NEW guide . . . | 9/20/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War | In the wake of the 2004 presidential election, career diplomat Joseph Wilson found himself working for an administration that “outed” his wife Valerie Plane, a CIA undercover operative‚ allegedly in retaliation, after Wilson refuted President Bush' | 9/17/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: One Shot | 10 years ago, at the age of 40, Lee Child was fired from his corporate job... so he bought 6 dollars worth of paper and pencils, and sat down to write his novel. The result, Killing Floor, turned out to be just the first in a whole series of thrillers wit | 9/6/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Norman Rockwell: A Life, by Laura Claridge, published by Random House, 2001 | Norman Rockwell is one of the most beloved artists in America -- perhaps best known for his cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post , A special exhibition of his works is coming to the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in September; UPB histo | 8/30/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Jerry Engels | Love is all you need. That's the message in Jerry Engels, the story of a young Penn student in the 1950s, the latest novel by Penn State emeritus professor of English Tom Rogers. | 8/16/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | True love, a desperate battle, and a death are all in the latest installment in the Harry Potter series. Though the books are written for pre-teens and teens, they have universal appeal for avid readers, as reviewer Carla Lewis relates. | 8/9/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers | In the wake of the London subway bombings, there's a renewed interest in the events of 9/11. If you're interested in a look back at the attack on the Twin Towers here's a new book that's an in-depth account of the 102 minutes between the time the firs | 7/26/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: American Road | Despite those high gas prices, a cross-country road trip is still a popular option for Americans on their summer vacations. If you're the kind of person who can read in the car without getting carsick, here's the perfect summer reading to take along. | 7/12/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: High Water Mark: Prose Poems | Type your description here... | 6/28/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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BookMark: Pioneer Church | The Pennsylvania Center for the Book has created an award-winning Literary Map of Pennsylvania -- and this map is about to feature Pioneer Church, a book by Carolyn Otto with illustrations by Pennsylvania illustrator Megan Lloyd. The book has also been se | 5/31/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 292 Episodes |
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- Category: Society & Culture
- Language: English
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