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Crime novelist T Jefferson Parker takes to the slopes with “Crazy Blood”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In Parker’s 22nd book, it’s high noon up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Mammoth Falls, 7880 feet above sea level. The air smells like snow, memo...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist James Lee Burke and “The House of the Rising Sun”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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JLB has published 36 books over 50 years. He’s best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series and the Holland family storie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
Crayons have feelings? Drew Daywalt and "The Day the Crayons Came Home"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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His box of crayons on his desk inspired Drew's first book, "The Day the Crayons Quit." His parents' generosity served as the bedrock for his latest...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Who Decides What’s Fair? Author Ausma Zehanet Khan
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An international human rights lawyer, Ausma Zehanet Khan in “The Unquiet Dead” introduces two Canadian police inspectors, Rachel Getty and Esa Khat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Crime novelist Neely Tucker and "The Ways of the Dead"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This first in a new mystery series is written by a veteran Washington Post reporter and is based on a true crime, the Princeton Place Murders, that...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Lisa See and her “China Dolls”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Isabel Allende's first crime novel: Ripper
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A Chilean-born author, Isabel is best known for her novels and memoirs. But now, after deciding not to retire from writing books after all, she's ...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Author Martin Cruz Smith and “Tatiana”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Author Amy Tan and “The Valley of Amazement”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Chinese-American novelist, perhaps best known for her book, "Joy Luck Club," takes readers to Shanghai and its International Settlement where ...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Crime novelist Sophie Hannah and "Kind of Cruel"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A crime novelist and poet talks about where in England her books are set, why she chose a hypnotherapist as a character in this novel, "Kind of Cru...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
Afropolitan Taiye Selasi and "Ghana Must Go"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This debut novel opens up in west Africa with a death and is a portrait of a modern family. Listen in for Taiye’s timely comments on the biggest m...

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  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Irish Author Roddy Doyle and "The Last Republic"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1