This week our guests are the two women who have brought one of the most beloved children's book characters in recent years to life. The two are the author and illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series of picture books published by HarperCollins.

Interviews:
Robin Preiss Glasser, Fancy Nancy Bonjour Butterfly and Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words
Jane O'Connor, Fancy Nancy Bonjour Butterfly and Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words

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This week we devote our show to a conversation with the author of Peace Like a River. His new book has just been released by Grove Atlantic Press.

Interview:
Leif Enger, So Brave, Young, and Handsome

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This week have a little taste of Southern flavor with visits from a novelist (and executive with Mossy Oak Biologic) and a humorist.

Interviews:
Bobby Cole, The Dummy Line
Shellie Rushing Tomlinson, Suck Your Stomach In & Put Some Color On! What Southern Mamas Tell Their Daughters That the Rest of Y'all Should Know Too

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This week is truly for the birds as we talk with two authors of non-fiction books that feature birds.

Interviews:
Michael K Steinberg, Stalking the Ghost Bird: The Elusive Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in Louisiana
Danny Heitman, A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House

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This week we spend some time with Susan Wittig Albert, author of more than 30 books, including 16 China Bayles mysteries, 4 Beatrix Potter mysteries, 12 Edwardian and Victorian mysteries with her husband Bill Albert (written under the name Robin Paige), and several books of non-fiction.

Interview:
Susan Wittig Albert, Nightshade

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On today's show we interview two award-winning authors of books for children and teens.

Interviews:
Kimberly Willis Holt, Piper Reed, Navy Brat
Linda Sue Park, Keeping Score

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This week we'll interview the authors of two of the fine novels that are being published this spring. Both are first novels.

Interviews:
Shirley Abbott, The Future of Love
Hillary Jordan, Mudbound

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Today we talk to two journalists who have written non-fiction books.

Interviews:
Kate Torgovnick, Cheer! Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading's Ultimate Prize
Amy Sutherland, What Shamu Taught Me about Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People from Animals and Their Trainers

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This week we talk to two authors who have written non-fiction books.

Interviews:
Josh Wolk, Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth As a Camp Counselor
Dan Koeppel, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

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Today on our show we talk to two authors of books for young adults, Meg Cabot, who has a new book for younger girls, and Alan Gratz about two of his books.

Interviews:
Meg Cabot,Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: MovingDay
Alan Gratz, Samurai Shortstop, Something Rotten

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This week we talk to two authors, one of a biography and one of a memoir.

Interviews:
Gary Moore, Playing With The Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams
Jon Provost, Timmy's in the Well: The Jon Provost Story

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This week, we talk with two historians about the never to be forgotten war that shaped American history as we know it.

Interviews:
Terrence Winschel, Triumph and Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign Volumes I and II
Gary Joiner, Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: The Mississippi Squadron

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This week we have enjoyed an extended conversation with Geraldine Brooks. Her non-fiction books are Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women and Foreign Correspondence. Her novels are Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, March (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), and her newest, People of the Book.

Interview: Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book

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This week we talk to two authors who spend much of their time in historical periods different from the one in which most of us live.

Interviews:
Tim Raglin, The Curse of Catunkhamun
Susan Campbell Bartoletti, The Boy Who Dared

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This week on our show we talk to two North Carolina writers. The two are part of a four member writing group; all four writers have now been published by major houses.

Interviews:
Pamela Duncan, The Big Beautiful
Lynn York, The Sweet Life

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On this week's show we celebrate the Louisiana Hayride, a country music institution that was known as the Cradle of the Stars.

Interviews:
Diane Diekman, Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story
Joey Kent, co-author with Frank Page of Elvis: The Louisiana Hayride Years, 1954-56

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Today's show is devoted to the delightful Kathy Patrick, owner of Beauty and the Book in Jefferson, Texas, the nation's only beauty salon and bookstore in one. She is also the founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs, where the motto is "Tiaras are mandatory and good books are the rule."

Interview:

Kathy Patrick, The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life

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Today we talk to two authors who have written memoirs, one about her travels as an adult and one about her formative years.

Interviews:
Susan Hanf, My Lemon Orchard
Julia Scheeres, Jesus Land

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