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Kindermann, Kim www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart
Kindermann, Kim www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart
Lesart - das Literaturmagazin (ganze Sendung) - Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Kindermann, Kim www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart
Personal Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Jessica, chats with author Amber Lough about languages, Amber’s book, “Open Fire”, and of course, the importance of voting. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Titles discussed in this episode include: • A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth E. Wein • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein • They Fought for the Motherland by Laurie S. Stoff • Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth E. Wein • Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
In this episode Shannon, Jen and Stacy discuss and recommend books about World War II. Books for this episode are: Jacqueline Briskin, The Other Side of Love Mary Ann Schaffer, Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Kristen Hannah, Winter Garden Elizabeth E. Wein, Rose Under Fire: Code Name Verity, Book 2 Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons At the Feast Sarah McCoy, The Baker's Daughter Diane Chamberlin, A Stolen Marriage Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key Aimie K. Runyan, Daughters of the Night Sky Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Sara Young, My Enemy's Cradle Ken Follett, Jackdaws Stuart M. Kaminsky, Toby Peters Series Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls You can always contact the Book Bistro team by searching @BookBistroPodcast on facebook, or visiting: https://www.facebook.com/BookBistroPodcast/ You can also send an email to: TheBookBistroPodcast@gmail.com For more information on the podcast and the team behind it, please visit: http://anchor.fm/book-bistro.
Welcome to a new episode of Legends and Lore, your one-stop podcast for the unified canon of Star Wars, and the Legends that inspire it. In this episode we: Discuss the recent news: The recently revealed cover for Thrawn: Alliances featuring Thrawn and Darth Vader Excerpts of Del Rey's newest Star Wars novel, Canto Bight (available in stores now) Kelly Marie Tran's (Rose Tico in The Last Jedi) narration of Cobalt Squadron, a middle-grade novel part of the Journey to The Last Jedi book series and written by Elizabeth E. Wein Discuss From a Certain Point of View, a collection of […]
Welcome to a new episode of Legends and Lore, your one-stop podcast for the unified canon of Star Wars, and the Legends that inspire it. In this episode we: Discuss the recent news: The recently revealed cover for Thrawn: Alliances featuring Thrawn and Darth Vader Excerpts of Del Rey's newest Star Wars novel, Canto Bight (available in stores now) Kelly Marie Tran's (Rose Tico in The Last Jedi) narration of Cobalt Squadron, a middle-grade novel part of the Journey to The Last Jedi book series and written by Elizabeth E. Wein Discuss From a Certain Point of View, a collection of […]
Bookrageous Episode 84; Historicals What We're Reading Jenn [0:45] Sacred Games, Vikram Chandra [1:51] Pandemic, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016) [3:05] Pandemic board game [3:55] Getting Things Done, David Allen Josh [4:30] Judge This, Chip Kidd [6:30] American Housewife, Helen Ellis [7:55] Eating the Cheshire Cat, Helen Ellis [8:15] The Noble Hustle, Colson Whitehead [8:25] On the Books, Greg Farrell [10:20] Plotted: A Literary Atlas, Andrew Degraff Preeti [13:00] Knulp, Herman Hesse [14:40] Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier, Ales Kott, Marco Rudy [16:20] Amazing Spider-Man, Dan Slott ----- Historicals [23:50] The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth [27:00] A Magnificent Farce, Alfred Edward Newton [27:45] The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George [28:45] Sharon Kay Penman [29:40] Saint Mazie, Jami Attenberg [30:25] The Agony and the Ecstasy, Irving Stone [32:00] WWII: Number the Stars, Lois Lowry; The Book Thief, Markus Zusak; Code Name Verity, Elizabeth E. Wein [32:45] Magic Tree House series [33:35] The Bad Popes, ER Chamberlin [35:20] Cleopatra, Stacy Schiff [36:00] The Witches, Stacy Schiff [37:15] Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen [37:25] Kenneth C. Davis books [39:55] Pandemic, Sonia Shah (February 23 2016) [42:10] Mary Stewart's Arthurian Saga [42:48] Hild, Nicola Griffith [43:42] Debt, David Graeber [44:10] The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber [44:50] Colum McCann: Dancer, Transatlantic, Let the Great World Spin [45:45] Studs Terkel [46:02] Please Kill Me, Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain [46:29] The Ibis Trilogy, Amitav Ghosh [47:20] K Blows Top, Peter Carlson [48:16] Terra Nostra, Carlos Fuentes [49:40] Courtney Milan, Beverly Jenkins, Sarah MacLean [50:50] Georgette Heyer [52:55] Walk on Earth a Stranger, Rae Carson [55:02] Ellen Oh: Warrior, Prophecy [55:45] Under a Painted Sky, Stacey Lee [57:50] Patrick O'Brian, Aubrey Maturin novels --- Find Us! Bookrageous on Tumblr, Podbean, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, and leave us voicemail at 347-855-7323. Find Us Online: Josh, Preeti, Jenn Get Bookrageous schwag at CafePress
What is Character Agency, and why is it important? That's the topic for this week's episode! Mentioned: James Bond (Character created by Ian Fleming) TIR ET LIR (Play) by Marie Redonnet I AM THE MESSENGER by Markus Zusak Butter (Movie) 1984 by George Orwell THE GIVER by Lois Lowry READY PLAYER ONE by Ernest Cline THE TWO PRINCESSES OF BAMARRE by Gail Carson Levine Tamora Pierce ELLA ENCHANTED by Gail Carson Levine SPINDLE'S END by Robin McKinley Penelope (Movie) SEPTIMUS HEAP (Book Series) by Angie Sage Dr. Who (TV Show) CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth E. Wein
First Story: “Chasing the Wind” by Elizabeth E. Wein Martha Bennett sat on her trunk in the middle of Nairobi Airport watching the other passengers disperse. She had been sitting there for two hours, waiting for her father, and reading over and over again the terse telegram she had received the day before she left Philadelphia: MAY NOT MEET. TAXI WILSON AIRPORT. HART ALDEN FLY KWALE. She was not good at waiting. It made her nervous and irritable, but Martha could not quite believe her urbane Philadelphian parents would absolutely abandon her to her own devices in the middle of Africa, and she thought there must be a chance that her father would turn up at the last minute. Elizabeth Wein is the holder of a private pilot’s license and an increasing collection of random World War II ephemera. Her story of the friendship between a female spy and pilot, Code Name Verity, won the Edgar Award for Young Adult fiction in 2013. Her most... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.