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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Stay Positive Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 04-29-11 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, Suzan Colon is the author of Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times. She tells Anne Strainchamps how her grandparents kept their spirits alive while it was a struggle to keep their bodies going when times were tough and money was tight. Next, Wendy Burden is the author of Dead End Gene Pool, a memoir of her childhood among wealthy but highly dysfunctional remnants of the Vanderbilt fortune. She tells Jim Fleming that the real estate and the perks were great, but that she adopted Wednesday Addams as a role model in an effort to find a feeling of closeness within her family. The adult Wendy Burden is a widow, and has a terrific relationship with her two grown daughters. Then, Michael Gates Gill told us in his first book how Starbucks saved his life. He's back with How to Save Your Own Life a series of life lessons. He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the importance of listening to other people's stories, letting go of fear and being grateful for the gifts your parents gave you, whether they're still living or not. After that, Barbara Ehrenreich calls her latest book Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. She tells Steve Paulson that too often, our focus on Positivity turns into a kind of victim blaming. She's a champion of realism and determination. Finally, Salman Ahmad is a Pakistani rock star. His group is Junoon, and they're the most popular rock group in South Asia. Ahmad talks with Anne Strainchamps about being a Muslim rock star. His memoir is called Rock & Roll Jihad. And we hear lots of his music. [Broadcast Date: April 29, 2011] Listen to:

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, William Hartung and Siobhan Fallon, February 8, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 02-08-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In his most recent book, William Hartung presents an in-depth portrait of Lockheed Martin and how the defense contractor wields influence within the Department of Defense and beyond. Hes the Director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and the book is Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. Then, in You Know When the Men Are Gone, writer Siobhan Fallon tells eight stories, each from the perspective of a military wife. Fallons inspiration for the book came from her own experience living at Fort Hood, Texas, while her husband was in Iraq for two tours of duty. Fallon candidly describes the extramarital affairs, health crises, and financial strife of living without a spouse whos off at war. [Broadcast Date: February 8, 2011] Listen to by Siobhan Fallon. Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe, January 20, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 01-20-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing is the name of a new book by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe. Practical wisdom is also a virtue first identified by Aristotle, which arguably, has been undermined by modern life. Schwartz and Sharpe discuss what has affected our ability to make decisions and how we can better foster that skill. [Broadcast Date: January 20, 2011] Listen to by Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe. Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Walter Mosley and Sarah Blake, February 10, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 02-10-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Private eye Leonid McGill must track down a young woman before her murderers find her in award-winning novelist Walter Mosleys book Known to Evil. Translated into over 20 languages, Mosley is best known as the author of the popular Easy Rawlinss detective series. This is Mosleys second novel about McGill, a bad-guy turned good-guy contemporary detective working the means streets of New York City. His book is now out in paperback. Then, in novelist Sarah Blakes book The Postmistress, American radio reporter Frankie Bard is the first woman to broadcast from the Blitz in London during World War II. Her reports from 1940 bring war into the living rooms of millions of Americans, including two women from a small Cape Cod town who soon find their lives caught up this foreign conflict. Her book is now available in paperback. [Broadcast Date: February 10, 2011] Listen to: Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, John Merrow, Cristina Colissimo, and Lisa Leeman, June 23, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 06-23-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: John Merrow is the Education Correspondent for PBS NewsHour and President of Learning Matters, Inc. He joins Bob in studio to discuss public school reform and his most recent book, The Influence of Teachers: Reflections on Teaching and Leadership. Then, easing into retirement is difficult and emotional for many people, and apparently it was no easier for Flora, an elephant ending her 16-year career in the circus. Filmmakers Cristina Colissimo and Lisa Leeman discuss their documentary, One Lucky Elephant, what they call a ten thousand pound love story between the mammal and her trainer. [Broadcast Date: June 23, 2011]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Jay Bahadur and Megan Stack, July 25, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 07-25-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Five foreigners, including an American, were pardoned by the Somali government recently after being arrested in May for bringing millions of dollars into the country to pay a ransom to Somali pirates. The UN estimates more than $110 million has been paid just in the past twelve months. Jay Bahadur spent a year in Somalia infiltrating the remote pirate havens of the war-ravaged country. His book, The Pirates of Somalia, is a first ever, close-up look into the lives of these men how they live, how they spend the ransom money, how they treat the hostages, and the forces that created piracy in Somalia. Then, Only after covering it for years did I understand that the war on terror never really existed. So says journalist Megan Stack in the prologue to Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War. In her book, Stack chronicles her experience covering Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon for the Los Angeles Times. [Broadcast Date: July 25, 2011] Listen to: Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Juan Williams and Ben Sollee, July 26, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 07-26-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, journalist Juan Williams uses his very public firing at NPR as a launching pad to discuss the countless ways in which honest debate in Americafrom the halls of Congress and the health care town halls to the talk shows and print media-is stifled. Bob talks with Williams about his new book, his departure from NPR and his expanded role at Fox News. Then, Ben Sollee is a folk-pop cellist from Lexington, Kentucky whos played with Bela Fleck, My Morning Jacket and Justin Townes Earle. Sollee chats with Bob about his second album Inclusions, bicycling cross-country (with cello attached), and his passion to end mountain top removal coal mining. [Broadcast Date: July 26, 2011] Listen to by Juan Williams. Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Dean Faulkner Wells, June 16, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 06-16-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Dean Faulkner Wells is the only niece of William Faulkner, the last Faulkner in her generation and the only living member of the family who grew up at Rowan Oak, Faulkners home in Oxford, Mississippi. She called him "Pappy." Now 75-years-old, Wells has recently written a book, Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi. Then, well hear an audio tour of the home where William Faulkner lived in Oxford, Mississippi. Rowan Oak was built in the mid-1800s, but Faulkner made extensive renovations during the 40 years that he lived there. Well hear descriptions of Faulkners office, bedroom, and kitchen which was his favorite room in the house. [Broadcast Date: June 16, 2011]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Michele Norris and Doyle McManus, September 30, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 09-30-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times joins Bob to talk about politics and other news. Next, Michele Norris, co-host of NPRs All Things Considered, initially planned to write a book about postracial America after President Barack Obamas election in 2008. As Norris began to research Americas racial past, she was surprised to discover that her real story was much closer to home. Her book is titled The Grace of Silence: A Family Memoir. Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Allan Barger. He is uncertain about many things and he thinks more people should admit that their views might not be correct. Barger was an Evangelical pastor with hard-and-fast beliefs. He also happened to be gay. Eventually, Barger let go of his religious certainties and learned to become more humble and more willing to question his own beliefs. [Broadcast Date: September 30, 2011] Listen to by Michele Norris. Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Studio 360: Superhero Makeovers and Magical Fiction Author: Kurt Andersen Format: Original Recording Length: 54 mins Language: English Release date: 09-24-11 Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: This week, superheroes are born again. From Superman to Batgirl, DC Comics has reinvented its entire line but not all fans are pleased. A group of renegade artists get a retrospective at a museum they once defaced. And as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes headlines this week, we look at why a small exhibit of childrens art from Gaza is causing a major stir in Oakland, California. [Broadcast Date: September 24, 2011]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Dan Baum, Coleman deKay, and Paul Sanchez, September 21, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 09-21-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Two years ago, Dan Baum, wrote a book called Nine Lives about what happened in New Orleans between the twin catastrophes of Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Baum covered those 40 years by telling the stories of nine citizens. Coleman deKay and Paul Sanchez took those stories and set them to music. Their CD is titled Nine Lives: A Musical Adaptation and features New Orleans musicians and singers. They will perform the songs live at a concert in Los Angeles this weekend and hope to turn the project into a Broadway musical someday soon. [Broadcast Date: September 21, 2011]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Integration Stories Author: Jim Fleming Format: Original Recording Length: 52 mins Language: English Release date: 09-21-11 Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge) Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In this hour, Michele Norris is best-known to public radio listeners as the co-host of NPR's All Things Considered. She's also the author of a memoir called The Grace of Silence. She talks with Anne Strainchamps about her family's hidden racial past. Then, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson tells the story of America's Great Migration in her book, The Warmth of Other Suns. The book chronicles the epic struggle for freedom of the six million people who migrated North from the southern states before the era of civil rights and equal opportunity. Wilkerson speaks with Steve Paulson. After that, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison tells Jim Fleming that while her childhood in Ohio was dramatically different from her parents' experiences in the segregated South, racial integration had the unintended effect of magnifying class differences among African Americans. Following that, producer Cynthia Woodland introduces us to The Bid Whist Ladies a small group of African American women in Madison, Wisconsin who've been meeting once a week to play cards for over 25 years. Bid Whist has been a staple of African American culture for generations. And finally, Thomas Chatterton Williams is a young writer who grew up listening to hip hop. His scholarly father instilled in him a passion for reading books. He tells Jim Fleming that when he went to college, hip hop began to lose its appeal. His memoir is called Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip Hop Culture. [Broadcast Date: September 21, 2011] Listen to:

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Rosemarie Ostler and Nancy Kriplen, September 19, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 09-19-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: The art of political name calling in this country goes back to the beginning. Now its latte liberals and tea-baggers, then it was pettifoggers and slang-whangers. Linguist Rosemarie Ostler has compiled the history in her new book, Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of American Politics. Then, Bob talks with author Nancy Kriplen about her book, The Eccentric Billionaire. For her biography of John D. MacArthur, Kriplen interviewed his relatives and former associates and used recorded interviews of the reluctant philanthropist. MacArthurs money is behind the genius awards and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. [Broadcast Date: September 19, 2011]

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Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Denise Kiernan, Joseph DAgnese, and Doyle McManus, September 16, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 09-16-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times joins Bob to talk about politics and other news. Next, everyone in the U.S. knows Independence Day is July 4th, but Constitution Day, September 17th, gets little notice. Authors Denise Kiernan & Joseph DAgneses book Signing Their Rights Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men who Signed The United States Constitution tells the individual stories of the 39 men who helped create a future for their country. Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Andrew Flewelling. He grew up outside of Boston. His parents were a mixed race couple, and even his fathers role as a minister couldnt protect Flewelling from feeling marginalized. He says that as he grew older, he learned to shut out the preconceived notions of society and listen to his inner voice. [Broadcast Date: September 16, 2011]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Nassir Ghaemi and Peter Carlson, September 15, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 09-15-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, the director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, argues in his book A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness that when the world is in crisis, mentally ill leaders are our best hope. Then, Peter Carlson isnt sure which anecdote it was that turned him into a self-described Khrushchev-in-America buff. It could have been the one about the irascible Soviet leader throwing a fit because he wasnt allowed to go to Disneyland. Or it could have been Khrushchevs suspicion that Camp David was really a leper colony. Or it could have been Khrushchev arguing with Nixon over which kind of animal dung smelled the worst. But Carlson synthesized the stories into K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, Americas Most Unlikely Tourist. [Broadcast Date: September 15, 2011] Listen to: Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Diane Ravitch and Vanessa Diffenbaugh, September 13, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 09-13-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Last year, the Obama administration presented a blueprint for education reform an issue of great concern to Diane Ravitch. Shes Research Professor of Education at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Ravitch will discuss the proposed changes and her book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Her book is now out in paperback. Then, in one of the summers most anticipated new novels, first time novelist Vanessa Diffenbaughs The Language of Flowers tells the story of a now-grown woman raised as a foster-child who uses age old flower symbolism to communicate and make sense of her troubled past. [Broadcast Date: September 13, 2011] Listen to by Vanessa Diffenbaugh. Want more of The Bob Edwards Show?

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Studio 360: Artists Remember 9/11 Author: Kurt Andersen Format: Original Recording Length: 54 mins Language: English Release date: 09-10-11 Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Ten years after 9/11, we are still trying to make sense of that day and its consequences. Kurt visits the new national 9/11 memorial with its architect, Michael Arad. Kurt Andersen talks with Steve Reich about why it took him a decade to write music about the attacks that ravaged his neighborhood. A group of stand-up comics remembers what it took to get people laughing again, and illustrator Maira Kalman explains the tragedy to children in a book about a brave fireboat. [Broadcast Date: September 10, 2011]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Michael Arad and Doyle McManus, September 9, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 09-09-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: Doyle McManus, Washington columnist for the Los Angeles Times joins Bob to talk about politics and other news. Next, after years of controversy and debate over how to commemorate the victims of 9/11, the National September 11 Memorial is opening at the site of the Twin Towers in New York on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Over 5,000 proposals from 63 nations were considered for the memorial and the one finally accepted was Reflecting Absence by New York architect Michael Arad and Californian landscape architect Peter Walker. Arad joins Bob to discuss the memorial which covers eight acres and includes two pools with 30-foot waterfalls that flow into the footprints of the towers, surrounded by a plaza of almost 400 oak trees. The names of the 2,982 victims are listed on parapets surrounding the pools. Then, in this weeks installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, we hear the essay of Helena Marie Carnes-Jeffries. As the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 approaches, Carnes-Jeffries recalls her feelings at the time. A few days after the attacks, she attended an interfaith prayer vigil in Chicago. And now, even after a decade of war and increasing religious tensions, her faith tells her that peace remains the ultimate goal. [Broadcast Date: September 9, 2011]

Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Vera Farmiga, Barry Werth, and Joan Murray, September 8, 2011 Author: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 51 mins Language: English Release date: 09-08-11 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: The new film Higher Ground is Oscar-nominated actress Vera Farmigas directorial debut, building on her previous work in The Departed and Up in the Air. Farmiga discusses her role in making the film about an evangelical community that becomes fractured when a local women questions her belief in God and marriage. Next, writer Barry Werth joins Bob to discuss his book about the first month of the Gerald Ford administration - a pivotal time in the American presidency. President Richard Nixon stepped down on Aug. 9, 1974. Just one month later, he was pardoned by Gerald Ford. What happened during that time in the White House is the subject of the book 31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today. Then, shortly after the terror attacks of 9/11, writer Joan Murray read her poem, Survivors Found, on NPRs Morning Edition, the program Bob hosted at the time. Ten years later, shes back to reflect on that poem, and how it helped people heal from the tragedy. [Broadcast Date: September 8, 2011]