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After Love Leaves by Michelle Alstead

March 28, 2017 • 5 mins
When Brad Sorenson crossed paths with Zoe O’Loughlin at a high school graduation party, the connection was undeniable. He noticed her when no one else did; she inspired him to want more out of life. But it would be years before they’d meet again…and in the most unlikely of places.
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Live: Donald Ray Pollock Podcasts The Heavenly Table

August 1, 2016 • 39 mins
The Heavenly Table tells the story of two hardworking men, Pearl Jewett and Ellsworth Fiddler, whose paths collide on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory.
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Live: Fernanda Santos Podcasts The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting

July 21, 2016 • 50 mins
Santos reads from and discusses her book The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting about one of the deadliest fires in American history and the twenty men of the Granite Mountain Hotshots who sprang into action to fight it.
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Live: Amy Haimerl Podcasts Detroit Hustle: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Home

July 5, 2016 • 60 mins
Journalist Amy Haimerl and her husband were priced out of their Brooklyn neighborhood. Seeing this as a great opportunity to start over again, they decided to cash in their savings and buy an abandoned house for $35,000 in Detroit, the largest city in the United States to declare bankruptcy.
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Live: Elizabeth Church Podcasts The Atomic Weight of Love

June 27, 2016 • 54 mins
Lawyer and debut author Elizabeth Church was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Her father, a research chemist, was drafted out of Carnegie Mellon University, and was sent to join other scientists working in secret on the Manhattan Project. Church’s mother, a biologist, eventually joined her husband in Los Alamos. Church discusses her sweeping, beautiful novel The Atomic Weight of Love, the story of many of the women who sacrificed th...
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Live: Matteson Perry Podcasts Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch

June 20, 2016 • 25 mins
Perry discusses his hilarious new book Available: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Hookups, Love and Brunch, a real-life romantic comedy about an unexpected break-up, one self-imposed year of being single, and how a nice guy survived dating in the twenty-first century.
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Live: Gina Wohlsdorf Podcasts Security

June 13, 2016 • 17 mins
Riveting to the final sentence, Security is fierce, wry, and impossible to put down. With a deep bow to the literary tradition of Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Daphne du Maurier, Wohlsdorf’s razor-wire prose blitzes readers with quick twists, sharp turns, and gasp-inducing terror.
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Live: Governor John Hickenlooper Podcasts The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics

June 9, 2016 • 20 mins
Governor Hickenlooper reads from and discusses his new memoir The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer & Politics, his candid, and very funny story, from early loss to college on the ten-year plan, to remarkable business and political success.
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Live: J. Kael Weston Podcasts The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan

May 30, 2016 • 52 mins
J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, while traveling the country to pay respect to the dead and wounded, he began to ask himself many questions about the costs and legacies of the wars.
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Live: Anna Newell Jones Podcasts The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living

May 27, 2016 • 45 mins
Anna Newell Jones, creator of the popular blog AndThenWeSaved.com, reads from and discusses her helpful, timely new guidebook.
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Live: Ken Ilgunas Podcasts Trespassing Across America

May 20, 2016 • 53 mins
Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Trespassing Across America is both a fascinating account of one man’s remarkable journey along the Keystone XL pipeline and a meditation on climate change, the beauty of the natural world, and the extremes to which we can push ourselves both physically and mentally.
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Live: Governor Bill Ritter Podcasts Powering Forward: What Everyone Should Know about America’s Energy Revolution

April 25, 2016 • 47 mins
A historic energy revolution is underway in the United States. Wind, sunlight, and other sustainable resources are now the fastest growing sources of energy in the U.S. and worldwide. Governor Ritter’s book discusses the forces behind the energy revolution, the new ways we must think about energy, and the future of fossil and renewable fuels.
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Live: David Schmader Podcasts Weed: The User’s Guide: A 21st Century Handbook for Enjoying Marijuana

April 19, 2016 • 21 mins
“A hugely informative, completely hilarious, and desperately necessary guide to marijuana-written by one of the funniest guys I’ve ever known, who just so happens to be the person who got me high for the first time. Required reading for longtime potheads and new users alike.” – Dan Savage
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Live: Len Vlahos Podcasts Scar Girl

March 28, 2016 • 26 mins
Love, music, and heartbreak take the stage in this critically-acclaimed second novel. Told as an interview with the band after they reach the pinnacle of success, readers will hear from Cheyenne, Harry, and Richie as they discover the ups and downs of being rock musicians, complete with meltdowns on stage and fights that test the limits of the band.
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Live: Randy Henderson Podcasts Bigfootloose and Finn Fancy Free

March 21, 2016 • 40 mins
In this sequel to his acclaimed debut novel, Finn Fancy Necromancy, Finn Gramaraye is settling back into the real world after his twenty-five-year-long imprisonment in the otherworld of the Fey. But trouble always seems to follow Finn, and the present is no different!
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Live: Colten Moore Podcasts Catching the Sky

March 14, 2016 • 17 mins
X-Games champion snowmobile racer Colton Moore reads from and discusses his memoir Catching the Sky, a transcendent story about risk and the pursuit of happiness, family, and the bond between brothers.
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Live: Tom LaMarr Podcasts Geezer Dad

February 29, 2016 • 30 mins
The median age for starting a family has climbed, and Tom LaMarr is the reason. The Geezer Dad author was nearly 48 when he met his daughter, which makes him even older now. The story of one man’s transformation from career-minded guy who wasn’t completely sure he wanted children to age-impaired dad pulling out reading glasses in the supermarket’s baby aisle, Geezer Dad will resonate with older first-time parents and parents-to-be,...
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Live: Amy Cuddy Podcasts Presence

February 16, 2016 • 63 mins
Amy Cuddy is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments affect people. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, and more.
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Live: Juan Thompson Podcasts Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson

February 8, 2016 • 57 mins
Denver author Juan Thompson, who grew up in Woody Creek, Colorado with his father, Hunter S. Thompson, reads from and discusses his new memoir Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up with Hunter S. Thompson.
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Live: Michel Roy Podcasts Patrick Roy: Winning, Nothing Else

January 18, 2016 • 56 mins
An incredible hockey talent who was instrumental in changing the very art of goaltending, Patrick Roy’s success was driven as much by determination and perseverance as by talent. Patrick Roy: Winning. Nothing Else brings to life Roy’s phenomenal career and unmasks his more mysterious personal side – taking us behind the scenes and into the family life of one of the greatest goaltenders of all time.
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