Sinopsis
Listen to the Book Nook with Vick Mickunas for intimate conversations about books with the writers who create them.
Episodios
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'King of Ashes' by S.A. Cosby: Family, crime & crematory secrets
23/06/2025 Duración: 29minThe latest crime novel by S.A. Cosby is smoking hot. "King of Ashes" explores family bonds in a crematory business as siblings face dangerous criminals.
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"Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of IndianBoarding Schools" by Mary Annette Pember
23/06/2025 Duración: 51minThis Book Nook features Ohioan Mary Annette Pember discussing "Medicine River," her memoir about the Indian boarding schools that tried to erase their cultural heritages.
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'Don't Forget Me, Little Bessie' by James Lee Burke explores America
22/06/2025 Duración: 29minJames Lee Burke discusses his new novel with WYSO's Book Nook. He has made more appearances on the program than any other guest, spanning nearly 30 years.
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"A Thousand Pieces of Gold: Growing Up Through China's Proverbs" by Adeline Yen Mah
20/06/2025 Duración: 28minHas there ever been a better time to try to understand China and the Chinese? Author Adeline Yen Mah explores Chinese proverbs, family, and history in this interview.
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'A Gate in the Wall: A Pacific War POW's Secret Diary and a Family's Path Toward Reconciliation' by Melinda Barnhardt
12/06/2025 Duración: 50minDutch POW secretly documented his WWII captivity in Japan through a hidden diary. He needed a strong spirit to survive his ordeal. A story of resilience & reconciliation.
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Best of the Book Nook: 'The Middle Mind - Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves' by CurtisWhite
04/06/2025 Duración: 51minTwenty-two years later, this interview remains provocative.
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Book Nook: 'Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins' by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker
23/05/2025 Duración: 50min100 years ago this was the biggest story in the news.
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Best of the Book Nook: 'Nagasaki:Life After Nuclear War' by Susan Southard
21/05/2025 Duración: 28minIt was 80 years ago that the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
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Book Nook: 'Smithson's Gamble: The Smithsonian Institution in American Life,1836–1906' by Tom D. Crouch
20/05/2025 Duración: 50minA fascinating history of one our greatest institutions.
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Book Nook: 'Remote : the Six' by Eric Rickstad
12/05/2025 Duración: 28minThe first book in a new series of thrillers.
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Book Nook: 'Murder in Victorian Dayton: The Tragic Story of Bessie Little' by SaraKaushal
11/05/2025 Duración: 28minA true crime story that transfixed Dayton in the 1890s.
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Book Nook: 'X, Y and Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken' by Dermot Turing
10/05/2025 Duración: 36minA conversation with Alan Turing's nephew, Sir Dermot Turing.
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Book Nook: '1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted OurBizarre Times' by Ross Benes
10/05/2025 Duración: 28minWhat were you doing in 1999?
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Best of the Book Nook: 'The Norske Nook Book of Pies and Other Recipes' by Jerry Bechard
10/05/2025 Duración: 50minWe all need to take occasional mental breaks from reality.
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Best of the Book Nook: Baseball edition
24/04/2025 Duración: 50minBooks and baseball can be fabulous when combined.
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Book Nook: 'Friendships Are Forever' by Dr. Douglas Coatney
22/04/2025 Duración: 28minA retired veterinarian who is now writing children's books.
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Book Nook: 'Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the Pill Mill Killer' by Philip Eil
21/04/2025 Duración: 49minRecalling the prescription pill mill crisis in Ohio.
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Book Nook: 'Funny Because It's True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire' by Christine Wenc
19/04/2025 Duración: 49minBack in the 1980's The Onion practically invented fake news.
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Book Nook: April is National Poetry Month
18/04/2025 Duración: 48minA poetry duel: the poet Shuly Cawood vs. Vick Mickunas.
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Best of the Book Nook: 'In His Own Voice: Dramatic & Other Uncollected Works of Paul Lawrence Dunbar'
17/04/2025 Duración: 28minAn interview with the Dunbar scholar Herbert Woodward Martin.