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  • Can a quintessential American girl maintain her independent spirit when her father moves the family to Tehran, Iran? Shaghayegh Farsijani's THE BURDEN OF…
  • **Rebroadcast from Sept 13, 2015* Hosts Daniel Chacon & Tim Hernandez discuss why writers are drawn to writing in the voice of a famous writer. Daniel…
  • During World War II, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas. The trains carried Japanese,…
  • This week, host Louie Saenz interviews bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, whose 2015 book “WATERLOO: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three…
  • On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to…
  • EMPIRE OF DECEPTION, by award-winning crime writer and investigative reporter Dean Jobb, is set at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. It is a rollicking…
  • El Paso author Sarah McCoy’s latest book is THE MAPMAKER’S CHILDREN. The book alternates between present day and 1860’s West Virginia, and explores the…
  • Maps have long exerted a special fascination - both as beautiful works of art and practical tools to navigate the world. A few years ago, map dealer E.…
  • Nelson DeMille's latest John Corey novel, RADIANT ANGEL, takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its…
  • New York Times-bestselling author Neal Stephenson's last book SEVENEVES is a science-fiction epic that spans 5000 years and the entire solar system. In…
  • Christopher Moore is the author of “Secondhand Souls,” a book which picks up shortly after his previous bestseller, “A Dirty Job.” Souls of the dead in…
  • Author Karin Slaughter’s latest novel is “Pretty Girls.” It’s a psychological thriller about the disappearance of a teenage girl and the possible…