“I Have Something to Tell You” by Chasten Buttigieg is the young adult adaptation of his candid bestselling memoir about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town. 

This version is completely rewritten with new stories, including resources for readers, parents, and teachers. It focuses on the author’s young years and his coming of age story. He also explores the support systems he’s built and describes ways readers can build their own.

He is on a 30+ stop nationwide in-person tour, including places where anti-LGBTQ legislation and book bans are on the rise. 

Listen in as he describes the most common comments he hears on the road and explains the differences between questions he’s asked at events depending on whether he’s in a red, purple or blue state.   

Chasten Buttigieg is the husband of Pete, a former Democratic presidential candidate, and dad to Penelope and Gus.

Jake Tapper regularly interviews world leaders and other newsmakers, but he also brings his knowledge of politics and the past to his political thrillers that are historically accurate. 

“All The Demons Are Here” is set in 1977. The story revolves around a brother and sister, Ike and Lucy Marder, son and daughter of U.S. Senator Charlie Marder and Margaret Marder, a well-known zoologist. Ike is a U.S. Marine war hero, but AWOL when we meet him, while Lucy is an up and coming journalist at a Washington, DC tabloid. 

Jake Tapper is the chief DC anchor and chief Washington correspondent for CNN; he hosts the weekday show The Lead with Jake Tapper and cohosts the Sunday public-affairs show State of the Union. 

Tune in to discover Jake’s earliest memories of politics, his opinion of tv news coverage after decades in the business, and how many issues of the 1970s repeat themselves today.

The latest historical novel, LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN, from writer Lisa See who is the author of 12 books, is inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China whose remedies are still used today some 500 years later.

According to Confucius who was influential at the time, “an educated woman is a worthless woman,” but Tan Yunxian—born into an elite family in the late 1400s in China was raised by her grandparents to be a doctor. 

Tune in to hear how Lisa discovered Tan Yunxian, details about the thousand-year tradition of foot binding in China, and why red-haired-and-freckled Lisa See writes books about Chinese women and their friendships. 

Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road, had an itinerant childhood. Based in New York City, she is now 89 and has never stopped traveling.

When she was a young girl, her father would pack the family in the car every fall and drive across country searching for adventure and trying to make a living. The seeds were planted: Gloria realized that growing up didn’t have to mean settling down.

And so began a lifetime of travel, of activism and leadership, of listening to people whose voices and ideas would inspire change and revolution.

“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel. Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was.”  This interview originally aired October 21, 2016.

Silvia Pettem’s “In Search of the Blonde Tigress,"  dips into the world of sensationalized Chicago newspaper headlines in the 1930s that claimed Eleanor was not only “the blonde tigress,” but also “the most dangerous woman alive.” 

But a closer look at her life shows that she was an otherwise ordinary woman who got caught up in a Chicago crime spree, then was convicted as an accomplice to murder, and sent to prison for 199 years. She escaped seven years later and managed to live out her life as America’s longest-running female fugitive.

Pettem’s research led to police and prison records, court transcripts, and her theory of where the grave of the “blonde tigress” is today.

Listeners might be familiar with some of her other 20 plus books including the recently revised "Someone’s Daughter—In Search Of Justice For Jane Doe," which is also now part of a documentary series available on Hulu.  

Award-winning African ecologist Paula Kahumbu, author of SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS, is one of the world’s preeminent advocates for elephant conservation and the fight against illegal poaching of elephants for the ivory trade. 

Her gorgeous co-authored National Geographic coffee table book is a companion to the TV series of the same name.

As big as a bus and weighing up to 11 tons, elephants have fascinated us for centuries. But only recently have scientists been able to observe their innermost workings as individuals, families, and herds.

Kahumbu describes how she became committed to elephants, how they communicate with each other in ways unknown until recently, and which one of the four types of these animals is in grave peril. 

The always fun Lisa Scottoline is back with her 37th novel, LOYALTY, a historical novel about the beginnings of the Mafia on the island of Sicily in the 1800’s. 

Readers will be transported to the dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island of Sicily, the jewel of the Mediterranean, where lush lemon groves and mouth-watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization and corruption.   

Tune in for Italian American former lawyer/law professor Scottoline explaining what’s missing from the movie The Godfather, why law and justice are often not the same thing, and why in some families loyalty is everything. 

She has an amazing 30 million books in print and has been published in 35 countries.  

Steven Simon, author of seven books, is currently a fellow at MIT after spending nearly 40 years specializing in the Middle East in a variety of high-level jobs both in and out of government. 

In his newest book, “GRAND DELUSION: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East,” he is both candid and clear about the gap between US policymakers’ fantasy and reality in this part of the world. He calls out the enormous and terrible consequences, particularly for the people in the region caught in the crossfire. 

In our conversation he explains the origins of US interest in the Middle East, which president offered “The Deal of the Century” (chapters are organized by president), and what 2 countries in the region actually benefitted from the American presence.

Inspired by a 25-year-old New York Times article about World War II evacuated English children revisiting their U.S. foster homes as adults, Laura Spence-Ash tells her own well researched story, ⁠BEYOND THAT, THE SEA.

The book follows the lives of two families over three decades. Their lives become intertwined when Beatrix, the eleven-year-old daughter of the English family, is sent to live with an American family during the height of the London Blitz.

Bea’s story begins as German bombs fall over London in 1940, and her working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: they decide to send her to the United States for safety.  When she arrives in Boston, she meets her new family, Nancy and Ethan Gregory and their two sons with whom she'll live for five years.

Former Associated Press Mexico City Bureau Chief Katherine Corcoran's IN THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF. A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost of Silencing the Press reports some of the facts why 85 Mexican journalists have been killed in the past decade with no consequences for the killers.

Except for war zones, Mexico--a democracy--is the world's most dangerous country for journalists.

Corcoran focuses on the murder of legendary journalist Regina Martínez who was no stranger to retaliation. A journalist out of Mexico's state of Veracruz, Regina's stories for the magazine Proceso laid out the corruption and abuse underlying Mexican politics. In 2012 she was bludgeoned to death in her bathroom. The message was clear: No journalist in Mexico was safe.

At the AP, she led an award-winning team that broke major stories about cartel and state violence and abuse of authority in Mexico and Central America. Her columns about Mexican politics and press freedom have appeared in numerous newspapers and publications.