Dr. Kathleen Gabriel is a native Chicoan and graduate of Chico State. She is currently an Associates Professor at the university and has authored various books and articles on underrepresented students.

Nancy's Bookshelf revisits a conversation with retired professors Roger Lederer and Carol Burr who wrote and illustrated The Birds of Bidwell Park. Now they have collaborated on a guide to the trees of Bidwell Park.

Award-winning playwright and author Lynn H. Elliott shares details on his multicultural universe and coming of age novel, The Crossingway.

Sport is unscripted drama. Author Carson Medley spent a year observing the Chico State basketball team and its inspirational coach, and has now written a book about that season. This week, Nancy digs through her archives for a conversation with the author of Through the Red Door: The Eternal Season of Coach Clink and the Division II Chico State Wildcats.

J.R Henson is a fourth generation Paradise resident and survivor of the Camp Fire. He chats with Nancy about his third book, The Camp Fire: Dreams, Nightmares, Hopes.

From Kurt Koontz:

Cathy Parker wears many different hats: mother, author, wife and football benefactor.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, Nancy's Bookshelf digs into the archives and relives an episode filled with various community members stories about love.

Chico City Councilman Scott Huber chats with Nancy's Bookshelf about the process of his first novel, a post-apocalyptic tale of a mutated virus sweeping the globe.

In his latest work, author Jim Hasse shares a selection of connected war stories featuring his fictional alter ego “Jay Boone Hanson.”