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An audio book club. Our geeks read and discuss new and classic works in the policy field – fictional and non. Social justice, tech, politics, policy … we cover it all and more. Let's think about what is at the heart of being a citizen in America. This book club helps us get at the heart of what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. 

Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center
http://bedrosian.usc.edu/

Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy
http://priceschool.usc.edu

An audio book club. Our geeks read and discuss new and classic works in the policy field – fictional and non. Social justice, tech, politics, policy … we cover it all and more. Let's think about what is at the heart of being a citizen in America. This book club helps us get at the heart of what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Sponsored by the USC Bedrosian Center http://bedrosian.usc.edu/ Recorded at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy http://priceschool.usc.edu

Bedrosian Bookclub Podcast

A podcast about what we learn when facts and dystopian fiction start to look the same. Join dystopian novelist Toby Ball, journalist Meg Heckman and assorted guests as they talk about authoritarianism, free speech, environmental decay and what it means to commit acts of resistance. Also: Power, privilege, freedom and – perhaps most importantly of all – hope.

A podcast about what we learn when facts and dystopian fiction start to look the same. Join dystopian novelist Toby Ball, journalist Meg Heckman and assorted guests as they talk about authoritarianism, free speech, environmental decay and what it means to commit acts of resistance. Also: Power, privilege, freedom and – perhaps most importantly of all – hope.

Radio Free Dystopia

Do you wanna know all about ongoing comics from Marvel and more? Join Nico, TK, Kevo, & the rest of the Action Pack as they discuss the big moments, fill in the missing pieces, examine the characters, and more. Each week on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and more, the team breakdown the many books on multiple platforms. Whether it’s X-Men, Daredevil, Avengers, Miracleman, Darkwing Duck, Sandman, or anyone else from the Marvel U and beyond — the Action Pack has you covered with insight, in-depth analysis, keen perspectives, and lot’s of loud fun.

Do you wanna know all about ongoing comics from Marvel and more? Join Nico, TK, Kevo, &amp; the rest of the Action Pack as they discuss the big moments, fill in the missing pieces, examine the characters, and more. Each week on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and more, the team breakdown the many books on multiple platforms. Whether it’s X-Men, Daredevil, Avengers, Miracleman, Darkwing Duck, Sandman, or anyone else from the Marvel U and beyond — the Action Pack has you covered with insight, in-depth analysis, keen perspectives, and lot’s of loud fun.

X Is For Comics: An X-Men Podcast

A podcast about writers who may or may not have written about crime, but who definitely committed it.

Penknife

The Terrible Reading Club is a podcast about great books for truly terrible times. Host Nora McInerny knows a thing or two about this kind of literature, because she's written several books herself about tough subjects like grief and loss and mental health (and moving forward in the face of it all).
Each episode centers a book that deals with Hard Stuff and features an interview with the author about their work. And the best part about this reading club? You don't need to read the book ahead of time!
For book discussion guides and a community of Terrible bookworms just like you, join The Terrible Reading Club on Substack! It's free! https://terriblereadingclub.substack.com/
Got a book you want to recommend? Reach out to us at terriblereadingclub@feelingsand.co.
The Terrible Reading Club team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Megan Palmer, Marcel Malekebu, Kara Nesvig, Jordan Turgeon, and Michelle Plantan.
Our upcoming reading list can be found on our Substack: https://terriblereadingclub.substack.com/p/our-upcoming-book-selections.

The Terrible Reading Club is a podcast about great books for truly terrible times. Host Nora McInerny knows a thing or two about this kind of literature, because she's written several books herself about tough subjects like grief and loss and mental health (and moving forward in the face of it all). Each episode centers a book that deals with Hard Stuff and features an interview with the author about their work. And the best part about this reading club? You don't need to read the book ahead of time! For book discussion guides and a community of Terrible bookworms just like you, join The Terrible Reading Club on Substack! It's free! https://terriblereadingclub.substack.com/ Got a book you want to recommend? Reach out to us at terriblereadingclub@feelingsand.co. The Terrible Reading Club team is Nora McInerny, Claire McInerny, Megan Palmer, Marcel Malekebu, Kara Nesvig, Jordan Turgeon, and Michelle Plantan. Our upcoming reading list can be found on our Substack: https://terriblereadingclub.substack.com/p/our-upcoming-book-selections.

The Terrible Reading Club

Vanuit de auteurskamer van zijn uitgeverij Atlas Contact komt Adriaan van Dis met zijn eigen podcast. In&nbsp;Van Dis Ongefilterd praat hij over alles wat hem bezighoudt met Simon Dikker Hupkes,&nbsp;redacteur bij de uitgeverij. Verschijnt elke twee weken op zaterdag.

Vanuit de auteurskamer van zijn uitgeverij Atlas Contact komt Adriaan van Dis met zijn eigen podcast. In Van Dis Ongefilterd praat hij over alles wat hem bezighoudt met Simon Dikker Hupkes, redacteur bij de uitgeverij. Verschijnt elke twee weken op zaterdag.

Van Dis Ongefilterd

DarkAge is a mature, fantasy fiction, podcast novel where Sword and Sorcery meets Medieval Fantasy.  

A group of friends playing a fantasy role-playing game, DarkAge, become trapped inside the game as their characters.  Many of their past gaming decisions will come back to haunt them.  They must battle wizards, demons, knights, giants, and the undead but find their most deadly foe is each other.  Will our heroes find their way back home?  Will they want to go back home?   

Come hangout at The Busted Skull Tavern, where the ale is cold and the wenches are hot.

DarkAge is a mature, fantasy fiction, podcast novel where Sword and Sorcery meets Medieval Fantasy. A group of friends playing a fantasy role-playing game, DarkAge, become trapped inside the game as their characters. Many of their past gaming decisions will come back to haunt them. They must battle wizards, demons, knights, giants, and the undead but find their most deadly foe is each other. Will our heroes find their way back home? Will they want to go back home? Come hangout at The Busted Skull Tavern, where the ale is cold and the wenches are hot.

DarkAge

A fat boy with the blues. A skinny girl who runs marathons. And a con man on the lam. If you liked Clear Heart, or if you liked Boone Barnaby, you'll like this one, too. The themes are a bit more grown up than Boone Barnaby, but it's still family-friendly for reading. For any age it's my brand of writing: humane, down to earth, good-natured, sometimes funny and sometimes sad.

Babcock plays electric guitar. He's writing songs - and trying to figure out the true meaning of rock and roll - but he keeps coming up with the blues. Babcock is trying to start a friendship with a girl, Kirsten, who is as different as can be: Kirsten is skinny; she hates insects. And she's white. Babcock is fat; he speaks to dragonflies. And he's black.

In some ways Kirsten is like a dragonfly: quick and bright. She never walks; she runs everywhere. Her family has money. Her mother thinks Babcock is a little too "rough." Opposites attract. But can they make music?

Babcock's family is struggling for money. Then Babcock's Uncle Earl moves in - and he moves into Babcock's bedroom with Babcock's menagerie of animals (including Martin Luther Kingsnake.). Uncle Earl is a con man on the lam. Uncle Earl used to play drums for Chuck Berry. Babcock wants to be Chuck Berry. Uncle Earl wants to coach a Little League baseball team - as a "business venture." Babcock hates baseball. Babcock wants to learn "charm" from Uncle Earl. Uncle Earl wants to learn how to live a normal life and marry a normal woman - who happens to be Babcock's schoolteacher. Maybe Babcock and Uncle Earl have something to teach each other.

Babcock's father runs a car repair shop. At night, in the kitchen, he draws cartoons. Some day he wants to quit repairing cars and sell his cartoons. But nobody's buying.

Kirsten is hotheaded. Sometimes she needs protection - from herself. Her mother tries to protect her - from Babcock. For help with his problems Babcock goes to an unlikely source: his Uncle Earl, the man with good charm and bad behavior. But the biggest lessons from Uncle Earl - and, perhaps, from rock and roll - are not what anyone expected.

In short, it's about character. About making music. About family, hard work, about love and loss. Sometimes there's laughter. Sometimes the lights are off in the kitchen; papa's got blues. But always life is rich and deeply moving…

I call Babcock a post-Obama novel. It's about the friendship of a black boy with a white girl, and it isn't about racial issues - well, not much. Have we really reached that point? Is our cup half full? The odd thing is, I wrote this novel in 1992 when nobody, including me, had heard of Barack Obama and when book critics wanted bloody racial conflict whenever black and white characters mixed in the pages of a novel. Maybe I was 16 years ahead of the times.

Babcock is part of the San Puerco trilogy, which makes it a companion book to Boone Barnaby: same characters (plus a few new ones) and more adventures in the scrappy little town of San Puerco. The book won awards as a novel for children, but it has many adult fans, too. Most of the issues appeal to an adult perspective as well as a child's, though with different understanding. Other issues, of course, only a young person can understand. That's life. That's rock and roll.

A fat boy with the blues. A skinny girl who runs marathons. And a con man on the lam. If you liked Clear Heart, or if you liked Boone Barnaby, you'll like this one, too. The themes are a bit more grown up than Boone Barnaby, but it's still family-friendly for reading. For any age it's my brand of writing: humane, down to earth, good-natured, sometimes funny and sometimes sad. Babcock plays electric guitar. He's writing songs - and trying to figure out the true meaning of rock and roll - but he keeps coming up with the blues. Babcock is trying to start a friendship with a girl, Kirsten, who is as different as can be: Kirsten is skinny; she hates insects. And she's white. Babcock is fat; he speaks to dragonflies. And he's black. In some ways Kirsten is like a dragonfly: quick and bright. She never walks; she runs everywhere. Her family has money. Her mother thinks Babcock is a little too "rough." Opposites attract. But can they make music? Babcock's family is struggling for money. Then Babcock's Uncle Earl moves in - and he moves into Babcock's bedroom with Babcock's menagerie of animals (including Martin Luther Kingsnake.). Uncle Earl is a con man on the lam. Uncle Earl used to play drums for Chuck Berry. Babcock wants to be Chuck Berry. Uncle Earl wants to coach a Little League baseball team - as a "business venture." Babcock hates baseball. Babcock wants to learn "charm" from Uncle Earl. Uncle Earl wants to learn how to live a normal life and marry a normal woman - who happens to be Babcock's schoolteacher. Maybe Babcock and Uncle Earl have something to teach each other. Babcock's father runs a car repair shop. At night, in the kitchen, he draws cartoons. Some day he wants to quit repairing cars and sell his cartoons. But nobody's buying. Kirsten is hotheaded. Sometimes she needs protection - from herself. Her mother tries to protect her - from Babcock. For help with his problems Babcock goes to an unlikely source: his Uncle Earl, the man with good charm and bad behavior. But the biggest lessons from Uncle Earl - and, perhaps, from rock and roll - are not what anyone expected. In short, it's about character. About making music. About family, hard work, about love and loss. Sometimes there's laughter. Sometimes the lights are off in the kitchen; papa's got blues. But always life is rich and deeply moving… I call Babcock a post-Obama novel. It's about the friendship of a black boy with a white girl, and it isn't about racial issues - well, not much. Have we really reached that point? Is our cup half full? The odd thing is, I wrote this novel in 1992 when nobody, including me, had heard of Barack Obama and when book critics wanted bloody racial conflict whenever black and white characters mixed in the pages of a novel. Maybe I was 16 years ahead of the times. Babcock is part of the San Puerco trilogy, which makes it a companion book to Boone Barnaby: same characters (plus a few new ones) and more adventures in the scrappy little town of San Puerco. The book won awards as a novel for children, but it has many adult fans, too. Most of the issues appeal to an adult perspective as well as a child's, though with different understanding. Other issues, of course, only a young person can understand. That's life. That's rock and roll.

Babcock

Want to know more about the authors behind your favourite books? Tune in to discover the methods of – and inspiration behind – some of the world’s most exciting writers. Every Saturday, Georgina Godwin hosts an in-depth discussion with the person behind the prose.

Want to know more about the authors behind your favourite books? Tune in to discover the methods of – and inspiration behind – some of the world’s most exciting writers. Every Saturday, Georgina Godwin hosts an in-depth discussion with the person behind the prose.

Want to know more about the authors behind your favourite books? Tune in to discover the methods of – and inspiration behind – some of the world’s most exciting writers. Every Saturday, Georgina Godwin hosts an in-depth discussion with the person behind the prose.&nbsp;

Meet the Writers

This podcast features thriller/mystery and fantasy book chats, book and audiobook reviews, and bookish topic conversations. It's like listening in on your favorite book club. With candid conversations and book recommendations, we will feed your shelf addiction! For more please visit: https://linktr.ee/shelfaddiction Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/shelf-addiction-podcast--1703669/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/shelf-addiction-podcast--1703669/support</a>.

This podcast features thriller/mystery and fantasy book chats, book and audiobook reviews, and bookish topic conversations. It's like listening in on your favorite book club. With candid conversations and book recommendations, we will feed your shelf addiction!For more please visit: https://linktr.ee/shelfaddictionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/shelf-addiction-podcast--1703669/support.

This podcast features thriller/mystery and fantasy book chats, book and audiobook reviews, and bookish topic conversations. It's like listening in on your favorite book club. With candid conversations and book recommendations, we will feed your shelf addiction! For more please visit: https://linktr.ee/shelfaddiction Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/shelf-addiction-podcast--1703669/support?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/shelf-addiction-podcast--1703669/support</a>.

Shelf Addiction Podcast

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Looking for your next great read? The Next Chapter’s got you covered! Book lovers join host Antonio Michael Downing to dive deep into great books. Big feelings, hot takes, enlightening conversations&nbsp;— you’ve never been in a book club like this before. It’s Canada’s book club, and everyone’s invited. So pull up a chair and join the conversation. New episodes every Saturday and Monday.

Looking for your next great read? The Next Chapter’s got you covered! Book lovers join host Antonio Michael Downing to dive deep into great books. Big feelings, hot takes, enlightening conversations — you’ve never been in a book club like this before. It’s Canada’s book club, and everyone’s invited. So pull up a chair and join the conversation. New episodes every Saturday and Monday.

The Next Chapter with Antonio Michael Downing

Armed with his father's knife, a riddling notebook, and a bracelet with a green stone, Astreya sails south with an adventurous fisherman, hoping that in the world beyond, he can find his father and discover the mystery of his enigmatic gifts. They voyage to a village where all the inhabitants have met a grisly end, and fearing this may be the work of the legendary sailors cursed to sail forever, they dare the open ocean. The journey is dangerous, and Astreya must navigate through betrayal and an escape from slavery before he finds companions he can learn to trust: Gar, an itinerant painter, and his assistant, Lindey, who can take care of herself with the occasional shrewd blow from her quarterstaff. Astreya is just imagining a new destiny with Lindey when an unknown man from the past alters the course of his life, forcing Astreya out to the sea again. Praise for Astreya, The Voyage South “Hamilton has an intuitive grasp of story... Astreya is a work of great power, insight, and ferocious imagination... I recommend it unreservedly.” -- Spider Robinson, Nebula and Three-time Hugo Award Winner, Recipient of the Heinlein Lifetime Achievement Award "...a trilogy that will fascinate all those who have the sea in their blood and yearn for those days of sail. This is a sailor's yarn brilliantly told... I could not put this book down." -- Commander David Newing, LVO, Royal Navy retired.

Astreya: Book 1. The Voyage South

Conversations with professional over-thinkers for over-thinkers of all kinds

How to Read

Legends Library is a podcast dedicated to the Legends line of Star Wars books and the Expanded Universe!

Legends Library

A bi-weekly podcast in which two besties read young adult fantasy through a critical lens

The Library Coven

With an emphasis on non-fiction travel books, books on place, nature writing, and travel literature, host Jeremy Bassetti talks with the world’s most celebrated writers about their work and about the business and craft of travel writing in this award-winning podcast. Past guests include travel writers like Paul Theroux, Pico Iyer, and Rolf Potts. The show also covers topics related to travel journalism and travel photography.

Travel Writing World

Movies, TV, History, Culture, Music, Books: What they say about women and what women say about them. Written and hosted by two college professors.

The Profess-Hers Podcast

Chris (a poet) and Suzanne (a professor) spent six years talking about “great books” (whatever that means), and are now talking about reading (and all the things that means).

The Spouter-Inn

Broads and Books is a book podcast. A funny podcast. A feminist podcast. It’s a weekly date with two Broads who love books as much as they love embarrassing stories and crackpot business ideas. Every Wednesday, the Broads pick one theme. We choose and discuss two novels, two other genre books, and two pop culture picks based on that theme. Listeners will laugh, think, and find things they’re going to love.

Broads and Books

Beyond the Veil is a Potter podcast all about mental health and resparking the joy we had the first time we read the books. The Potter series has helped fans deal with mental health crises, overcome major obstacles, and made powerful, positive changes in their lives with the help and support of the Harry Potter series. With dozens of lessons in mind after conversations with fans from around the world, hosts Madison and Rebecca are rereading the series with the hopes to learn a few more along the way.

DISCLAIMER: We are not mental health professionals, just two Potterheads who love talking about mental health. Nothing in this podcast should be taken as professional mental health advice.

Beyond the Veil is a Potter podcast all about mental health and resparking the joy we had the first time we read the books. The Potter series has helped fans deal with mental health crises, overcome major obstacles, and made powerful, positive changes in their lives with the help and support of the Harry Potter series. With dozens of lessons in mind after conversations with fans from around the world, hosts Madison and Rebecca are rereading the series with the hopes to learn a few more along the way. DISCLAIMER: We are not mental health professionals, just two Potterheads who love talking about mental health. Nothing in this podcast should be taken as professional mental health advice.

Beyond the Veil

Three guys spun out by the wheel to correct the pattern… or destroy it? Who knows!

Follow along, as our hosts go through the Wheel of Time, chapter by chapter. Listen in as Bill, Rob, and Rich attempt to bend the Pattern...in their own special way. If you curious about this incredible book series, this podcast is the perfect compliment to listen to while reading the books.

Come experience Robert Jordan's fantasy world that is so deep and fleshed out with great locations and greater characters. A world that Game of Thrones wishes could be as fully complete.

Three guys spun out by the wheel to correct the pattern… or destroy it? Who knows! Follow along, as our hosts go through the Wheel of Time, chapter by chapter. Listen in as Bill, Rob, and Rich attempt to bend the Pattern...in their own special way. If you curious about this incredible book series, this podcast is the perfect compliment to listen to while reading the books. Come experience Robert Jordan's fantasy world that is so deep and fleshed out with great locations and greater characters. A world that Game of Thrones wishes could be as fully complete.

The Ta'veren: A Wheel Of Time Podcast

The podcast from Seattle's community cookbook store. Featuring live author talks, conversations and events that take place in our store's kitchen.

Book Larder Podcast

Phoenix Crockett and Stephen Indrisano are on a journey to read, evaluate, and report back on every Stephen King best-selling novel. We give you the hottest analysis, puns, trivia, wisdom, and, if you're lucky, musical numbers. The Stephen King Boo! Club is a comedy-review book club that you can read along with at your own pace, or just listen to without reading!

The Stephen King Boo! Club

KUR’ÂN’DAN İDRAKE YANSIYANLAR M. Fethullah Gülen Blue Dome, Inc. 335 Clifton Avenue Clifton, NJ 07011

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Kurandan idrake yansıyanlar PODCAST

Daman Tiwana and Khyati Thakur love reading books, and now they're bringing their favorites to you. With each book, they bring their unique perspectives and experiences as women of color living in the USA. Subscribe NOW to stay tuned!





Music: Purple Planet Music [https://www.purple-planet.com/]

Daman Tiwana and Khyati Thakur love reading books, and now they're bringing their favorites to you. With each book, they bring their unique perspectives and experiences as women of color living in the USA. Subscribe NOW to stay tuned! Music: Purple Planet Music [https://www.purple-planet.com/]

Brown Girls Read

بودكاست المقهى: نحاول إعادة الشكل القديم للمقهى مكانًا للنقاشات الثقافية والحوارات الفكرية، يتجوّل رائد العيد في الدول العربية ويحاور الكتّاب والمترجمين لمناقشة أعمالهم وكتبهم، وجواز الحضور لدينا: نتاج معرفي يستحق النقاش، وتجربة ثقافية تستحق الاهتمام. نسعد بتواصلكم على حساب المقهى في تويتر: @THECAFE_P

بودكاست المقهى

Interviews with today's leading (and emerging) crime writers of color with host Robert Justice.

Crime Writers of Color

A dorky adult gives goofy, sometimes insightful commentary on Television shows/movies and middle-grade &amp; YA books for the casual listener. Some original stories included.*For An Adult Audience. May contain some mature language. Discretion advised.

A dorky adult gives goofy, sometimes insightful commentary on Television shows/movies and middle-grade & YA books for the casual listener. Some original stories included. *For An Adult Audience. May contain some mature language. Discretion advised.

Dustin Can Read & Watch

My name is Grasspaw, and my job as a cat who makes podcasts is to read the Warriors series to all my wonderful clanmates!

Warrior Cat Tales!

Two PhD/comedians and one comedian/comedian return to R.L. Stine’s series to bring adult eyes to old-school classics. It’s your Goosebumps, but funny.

Geesebumps - a ”Did You Mean Goosebumps?” Podcast

BookTok is a podcast book club with your new best friends! Follow along with us as we read sections of books and chat about them each week. Hosted by Katie Chaney and Erica Bailey, new episodes drop every week on Sunday nights. 

IG: @booktok_podcast
Tiktok: @booktokpodcast

BookTok is a podcast book club with your new best friends! Follow along with us as we read sections of books and chat about them each week. Hosted by Katie Chaney and Erica Bailey, new episodes drop every week on Sunday nights. IG: @booktok_podcast Tiktok: @booktokpodcast

BookTok Podcast

Join two siblings on an exciting journey as they dive into ancient myths and uncover how these tales shaped modern pop culture, all while reading Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians. New episodes every other Tuesday!

Join two siblings on an exciting journey as they dive into ancient myths and uncover how these tales shaped modern pop culture, all while reading Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians. New episodes every other Tuesday!

Muses of Mythology

Follow along as two adults dive into young adult books and series in order to unpack the universal appeal of the genre that transcends age and gender barriers.

Act YA Age

Kicking off spooktober with 2 horror stories from reddit. Hope you enjoy.

Scary REDDIT Stories

Each episode presents a reading of the next chapter from an Eli Marks mystery, along with expert interviews and fun background information.