We speak with renowned children's book author Carmen Adra Deedy about her latest book, "Carina Felina," a fresh take on a Caribbean folk tale. We follow that with interview from the archives with the authors of "Big Nate" and "The Proudest Color."

Steven Procko's book "Captured Freedom" tells the true story of nine Union solders in the American Civil War who managed to escape from a Confederate prison camp, Camp Sorghum in Columbia, South Carolina, and journeyed more than 350 miles to freedom with the aid of sympathetic Southerners as well as some enslaved men and women that they encountered along the way.

From 2022 - Kate Colbert, author of "Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education." Colbert and her co-author spoke with over one hundred college and university presidents across the country for a comprehensive view of the extraordinary challenges confronting higher education and the ways in which these institutions are scrambling to remake themselves to meet these challenges.

From the archives (2010) - Dr. Ed Schmitt, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, discusses his book "President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty." This interview serves as an interesting sequel to two different recent Morning Show interviews: yesterday's conversation with the co-author of "The Poverty of Place" and last week's conversation with the author of "The Year that Broke Politics," which examined the presidential race of 1968 in which Robert Kennedy played a significant role.

Kathryn J. Edin, co-author of "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America." Edin and a team of researchers studied those areas of the U.S. where poverty is most seriously entrenched and tried to sort out the reasons for it.

(from 2011) Byron Johnson, author of "More God, Less Crime: Why Faith Matters and How it could matter more."

(From 2018) Chicago Tribune Head Film Critic Michael Phillips

Paul Beston, author of "The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the World"

Michael Schumacher discusses his latest book, "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North and Isle Royale." The book chronicles some of the most dramatic shipwrecks to occur on Lake Superior - and the last section of the book focuses on three exceptionally savage storms in the region.

We revisit a dramatic event from the summer of 2003 when a then-college student named Casey Holtz saved a youngster (a complete stranger) from drowning in Lake Michigan. We also hear briefly from Holtz in the present-day. He is Dr. Casey Holtz, a clinical psychologist based in Milwaukee. We also hear from Seth Weidman, head swimming and diving coach at Carthage College, who performed a similar feat last summer at roughly the safe place at the Kenosha lakefront.