USA Today and international bestselling author, Wade Rouse, visits with us to talk about his newest memoir, Magic Season: A Son’s Story. “It’s a book very deeply personal that follows the relationship of me and my father through the very last baseball game we ever watched together, which was a 2015 playoff game between the Read More

J Fremont’s historical novel, Magician of Light, tells the story of renowned French jeweler and glass designer, Rene Lalique. “He was just such a prolific artist that you could just go on and on and on about everything that he did and so that was one thing when I wrote this is I had to, Read More

Author and investigative reporter, Katherine Stewart, visited with us to discuss her second book, The Power Workshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. “I’ve been writing about the rise of the religious right as a political force and its consequences on our democracy, and a lot of times people think of the religious right Read More

Tom Clavin, author of 18 nonfiction books and several national best-sellers, speaks with us about his new book, To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South’s Most Feared Ship – and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War. “…What most people don’t know is that there was this major Read More

Connie Berry, author of the Kate Hamilton Mysteries, chats with us to discuss the fourth book in her series, The Shadow of Memory. In this latest novel, Kate, an American antiques dealer, works to uncover a dark secret hidden in Victorian England. While The Shadow of Memory is part of a series, this book can Read More

Author and public interest lawyer, Justine Cowan, sits with us to discuss her memoir, The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames, in which she tells the harrowing story of her mother’s traumatic childhood raised in a London orphanage. “…I had never heard the name Dorothy Soames when I was growing up, but I didn’t really know Read More

Author and internal medicine physician, Lydia Kang, joins us to talk about her WWII, historical spy novel, The Half Life of Ruby Fielding. Her story follows the lives of brother and sister, Will and Maggie Scripps, both of whom work for the war effort in 1940’s New York City. “One of the characters, Will Scripps, Read More

Professor, physician, and New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, speaks with us to discuss her young adult debut novel, Debating Darcy. Her story is a retelling of Jane Austen’s classic, Pride and Prejudice, and her heroine is Leela Bose, a member of her high school’s speech and debate club, who has met her Read More

Professor, licensed psychotherapist, and author, Beth Anstandig, talks to us about her first book, The Human Herd: Awakening Our Natural Leadership. Part memoir, part self-help, the book introduces readers to her Natural Leadership model, a concept she pioneered and has taught for the past 25 years. The idea is that our Natural Leadership can emerge Read More

Award-winning author, Vanessa Hua, joins us to discuss her bestselling, historical novel, Forbidden City. Set in 1960’s China, Forbidden City takes place in the time before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution, and is centered around Mei Xiang, a young villager, who is recruited to be a dancer for the Chinese Communist Party leader, Chairman Read More