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1. Book Lust with Gina Nahai
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Nancy's guest is best-selling author Gina Nahai. In her latest book, 'Caspian Rain,' Nahai explores the struggles of an Iranian family in the decade before the Islamic revolution. The story is narrated by twelve-year old Yaas, who spends her childhood navigating the many layers of Iranian society. N
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public date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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2. Book Lust with Lee Child
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Nancy's guest is British thriller writer Lee Child, who talks about his latest Jack Reacher story, Nothing to Lose. Child is the author of twelve Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and Bad Luck and Trouble. His debut, Killi
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public date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (26 MB Type: MPEG)
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3. Book Lust with Brian Hall
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Nancy's guest is author Brian Hall, whose latest novel, 'Fall of Frost,' is a fictionalization of the life of poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). In 'Fall of Frost,' Hall presents a vision of Robert Frost as an unsuccessful farmer, tormented father, distanced husband and, most of all, a poet confronting
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public date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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4. Book Lust with Susan Linn
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Nancy's guest this month is her sister (!) Dr. Susan Linn, whose new book, The Case for Make Believe, encourages parents to turn off the television, hide the computer games, and send their kids out to play. In an era when toys come from television and media companies sell videos as brain-builders f
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public date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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5. Book Lust with Susan Rich
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Nancy's guest this month is poet Susan Rich. Rich is the winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award as well as the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World. In her new book, Cures Include Travel, Rich's poems alternate between international themes -- the aftermath o
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public date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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6. Book Lust with Geraldine Brooks
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Nancy's guest is Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. Brooks, who won the Pulitzer for her novel March, has based her new novel, People of the Book, on the real-life adventures of a 14th century Hebrew codex known as the Sarajevo Haggadah. The manuscript, which surfaced in 1894, is a rich
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public date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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7. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Molly Gloss
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Nancy Pearl's guest on this edition of Book Lust is award-winning novelist Molly Gloss, whose latest novel, The Hearts of Horses, tells the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for "gentling" wild horses. Set in Oregon in the winter of 1917, the story follows the journey of nin
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public date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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8. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Judy Schachner
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Nancy's guest is Judy Schachner, illustrator and writer of the award-winning Skippyjon Jones children's books. Skippyjon is a rambunctious Siamese kitten with oversized ears and an equally oversized imagination. When he is sent to have a time-out in his room, Skippyjon entertains himself by donning
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public date: Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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9. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Justina Chen Headley
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Nancy's guest is Justina Chen Headley, a writer of young adult fiction. Chen's debut novel, Nothing but the Truth (and a few white lies), won the 2007 Asian Pacific American Award for literature and was a Borders' Original Voices nominee, BookSense pick, and NYPL Book for the Teen Age. Her new nov
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public date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (25 MB Type: MPEG)
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10. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Ann Patchett
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Nancy's guest is author Ann Patchett. Ann has authored five novels, including Bel Canto (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize), The Patron Saint of Liars, and Run, as well as her bestselling nonfiction book, Truth & Beauty. She has written for the Atlantic, Harper's, Gourmet, the Ne
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public date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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11. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Bharti Kirchner
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Bharti Kirchner is the prolific author of eight books -- four novels and four cookbooks, and has been publishing since 1992. Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Marathi, Thai and other languages. Her fourth novel Pastries: A Novel of Desserts and Discoveries (St. Martin's Press
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public date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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12. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Nassim Assefi
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Nancy Pearl's guest on this edition of Book Lust is Nassim Assefi, a 2nd generation Iranian-American who is an internist specializing in women's health and global medicine. Her first novel, Aria, examines the struggle of a young cancer specialist and single mother to come to grips with her daughter'
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public date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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13. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Stephenie Meyer
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Nancy Pearl's guest on this edition of Book Lust is Stephenie Meyer, author of the bestselling young adult Twilight series (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse), which chronicles the adventures of star-crossed lovers Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. The first book of the series, Twilight, tells the story of 17
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public date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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14. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Arthur and Alex Dorros
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On this episode of Book Lust, Nancy Pearl's guests are Authur and Alex Dorros, a father and son who recently collaborated on a children's book called Numero Uno. Arthur Dorros is a well-known author and illustrator of children's books, while Alex, a high-school student, wrote the basic story of Nume
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public date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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15. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Mykaila Ostrom
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Seattle's uber-librarian Nancy Pearl interviews Mykaila Ostrom, an enthusiastic reader who is in the 8th grade at St. Benedict School in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. Ostrom's favorite authors are Meg Rosoff, E.L. Konigsburg and Jonathan Stroud.
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public date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (25 MB Type: MPEG)
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16. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Karen Joy Fowler
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Nancy's guest on this edition of Book Lust is Karen Joy Fowler. Fowler is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation. She is best known as the author of the best-selling novel The Jane Aus
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public date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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17. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Sherman Alexie
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Nancy Pearl's guest on this episode of Book Lust is renowned Northwest author (and one of the most popular writers of his generation) Sherman Alexie. Alexie is well-known for his novels, short stories and screenplays depicting contemporary Native Americans. His many works include Smoke Signals, Th
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public date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (28 MB Type: MPEG)
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18. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Nick DiMartino
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Nancy's guest in July is local author and bookseller Nick DiMartino. DiMartino, a self-described intense, unstoppable reader, compiles a monthly list of recommended new books called Nick's Picks for the Novelworld website (novelworld.squarespace.com).
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public date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (26 MB Type: MPEG)
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19. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Elizabeth George
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Nancy's guest in June is bestselling author Elizabeth George. Fans of George's popular Inspector Lynley series were stunned by the brutal slaying of the Scotland Yard detective's wife in With No One as Witness (2005). Her latest novel, What Came Before He Shot Her, unveils the events leading up to t
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public date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (26 MB Type: MPEG)
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20. Book Lust with Nancy Pearl featuring Connie Willis
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Connie Willis is the award winning author of Doomsday Book, Passage, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Bellwether. Willis has been awarded nine Hugo Awards, Nine Locus Poll Awards and six Nebula Awards. Her stories have an epic feel to them and range from laugh out loud funny to deadly serious. She is
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public date: Sat, 5 May 2007 08:00:00 GMT - (27 MB Type: MPEG)
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