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Week of October 15, 2007
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Mon Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection Service
Interview
Susan Power, J.D., Award Winning Writer, Activist, Member of the Standing Rock Sioux of North Dakota
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Tues Books!
Stephen Lyons, Writer (author of A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America and Landscape Of the Heart: Writings on Daughters and Journeys)
Kelly Strom, Collection Manager at the Champaign Public Library

Stephen Lyon's List:
The Immortalists:  Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever,
David F. Friedman (Ecco)
Clapton's Guitar, Allen St. John (Free Press)
Damned to Eternity:  The Man Who Caused a Flood, Adam Pitluk (DeCapo Press, forthcoming 2008)

Kelly Strom's List:
The Boy Who Cried Freebird, Mitch Myers (HarperEntertainment)
The Florist's Daughter, Patricia Hampl (Harcourt)
Vanishing America, James Conway (Shoemaker & Hoard)
Ravel, Jean Echenoz (New Press)
You Don't Scare Me, John Farris (Forge Books)
The Dead Fish Museum, Charles D'Ambrosio (Vintage)

Listeners' List:
Freeze Dry, Corson Hirschfeld (Forge Books)
Shoot the Moom, Joseph T. Klempner (St. Martin's Paperback)
The Dead Don't Lie:  An Abe Lieberman Mystery, Stuart Kaminsky (Forge Books)
A Cabinetmaker's Notebook, James Krenov (Sterling Publishing Company)
Letters to the Editor:  Two Hundred Years in the Life of an American Town, Tom Byrn, James Goode, Jerry Matheny, and Gerard Stropnicky (Amazon Remainders Account)

 

Books!
Gale Walden, Chicago Sun Times Book Reviewer,  Poet and Writer (author of Same Blue Chevy)
Carol Spindel, Writer (author of Dancing At Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots, and The Sacred Grove)

 


Gale Walden's List:

The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster)
The Used Word, Haven Kimmel (Free Press)
The Dead Beat, Marilyn Johnson (HarperCollinsPublishers)
Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, Catherine Barnett (Alice James Books)
What Narcissism Means To Me, Tony Hoagland (Gray wolf Press)
Obit., Jim Sheeler (Pruett)

Carol Spindel's List:

Plain Seeing, Sandra Scofield (Cliff Stream Books) and Occasions of Sin (W.W. Norton)
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky (Vintage International)
Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy (Houghton Mifflin)
Truth and Beauty: A Friendship, Ann Patchett (Harper Perennial)
Suellen Grealy essay
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/
biography/story/0,,1277240,00.html


Listeners' List:
Meanwhile . . .: A Biography of Milton Caniff, Creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon, R.C. Harvey (Fantagraphics)
The Omnivore's Dilemma:  A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan (Penguin)
Once Upon a Country:  A Palestinian Life, Sari Nusseibeh and Anthony David (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

 

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Wed Creative Arts and Community Activism
Michael Reyes, Chicano Mexican Poet, Actor and Youth Organizer
Politics in the Classroom: Bias, Academic Freedom, and Student Learning
Matthew W. Finkin, Director of the Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law Policy at the University of Illinois and Co-Author of the American Association of University Professors’ report, Freedom in the Classroom; and Brian Gaines, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois
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Thurs “China in the Year 2027: History, Memory and China’s Role in the World”
Daniel H. Bays, Professor of History and Head of Asian Studies at Calvin College
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal, Award Winning Biographer
 
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Fri Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois
Sputnik: The Shock of The Century
Paul Dickson, Writer
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