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Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Kirstin Downey Show Length: 22:10 Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:49:37 Home Page of this Show Show notes: A Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, Kirstin Downey was a business writer at the Washington Post from 1988 to 2008. She left the Post last year to finish her biography of Frances Perkins, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - "Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls" Show Length: 2:57 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:56:01 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Rule # 7: "The worst thing that can happen is for your secret crush to know your secret, and for it not be a secret anymore." Recommended resource links:
The owner of CakeLove and Love Cafe and former host of Sugar Rush on the Food Network, Brown is the author of CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch and the soon-to-be published United Cakes of America: Recipes Celebrating Every State.
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Podcast Show:Booktalks - "My So-Called Family" Show Length: 2:43 Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:37:28 Home Page of this Show Show notes: As Leah explains when people ask her, she doesn't have a father - she has a donor and after a little bit of work, she discovers that "her" donor was also the donor for another girl her same age. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with David Morine Show Length: 18:22 Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:18:55 Home Page of this Show Show notes: In Two Coots in a Canoe, David Morine chronicles a month-long journey down the entire length of the Connecticut River. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - "Pish Posh" Show Length: 2:50 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:01:23 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Clara Frankofile is the most feared eleven-year-old in New York City, and for good reason. Clara is the one who decides who is no longer a "somebody," and has moved from their important position in New York society to "nobody" status. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Noralee Frankel Show Length: 20:55 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:27:59 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Noralee Frankel's scholarly biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, "Stripping Gypsy", was recently published by Oxford University Press. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Robert Wallace Show Length: 19:43 Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:34:05 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Robert Wallace, coauthor of Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's SpyTechs From Communism to Al Qaeda, is the former director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service. The recipient of the Intelligence Medal of Merit, he is the founder of the Artemus Consulting Group, a private national security firm, and a contributor to the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. Recommended resource links:
Herbert, a retired federal investigator and president of the Fairfax Historical Society has gathered together many lesser-known episodes from American history in "God Knows All Your Names: Stories in American History."
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Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Charles Jensen Show Length: 15:34 Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:21:40 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Charles Jensen is the author of four collections of poetry, including Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award, and The First Risk. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Jan Elvin Show Length: 19:36 Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:25:03 Home Page of this Show Show notes: A D.C. native, Jan Elvin is the author of The Box From Braunau: In Search of My Father's War. It recounts her efforts to understand her father through his war experiences. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - "Left for Dead" Show Length: 2:21 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:51:37 Home Page of this Show Show notes: In 1945, as World War II was drawing to an end, the USS Indianapolis was assigned a top secret mission: to deliver the atom bomb to the U.S. military base at Tinian Island. The delivery went smoothly, but on the return voyage to Guam, the ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, and in just eleven minutes, it sank. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Patricia Reilly Giff Show Length: 16:10 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:22:02 Home Page of this Show Show notes: The author of more than 60 children's books, including the Kids of the Polk Street School series, Patricia Reilly Giff has received the Newbery Honor for two of them -- "Pictures of Hollis Woods" and "Lily's Crossing". Her latest book is "Wild Girl", about a young horse-loving girl from Brazil and the horse she encounters when she moves to the U.S. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - "Re-Gifters" Show Length: 2:27 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:21:17 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Jen Dik Seong, aka "Dixie," is dirt poor and living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown. Her only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido, and shes on the verge of winning a championship--until she falls for surfer boy Adam. Recommended resource links:
Told in the voices of the three girls who must learn to live with the lies they tell, "Harmless" is a gripping and provocative book full of startling turns and surprises.
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Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Scott Turow Show Length: 17:23 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:26:44 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Writer and attorney Scott Turow is the author of nine best-selling novels: "Presumed Innocent", "The Burden of Proof", "Pleading Guilty", "The Laws of Our Fathers", "Personal Injuries", "Reversible Errors", and "Ordinary Heroes". Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - "Hot Lunch" Show Length: 2:16 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:37:01 Home Page of this Show Show notes: To teach the girls a lesson, the school principal has Molly and Cassie spend the first half of their school day preparing lunch for the entire school. But the girls loathe each other, and in spite of themselves, they can't stop sabotaging one another at every turn. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with C.M. Mayo and Pam Jenoff Show Length: 17:59 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:02:47 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Both C.M. Mayo and Pam Jenoff have recently published new fiction novels based on historical events. Mayo's The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire is based on the true story of the half-American adopted son of Emperor Maximillian during the short-lived 2nd Empire in Mexico. Jenoff's Almost Home, while set in the present, explores a shameful secret from World War II. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - "Son of the Mob" Show Length: 1:56 Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:15:18 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Vince Luca is mainly feeling annoyed. He knows he's never going to score another date with the lovely Angela after THIS disaster. But he isn'st surprised; when you grow up in a mafia family, as Vince has, the random appearance of unconscious bodies is far from unusual. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Louis Bayard Show Length: 17:03 Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:52:38 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Louis Bayard is the author of The Pale Blue Eye, a national bestseller nominated for both the Edgar and Dagger awards, and Mr. Timothy a New York Times Notable Book and one of People magazine's 10 best books of 2003. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have Show Length: 2:36 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:19:05 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Hypochondriacs can now fret appropriately and factually with this pocket guide to forty-five disgusting, horrible diseases. All entries include symptoms, a diagnosis guide, treatment suggestions, a prognosis, and-if you are not yet infected-prevention tips. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Daniel Stashower Show Length: 12:53 Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:15:02 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Stashower is a two-time Edgar award winner, a recipient of The Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing, and spent a year as a Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with W. Ralph Eubanks Show Length: 14:46 Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:08:46 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
W. Ralph Eubanks, director of publishing at The Library of Congress, is the author of the new memoir "The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South" and "Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past" which Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley named as one of the best nonfiction books of 2003. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Comcast Local Edition - Tutor.com Show Length: 4:59 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:56:16 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Comcast Local Edition interviews Lydia Patrick, Director of Internet Services for the Fairfax County Public Library, about Tutor.com. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with John M. Taylor Show Length: 13:19 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:57:30 Home Page of this Show Show notes: John M. Taylor is the author of eight books in history and biography. The most recent is a reassessment of Robert E. Lee titled "Duty Faithfully Performed: Robert E. Lee and His Critics." Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Bookcast Interview with Emyl Jenkins Show Length: 15:01 Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:05:04 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Emyl Jenkins is the author of two "tender mysteries" featuring antiques appraiser and sleuth, Sterling Glass. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Kevin Garrahan Show Length: 19:44 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:33:15 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Kevin Garrahan, a sixth-grade teacher at Louise Archer Elementary School in Vienna, has published his first book -- "Third House Down Hidden Cove", a novel for preteens. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Kathyrn Erskine Show Length: 12:59 Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:32:05 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Kathyrn Erskine's first young adult novel "Quaking" is a Virginia Reader Choice Master List selection. It is the story of Goth teen Matilda (Matt), who has experienced a traumatic childhood. Things change after she is taken in by a peaceful Quaker family during the divisive days of war in the Middle East. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with David Rothman Show Length: 17:26 Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:03:23 Home Page of this Show Show notes: David Rothman is the author of six non-fiction books and a native of the Washington area. "The Solomon Scandals" is his first novel and is based on his work as a local investigative reporter in the 1970s. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Sara Rosett Show Length: 19:34 Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 07:08:46 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Sara Rosett is the author of four books in her Mom Zone mystery series that features military spouse turned detective Ellie Avery. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Alan Gropman Show Length: 20:25 Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:58:15 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Alan Gropman, author of The Air Force Integrates, is a retired Air Force colonel who served for 27 years and flew 650 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy at the National Defense University's Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Hal Fleming Show Length: 14:07 Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:14:44 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Hal Fleming has worked for the Peace Corps, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of State, UNICEF and the US Mission to the United Nations. Fleming's novel, "The Brides' Fair" is a novel of intrigue set in the North Atlas mountains of Morocco among the Berbers. The Brides' Fair is an actual event among these tribal people where communal bridal fairs are common. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Solveig Eggerz Show Length: 19:35 Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:46:50 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Eggerz has lived in Alexandria since 1974. She has worked as a journalist and professor of writing and research. Her first novel, Seal Woman, was published in May 2008 by Ghost Road Press. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - The Legend of Spud Murphy Show Length: 2:17 Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:13:08 Home Page of this Show Show notes: It's summertime and Will and Marty have been ordered to spend educational time at the library. "Don't make us join the library, Dad! It's dangerous!" whines Marty. "Dangerous?" replies Dad. "It's not the library," Marty whispered, "it's the librarian!" Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Laura Elliott Show Length: 20:13 Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:57:48 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Laura Malone Elliott, who also writes as L.M. Elliott, is the author of a number of books for preschoolers, middle grade students and young adults. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Red Kayak Show Length: 1:00 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:56:51 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Charles Krohn Show Length: 14:46 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:37:27 Home Page of this Show Show notes: A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Charles Krohn is a military writer and a combat veteran of Vietnam. He first published The Lost Battalion of Tet: Breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue in 1993. Recommended resource links:
"Spreading the Word: a History of Information in the California Gold Rush" examines the ways in which easterners who traveled west during the California gold rush of 1849-51 obtained, assessed and used information.
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Podcast Show:The Serpent Came to Gloucester Show Length: 1:24 Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:17:03 Home Page of this Show Show notes: In 1817 on a normal August day the entire town of Gloucester saw a slithering, swimming sea serpent They all said it they saw it. But is it true. Do you believe? Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie Show Length: 1:13 Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:10:09 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Steven Appler was a pretty typical eighth grader, until his little brother is diagnosed with lukemia. With his family's attention focused on his little brother Steven turn to drumming, spending hours and hours practicing in his basement. What sounds like a sad book about a family in crisis, is also a very funny book that shows how life goes on even when you have big problems. Recommended resource links:
Julia Song is the daughter of Korean immigrants and she wants desperately to fit in with her 7th grade friends. She and her best friend Patrick decide to raise silkworms as a science project. In time they become like pets to her, and she is horrified when she discovers she has to kill them to get the silk. Read Project Mulberry to find out if Julia is able to sacrifice her pets for her science project.
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Podcast Show:Booktalks - Mr. Maxwell's Mouse Show Length: 0:59 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:02:05 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Mr. Howard Maxwell is what one would call a FAT Cat but it seems that all that money and good living has made Howard more than a little soft. Today he's feeling a little frisky. Today he decides to break his routine. Today this sophistacat who is used to things going exactly as he planned is in for a rude surprise. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Barbara O'Kane Show Length: 18:22 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:53:18 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Barbara O'Kane is a scientist who has spent the last 30 years working with a thermal-imaging camera. Using her own photos, she has authored a children's book, Seeing Heat, which explains the concepts of heat, light and energy to children. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Montmorency Show Length: 2:51 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:41:17 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Until he was caught, he'd been a petty thief living on the bottom rung of London's ladder of lowlifes. By the time he was released, Prisoner 493 had figured out how to live two lives, both supported by crime. As Montmorency, he would be a gentleman, wealthy, cultured, privileged. As Scarper, he would be a sewer rat and a burglar, and Montmorency's servant, who crept out at night to steal and vanish, only to steal again. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Double Identity Show Length: 1:08 Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:03:12 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Left by her parents, Bethany tries to adjust to her life with Aunt Myrlie. When she uncovers some dark secrets about her family she gets the shock of her life. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Fred Bowen Show Length: 19:13 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:05:58 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Fred Bowen writes sports fiction for kids 8 and up. He has written five books on baseball and four on basketball. His most recent book is Winners Take All. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer Show Length: 2:08 Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:41:23 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Join Clemency Pogue in an adventure to help bring fairies back to life! Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Stefan Fatsis Show Length: 13:49 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:23:39 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Stefan Fatsis has been a reporter and sportswriter for the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal. He is a regular sports commentator on NPR's "All Things Considered" and has also appeared on CNBC, ESPN and other networks. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Soul Surfer Show Length: 1:24 Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:43:37 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer, lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Nicole J. Burton Show Length: 10:48 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:01:55 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Raised in Great Britan, Burton set out to find her English adoptive parents at the age of 22 after her family had immigrated to the US. Her memoir, Swimming Up the Sun, chronicles that search. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Booktalks - Curse of the Blue Tattoo Show Length: 1:34 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:36:43 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
We first meet young Jacky disguised as a sailor and working aboard a ship. It isn't proper for a girl to be working on a ship in the 1800s and when she is found out she is put off. Jacky soon finds herself at a prestigious boarding school in Beacon Hill. The best of the best girls go there and Jacky just doesn't fit in. She tries, she really does, but she just can't help herself Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Patrick Creed and Rick Newman Show Length: 12:11 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:31:30 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Patrick Creed and Rick Newman are the authors of Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11, a detailed account of the firefighters, emergency personnel and others who responded on September 11 to the airline crash at the Pentagon. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Ellen Posner Show Length: 19:05 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:32:23 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Ellen Posner recently published her first book of poetry, What's in a Feather. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Cox Local Edition "Public Art Statues" Show Length: 4:29 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:21:22 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Kathryn Falk of Cox Local Edition interviews Joan Kane, Chairman, Fairfax Library Foundation, about the Foundations's "Public Art Statues" project. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Bill Farrell Show Length: 17:49 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:24:53 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Bill Farrell is the author of Walter's Pond: The True Story of Three Brothers Who Went Fishing for Trouble, an early reader in verse. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Comcast Art In The Pages Show Length: 5:00 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:31:38 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Bobbie Longworth, Executive Director of the Fairfax Library Foundation, is interviewed by Tony Hill of Comcast Newsmakers about the Foundation's Art In The Pages statues. Recommended resource links:
Alison Larkin, classical actor, playwright and fiction writer is the author of The English American, published in March 2008.
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Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Matt Dembicki Show Length: 19:39 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:30:41 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Matt Dembicki publishes the award-winning small-press comics Attic Wit and Mr. Big. His work has appeared in numerous comics anthologies, including the SPX (Small Press Expo) Anthology,Show & Tell and Stripburger (an alternative comics' anthology from Slovenia). Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Ginny Malliet and Mary Ann Corrigan Show Length: 19:31 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:45:04 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Corrigan and Malliet are local mystery writers who have contributed to Chesapeake Crimes 3, an anthology of stories set in the Chesapeake Bay regions of Maryland and Virginia. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:CNN and Cox "Public Art Statues" clip Show Length: 0 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:29:31 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Chair, talks with Kathryn Falk about public art statues. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Celebrate Fairfax Show Length: 3:03 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:26:17 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Celebrate Fairfax includes the Fairfax Library Foundation. Recommended resource links:
James A. Percoco is a nationally recognized and award-winning history teacher and has taught at West Springfield High School in Springfield, Va., since 1980. He is also currently History-Educator-in-Residence at American University in Washington, D.C.
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Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas Show Length: 10:29 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:20:37 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel are authors of the syndicated USA Today column, "Common Ground". Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Michael Scheuer Show Length: 29:33 Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:00:14 Home Page of this Show Show notes: This special edition of BookCast features exerpts from an interview with Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit. Scheuer is a veteran CIA counterterrorism analyst and the author of the recent book Toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:Ch 9 'Art in the Pages' Clip Show Length: 4:15 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:05:48 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Board Chair and Bobbi Longworth, Fairfax Library Foundation Executive Director are interviewed on WUSA, Channel 9 about 'Art in the Pages'. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Jabari Asim Show Length: 9:56 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:57:20 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Asim is editor-in-chief of The Crisis Magazine, published by the NAACP. He is a syndicated columnist and former deputy editor for the Washington Post's Book World. His work has appeared in "Essence," "Salon" and the "L.A. Times." Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:CNN and Cox 'Art In The Pages' Clip Show Length: 4:28 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:10:34 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Board Chair is interviewed by Kathryn Falk on CNN Cox Local Edition. Recommended resource links:
Roland Mesnier served as Executive Pastry Chef at the White House from 1979, when he was hired by Rosalynn Carter, until 2004. He served under five presidents.
He is the author of a memoir, All the President's Pastries, as well as recipe books such as Roland Mesnier's Basic to Beautiful Cakes and Dessert University.
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Podcast Show:BookCast Interview on Fairfax County Stories:1607-2007 Show Length: 17:02 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:30:19 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Fairfax County Stories: 1607 - 2007 is the legacy book project produced by the Fairfax County 2007 Community Citizen Planning Committee to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Vincent Lee-Thorp Show Length: 18:51 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:28:00 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Vincent Lee-Thorp worked as a mechanical and electrical engineer in Washington, D.C. for forty-five years. His book, Washington Engineered, follows the evolution of Washington D.C. from the first ferries across the Potowmack River in 1740 to the building of railroads, subways, the President's House and the formation of NASA. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Ellen Crosby Show Length: 00:20:52 Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:36:15 Home Page of this Show Show notes: Ellen Crosby is the author of The Merlot Murders, set in a fictional winery in northern Virginia where she now lives. The second book in the series, The Chardonnay Charade, is scheduled for release in August 2007, and two more books are planned for the series. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Bob Gallagher Show Length: 00:18:52 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:18:24 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Bob Gallagher is a former freelance sports writer, who now works for the Fairfax County Public Library. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Baseball Digest, the Redskins Report and the old Washington Star. He is the author of "Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express." Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Caroline Kettlewell Show Length: 00:20:00 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:51:20 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
Caroline Kettlewell is a freelance reporter whose articles have appeared in The Washington Post. She has had two books published: Skin Games, a memoir about self-injury, and the narrative non-fiction book Electric Dreams, which has been adapted into a script for a film. Recommended resource links:
Podcast Show:BookCast Interview with Sam Clay Show Length: 00:20:00 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:33:33 Home Page of this Show Show notes:
This interview introduces the host of the Fairfax County Public Library's BookCast series, Sam Clay. Mr. Clay is the Director of the Fairfax County Public Library in Virginia. Recommended resource links:
