Podcast Station: Fairfax County Public Library

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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Ginny Malliet and Mary Ann Corrigan Show Length: 19:31
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:45:04
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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.
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Podcast Show:  CNN and Cox "Public Art Statues" clip Show Length: 0
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:29:31
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Show notes: Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Chair, talks with Kathryn Falk about public art statues.
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Podcast Show:  Celebrate Fairfax Show Length: 3:03
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:26:17
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Show notes: Celebrate Fairfax includes the Fairfax Library Foundation.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with James A. Percoco Show Length: 17:58
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:28:58
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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.

Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Pamela Edwards Show Length: 19:12
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 07:58:10
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Show notes: Edwards, a former school librarian and preschool teacher, is the author of more than 45 children's picture books.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Austin Camacho Show Length: 18:53
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 07:30:21
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Show notes: Camacho is the author of four detective novels in the Hannibal Jones series and other action-adventure novels. He is past president of the Maryland Writers Association and teaches writing courses at Anne Arundel Community College.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Andrew Shipley Show Length: 16:35
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 06:29:51
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Show notes: Andrew Shipley is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has published his first novel, The Messenger. The novel explores the consequences of blurring the lines between church and state.
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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
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Show notes: Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel are authors of the syndicated USA Today column, "Common Ground".
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Michael Scheuer Show Length: 29:33
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:00:14
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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.
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Podcast Show:  Bookcast Interview with Robin Gerber Show Length: 18:20
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:50:53
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Show notes: Gerber is a motivational speaker and author of Eleanor vs. Ike, her first book of fiction.
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Podcast Show:  Ch 9 'Art in the Pages' Clip Show Length: 4:15
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:05:48
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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'.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with John Sullivan Show Length: 19:23
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:15:34
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Show notes: John F. Sullivan was a polygraph examiner with the CIA's polygraph division for more than 31 years. He is the author of the recent Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Jabari Asim Show Length: 9:56
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:57:20
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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."
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Lori Smith Show Length: 15:47
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:27:39
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Show notes: Lori Smith is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Washingtonian and Today's Christian Woman. She is author of The Single Truth and Walking with Jane Austen. She is also the creator of the popular literary blog Jane Austen Quote of the Day.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with John Bolton Show Length: 8:47
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:36:08
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Show notes: John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, is the author of Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the U.N. and Abroad.
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Podcast Show:  CNN and Cox 'Art In The Pages' Clip Show Length: 4:28
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:10:34
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Show notes: Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Board Chair is interviewed by Kathryn Falk on CNN Cox Local Edition.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Alice McGill Show Length: 12:37
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:38:56
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Alice McGill is an award-winning author and storyteller. Her first book Molly Bannaky is based on one of her favorite stories. It was an ALA Notable Book in 2000 and won the 2000 Jane Addams Peace Award; International Reading Award; 2000 Skipping Stones Award; and 2001 Living the Dream Award.

McGill was born in a small farming community in North Carolina where in nearby Scotland Neck, "people still park in the middle of the street." She attended a four-room school with her five brothers and two sisters. Storytelling and reading were favorite pastimes in her home.

Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Andrew Zhang Show Length: 14:30
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:32:29
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Zhang is the author of the novel, Memories of an Eastern Sky, which he wrote while a member of a library-sponsored writing group at the Kingstowne Library. He will be giving a reading from the novel at the branch at noon on Feb. 9.

Born during the Cultural Revolution, Andrew Zhang worked as a freelance writer with articles published in several major Chinese newspapers prior to coming to the U.S. in 1996. His career in the U.S. focused on technical writing and software engineering before he began writing Memories of an Eastern Sky in 2005.

Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Adjoa Burrowes Show Length: 14:55
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:53:17
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Burrowes has illustrated 17 books, as well as puzzles, posters and greeting cards using her signature cut-paper collage technique.Her latest book, Grandma's Purple Flowers, which she both wrote and illustrated, was an American Booksellers Association (ABA) Kids Pick of the List winner, a Bank Street College Kids Book of the Year selection and a first-place winner of the 2001 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.

She will be at the 2008 African-American Read-In at 3 p.m. February 3 at the Sherwood Regional Library.

Podcast Show:  The Curse of the Blue Tattoo Show Length: 1:34
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:56:39
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A synopsis of The Curse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer

Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Maria Petringa Show Length: 15:33
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:14:52
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Maria Petringa is the author of Brazza, A Life for Africa, the biography of a humanitarian 19th-century explorer. She became interested in her subject while living in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and wondered why the town was named for a white colonial.

Born in Boston, a graduate of Harvard and the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Petringa has spent her adult life in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. She has worked as a teacher and translator, and is now a non-fiction writer and art critic. She lives in Paris.

Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Ellen Byerrum Show Length: 18:16
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:37:46
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A journalist, Ellen Byerrum has written five books in the Crime of Fashion series, including Killer Hair, Designer Knockoff, Hostile Makeovers, Raiders of the Lost Corset, and Grave Apparel. The books feature sleuth Lacey Smithsonian who "strides through her mysteries in high heels and knockout vintage suits" in DC, "the city that fashion forgot."

She will be at the Martha Washington Library at 7 p.m. on January 28 for a program and book signing.

Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Chef Roland Mesnier Show Length: 12:03
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:51:21
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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.

Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Ed Lynskey Show Length: 16:01
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:09:16
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Show notes: Local mystery writer Ed Lynskey lives in Annandale, Virginia. He is the author of the recently published, The Blue Cheer and The Dirt Brown Derby, both feature his P.I. Frank Johnson.
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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
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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.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Elizabeth Scott Show Length: 18:46
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:25:44
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Show notes: Elizabeth Scott's first young adult novel Bloom was published in April 2007. Two additional titles will be released in 2008, Perfect You and Stealing Heaven.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Vincent Lee-Thorp Show Length: 18:51
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:28:00
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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.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Emilie Richards Show Length: 18:19
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:48:59
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Show notes: Emilie Richards lives in Arlington, VA and is the author of more than 50 books, most of them romance and family dramas. Richards has received a number of awards, including the RITA from the Romance Writers of America.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Tom Jones Show Length: 19:25
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:59:12
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Show notes: Author Tom Jones spent 11 years in the NASA astronaut program and made four trips into space. He spent 52 days orbiting earth and 19 hours outside the spacecraft "skywalking", 200 miles from Earth, with the craft orbiting at 17,000 miles per hour.

In addition to Skywalking, Jones has coauthored The Complete Idiot's Guide to NASA as well as two books on space and history for young people.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Mary Lyons Show Length: 18:43
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 07:07:45
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Show notes: Mary Lyons, a reading specialist and school librarian for 23 years, is the author of 18 books for young people, including the recently published Letters From a Slave Boy: The Story of Joseph Jacobs, a companion to her 1992 book, Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Patrick O'Donnell Show Length: 19:19
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:38:45
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Show notes: Combat historian Patrick O'Donnell is the author of four books. He was a historical consultant for DreamWorks' award-winning mini-series "Band of Brothers," and for documentaries produced by the BBC, Fox News, and The History Channel.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Kay Karim Show Length: 19:38
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 08:30:54
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Show notes: Kay Karim, author of An Iraqi Family Cookbook, was born in Mosul in northern Iraq, but grew up in Baghdad and immigrated to the U.S. in 1968. She is now the head of children's services at a branch of the Fairfax County Public Library.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Kalli Dakos Show Length: 00:19:0
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:28:52
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Show notes: Kalli Dakos, a former Fairfax County Public School teacher, is the author (with her daughter, Alicia DesMarteau) of Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig, about a pig named Hamlet who speaks in Shakespearean verse. Dakos has written more than 2,000 poems about life in elementary school classrooms. She now travels the country giving a workshop called "A Celebration of Life in the Classroom," which encourages literacy through poetry and play.
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Podcast Show:  Woodrow Wilson Opening Ceremony Show Length: 00:10:31
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:58:06
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Show notes: Remarks from the 1967 Opening Ceremony of the Woodrow Wilson Library.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with John C. Wright Show Length: 00:19:14
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:40:20
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Show notes: John C. Wright has written seven books in three sci-fi or fantasy series. After The Golden Age was published, Publishers Weekly called Wright "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent." Orphans of Chaos was a finalist for the Nebula Award.

Wright lives in Centreville, VA with his wife, science fiction writer L. Jagi Lamplighter, and three children.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Ellen Crosby Show Length: 00:20:52
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:36:15
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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.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Bob Gallagher Show Length: 00:18:52
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:18:24
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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."
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with John Gilstrap Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:00:08
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Show notes: John Gilstrap is the author of four thrillers, Scott Free, Even Steven, At All Costs and Nathan's Run. His most recent book, Six Minutes to Freedom, was written with Karl Muse, and is a non-fiction account of how Muse, a U.S. civilian, was rescued from prison in Noriega's Panama by the U.S. Army's Delta Force.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Sharon Cavileer Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:32:12
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Show notes: Interview with Sharon Cavileer
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Kathryn Caskie Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:44:40
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Show notes: Kathryn Caskie is a former magazine editor, TV producer, and copywriter for radio and TV commercials. She began writing romances when her family moved to a 200-year-old Quaker home in the Virginia Blue Ridge and Caskie became interested in 19th-century history.Her debut novel, Rules of Engagement, won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for Best Long Historical Romance Manuscript.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Sharon Bulova, Mary Lipsey and John Browne Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:43:17
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Show notes: Braddock's True Gold: 20th-Century Life in the Heart of Fairfax County by Marion Meany and Mary Lipsey began in October, 2004 as a series of three programs entitled "A Look Back at Braddock: The Miniseries," sponsored by Sharon Bulova, the Braddock District representative on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with John Lubetkin Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:43:13
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Show notes: M. John Lubetkin is the author of Jay Cooke's Gamble, the story of how Cooke's financing of the Northern Pacific Railroad reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, pushed frontier settlement four hundred miles westward, and triggered the Panic of 1873.

He is the 2004 recipient of the Little Bighorn Associates' Lawrence A. Frost Award
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Melanie Jeschke Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:05:45
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Show notes: Melanie Jeschke is the author of three historical romances in her Oxford Chronicles series: Inklings (2004); Expectations (2005); and Evasions (2006). The novels are set during the period when both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were at Oxford University in Great Britain.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Donna Andrews Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:17:55
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Show notes: Mystery writer Donna Andrews is the author of 11 books, including No Nest for the Wicket and Delete All Suspects, as well as short stories in several anthologies. Her high-tech mystery series features detective Turing Hopper, a sentient computer.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Caroline Kettlewell Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:51:20
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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.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Christine Anderson Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:43:03
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Show notes: Anderson is the author of Bedtime!, which is based on a true incident with her daughter Melanie. She was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. Bedtime! is available to be checked out from the Fairfax County Public Library.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Jean Peelen and Renee Fisher Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:31:22
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Show notes: Peelen and Fisher wrote Invisible No More: The Secret Lives of Women Over 50 with author Joyce Kramer. They were interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay.
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Podcast Show:  BookCast Interview with Sam Clay Show Length: 00:20:00
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:33:33
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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.
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