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BookCast Interview with Michelle Singletary

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:38:04 GMT

Michelle Singletary is a nationally syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. Her column, "The Color of Money," is carried in more than 120 newspapers across the country.

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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:32:51 GMT

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BookCast Interview with Gary Noesner

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:50:07 GMT

Gary Noesner, the author of Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator, retired from the FBI in 2003 following a 30-year career as an investigator, instructor and negotiator. He was involved in such well-known cases as the D.C. sniper, Waco and the Montana Freeman.

BookCast Interview with Todd Kashdan

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:18:09 GMT

Todd Kashdan, the author of Curiosity? has been active in the positive psychology movement since 2000, when he taught one of the first college courses on the science of happiness. He currently teaches courses on abnormal psychology, mood and anxiety disorders, and the science of well-being. He is the associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology as well as the Journal of Personality.

BookCast Interview with Garth Stein

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:48:25 GMT

Garth Stein is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel,The Art of Racing in the Rain. Stein's previous novels include How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets and Raven Stole the Moon.

BookCast Interview with Pete Earley

Fri, 21 May 2010 19:14:18 GMT

Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley is the author of nine non-fiction books and three novels including the New York Times bestsellers Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring and COMRADE J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy In America After the End of the Cold War as well as Edgar winner for true crime Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town.

BookCast Interview with Richard Gazala

Fri, 07 May 2010 17:31:10 GMT

Local author Richard Gazala is an attorney who has practiced both trial and corporate law in Tennessee, Washington and Virginia. He is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court.

BookCast Interview with Kyoko Mori

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:34:45 GMT

Kyoko Mori is the author of seven books for both teens and adults.

BookCast Interview with Jamie MacVicar

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:16:15 GMT

The Advance Man is the story of the author's life as a regional marketing director (or advance man) with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus back in the 1970s.

BookCast Interview with Kirstin Downey

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:49:37 GMT

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.

Booktalks - "Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls"

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:56:01 GMT

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."

BookCast Interview with Warren Brown

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:51:23 GMT

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.

Booktalks - "My So-Called Family"

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:37:28 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with David Morine

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:18:55 GMT

In Two Coots in a Canoe, David Morine chronicles a month-long journey down the entire length of the Connecticut River.

Booktalks - "Pish Posh"

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:01:23 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Noralee Frankel

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:27:59 GMT

Noralee Frankel's scholarly biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, "Stripping Gypsy", was recently published by Oxford University Press.

BookCast Interview with Robert Wallace

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:34:05 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Paul Herbert

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:41:28 GMT

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."

BookCast Interview with Charles Jensen

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:21:40 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Jan Elvin

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:25:03 GMT

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.

Booktalks - "Left for Dead"

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:51:37 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Patricia Reilly Giff

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:22:02 GMT

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.

Booktalks - "Re-Gifters"

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:21:17 GMT

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.

Booktalks - "Harmless"

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:03:57 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Scott Turow

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:26:44 GMT

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".

Booktalks - "Hot Lunch"

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:37:01 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with C.M. Mayo and Pam Jenoff

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:02:47 GMT

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.

Booktalks - "Son of the Mob"

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:15:18 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Louis Bayard

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:52:38 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:19:05 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Daniel Stashower

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:15:02 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with W. Ralph Eubanks

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:08:46 GMT

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.

Comcast Local Edition - Tutor.com

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:56:16 GMT

Comcast Local Edition interviews Lydia Patrick, Director of Internet Services for the Fairfax County Public Library, about Tutor.com.

BookCast Interview with John M. Taylor

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:57:30 GMT

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."

Bookcast Interview with Emyl Jenkins

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:05:04 GMT

Emyl Jenkins is the author of two "tender mysteries" featuring antiques appraiser and sleuth, Sterling Glass.

BookCast Interview with Kevin Garrahan

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:15 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Kathyrn Erskine

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:32:05 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with David Rothman

Mon, 18 May 2009 21:03:23 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Sara Rosett

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:08:46 GMT

Sara Rosett is the author of four books in her Mom Zone mystery series that features military spouse turned detective Ellie Avery.

BookCast Interview with Alan Gropman

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:58:15 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Hal Fleming

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:14:44 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Solveig Eggerz

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:46:50 GMT

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.

Booktalks - The Legend of Spud Murphy

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:13:08 GMT

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!"

BookCast Interview with Laura Elliott

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:57:48 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Red Kayak

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:56:51 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Charles Krohn

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:37:27 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Richard Stillson

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:31:05 GMT

"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.

The Serpent Came to Gloucester

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:17:03 GMT

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?

Booktalks - Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:10:09 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Project Mulberry

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:11:44 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Mr. Maxwell's Mouse

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:02:05 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Montmorency

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:41:17 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Double Identity

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:03:12 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Fred Bowen

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:05:58 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:41:23 GMT

Join Clemency Pogue in an adventure to help bring fairies back to life!

BookCast Interview with Stefan Fatsis

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:23:39 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Soul Surfer

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:43:37 GMT

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.

Booktalks - Curse of the Blue Tattoo

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:36:43 GMT

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

Booktalks - The Journey That Saved Curious George

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:39:43 GMT

The true wartime escape of Margaret and H.A.Rey.

BookCast Interview with Patrick Creed and Rick Newman

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:31:30 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Ellen Posner

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:23 GMT

Ellen Posner recently published her first book of poetry, What's in a Feather.

Cox Local Edition "Public Art Statues"

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:21:22 GMT

Kathryn Falk of Cox Local Edition interviews Joan Kane, Chairman, Fairfax Library Foundation, about the Foundations's "Public Art Statues" project.

Comcast Art In The Pages

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:31:38 GMT

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.

CNN and Cox "Public Art Statues" clip

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:29:31 GMT

Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Chair, talks with Kathryn Falk about public art statues.

Celebrate Fairfax

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:26:17 GMT

Celebrate Fairfax includes the Fairfax Library Foundation.

BookCast Interview with Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:20:37 GMT

Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel are authors of the syndicated USA Today column, "Common Ground".

BookCast Interview with Michael Scheuer

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:00:14 GMT

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.

Ch 9 'Art in the Pages' Clip

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:05:48 GMT

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'.

BookCast Interview with Jabari Asim

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:57:20 GMT

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."

BookCast Interview with John Bolton

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:36:08 GMT

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.

CNN and Cox 'Art In The Pages' Clip

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:10:34 GMT

Joan Kane, Fairfax Library Foundation Board Chair is interviewed by Kathryn Falk on CNN Cox Local Edition.

The Curse of the Blue Tattoo

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:56:39 GMT

A synopsis of The Curse of the Blue Tattoo by L.A. Meyer

BookCast Interview with Chef Roland Mesnier

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:51:21 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview on Fairfax County Stories:1607-2007

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:30:19 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Vincent Lee-Thorp

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:28:00 GMT

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.

Woodrow Wilson Opening Ceremony

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:58:06 GMT

Remarks from the 1967 Opening Ceremony of the Woodrow Wilson Library.

BookCast Interview with Ellen Crosby

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:36:15 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Bob Gallagher

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:18:24 GMT

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."

BookCast Interview with Sharon Bulova, Mary Lipsey and John Browne

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:43:17 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Caroline Kettlewell

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:51:20 GMT

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.

BookCast Interview with Sam Clay

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:33:33 GMT

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.