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Radio Talking Book Radio News September 2007 |
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Name Change in Faribault
Effective September 1, 2007, the Minnesota Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped is renamed the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library (MBTBL). The library’s name had not changed since it was established in 1933. In 2005, the Minnesota Legislature passed a law requiring state agencies to remove archaic or outdated language referring to people with certain disabilities. The statute identifies the term “handicapped” as an outdated term requiring the library to change its name.
The library’s advisory committee suggested two possible names: the Minnesota Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, or the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library. Library patrons were allowed to vote on the two names or offer an alternative. 597 patrons voted and overwhelmingly selected Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library as the revised library name.
“Despite the name change, the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library mission remains the same,” said MBTBL Library Program Director Catherine Durivage. “The library staff will continue to provide library services to people who cannot read standard print material due to a visual or physical disability.”
The library address and telephone number remains the same. For more information, contact the library at 1-800-722-0550.
Books Available Through Faribault
All books broadcast on the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network are available through the Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library in Faribault. Their phone is 1-800-722-0550 and hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Their catalog is also online, and you can access it at the main website, http://education.state.mn.us and clicking on the link, or go to http://education.state.mn.us/mde/Learning_Support/MN_Braille_Talking_Book_Library/index
.html. If you live outside of Minnesota, you may obtain copies of books by contacting your own state's Network Library for the National Library Service.
Review old issues of Radio News on the Internet at www.mnssb.org/radionews.
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Chautauqua
Tuesday - Saturday 4 a.m.
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Survival of the Sickest
Nonfiction by Sharon Moalem, M.D., 2007.
Diseases today gave our ancestors an advantage in survival. When the option is long life with a disease or short life without one, evolution picks the disease every time.
Read by Fred Lyon.
9 broadcasts. Began August 22.
Charisma
Nonfiction by Philip Rieff, 2007.
People consider charisma to be a form of celebrity. But originally, it was religious grace and authority transferred through divine inspiration.
Read by Ann Hoedeman.
11 broadcasts. Begins September 4.
Peace Be Upon You
Nonfiction by Zachary Karabell, 2007.
Muslims, Christians, and Jews have shared a rich, textured coexistence that has disappeared from collective memory. From medieval Spain to today’s Dubai, they have found common ground.
Read by Fred Lyon.
16 broadcasts. Begins September 19.
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Past is Prologue
Monday - Friday 9 a.m.
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A Perfect Union
Nonfiction by Catherine Allgor, 2006.
While she was the president’s wife, Dolley Madison was the architect of the social and political intricacies of Washington, D.C.
Read by Barbara Struyk.
18 broadcasts. Began August 23.
The Explorer King
Nonfiction by Robert Wilson, 2006.
Clarence King was a scientist and explorer. His mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth century.
Read by Dan Kuechenmeister.
10 broadcasts. Begins September 18.
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Bookworm
Monday - Friday 11 a.m.
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The Love of Impermanent Things
Nonfiction by Mary Rose O’Reilley, 2006.
O’Reilley traces the middle-class Irish American life that shaped her, with its mix of humor, terror, and mysticism. She says we have a chance to recover our daring in midlife. No one is paying attention; why not head for the artistic edge and find our true calling?
Read by June Prange.
10 broadcasts. Began August 23.
Winterton Blue
Fiction by Trezza Azzopardi, 2007.
For twenty years, Lewis has been haunted by his brother’s death. Then, while looking for a person he believes to be at blame for the death, he meets Anna. They are both too headstrong to admit they may fall in love. L -
Read by Carol Lewis.
8 broadcasts. Begins Sept. 6.
The Time It Takes to Fall
Fiction by Margaret Lazarus Dean, 2007.
Dolores grows up in the shadow of Cape Canaveral, her father works for NASA, and she dreams of becoming an astronaut. Then, on January 28, 1986, The Challenger explodes, and one of the seven astronauts killed is her idol, Judith Resnik.
Read by Karen Wertz.
11 broadcasts. Begins September 18.
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Potpourri
Monday - Friday 2 p.m.
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Wins, Losses and Lessons
Nonfiction by Lou Holtz, 2006.
In the history of college sports, few have been more influential than Lou Holtz. Winner of three national Coach of the Year honors, the only coach to lead six schools to bowl games, and after three decades of football, Holtz has left the game, but continues to teach and coach.
Read by Wally Vavrosky.
11 broadcasts. Began August 27.
The Ice-Museum
Nonfiction by Joanna Kavenna, 2006.
Intrigued with mysterious stories of Thule, Kavenna set out on a voyage of discovery. She found both breathtaking beauty and an unexpected darkness.
Read by Leila Poullada.
11 broadcasts. Begins September 11.
Grace (Eventually)
Nonfiction by Anne Lamott, 2007.
Wherever a person looks, there is trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness. Some days are better than others but Lamott says she is learning what it means to be fully human and alive.
Read by Sue McDonald.
6 broadcasts. Begins September 26.
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Choice Reading
Monday - Friday 4 p.m.
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Inés of My Soul
Fiction by Isabel Allende, 2006.
Born poor in 16th century Spain, Inés goes to the Americas to look for her husband. She begins an affair with Pedro de Valdivia, and together, they build the city of Santiago.
Read by Sherri Afryl.
14 broadcasts. Began August 16.
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Fiction by Vendela Vida, 2007.
On the day of her father’s funeral, Clarissa discovers he wasn’t her biological father. From her birth certificate, she finds she needs to go to Helsinki to find answers; but that leads her further north to Lapland. L -
Read by Amy Morris.
6 broadcasts. Begins Sept. 5.
On Agate Hill
Fiction by Lee Smith, 2006.
Molly Petree was orphaned by the Civil War. Raised in the ruins of a once prosperous plantation, she is a refugee with no self-pity. When a benefactor from her father’s past appears, she takes what is offered and saves herself.
Read by Aletta Jervey.
15 broadcasts. Begins September 13.
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PM Report
Monday - Friday 8 p.m.
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The War of Ideas
Nonfiction by Walid Phares, 2007.
In the War on Terror, one side stands for democracy and human rights, the other rejects international community and calls for global jihad. New technology and media savvy of jihadists have raised the stakes in the conflict.
Read by Dan Sadoff.
14 broadcasts. Began August 22.
Chinese Lessons
Nonfiction by John Pomfret, 2006.
Pomfret was one of the first Americans to study in post-Mao China in 1981. Twenty years after leaving, he returned for a reunion, and wrote of the changes in the lives of his classmates.
Read by Malcolm McLean.
14 broadcasts. Begins September 11.
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Night Journey
Monday - Friday 9 p.m.
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The Successor
Fiction by Stephen Frey, 2007.
Christian Gillette, head of New York’s most renowned private equity firm, is being put to the test. The President has asked him to assist with a capitalist revolution in Cuba. He has many enemies in high places who want him not to succeed. L,S -
Read by Ray Christensen.
11 broadcasts. Begins September 3.
The Traitor’s Tale
Fiction by Margaret Frazer, 2007.
While rebels hope to unseat King Henry, Dame Frevisse comes to help her cousin, the widowed Lady Alice, duchess of Suffolk. Suffolk was hated by many, and former employees have been disappearing, their names on a list of suspected rebels. V,L -
Read by Judith Johannessen.
12 broadcasts. Begins September 18.
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Off the Shelf
Monday - Friday 10 p.m.
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The Castle in the Forest
Fiction by Norman Mailer, 2007.
Secrets have always surrounded Adolf Hitler. If he was evil, how did he become this way? As we look at his childhood and adolescence, and portraits of his family, much becomes clear. S -
Read by Arlan Dohrenburg.
20 broadcasts. Began August 29.
Divisadero
Fiction by Michael Ondaatje, 2007.
Teenaged girls Anna and Claire work with their father on his farm in Northern California. Their farm hand Coop helps make up the makeshift family until a violent incident drives it apart. V,L,S -
Read by Del Adamson.
8 broadcasts. Begins September 26.
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Evening Odyssey
Monday - Friday 11 p.m.
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Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty
Fiction by Tim Sandlin, 2007.
Guy Fontaine moved from Oklahoma to California to live with his daughter, but illness forced him into an assisted living center. But the year is 2022, and it is filled with former hippies who refuse to let old age limit their possibilities. L,S -
Read by Bert Gardner.
10 broadcasts Began August 27.
Cellophane
Fiction by Marie Arana, 2006.
Don Victor Sobrevilla has always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the Peruvian rainforest. Now that it has happened, his life is full of strange signs and portents, and odd truths come to light. L,S -
Read by Andrea Bell.
16 broadcasts. Begins September 10.
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Good Night Owl
Monday - Friday midnight
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Fiction by Marisha Pessl, 2006.
Blue van Meer’s past draws her to a group of friends at St. Gallway, and to their engaging teacher, Hannah Schneider. L -
Read by Judy Woodward.
22 broadcasts. Began August 6.
The St. Paul Conspiracy
Fiction by Roger Stelljes, 2006.
St. Paul homicide detective Mac McRyan wonders if a prominent person’s murder is related to the series of murders of blue-collar people along University Ave. L,S -
Read by Barbara Morison.
13 broadcasts. Begins Sept. 5.
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Fiction by Dinaw Mengestu, 2007.
Sepha fled the Ethiopian revolution, ending up in a poor Washington D.C. neighborhood. With only two other immigrants as friends, he never imagined life would be so lonely.
Read by John Schmidt.
7 broadcasts. Begins Sept. 24.
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After Midnight
Tuesday - Saturday 1 a.m.
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Call Me by Your Name
Fiction by Andre Aciman, 2007.
A teen boy has a crush on a male summer guest at his parents’ Italian Riviera mansion. Their romance lasts six weeks, but it marks them for a lifetime. L,S -
Read by Arlan Dohrenburg.
10 broadcasts. Begins September 3.
The Wizard Lord
Fiction by Lawrence Watt-Evans, 2007.
Breaker is one of the Chosen whose responsibility is to remove an errant Wizard Lord. But he has doubts about the balance of power.
Read by Scott Ford.
16 broadcasts. Begins September 17.
Abbreviations: V - violence, L - offensive language, S - sexual situations