Category Archives: book podcasts

Racing the Summer Reading Regatta to Mackinac Island

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Come sail the high seas with Captains of Literary Wonderment!

Have you ever been hiked out on the high side, your boat at a 30-degree heel, wind filling your spinnaker, spray hitting your face as you scream across the water at 20 knots? Well, if you have, you’ll understand the excitement this Virtual Book Festival will bring. If you haven’t, throw caution to the wind, and join us for the Summer Reading Regatta!

Author Donald Levin takes on white supremacist terrorism “In the House of Night”

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When the police investigation into the murder of a gentle retired history professor stalls, friends of the dead man plead with PI Martin Preuss to find out what happened. 

Author Angela Verges finds humor in every situation

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Verges tackles the serious issues of menopause and beyond with a light heart in her collection of stories and essays “Menopause Ain’t No Joke.” 

She turned her blog posts into a book in three months with stories ranging from aboard an airplane to a dentist’s office.

Verges lives by the motto “A laugh a day, keeps stress at bay” and keeps a hoola hoop in her office.

“I wish I had written more essays,” she said.

Once, she found mouse poop in her car while reaching for a treat.

“There was no shingle on my hood that said, ‘Welcome, we’ll leave the light on for you.”

Attorney turned author transforms cases into thrillers

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Award-winning author Mark Bello puts us in the front-row seat watching victims like Hayley Larson fight for justice in his latest thriller- Supreme Betrayal in the Zachary Blake Legal Thrillers series.

Inspired by the headlines, Bello masterfully weaves real with fiction as he tells the story from alternating points of view.

Can Hayley prevent a sexual predator from being elevated to the highest court in the land?

But nothing will stop President’s nominee Oliver Wilkinson from fighting for the coveted seat on the Supreme Court.

Only Hayley stands in his way.

Authors track 100 years of perception shift sparked by technology

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From the first spark of electricity to the RNA-based  COVID vaccine, authors Gene and Marion take us on a journey through time over the last 100 years of the evolution of technology in their book “Shift Happens: Essays on Technology.”

“Major changes in technology in the past 100 years have drastically shifted our perceptions of who we are and how we live.”

                                                                Gene Wilburn

Gene Wilburn