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Book Eleven takes us to Russian with Amor Towles’ Gentleman in Moscow. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.
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In this book set in a terrible war time where a boy had to go out every day just to get water so his family could survive, hope is an important theme.
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This is Haven Jock for the HPPR Radio Readers 2023 Spring Book Club discussing The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan and Peter Sis, which is based on the childhood of Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize winner for poetry in 1971, largely considered one of the most highly read poets in the world.
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The 2023 Spring Read: In Touch with the World takes a different spin this week with four juvenile or young adult selections from around the world.
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This week Classical Music Amarillo celebrates March as Women's History Month with the first of two programs featuring women composers!
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Welcome, this is Mary Scott with a BookByte for NPR High Plains Readers group. I am here to congratulate anyone who can quickly and easily read “This Mournable Body” by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
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Luke talks about last week's Greenville event and how you could possibly start your own.
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This is Leslie VonHolten with another HPPR Radio Readers Book Byte.What to make of this tough book by Tsitsi Dangarembga.
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Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, for HPPR Radio Readers “In Touch with the World”. This week, we’re in Zimbabwe, a country sharing borders with South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. Our Zimbabwean novel is written by Tsitsi Dangaremba, a professor, writer, and political activist.
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This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga is the ninth book in the 2023 Spring Read. Set in Zimbabwe, it is the story of Tambudzai navigating both job and personal worlds in a country that has been changed by years of conflict and racial divide.
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This week, we will experience the exquisite music of Maurice Ravel, a French composer whose "Sonata for Violin and Piano" will be performed by Chamber Music Amarillo at their upcoming concert on March 11th, 2023!