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Hi, I am Valarie Smith for an HPPR Radio Readers Book Club Fall Read. American Mother is a modern-day snapshot of journalistic heroism. It’s a meditation on loss and the enduring power of a mother’s love— lingers long after death.

In this week's show, Luke recaps a bear hunt that occurred earlier this week at the Choctaw Hunting Lodge (www.choctawhuntinglodge.com) in southeastern Oklahoma. Luke's good friends Edgar and David Cotton each took a bear with their crossbow from the same ground blind on the same afternoon hunt. Click the blue Listen button above to hear Luke tell all about their hunt!

Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billyl, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees.

Hi, everyone. This is Mildred Rugger from Canyon, Texas, for the 2025 Fall Read of HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Loss and Love by Margaret Renkl is about grief, but not exclusively. We often learn about grief indirectly within a broader context.

Hello. My name is Cheryl Berzanskis and I’m speaking to you from my local stretch of the Mother Road, Amarillo. High Plains Public Radio’s 2026 Spring Read features that beloved highway, all 2,400 miles of Route 66 across eight states and three time zones. As the historic highway turns 100, BookBytes aims to celebrate its past and present influence on America.

Have you seen the price of meats at the grocery store lately? Game meat can go a long way to helping to lower your family's food bills, and this week, Luke talks about how!

Growing vegetables in your garden should be a joy, not a pain, but sometimes it helps to take a step back and think about how much you may be straining to maintain your plants. You can save yourself from this strain (and possible injury over time) by considering ways to make your plant caring easier, and less wear-and-tear on the gardener, which we'll discuss in this week's episode!

Hello booklovers, this is Miriam Scott from Amarillo Texas for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. Today I want to introduce John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. I have to tell you; it’s been a long time since I read this essential and unfortunately timeless book.

Hello, I’m Juan J. Morales, an assistant professor of English at Colorado College and a poet in Pueblo, Colorado, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m pleased to share with you a poem by Denver poet, Emily Pérez, titled I Wanted a Full Dose of Never-Mind of Not Ever.

An almost forgotten episode in Kansas history concerns the establishment of a National Forest Reserve in the sand hills south of the R-Kansas (also called the Arkansas) River.