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Hey, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, and it’s Summer Reads! Some readers may go for light, beachy reads in the summer. Me? I like to go for guilt, dysfunction, with a soupcon of forgiveness.

Hi, I am Phillip Periman from Amarillo recommending a book for the HPPR Radio Readers’ Book Club’s summer reading list. The book is entitled “Why Poetry” and was written by Matthew Zapruder, published by Harper’s Collins in 2017 and in paperback (2018) by ECCO.

Hi, I’m Marcy McKay from Amarillo, author of the award-winning novel, Pennies from Burger Heaven. I’m excited to be a Radio Reader for High Plains Public Radio’s Book Club, and to share the backstory from my book.

Hello Booklovers, I’m Shelley Armitage in Los Cruces, New Mexico. I still manage my farm and return to my old farmhouse in Vega, Texas, a farming and ranching community where I grew up west of Amarillo in the Panhandle.

Today's installment of Growing on the High Plains is a re-broadcast.

I am Galen Boehme from Offerle, Kansas, for HPPR’s Radio Readers Book Club. I am covering Nora Krug’s novel Belonging where she pictures the desire of a German family to recognize the dignity of each individual in spite of the decisions that the individual has made.

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The graphic history book is “March” by John Lewis, in a three-book package, as a trilogy. The inspiration to create John Lewis’ “March” as a graphic book trilogy was a 1957 comic book about Martin Luther King. That same year, 1957, the state of Virginia published a work they had commissioned in 1950, a history of Virginia, a textbook to be used in the Virginia schools. Among its topics is slavery in Virginia.

The United States Post Office, for more than two centuries, has been central to holding together rural areas as communities.This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “How the Post Office Created America” by Winifred Gallagher.

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.One of the chapters in Winesburg, Ohio is titled “Queer.” When Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio the word “queer” meant “odd.” I know. I grew up with that meaning. My grandmother called a lot of folks queer, meaning odd, folks she didn’t approve of.

Today, we're getting a little fruity as I share an annual tradition that takes over my kitchen for a while — but it's all for a good, furry cause.