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  • “We’ll walk around and see all the things we don’t want.” What is a buyer’s role in preventing abuse like that shown in Made in China?
    My Year without Walmart
    For as long as I can remember, I’ve made New Year’s resolutions that I can’t keep: eat healthy foods, exercise more, forego sleazy murder mysteries and read only educational books.
  • SOur Radio Reader BookByte finds much to remind her of today’s children and the traumas they’ve faced through school shootings and COVID losses in the quote from the book, “I wish I could escape my mind, that I could be free of this world and everything I have seen in the last few years.”
    It Does Have Something to Do with Me
    Thank you for joining us on the High Plains Public Radio Station. My name is Jessica Sadler, and I am a Science Teacher and STEAM facilitator in Olathe, Kansas. I am here with the other book leaders to discuss The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri.
  • Linda Allen is the Book Leader for The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
    In Touch with the World ends Week Eight with a bonus book --The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad published in 2011. The book outlines the story of Tor Baz, a young boy descended from both chiefs and outlaws and as he moves between tribes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, he becomes the Wandering Falcon.
  • Jane Holwerda is the Book Leader for This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
    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.
  • Haven is the Book Leader for four juvenile or young adult selections from around the world
    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.
  • Conny Bogaardt is the Book Leader for The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko
    This week’s series features The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko. The book is one of the most read Ukrainian book by intellectuals and writers, and although it is lengthy, it holds the status of such classics as War and Peace.
  • This Radio Reader BookByte reports that in 2005, a shipping company informed her that 50% of all import goods received into the USA were from China for Walmart. Shown here are containers at the Port Elizabeth New Jersey terminal.
    Read, Consider, and Take Action
    The non-fiction book Made in China: A Prisoner, and SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang is a must read. I’m Melany Wilks, Library Director of the Pioneer Memorial Library, and book club leader for one of our book clubs.
  • Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur woman who was detained in China, testifies at the National Press Club in Washington about the mass internment camps in China and the abuses she suffered.
    Messages and Chinese Prisons
    This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The book is “Made in China” by Amelia Pang.
  • Friendship and Loneliness
    For the HPPR Reader’s Book Club, this is Phillip Periman in Amarillo, Texas reviewing “The Little Prince” by Antoine Saint-Exupéry.
  • Jo Nesbo, author of more than 13 novels including Harry Hole, as an Oslo police detective
    The Thirsty by Jo Nesbo
    Let’s talk about crime, the chase, the human heart and some excellent writing by best selling author Norwegian Jo Nesbo (You(g) Nes-buh). Or as he’s introduced to English speaking readers, Jo Nesbo. Nesbo.
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