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In Touch with the World begins in Bosnia/Herzegovina with Stephen Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo. Answering the question of what it means to be human is complex and challenging in a city under siege.

The second book in HPPR Radio Readers 2023 Spring Read takes us to Syria for The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri. In it, we join an ordinary, peaceful beekeeper and his sightless wife as they navigate a difficult immigrant path after almost unimaginable violence destroys their lives, takes their child and challenges them to maintain hope.

Our next book, Made in China, literally spans the world on the page of a note found in a discount store purchase.

Stephen Galloway’s driver for his novel is the bravery of a lone musician who defies the snipers and shells to play the cello in memory of the dead. Based on a real musician, 35-year-old cellist Vedran Smailovic, it was not the first time that music has defied war, or disaster, nor the last.

Like Water for Chocolate has been called, "Earthy, magical, and utterly charming.” The best-selling novel features a blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.

Luke describes a Peameal Bacon recipe of his.

Hello, Radio Readers, and welcome to 2023! This year launches the 7th consecutive year of High Plains Public Radio’s Radio Readers Book Club, an on-air, on-line community of readers exploring themes of interest to those who live and work on the High Plains.

My name is Anne Holt. I’ve lived in Minnesota for 22 years, but my education is a product of Kansas. I attended Kindergarten through 9th grade in Larned, finished high school in Winfield, and hold degrees from Southwestern College and the University of Kansas.

Galloway’s starting chapter is to set the mood, the background music, if you will, which will play in our heads for the rest of the book. The intimate, rich tones of the cello solo soar above the death and destruction even as we remain grounded in existential questions.

Galloway’s starting chapter is to set the mood, the background music, if you will, which will play in our heads for the rest of the book. The intimate, rich tones of the cello solo soar above the death and destruction even as we remain grounded in existential questions.