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My background in wildlife biology and the history of science might make me an unlikely book leader for a graphic novel exploring growing up in Iran. I’m Kim Perez and currently, I serve on the faculty of the history department at Fort Hays State University.

Gardeners, remember that you can always defeat the dumps that winter weather brings by forcing bulbs. It's easy, and it ushers a breath of spring in the dead of winter.

Satrapi’s graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution features powerful black-and-white comic strip images through which she tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to 14.

Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City KS. Welcome to 2022 and our kick-off for High Plains Public Radio Readers Spring Read: Graphic Novels—Worth a Thousand Words. For the next few months, we’ll be talking about the stories communicated in the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis; Nora Krug’s Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home; John Lewis and Andrew Aydin’s March; and Yuval Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

Today we'll continue our two-part series that offers tips on for how to summon the "flying flowers" to your garden. Because the more butterflies you have flitting around, the more lively the garden experience.

Luke and his friends this week on a wild hog hunt in East Texas.

I come from a long line of jokesters. I may be the only person in my direct line who did not inherit the desire to prank the people I love...

This is Mike Strong, in Hays, for HPPR. The books are “Persepolis” and “Persepolis 2” by Marjane Satrapi.Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novels provide information we in the US did not get at the time. From a journalist’s perspective, I now know how much information was never provided to us by our news media. The coverage sounded too much like State Department press releases. The Iranian revolution of 1978-79 really started in 1953.

Hi, I'm Alan Erwin from Amarillo and I've been reading Belonging, a graphic novel by Nora Krug.Nora asks us, in the words of the immortal Bo Diddly, “who do you love?”Who are these people and places that share and shape our lives? How well do we know the people we know?

Hello, Radio Readers; this is Kim Perez, and I am coming to you from the history department at Fort Hays State University for HPPR Book Bytes. The books I will be discussing, the two-book series Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi, are the first in our Spring 2022 reader’s theme: Graphic Novels: Worth a Thousand Words.