2025 Fall Read

For High Plains Public Radio, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are talking about the book American Mother. This is written by Colum McCann and Diane Foley. This is the true story of the tragic beheading of James Foley who was a freelance journalist. I liked this book.

This is Glenda Shepherd at Yucca Corners Farm in Stanton County, Kansas. I’m reviewing American Mother by Collum McCann and Diane Foley.American Mother ends with these two lines:“ Everything good, once begun, lasts. Nothing ever truly ends. ”

Hi, I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. American Mother by Colum McCann and Diane Foley is, as the title suggests, about a mother’s reaction to the death of her child. This mother, though, must navigate an unusual element of her child’s passing.

Hi, everyone. This is Mildred Rugger from Canyon, Texas, for the 2025 Fall Read of HPPR Radio Readers Book Club. As I did my usual pre-reading overview of American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley, I felt like this book would take me for an emotionally heavy ride.

Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas and here today to talk about the book Eat Your Words: A Kansas Poetry Cookbook. It’s a collection of recipes and poems I helped edit that collected 20 recipes from 20 chefs across the great state of Kansas, from urban centers to small towns, from restaurants to farms to food trucks.

Hi from Goodwell, in the Oklahoma panhandle! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. I imagine that war has been a topic of philosophical consideration for as long as there has been war.

This book focuses on Diane Foley's experience as the mother of James Foley, a journalist held captive and murdered by ISIS.

Greetings from Goodwell, Oklahoma! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for our new 2025 Fall Read. In an earlier Book Byte, I mentioned how much avid readers appreciate an author’s fresh approach to a novel.

Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas and here today to talk about the book Eat Your Words: A Kansas Poetry Cookbook. It’s a collection of recipes and poems I helped edit that collected 20 recipes from 20 chefs across the great state of Kansas.

Hello everyone, this is Clifton Butt, an English teacher at Tascosa High School in Amarillo, Texas. I'm here to briefly discuss George Saunders' tremendous 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo.