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Hello! I’m Tito Aznar for the HPPR Radio Readers Book Club’s 2025 Spring Read.Returning as adults to the places of our childhood is not without nostalgia. The locations often seem smaller than they are in our memories, the distances shorter–or longer–but never the same.
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For High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas. Today we are talking about The Lost Continent: Travels Around Small Town America by Bill Bryson. I love this book.
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Hello, Radio Readers. I’m author Julie A. Sellers, author of the novel Ann of Sunflower Lane. Welcome to this High Plains Public Radio Radio Readers Book Club BookByte of The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson.
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It takes me a month to mentally prepare to drive through the High Plains and a week to recover. The only ties I have left are a love of an old hotel on Main Street in Cimarron and this book club.
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Hello. My name is Cheryl Berzanskis and I’m from Amarillo. As listeners to High Plains Public Radio slog through winter and spring is only a promise on the calendar, some lighthearted reading might get us through the darkness.
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Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Julie A. Sellers, author of the novel Ann of Sunflower Lane. Welcome to this High Plains Public Radio Readers BookByte of The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson.
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Some journeys take us across physical landscapes and others, across internal ones. The Lost Continent details author Bill Bryson’s self-proclaimed “journey of discovery.” Following his father’s death, Bryson returns to the United States from England and travels almost 14,000 miles across the country in search of the elements for the quintessential American town.
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Raylene Hinz-Penner here, a Liberal, Kansas native, retired English professor now living in Newton, with a glimpse into Wordy Shipmates, an edgy pop-history novel about the characters and culture of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans by Sarah Vowell.
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Sara Vowell’s 2009 best seller, The Wordy Shipmates: a book that details the 1630 New World arrival of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founders of what would become Boston, and how that early experience continues to shape American life and politics.
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Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Julie A. Sellers, author of the novel Ann of Sunflower Lane. Welcome to this High Plains Public Radio Radio Readers Book Club BookByte of The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell.