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92: 2024 Wrap-up and 2025 Preview
It’s our last episode of the year. We talk about the progress we’ve made on our personal goals for 2024. Upon reviewing them, we feel like we have experienced growth and also adopted some unexpected goals for the year. We discuss our podcast highlights from 2024, discussing our non-fiction, fiction, and children’s book selections. We talk about how inviting authors and experts to join us helped deepen our experience. Every single of our guests...
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46: Author Dr. Larry Widman
In his book, Max Out Mindset, Larry “Doc” Widman describes the mindset skills we can apply to max out our performance in athletics and life. Most New Year’s resolutions have been abandoned by February. Doc shares with us how to set and achieve our goals using the...
45: Max Out Mindset by Dr. Larry Widman
Just in time for New Year’s resolutions, we discuss Max Out Mindset, Dr. Larry Widman’s book describing how elite athletes achieve results through his evidence-based approach and how we can apply them to improve our performance in life, work, and play. --- Support...
44: Author Sue Ray-Smolik
Author Sue Ray-Smolik joins us on the front porch to tells us about her brand-new children’s picture book, The Evening Walk, a story about how visually-impaired Mommy shows toddler Liam that sight is only one way to experience the world around them, but love is...
43: The Evening Walk by Sue Ray-Smolik
Join us on the Front Porch as we revel in Sue Ray-Smolik’s joyful new children’s book, The Evening Walk, a beautifully illustrated story in which toddler Liam describes what he sees to his visually-impaired Mommy who lovingly helps him experience their walk with...
42: Kevin Bower on the era of The Sweetness of Water
Dr. Kevin Bower takes us to the post-Civil War South, interpreting the fascinating political, social, and economic upheavals that are the backdrop for Nathan Harris' The Sweetness of Water. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
41: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris received all the awards! No wonder as it transports readers to the American south in the turbulent weeks following the end of the Civil War. As the characters struggle to make lives for themselves in the changing world, we see...
40: Jess Hess recommends The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Behavioral consultant Jess Hess joins us on the front porch to share her insights on one of her favorite books, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
39: River of Doubt by Candice Millard
We discuss Theodore Roosevelt’s disastrous expedition to map a tributary of the Amazon River retold in Candice Millard’s gripping New York Times bestseller, River of Doubt. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
38: Candice Millard
An early, exceptional episode: By special arrangement, four-time New York Times bestselling author and speaker for the 27th annual Nebraska Governor’s Lecture in the Humanities on September 28, 2022, Candice Millard joins us to discuss her first best-seller, The River...
37: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
In The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, unforgettable Addie makes a pact with the devil for immortality, with the curse she will be forgotten whenever she leaves others’ presence. When she falls in love with Henry and finds out he, too, has made a deal...
36: Robert Kolker
New York Times best-selling author, Robert Kolker, joins us on the front porch to discuss his book, Hidden Valley Road. The book, based on the true life story of a family of 12 children, six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia, has made all the lists -- from New...
35: Hidden Valley Road
The true story of one family with 12 children, six of whom are diagnosed with schizophrenia. We discuss the unforgettable story of the Galvin family and the evolution and research breakthroughs of treatment for this cruel disease. --- Support this podcast:...
34: Messy Truth: Part 2
Van Jones presents solutions in four areas that liberals and conservatives can agree on. Linda and Nancy delve into policy and Van’s life experiences that have led him to his broadcasting, policy, and advocacy work. --- Support this podcast:...
33: Beyond the Messy Truth by Van Jones
Is it possible to find bipartisan solutions to the problems America faces? Van Jones says it is in his book, Beyond the Messy Truth. Join us in finding hope in America’s acrimonious political landscape. --- Support this podcast:...
32: Jona Green discusses The Nightingale
Join our mini-book club discussion about The Nightingale with sweet tea drinker Jona Green. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
31: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
We discuss Kristin Hannah’s best seller, The Nightingale, the captivating tale of two sisters in World War II France. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
30: Erin de Boer on being an Accidental Super Mom
Erin shares the funny side of young motherhood in this book of hilarious snippets. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
29: Accidental Super Mom by Erin De Boer
Linda and Nancy share their favorite snippets from this book of short takes on parenthood. Hilarity ensues as Linda and Nancy recount the fires and near miss flooding they caused in their early parenting years. --- Support this podcast:...
28: Dawne Curry unpacks Born a Crime
Dr. Dawne Curry takes us on an incomparable journey through South Africa's social and political structures that set up Apartheid and led to its eventual dismantling, all the while relating it to Trevor Noah's experience. Grab your suitcases -- we're going on a trip!...
27: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
His father was white. His mother was Black. Trevor Noah was "illegal" in South Africa. He recounts his experience under Apartheid, unmasking the system's brutality with candid humor. Join us as we discuss Noah's Born a Crime. --- Support this podcast:...
26: This Mortal Life Also
Linda interviews co-host Nancy, along with Timothy W Scholl about the writing and production of This Mortal Life Also, a play about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
25: No Ordinary Men by Elizabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern
Linny and Nancy dig into this biography of the courageous actions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi in the German Resistance to Nazism. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
24: Larry McDaniel on The Lincoln Highway
Larry McDaniel, founder of Coyote Hill - a foster care provider and services agency, joins us on the Front Porch to discuss The Lincoln Highway. Larry's expertise in working with children gives him special insight into the characters in this book by Amor Towles. ---...
23: The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
We discuss The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles' engrossing and devastating story of four boys who hope to find their futures at the end of the 1950s Lincoln Highway. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frontporchbookclub/support
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