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 touch, smell, taste, and sound.
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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.
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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 the book’s application to today’s bitter acrimony over who will decide what our country will be.
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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.
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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.
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