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This is the first time for me to review a book for Book Byte. I am sitting at my kitchen table writing to you while my cat, Kitten, tries to take my pen away.

Raylene Hinz-Penner here, coming from central Kansas, North Newton east of Wichita, but I grew up east of Liberal in High Plains territory and am delighted to share in the Book Byte program. A retired college English professor, I am sharing a book that is not fiction, my normal pick, but a lyric genealogical history by notable historian, Tiya Miles, a most amazing book about an object, a sparkling masterpiece of African American women’s history published in 2021. Its title: All That She Carrie...

Hello Radio Readers; this is Conny Bogaard from Garden City, with a Book Byte for High Plains Public Radio. Anne Frank’s diary is said to be one of the most read, most important and most inspiring books in the world. Known as The Diary of a Young Girl, it tells the true story of Jewish people living in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II.

Hello, Radio Readers; this is Kim Perez, and I am coming to you from Hays with a Book Byte for HPPR. The discussion this month centers around the three-book series, March, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell. This series tell the story of critical moments of activism during the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of one person who participated in them, Congressman John Lewis.

Hello, Radio Readers; this is Kim Perez, and I am coming to you from Hays with a Book Byte for HPPR. I am here to discuss Nora Krug’s 2018 graphic novel, “Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home.” This book is about Krug’s journey to come to terms with the fact that she is German and the guilt that she feels because her family witnessed some of the atrocities leading up to the Second World War and the Holocaust.

3:43 Imagine the cultural perspective of a car full of Texas teens traveling together engaging in an exploration of cultures other than their own. Credit Xavier Romero-Frias, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Hi, I’m Marcy McKay from Amarillo, author of Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release, When Life Feels Like a House Fire: Transforming Your Stress. I’m excited to be a Radio Reader for High Plains Public Radio’s Book Club. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman is thought-p...

4:00 Hey, you all! It’s 2021—finally!! And HPPR’s Radio Readers is back with a spring read for all of us!  What with all the lessons offered by 2020 (may it rest in peace), we’ve opted for a series of books to help us explore Cultures in a Common Land, as a way to talk about how to live alongside others whose beliefs and ways of being seem not to align with our own.  Know what I mean? To frame our conversations, we’ve chosen a trio of titles – classic titles from the 1990’s cul...