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Here we go. A first look at a new season of books by Minnesota authors/publishers. It’s a dandy, with mysteries, memoir, autobiography, good representation from Native authors and much more. (This list does not include reviewed books; it’s a clip-and-save reminder for readers about what’s in the pipeline. Information about forthcoming books provided by publishers.) […]

4:00 Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, with the sad news that it is time to wrap up our  2021 Spring Read “Cultures in a Common Land.”  To think of the people, places, and ideas we’ve experienced by reading together since January through April is impressive.  I’ve been thumbing through the books and listening again to the Book Bytes on HPPR’s website, and I’ve recognized some personal growth, as I seem to experience, whenever I return home, after ...

4:00 Dan says, “Make it sound like I went to Haskell,” referring to the all-Indian higher education institution in Lawrence, Kansas. Credit Gen. Quon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons This is the High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Book Club, and my name is Freddy Gipp. I am born and raised in Lawrence, KS and currently head a small community development firm called Lead Horse LLC. I am an enrolled member of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, my Indian name is “T’san T’hoop A’hn, meaning “Le...

.  This 1993 book still packs a punch, even after nearly three decades after its release.  It is actually the first in a series of three books dealing with Native American issues.  It is a classic road-trip story:  a light-hearted quest with an on-going philosophical debate discussing Native American history, inequalities, and Post-Colonialism traumas.  The three characters create an on-going dialogue between the Colonial (i.e., “white”) and Native perspectives, and the mediation betw...

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...

My heart is filled with anger. It’s as though every moment I am battered from another side, beaten with another blow. My chest feels like a tire is crushing it, my ribs are squeezed in a titan grip. “That’s why they call it heartbreak,” said my mom as we curled up side-by-side. On the second day of winter, I woke to my father telling me that the first man I ever loved would die that day. My Abuelo, grandfather, would not see Christmas. Not see this terrible year conclude. Not see his fa...