Radio Program – March 6, 2009 – Fran Plewak – Medical Books

High Blood Pressure for Dummies

The Ultimate Back Book by Judylaine Fine

Folk Medicine, A Vermont Doctor’s Guide by D.C. Jarvis, M.D.

The Patient’s Guide to Medical Tests by Joseph Segen, M.D. and Josie Wade, RN

Healthy Aging by Andrew Weil, M.D.

The Doctors’ Book of Home Remedies by Rodale Press

Merck Manual of Medical Information

Arthritis – A Cleveland Clinic Guide

The Arthritis Help Book by Kate Lorig and James Fries

You Staying Young: The Owner’s Manual for Extending Your Warranty by Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.

The Cancer Pain Sourcebook by Roger S. Cicala, M.D.

The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth by Sheila Kitzinger

The Natural Pregnancy Book: Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices by Aviva Jill Romm

The Eating Well Diet: 7 Steps to a Healthy, Trimmer You by Dr. Jean Harvey-Berino, PhD., R.D.

Homebirth in the Hospital: Integrating Natural Childbirth with Modern Medicine by Stacey Marie Kerr, M.D.

Diabetes for Dummies by Alan L. Rubin, MD

 

Radio Program – February 20, 2009 – Bob Ferris Saving Energy

and Green Building

The Home Energy Diet: How to Save Money by Making Your House Energy Smart by Paul Scheckel (640.73)

The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit by Stephen & Rebekah Hren (644 New)

The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes by Daniel D. Chiras (690)

Outside the Box: Affordable Energy Efficient Construction Technique by Bill Hanlon (690)

Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods by Clarke Snell & Tim Callahan (690)

Earth Architecture: From Ancient to Modern by William N. Morgan (721 New)

The Earth-Sheltered House: An Architect’s Sketchbook by Malcolm Wells (690.8)

Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves  by Kiko Denzer (693)

Natural Building: Creating Communities Through Cooperation by Timothy Rieth & Bob Ferris (editors) (690 New)

The Passive Solar Energy Book: A Complete Guide to Passive Solar Home, Greenhouse and Building Design by Edward Mazria (696)

Designing & Building: A Solar House by Donald Watson (728.3)

Power from the Wind by Palmer Cosslett Putnam (621.4)

Power with Nature: Solar and Wind Energy Demystified by Rex A. Ewing (621.47)

Radio Program – February 13, 2009 – Revenge with John Barkhausen

Moby Dick (audio cassette or book) by Herman Melville

The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris

Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge

Ysabel By Guy Gavriel Kay

Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story by Leonie Swann

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Radio Program – February 6, 2009 – Sally Riesner on Poetry

The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez

The Truro Bear and Other Adventures by Mary Oliver

Fidelity by Grace Paley

House of Days by Grace Paley

The Spirits Need to Eat by Francette Cerulli

Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins

Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell

The River of Forgetfulness by Rachel Hadas

From Down to the Village by David Budbill

Otter Creek Workshop, Line by Line

The Golden Treasury of Poetry with Commentary by Louis Untermeyer

Radio Program – January 23, 2009 – Heli Hietzker on Skiing

All-Terrain Skiing by Dan Egan

The All-Mountain Skier by R. Mark Elling

The Story of Modern Skiing by John Fry

The Essential Guide to Skiing: 201 Things Every Skier Must Know by Ron LeMaster

http://www.childnparent.com/read_about/Youth+Sports/kid_skiing/

Radio Program – January 9, 2009 – Fran Plewak – Memoirs, Biographies

Gilbert, Elizabeth   Eat, Pray, Love

Binladin, Carmen   Inside the Kingdom

Boylan, Jennifer  I’m Looking Through YOu

Burroughs, Augusten   Magical Thinking

Running With Scissors

Possible Side Effects

Clapton, Eric   Clapton, the Autobiography

Cooper, Anderson   Dispatches from the Edge

Lindbergh, Reeve  Forward From Here

Martin, Steve   Born Standing Up

Greer, Germaine   Shakespeare’s Wife

Buk-Swienty, Tom   The Other Half, The Life of Jacob Riis

Kurson, Robert   Crashing Through

Radio Program – October 31, 2008 – Fran Plewak, novels featuring poverty and struggles

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Jungle Law by Victoria Vinton

Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Loredana by Lauro Martines

The Angel of Forgetfulness by Steve Stern

Where the Rivers Flow North by Howard Frank Mosher (also a DVD)

1,000 White Women by Jim Fergus

My Antonia by Willa Cather

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Eventide by Kent Haruf

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Radio Program – October 17, 2008 – Media with John Barkhausen

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (155.4)

Generation Text by Michael M. Osit (Parenting 649)

Generation Myspace: Helping Your Teen Survive Online Adolescence: How Social Networking is Changing Everything About Friendship, Gossip, Sex, Drugs, and Our Kids’ Values by Candice M. Kelsey (305.235 Parenting)

The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life by Marie Winn (302.23)

Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children from Birth to Age Five by Lisa Guernsey (302.23083)

Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It by Thomas de Zengotita (302.23)

Right of the Dial by Alec Foege (New 384.5406)

The Rough Guide to Film: An A-Z of Directors and Their Movies: The Essential Guide to a World of Cinema (New 791.3475)

False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear by Marc Siegel (302)

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post – 9/11 America by Susan Faludi (306.2)

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan (New 973.931)

Radio Program – October 3, 2008 – Fran Plewak – Books about Rich People

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz

Saturday by Ian McEwan (also audio CD)

The Arraignment by Steve Martini

Breathing Room by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Shelter by Susan Palwick

The Devil In The Junior League by Linda Francis Lee

The Sonnet Lover by Carol Goodman

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

False Impression by Jeffrey Archer

High Noon by Nora Roberts

Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris

Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper

Radio Programs – September 19, 2008 – Boats with Michael Barker

GENERAL BOOKS ON BOATING

Time-Life Library of Boating, 1976:

Offshore

Cruising

Cruising Grounds

The Boat

Racing

Boat Handling

Complete Sailing Manual by Steve Sleight

Chapman Piloting: Seamanship & Small Boat Handling

HOW TO: CANOE BOOKS

The Canoe Book by I. Herbert Gordon

Canoeing Handbook (L.L.Bean) by Allan A. Swenson

The Canoe Handbook: Techniques for Mastering the Sport of Canoeing by Slim Ray

ENTERTAINMENT: NOVELS

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian (and many more in the series, paperback collection and audio tape collection)

The Blackbirder by James Nelson

Ghost Sea by Ferenc Mate

ENTERTAINMENT: TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE

A Voyage for Madmen by Peter Nichols

The Hungry Ocean by Linda Greenlaw

The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw

LOCAL EXPLORATIONS

In the Land of the Wild Onion: Travels Along Vermont’s Winooski River by Charles Fish

An Adirondack Passage: The Cruise of the Canoe Sairy Gamp by Christine Jerome

HISTORY

Oars, Sails and Steam: A Picture Book of Ships  by Edwin Tunis

The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee