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The Book Doctors: Country Skies

The Book Doctors join us to share reading recommendations and the latest in literary news.By The Walt Bodine Show, April 29, 2009

Kansas City, MO – The Book Doctors join us to share reading recommendations and the latest in literary news. Last time, we explored the city in a show titled "City Lights". We finish the second part in our two part series with books that feature rural life and the country in a show we've dubbed "Country Skies".

The Book Doctors are:
-Mark Luce, The Barstow School
-Steve Paul, The Kansas City Star
-Kaite Mediatore Stover, The Kansas City Public Library

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Books mentioned on today's program.

Steve: A Gentleman's Guide to Graceful Living by Michael Dahlie
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
Old Glory by Jonathan Raban
Great Plains by Ian Frazier

Mark: Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell

Kaite: Unmentionables by Beth Ann Fennelly
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Grahame-Smith

Callers:
The Nature of Kansas Lands by Elizabeth Schultz
Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag
Anything by Wallace Berry
Anything by Wright Morris
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
Prairyerth by William Least Heat-Moon
Anything by Jim Harrison
Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Those Days by Richard Critchfield
Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
Buffalo for the Broken Heart by Dan O'Brien

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