The Avid Reader Show show

The Avid Reader Show

Summary: The Avid Reader is a podcast for book lovers. Tune in for interviews, recommendations, and insider news from Sam Hankin, host and owner of independent bookstore Wellington Square Bookshop.

Podcasts:

 H.W. Brands author of Reagan: The Life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3409

In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan’s personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a conservative revolution in American politics and play a crucial role in ending communism in the Soviet Union. Reagan shut down the age of liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of Reagan, whose defining principles are still powerfully felt today. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs every Monday at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 H.W. Brands author of Reagan: The Life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3409

In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident force of Reagan’s personality and the unwavering nature of his beliefs enabled him to engineer a conservative revolution in American politics and play a crucial role in ending communism in the Soviet Union. Reagan shut down the age of liberalism, Brands shows, and ushered in the age of Reagan, whose defining principles are still powerfully felt today. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs every Monday at 5PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Sy Montgomery author of The Soul of an Octopus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2823

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs every Monday at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Sy Montgomery author of The Soul of an Octopus | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2823

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs every Monday at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Courtney Maum author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2766

In this reverse love story set in Paris and London, which Glamour hailed as one of the “10 Best Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List Right This Second,” a failed monogamist attempts to woo his wife back and to answer the question: Is it really possible to fall back in love with your spouse? - Amazon Wellington Square Bookshop sponsors The Avid Reader Show. We are located in Chester County, PA - please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com. The Show airs Monday's on WCHE AM 1520 at 4PM EST.

 Courtney Maum author of I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2766

In this reverse love story set in Paris and London, which Glamour hailed as one of the “10 Best Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List Right This Second,” a failed monogamist attempts to woo his wife back and to answer the question: Is it really possible to fall back in love with your spouse? - Amazon Wellington Square Bookshop sponsors The Avid Reader Show. We are located in Chester County, PA - please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com. The Show airs Monday's on WCHE AM 1520 at 4PM EST.

 Judith Claire Mitchell author of A Reunion of Ghosts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3267

Three wickedly funny sisters. One family's extraordinary legacy. A single suicide note that spans a century ... Meet the Alter sisters: Lady, Vee, and Delph. These three mordantly witty, complex women share their family's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They love each other fiercely, but being an Alter isn't easy. Bad luck is in their genes, passed down through the generations. Yet no matter what curves life throws at these siblings—and it's hurled plenty—they always have a wisecrack, and one another. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs every Monday at 4PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Judith Claire Mitchell author of A Reunion of Ghosts | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3267

Three wickedly funny sisters. One family's extraordinary legacy. A single suicide note that spans a century ... Meet the Alter sisters: Lady, Vee, and Delph. These three mordantly witty, complex women share their family's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. They love each other fiercely, but being an Alter isn't easy. Bad luck is in their genes, passed down through the generations. Yet no matter what curves life throws at these siblings—and it's hurled plenty—they always have a wisecrack, and one another. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs every Monday at 4PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 J. C. Hallman author of B & Me | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2828

A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern life—and a wink of the eye toU and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic book about John Updike—by an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 4PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 J. C. Hallman author of B & Me | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2828

A funny, frisky, often outrageous book about love, literature, and modern life—and a wink of the eye toU and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic book about John Updike—by an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review. - Amazon The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 4PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Lauren Acampora author of The Wonder Garden | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3428

In her stunning debut collection, The Wonder Garden, Lauren Acampora brings to the page with enchanting realism the myriad lives of a suburban town and lays them bare. These linked stories take a trenchant look at the flawed people of Old Cranbury, incisive tales that reveal at each turn the unseen battles we play out behind drawn blinds, the creeping truths from which we distract ourselves, and the massive dreams we haul quietly with us and hold close. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 4PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Lauren Acampora author of The Wonder Garden | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3428

In her stunning debut collection, The Wonder Garden, Lauren Acampora brings to the page with enchanting realism the myriad lives of a suburban town and lays them bare. These linked stories take a trenchant look at the flawed people of Old Cranbury, incisive tales that reveal at each turn the unseen battles we play out behind drawn blinds, the creeping truths from which we distract ourselves, and the massive dreams we haul quietly with us and hold close. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 4PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Abigail Thomas author of What Comes Next and How to Like It | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3401

In her bestselling and beloved memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the tragic loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, she writes about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. And it is exhilarating. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 4 PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Abigail Thomas author of What Comes Next and How to Like It | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3401

In her bestselling and beloved memoir A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas wrote about the tragic loss of her husband. In What Comes Next and How to Like It, she writes about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. And it is exhilarating. - Amazon Review The Avid Reader Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. The Show airs Monday's at 4 PM on WCHE AM 1520. Please visit our website at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

 Tanya James author of The Tusk That Did The Damage | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3444

About the Book:From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger. The Avid Reader show airs every Monday at 5PM EST on WCHE AM 1520. The Show is sponsored by Wellington Square Bookshop in Chester County, PA. Please visit us at www.wellingtonsquarebooks.com

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