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Drs. Megan Goodwin & Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst chat with Jenn about their fascinating book, RELIGION IS NOT DONE WITH YOU: OR, THE HIDDEN POWER OF RELIGION ON RACE, MAPS, BODIES, AND LAW.

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Drs. David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele return to the show to discuss their new book, OATHBREAKERS: THE WAR OF BROTHERS THAT SHATTERED AN EMPIRE AND MADE MEDIEVAL EUROPE, the follow-up to their brilliant THE BRIGHT AGES.

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Shannon Ives stops by to talk about her lush debut, THOSE FATAL FLOWERS, which seamlessly blends Greco-Roman mythology and the mystery of the vanished Roanoke colony when a siren washes ashore on the North Carolina island in the 16th century.

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Jenn chats with Cynthia Weiner about her arresting debut A GORGEOUS EXCITEMENT, her experiences growing up on the Upper East Side in the 1980s, the “preppy” murder that haunted the summer of 1986, and crafting fiction out of lived experience and “current” events.

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Jenn chats with Elaine Neil Orr about DANCING WOMAN, a beautiful novel about a young expat artist in Nigeria, torn between two men and two cultures, struggling to find her passion and her purpose.

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Jenn chats with Dani Diaz about their beautiful YA graphic novel debut, DREAMOVER. We talk about first romances– the excitement, the fear, and everything in between.

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The dying wish of Lee, Sandra Schnakenburg’s housekeeper, was for Sandra to write her story after she passed– but it was a story Sandra did not know. Sandra stopped by the show to talk about uncovering Lee’s fascinating and moving life and bringing it to the page.

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Kate Winkler Dawson discusses THE SINNERS ALL BOW: TWO AUTHORS, ONE MURDER, AND THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE, a riveting true crime history that explores a murder that divided 19th-century America, using modern investigative techniques to answer some lingering questions.