Books & Authors

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Khaled Hosseini: "And The Mountains Echoed"

Khaled Hosseini: "And The Mountains Echoed"

May 23, 2013

The author of the international best-seller “The Kite Runner” sets his latest novel in Afghanistan, San Francisco and Paris. How a wrenching family decision echoes across generations and time zones.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-22/charles-moore-margaret-thatcher
Charles Moore: "Margaret Thatcher"

Charles Moore: "Margaret Thatcher"

May 22, 2013

When Margaret Thatcher was elected leader of the opposition in 1975 she remarked that her victory felt “like a dream”. And the author of a new biography says that was part of her problem. To people across Britain, the idea that the...

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-21/olympia-snowe-fighting-common-ground-how-we-can-fix-stalemate-congress
Olympia Snowe: "Fighting For Common Ground: How We Can Fix The Stalemate In Congress"

Olympia Snowe: "Fighting For Common Ground: How We Can Fix The Stalemate In Congress"

May 21, 2013

When Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, announced she would not seek re-election in 2012, she spoke of her frustration with political polarization. Now, in a new book, she lays out how lawmakers can find common ground.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-05-15/qais-akbar-omar-fort-nine-towers-afghan-family-story
Qais Akbar Omar: "A Fort Of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story"

Qais Akbar Omar: "A Fort Of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story"

May 15, 2013

A memoir of growing up in Afghanistan. The journey one family takes as they attempt to flee decades of violence and find hope in their homeland.

Books & Authors

Readers' Review

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Readers' Review: T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"

Readers' Review: T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"

April 24, 2013

For this month's Readers' Review: what T.S. Eliot considered his greatest work, "Four Quartets." The poems are a meditation on time, eternity and immortality.

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Readers' Review: "The Lonely Girl" By Edna O'Brien

Readers' Review: "The Lonely Girl" By Edna O'Brien

March 27, 2013

For this month's Readers’ Review: Edna O’Brien’s “Country Girls” trilogy was banned –- and burned -- when it was first published in the 1960s. The series’ second novel traces the sexual awakening of two Irish girls of that era.

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-02-27/readers-review-march-el-doctorow
Readers' Review: "The March" By E.L. Doctorow

Readers' Review: "The March" By E.L. Doctorow

February 27, 2013

For February's Readers’ Review, E.L. Doctorow’s historic novel about Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s path of destruction through the deep South near the end of the Civil War. The title is “The March.”

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