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Call the Midwife is based on this wrenching memoir that takes you on a lice-infested, thin-blanket journey into the London workhouse. You’re cold. Sick. Unemployed. Your 9 children starving. Where else do you go? Better than the streets, surely. But residents tell a different story. So come. Join flies, fleas, and roaches on stony walls as Nurse Jenny bears witness. At least you won’t be alone. 

Global warming is already doing major damage. Why are we ignoring it? Dr Rebecca Bell-Metereau and I explore David Wallace-Wells' scary, beautifully written book.

It's a best-seller that's become a TV series and a graphic novel, but no one is completely sure of the author's identity. Garrie Borden and I ponder the power of this compelling novel.

Chris Gardner joined me for a discussion of Barbara Kingsolver's brilliant contemporary re-imagining of the Dickens classic "David Copperfield," a profoundly moving examination of poverty, addiction, and resilience in the face of injustice!

The novel features two settings—South China in the late 18-early 19 hundreds, and a futuristic North America between 2044 and 2062. In this world, apparently run by corporations, people live either in walled communities like “Serendipity” or in the dangerous “unregulated zone.” The North American protagonist narrator, Miranda, might be a reincarnation of the South China protagonist narrator, Nu Wa...

Priscilla interviews local San Marcos author Elizabeth Crook on her novel The Madstone . 

A community reading of the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" from the KZSM studios in San Marcos, Texas.