Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton

In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Laura Stegman reading Summer of L.U.C.K. About the book Three struggling kids stumble upon a magical carnival that’s about to change their world. Eleven-year-old stuttering Darby believes she's supposed to be perfect, just like her mother demands. But summer away at camp promises temporary escape. There, she befriends Justin, who hasn’t uttered a w...

This is the second part of a two-part episode featuring Nimbilasha Cushing reading her memoir Come This Way There is an Exit. For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ or sign up to Yvonne's Substack https://yvonnebattlefelton.substack.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Nimbilasha Cushing reading from Come This Way, There is an Exit. This is part one of a two-part episode. About the book The story of growing up in the South as a sharecropper in the 1950's. A deeply-felt account of the girlhood of an African-American, Nibilasha Cushing, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1948 as the sixth child of what she des...

In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by C.J. Neill reading The Money Go Round. About the book : Max Stephens` life is falling apart. He`s lost his high-powered City Desk journalist job, his wife has left him, and he`s turning into the drunk his father was when he stumbles on a massive fraud during a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Sensing a scoop that could help him regai...

In ths episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Patrick D Hahn reading Obedience Pills: ADHD and the Medicalization of Childhood . About the book: Every day across this great land of ours, millions of children are swallowing pills for something called "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," or "ADHD." This has long been almost exclusively an American obsession, although the rest of the world...

In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Anara Guard reading Like A Complete Unknown. About the Book: In 1969, a girl’s life is not her own. When Katya Warshawsky’s parents demand she drop out of school to join a cleaning crew, she runs away instead. But Chicago’s counterculture isn’t as welcoming as she dreamed, even in an age of peace and love. Starry-eyed and in trouble, she turns to D...

In this episode of Bookable Space Kathie Giorgio reads All Told and Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism in Haiku. KATHIE GIORGIO is the author of 6 novels, 2 story collections, 3 poetry books, and an essay collection. Her novel,  All Told,  was released in 1/2022, and a poetry chapbook,  Olivia In Five, Seven, Five; Autism In Haiku,  will be released in 8/2022. Her stories/poem...

In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Katya Cengel. Katya reads From Cheronobyl with Love: reporting from the ruins of the Soviet Union. About the book:   In 1986 an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic helped trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Three and a half decades later, in 2022...

In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Ross Dreiblatt. Ross will be reading from I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories. About the author : Ross Dreiblatt is an author who was born and grew up in New York. His father was a truck driver, and his mom was a retail manager. He attended Hofstra University and moved to Los Angeles where he attended Cal State Northridge. W...

in this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Poria Y. Clare. Portia reads from Best Friends Forever: A Puppy’s Tale. About the book: Best Friends Forever: A Puppy’s Tale is a tender, heart-warming story about love, loss, and everlasting friendship. It is a wonderful resource of care for parents and teachers that will help them guide children through the real-life e...

In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Michael Favala Goldman. Michael reads from The Trouble with Happiness About the book : “This  quiet and devastating  collection of vignettes from Ditlevsen . . .  [reveals] all the simmering, explosive tensions found in marriage, family, and parenthood  . . . The stories are simple; the characters ordinary...

In this episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Chris Dickon reading Dutch Children of African American Liberators . About the book: In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America. Though their African American fathers had brou...

In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Deidre Fagan. Deirdre will be reading About the author:   Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, mother of two, and the award-winning author of the memoir Find a Place for Me (forthcoming, 2022), a collection of short stories, The Grief Eater (2020), and a poetry chapbook, Have Love (2019). She is an associate professor and co...

In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Annie Kirby reading The Hollow Sea. Author Bio Annie Kirby lives on the south coast of England where she works as a university researcher. Her short stories have been published in anthologies and broadcast on national radio. Annie is a winner of the Asham Award for short fiction and a graduate of Penguin’s WriteNow programme...

Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Anne Goodwin reading Matilda Windsor is Coming Home . About the book: In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect. Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous grown-up sister; approaching sixty, his life is still on hold as he awaits her return. As a high-society hostess renowned for her reci...

Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Jerome Gold reading from Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility. About the book Adapted from the publisher’s description: For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington State. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences...

Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Sandra Coffey reading Breaking into the Media: The Journalist's Guide to Publicity. About the book A journalist's inside look on what it takes to get publicity.  About the author: Sandra Coffey is a former senior journalist and editor who now works as a PR Manager covering Ireland and the UK. She has gained covera...

Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Bobbie Jean Huff reading The Ones We Keep. About the book What would you do if you discovered that one of your children had drowned—but now which one? Would you try to discover which child you had lost? Or would you make a different choice? T he Ones We Keep  follows the splintered lives of four family members in the y...

Steven Mayfield joins host Yvonne Battle-Felton in this episode of Bookable Space. Steven will be reading from Delphic Oracle, U.S.A. About the book It is 1925 when a love affair between enchantress Maggie Westinghouse and con man July Pennybaker upends the small town of Miagrammesto Station, tumbles it about, and sets it back down as Delphic Oracle, Nebraska. Will their love fulfill its destiny?...

Susan Cole joins host Yvonne Battle-Felton in this episode of Bookable Space. Susan will be reading from Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss. About the book  HOLDING FAST is Susan Cole’s story of leaving everything behind to follow her husband's lifelong dream of sailing away. Susan’s journey took her from the glitzy world of Madison Avenue advertising to riding out Hurricane Mitch,...

Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Arnie Bernstein reading from Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing and two other pieces. Arnie Bernstein bio: Arnie Bernstein delves into the forgotten corners of history through narrative nonfiction. His explorations of American Nazis,  Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall...

Love being read to? Hosted by writer, Yvonne Battle-Felton, inthis episode of Bookable Space we're joined by Laura Pashby reading from Little Stories of Your Life. About the book: It’s easy to feel that our own lives are not enough, but real lives are not defined by bright, exciting events: we don’t need a grand narrative arc. It’s the stretches of time in between that matter, the tiny moments and...

Love being read to? Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features AA Abbott reading Lies at Her Door . About the book: She forgot about her childhood friend… until his body is found under her garden. Can she prove she didn’t commit the decades-old murder?  Lucy Freeman struggles to find satisfaction in life. Trapped in the shadow of her rock star brother, the thir...

Love being read to? In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Debbie Burke reading Until Proven Guilty. About the book : A guilty rapist freed on a technicality. A father wrongfully convicted of molesting his daughter. An unknown son from the past with a dark secret. Investigator Tawny Lindholm and attorney Tillman Rosenbaum struggle to resolve three baffling cases...

Love being read to? Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Trudy Krisher reading from On the March: A Novel of the Women's March on Washington. About the author: Trudy Krisher an award-winning author of a number of historical novels with social justice themes (SPITE FENCES, KINSHIP, UNCOMMON FAITH, FALLOUT). She has a reputation as a trailblazer in writing...