Books Alive! with Mario Livio

Mario Livio is a senior astrophysicist and the Director of the Office of Public Outreach for the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is also the author of “Is God a Mathematician?” and “The Golden Ratio.” (Original air date: November 2009)...

The Body in the Woods (Point Last Seen, Book 1)

Alexis, Nick, and Ruby have very different backgrounds: Alexis has spent her life covering for her mom’s mental illness, Nick’s bravado hides his fear of not being good enough, and Ruby just wants to pursue her eccentric interests in a world that...
The Girl I Used to Be

The Girl I Used to Be

April Henry is the go to storyteller  for YA crime novels, and The Girl I Used To Be  solidifies her position. Seventeen year old Ariel Benson was raised in foster care after her father murdered her mother and then  disappeared. For several years, her grandmother...
It Ain’t So Awful Falafel

It Ain’t So Awful Falafel

It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel speaks to the heart. Immigrants from Iran, Cindy (Zomorod) Yousefzadeh and her parents move from Iran  to Compton to Newport Beach, California, and begin living the great American dream. In America, they have freedom of speech, freedom...