Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

This week our Guest Host admires the books by author Michael Perry. His most popular book is Population: 485- Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time. “Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer’s wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, Population: 485 is a comic and sometimes heartbreaking true tale leavened with quieter meditations on an overlooked America.”

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Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

This week our Guest Host is admiring the Dean Koontz series about Jane Hawk. The first book in the series is The Silent Corner.

““I very much need to be dead.”

These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for—but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what.

People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important—so terrifying—that they will exterminate anyone in their way.”

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Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

This week’s episode was recorded live on site at the Great River Library System’s Comic Con event!

Today we admire the book The Silver Eyes (Five Nights At Freddy’s #1), by Scott Cawthon. “Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained patrons have changed. They now have a dark secret . . . and a murderous agenda.”

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Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

This week’s show was recorded live at the Great River Library System’s Comic Con event. Clyde talks about his work with comics, and with his comic podcasting!

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Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

Today’s book is Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. “Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?

You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this book. You will discover why a productive genius becomes a worthless playboy…why a great steel industrialist is working for his own destruction…why a composer gives up his career on the night of his triumph…why a beautiful woman who runs a transcontinental railroad falls in love with the man she has sworn to kill.”

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