Likely Stories

Likely Stories - The Wishing Game

I want to talk today about a book that completely captured my heart, The Wishing Game by Meg...

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• 5 días

Likely Stories - Every Man For Himself and God Against All

Outside of narrative fiction I'm rather partial to memoirs. In recent years I've vicariously...

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• 12 días

Likely Stories - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? It is one of my favorite National Parks and one of the...

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• 19 días

Likely Stories - The Ascent

Hello. My name is Douglas Henry, Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University.For this week's...

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• 25 días

Likely Stories - Demon Copperhead

Last year, Barbara Kingsolver won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead....

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• 26 días

Likely Stories - How to Stop Time

Maybe it's the point in my life right now but aging slowly sounds devine."How to Stop Time," by...

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• 1 mes

Likely Stories - The Women

Welcome to Likely Stories. I’m Paige Connell, and I’m a 9th grade English teacher at Midway High...

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• 1 mes

Likely Stories - Chain-Gang All-Stars

Over the years there have been numerous books that have lingered hopelessly in my list of titles...

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• 2 meses

Likely Stories - Peace Like A River

My name is Harrison Otis, and I'm a graduate student in the English Department at Baylor...

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Likely Stories - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

John Hopkins Hospital... Medical Revolution...and Henrietta Lacks...are words that will ring in...

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Likely Stories - Babel

I’m an easy mark for campus novels. I recently discovered Rebecca Kuang, known for her Poppy War...

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• 3 meses

Likely Stories - The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine

This past year, I’ve read plenty of books and stories, some of them normal, some of them...

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• 3 meses

Likely Stories - Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything by Stephen Bayley

If you have been to the mountains recently and had the opportunity to soak in the alpine forests,...

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• 3 meses

Likely Stories - Life In Five Senses by Gretchen Rubin

The five senses...what do you think of when I say that phrase? As an educator I think about...

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• 3 meses

Likely Stories - Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce

The beginning of this slow burn crime fiction is a doozy. During the beginning days of the...

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• 4 meses

The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore

Hello, my name is Shenequa Williams with this week's edition of Likely Stories. I am a Reading...

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• 4 meses

Likely Stories - The Sweet Remnants of Summer by Alexander McCall

I am a big reader. Recently, I've been reading Alexander McCall Smith's Sunday Philosophy Club...

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• 4 meses

Likely Stories - Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day

I knew the ultimate ending of Altamont when I first picked up the book by the same name. In fact,...

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• 4 meses

Likely Stories - Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent.

Nugent, an Irish writer, always starts her books with a catchy opening line. Any time she has a...

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• 4 meses

Likely Stories - A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Psalm for the Wild-Built is the first book in the Monk and Robot series by Becky Chambers. This...

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• 5 meses