Each week, “Uncle” Bill Adams would ask the young cast members of the show, “How do we travel to Let’s Pretend?” Then, one of the Pretenders would tell the host that they should go in a car, by train,...
How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
Meredith Norton
Lopsided is not your ordinary cancer memoir. Neither too serious nor too saccharine, Meredith Norton displays the razor-sharp wit of a masterful humorist as she chronicles every step of her...
Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison explores racial relationships among an unforgettable group of characters. In a seaside mansion on a lush Caribbean island, millionaire Valerian Street and his wife...
From the author of the acclaimed best seller Carter Beats the Devil comes a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic...
George Burns and Gracie Allen brought their vaudeville act to American radio in 1932. George was an expert straight man and wrote most of their material, but it was Gracie’s portrayal of an absurd and...
A home of your own. . . it's the American Dream. Here's how to make it happen be it a modest beginning, a step up, a place with room to grow kids and other living things, a country retreat, or a...
At 79 Wistful Vista there lived Fibber McGee, a fast talking man who was prone to exaggeration. Although he had radio audiences laughing for almost 25 years, his long-suffering wife, Molly, insisted,...
Each week, “Uncle” Bill Adams would ask the young cast members of the show, “How do we travel to Let’s Pretend?” Then, one of the Pretenders would tell the host that they should go in a car, by train,...
The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse
Mike Gilbert
The shocking tale told in How I Helped O. J. Get Away With Murder is unlike anything you've read before; it isn't Mike Gilbert's "version" of what happened - it's the unvarnished truth: the...
“Around Dodge City, and into territory on west, there’s just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers: that’s with a U.S. Marshal, and the smell of gunsmoke!” Radio's greatest adult Western,...
Marvin lives with his family under the kitchen sink in the Pompaday’s apartment. He is very much a beetle. James Pompaday lives with his mother, stepfather, and baby brother in New York City. He is...
They number in the millions and they are incredibly important to families and to our society, yet they are underappreciated, little respected, and even controversial.
During the war years, Bob Hope’s Pepsodent Show was radio’s highest rated series. Hope's legendary broadcasts from military bases around the world helped boost American morale during some of our...