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You Should Check It OutChristmas with Keith Grasso | News with Nick | Three for ThursdayJay is out this week rehearsing with the Ken Demith Collection so friend of the show Keith Grasso is sitting in, and he’s bringing a substantial amount of, much needed, holiday cheer. Last year Keith decided to record his own rendition of “Blue Christmas” and he enjoyed the process so much that he’s done it again this year.Songs:Keith Grasso - “Christmastime is Here”Keith Grasso & John Rossman - “Hard Candy Christmas”In lieu of actual presents, Nick found some feel good news story to share via “News with Nick.” Notre...
2024-12-1950 min
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 713This weekend Saudi Arabia presents Riyadh Season Noche UFC 306: O'Malley vs. Dvalishvili at The Sphere in Las Vegas to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. Yes, it's a mouthful. We preview the card in the first half of the show, including the UFC Bantamweight Championship fight between Sean O'Malley and Merab Dvalishvili, and the UFC Women's Flyweight Championship fight between Alexa Grasso and Valentina Shevchenko. Then in the second half of the show we discuss Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson's retirement, and the results of Bellator and UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Brady. Catch us Wednesday ni...
2024-09-0956 minYou Should Check It OutAerosmith w/ Keith GrassoNick calls in an update from his adventures in Croatia and plays some traditional Dalmatia & Croatian music he uncovered on his travels through Split & Komiza.Meanwhile, Jay & Greg carry on and are joined this week by Keith Grasso. In light of the recent cancellation of their farewell tour, Keith thought a thorough conversation of Aerosmith was in order. The guys discuss the group’s impact on music and we listen to some favorite songs from their massive library of hits. This week, we celebrate Aerosmith.Songs:Aerosmith - “F.I.N.E.”Aero...
2024-08-081h 04You Should Check It OutMartin Factory Tour | News with Nick | Dickey BettsThis year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductees are in and we see how we did with our picks from Episode #236.Jay regales us in a recap of the Martin Guitar factory tour he experienced last week in Bethlehem Pennsylvania. The custom order tour, made possible friend of the show, Keith Grasso, and two Island Music customers, includes the standard tour plus a look in Martin’s selections of rare woods that it keeps under lock and key. Long story short, Jay was sold on the quality and is currently working out the budget for a D-28...
2024-04-251h 01
Barrel to Bottle, The Binny's PodcastPiedmontTake a trip to Northern Italy with Barrel to Bottle this week. Chris brought wines from the broader Langhe Hills, along with some everyday drinking wines from the region, and wines from the much-hyped 2019 vintage. As with much of what we feature on the podcast, these wines pair great with a wide variety of food. Ca del Sarto Barbera d'Alba 2021 Vietti Dolcetto d'Alba 2022 Paolo Scavino Langhe Nebbiolo 2022 Bruno Giacosa Nebbiola d'Alba 2020 Silvio Grasso Barolo 2019 GD Vajra Barolo Albe 2019 Broccardo Barolo Bricco San Pietro 2019 If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at c...
2024-04-1255 min
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 667UFC Lightweight contenders Rafael Fiziev and Mateusz Gamrot face off this weekend, and we preview that fight, and the rest of the UFC Fight Night: Fiziev vs. Gamrot card in the first half of this week's show. We also run down the week in MMA news including the UFC/WWE merger, the rumors of Bellator's impending demise, and what we learned from John Makdessi sharing his UFC 293 paycheck for all to see. Finally, we discuss the results and judging controversies of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2. Catch us Wednesday nights at 6:30pm...
2023-09-181h 00
Stokastic MMA DFSUFC DraftKings Picks | UFC Noche Grasso vs Shevchenko 2 Preview | UFC DFS StrategyGreg Ehrenberg goes over his best UFC DraftKings picks for UFC Noche Grasso vs Shevchenko 2, and gives you the best UFC DFS picks for fantasy MMA on Saturday (9/16/23).🃏 Reignmakers: https://dkdfs.sng.link/D7eui/xxec?pcid=269100💻 50% Off Stokastic+: MMA Monthly: https://www.stokastic.com/register/mma-premium-monthly/?source=joinmma/?source=joinplatinum/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=UFCDFSPicks&coupon=scoreChalkboard: https://join.chalkboard.io/StokasticListen on Podcast: https://www.stokastic.com/podcast/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=UFCDFSPicks🖼️ Rock the Stokastic Avatar: https://www.stokastic.com/announcement/avatar-prom...
2023-09-1529 min
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 666We're not sure what's more surprising. That Sean Strickland is the new UFC Middleweight Champion, or that the worst soundbites from UFC 293 may not have come from him. In the first half of this week's episode we discuss Strickland's big win, and the rest of the results of UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland. Then we run down the week in MMA news, and preview UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Shevchenko 2. Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to early October 2013, and our interviews with Kevin "Hercules" Sorbo, and UFC Lightweight contender TJ...
2023-09-111h 03You Should Check It OutBicentennial Calls | Sleep Token | Tales from the Concert: Dead & Co | Goldsmith for the WinFirst off, thank you for the lovely messages of support. We hear from Harry Waters, Scott Tournet, Kaz PS, Nate Kalwicki, Austin Loman, Keith Grasso, Charlie Lentz, Ciri, Cam, and Charlie Kline, Alex Kline, Katie Stover & Erik Lenhart! (Thanks to Jay’s impressive networking acumen, we also had some, somewhat enthusiastic messages from Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Dr. Hibbert & even King Charles III!)Greg kicks things off with a remembrance for Tina Turner, who passed at the age of 83 late last month. Then we hear about the latest album from Greg’s latest favorite new band, Sleep Toke...
2023-06-081h 08You Should Check It OutWe Want Chilly Willy | Newcastle United | Heart on My SleeveGreg has been quite busy since we last left him, all of it related to the shows with Red Not Chili Peppers. So much so that there’s too much to tell as an aside, so he’s going all in….We Want Chilly Willy!Song: Sleep Token - “DYWTYLM”Jay took a trip with Nick out to visit friend of the show, Keith Grasso, to play some music. Along the way, his beloved Newcastle United was absolutely obliterating Tottenham Hotspurs (6-1). It’s been discussed on the show before, but Jay is a true Newcastle fa...
2023-04-271h 10
Ophthalmology Business PodcastUtilizing Strategies from Non-medical Industries to Improve Your Patient Experience and Increase RevenueIn this podcast, Dr. Anish Kapur and Greg Grasso discuss how healthcare providers can improve patient experience and increase revenue by learning successful strategies from non-medical industries. By exploring innovative techniques and technologies, healthcare providers can revolutionize their interactions with patients, leading to greater satisfaction and increased revenue.
2023-03-0841 min
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 639Following years of speculation, Jon "Bones" Jones finally moved up a weight class, and has won the vacant UFC Heavyweight Championship at UFC 285. We discuss that fight, Valentina Shevchenko's upset loss to new UFC Women's Flyweight Champion Alexa Grasso, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the second half of the show preview the upcoming Bellator 292: Nurmagomedov vs. Henderson, and UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili cards, and hopefully wrap up this Dana White's Power Slap thing forever. Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look b...
2023-03-061h 08
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 638After three long years, Jon Jones will (hopefully) be back in the UFC cage this weekend at UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane, and fighting Cyril Gane for the vacant UFC Heavyweight Championship. We preview the card in the first half of this week's show, which also includes Valentina Shevchenko vs. Alexa Grasso, and the UFC debut of red hot prospect Bo Nickal. Then in the second half of the show we run down the results of Bellator 291 and UFC Fight Night: Muniz vs. Allen, and continue to chart the death of Power Slap. Finally, in our H...
2023-02-271h 07
Thru The GrapevineCity Girls Up 50k: White Lotus Season Finale, Harry+Meghan & Tory Lanez TrialWhew, what a wild ride season 2 of HBO’s White Lotus! Who was gonna die: Lucia & Mia?? Portia?? The Di Grasso men?? And was that Greg in the photo at Quentin’s? DUH. We go character by character to chat about what we thought of this new batch of guests. Next we cover the first 3 episodes of Netflix’s new Harry & Meghan docuseries & Celine Dion’s recent neurological disease announcement. We have Elizabeth Bank’s co-owned Archer Roose canned wine while discussing this weeks recommendations and our crushed & sour grape!
Hosts: Courtney & Erryonna
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2022-12-131h 30
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 620The UFC heads back to Abu Dhabi this weekend for UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev. It's one of the best looking fight cards of the year, and we spend most of this week's episode discussing it. Later in the show we look at the results of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo, and a couple of big fight announcements and rumours. Finally, in our Hammer History segment we look back 500 episodes to November 2012, and our post-UFC 154: St-Pierre vs. Condit coverage in Montreal, and our fun exchange with Anderson Silva. You can find us Wednesday n...
2022-10-1758 min
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 619This weekend Alexa Grasso and Viviane Araujo try to make their case for a shot at Valentina Shevchenko's UFC Women's Flyweight Championship, in the main event of UFC Fight Night: Grasso vs. Araujo. We preview that fight, and the rest of the card in the first half of this week's episode. Then in the second half of the show we discuss the week in MMA news including a date for the UFC Flyweight title unification fight, Uriah Hall joining the Paul vs. Silva boxing card, and Melvin Guillard not getting licensed for his BKFC fight in Colorado.
2022-10-1049 min
Death By AdaptationThe Disaster Artist (2017) BOOK VS FILMWelcome to DEATH BY ADAPTATION, a bi-weekly book club where we choose one classic book and compare and contrast it against its cinematic adaptations.
In this episode, we discuss the non-fiction book THE DISASTER ARTIST by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and the 2017 James Franco adaptation. We talk about the legacy of the "trashterpiece" THE ROOM, the mystery that is Tommy Wiseau, and how reading about the making of a bad movie can be inspiring.
Host: Nicolò Grasso
Featuring: Hillary White, Maxance Vincent
Music: "The Jazz Piano" Royalty Free Music from B...
2022-06-191h 15
The Strength Connection#79 Danny Casey: New York Weightlifting AcademyIn the 79th episode of The Strength Connection Podcast, Mike and our special guest, Weightlifting Coach and the Founder of New York Weightlifting Academy, Danny Casey, will talk about Danny’s origin story, his weightlifting background, his way of training, and more.Join us in this insightful and captivating talk! In this chapter, you will discover: (0:55) Introducing our special guest, Weightlifting Coach and the Founder of New York Weightlifting Academy, Danny Casey @ny_weightlifting_academy(1:15) Shout out to Eddie McGuire @eddiemacisback(1:50) Shout out to G...
2022-06-1448 min
Bloomberg LawNew Criminal Probe of Trump OrganizationGreg Farrell, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the New York Attorney General opening a criminal probe of the Trump Organization.Greg Bordelon, a professor at the University of Maine School of Law, discusses what a last name is worth in a divorce.June Grasso hostsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2021-05-2026 min
Samson Strength Coach CollectiveGreg Piteo | Episode 13On this episode, Anthony Grasso catches up with Greg Piteo, Assistant Strength Coach for Men's Lacrosse and Woman's Volleyball at the University of Maryland.
2020-07-1358 min
Untitled MMA PodcastEpisode 77 - Drugs Are CoolIn this episode we discuss UFC 238, Henry Cejudo, double champs, the GOAT, Justin Bieber vs Tom Cruise, Kimbo Slice, UFC 239 and more...
UFC! MMA! UNTITLED MMA! UNTITLEDMMA.COM! @UNTITLEDMMA! UFC PODCAST! MMA PODCAST! UFC 238! HENRY CEJUDO! MARLON MORAES! CONOR MCGREGOR! DANIEL CORMIER! GEORGES ST PIERRE! AMANDA NUNES! JON JONES! VALENTINA SHEVCHENKO! JESSICA EYE! JESSICA ANDRADE! ROSE NAMAJUNAS! JOANNA CHAMPION! COWBOY CERRONE! DONALD CERRONE! TONY FERGUSON! LATE PUNCH! KHABIB NURMAGOMEDOV! ABU DHABI! DUSTIN POIRIER! TAI TUIVASA! BLAGOY IVANOV! PETR YAN! ALJAMAIN STERLING! DOMINICK CRUZ! ALEXA GRASSO! KAROLINA KOWALKIEWICZ! CRIS CYBORG! BJ PENN! DANA WHITE! GREG HARDY! JUSTIN BIEBER! TOM CRUISE! KIMBO...
2019-06-111h 01
Determination and Overdrive PodcastInterview with Greg KochKeith from Island Music Co sits down with Greg Koch to talk guitars, experience, and more!
2018-08-101h 11Untitled MMA PodcastEpisode #23 - The Mexico ProjectIn this episode we discuss UFC 224, UFC Chile, Dominick Cruz, Greg Hardy in the UFC, Nick Diaz and the "poison IV", Yair Rodriguez, and Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz (uuuggghhhh).
UFC! MMA! UFC PODCAST! MMA PODCAST! UNTITLEDMMA.COM! @UNTITLEDMMA! UFC 224! LYOTO MACHIDA! THE DRAGON! VITOR BELFORT! THE PHENOM! MACKENZIE DERN! AMANDA COOPER! KELVIN GASTELUM! RONALDO JACARE SOUZA! CHRIS WEIDMAN! LUKE ROCKHOLD! ROBERT WHITTAKER! YOEL ROMERO! MICHAEL BISPING! GEORGE ST PIERRE! AMANDA NUNES! RAQUEL PENNINGTON! COACHES! CORNERMEN! TECIA TORRES! UFC CHILE! JAROD CANNONIER! DOMINICK REYES! UFC 218! DANA WHITES LOOKING FOR A FIGHT! ALEXA GRASSO! TATIANA SUAREZ! DEMIAN MAIA! TYRON WOODLEY! COLBY...
2018-05-1642 min
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 323The UFC returns to Mexico this weekend for The Ultimate Fighter Latin America 3 Finale: dos Anjos vs. Ferguson. Raphael Dos Anjos vs. Tony Ferguson, Ricardo Lamas vs. Charles Oliviera, and the UFC debuts of Marcin Held and Alexa Grasso should be a welcome sight for MMA fans following the UFC's three week hiatus, and we preview the entire card this week's episode. In the second half of the show we discuss some recent MMA news including Fabricio Werdum's broadcasting suspension, some recent USADA failures, and the upcoming Bellator 163: McGeary vs. Davis. Hosted by Steve Jeffery...
2016-11-0254 min
PT Nation Podcast by Greg VaughnEliminate Your Limits with Brian Grasso and Carrie Campbell"This episode of PT Nation has been sponsored by Pat Rigsby, founder of Virtual Fitness Mastermind, and host of the ideal business show. Pat is giving all of our listeners an opportunity to win one of two precision nutrition courses he is giving away.
All you have to do is click on the link in the show notes to enter to win.
At some point we all have to address nutrition to some degree with our clients.
Precision nutrition has been the go to course in our industry for sometime now, so definitely do not pass up the chance...
2016-10-3046 min
The Hammer MMA RadioThe Hammer MMA Radio - Episode 309While it may be flying under the radar compared to this summer's other big UFC events, this Saturday night's UFC 202: Lawler vs. Woodley gives UFC Welterweight Champion Robbie Lawler another chance to have the fight of the year against contender Tyron Woodley. This episode we preview all of the fights on the card, including a solid Women's Strawweight co-main event between Rose Namajunas and Karolina Kowalkiewicz. In the second half of the show we recap last weekend's UFC On Fox: Holm vs. Shevchenko, discuss the upcoming Invicta FC 18: Grasso vs. Esquibel and WSOF 32: Moraes vs. Hill 2...
2016-07-281h 07
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDeadly River - Ralph FrerichsWhen cholera arrived unexpectedly in Haiti in October 2010, a great mystery unfolded as disease and death decimated the population. Deadly River (Cornell University Press/ILR Press, 2016), and this supplement tell the story of cholera in Haiti, of French epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux’s determined to find its origins so he could help eliminate its reach, and of the political intrigue that has made that effort so difficult.
The story involves political maneuvering by powerful organizations such as the United Nations and its peacekeeping troops in Haiti, as well as by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Di...
2016-07-1456 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMatthew Palmer - The Wolf of SarajevoA riveting novel of international suspense from acclaimed author and veteran diplomat Matthew Palmer.
Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for a time been seeking a stable peace, has turned back to his nationalist roots and is threatening to pull Bosnia apart in a bloody struggle for control . . . and behind him is a shadowy mafia figure pulling the strings. As Eric is dragged deeper...
2016-06-3015 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoNational Geographic Celebrates 100 Years - Ford CochranTravel with National Geographic photographers as they explore the most fascinating travel adventures in the United States. Take a peak the some of the most interesting "stops" along the way. Explore the world of wonderment as you travel across the U.S. with your kids! Take them to places you would never venture out to...
2016-06-3028 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoIntegration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its BestIntegration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America’s xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities. In Utah, we meet educators who connect newly arrived Spanish-speaking students and U.S.-born English-speaking students, who share classrooms and learn in two languages. In North Carolina, we visit the nation’s fastest-growing community-development credit union, serving immigrants and U.S.- born depositors and helping to lower borrowing thresholds and crime rates alike.
In recent years, politicians in a handful of l...
2016-05-2725 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoPatrick O'Donnell - Washington's ImmortalsIn August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of a sudden and disastrous end. General George Washington found his troops outmanned and outmaneuvered at the Battle of Brooklyn, and it looked like there was no escape. But thanks to a series of desperate rear guard attacks by a single heroic regiment, famously known as the “Immortal 400,” Washington was able to evacuate his men and the nascent Continental Army lived to fight another day.
Today, only a modest, rusted and scarred metal sign near a dilapidated auto gara...
2016-04-1828 min
2016-04-0536 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoRoberto Gonzales - Lives in LimboOver two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures. In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales introduces us to two groups: the college-goers, like Ricardo, who had good grades and a strong network of community support that propelled him to college and DREAM Act organizing but still landed in a factory job a few short years after graduation, and the early-exiters, like Gabriel, who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs, immigration ch...
2016-03-0226 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoHal Niedzviecki - Trees on MarsThe future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started believing we could and should “create the future.” What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happen next? Through visits to colleges, corporations, tech conferences, factories and more, Niedzviecki traces the story of how owning the future has become irresi...
2016-03-0236 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJoseph Finder - SuspicionSingle father Danny Goodman would do anything — anything — to protect his teenaged daughter, Abby, from more unhappiness after her mother’s death. Struggling to keep her at the private school she loves, he accepts a favor from an unexpected benefactor: Thomas Galvin, father of Abby’s best friend and one of the wealthiest men in Boston. Galvin offers Danny a loan that would be enough to pay Abby’s tuition and relieve some of Danny’s other financial pressures, and Danny can’t help but be charmed by Galvin’s generosity and kindness.
Danny’s new friend, however, turns out to have some dange...
2015-12-1829 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDavid Laskin—The Children's BlizzardAn award-winning classic of creative non-fiction, The Children’s Blizzard is the true story of an epic winter storm that hit the Upper Midwest on January 12, 1888. Laskin unfolds this blizzard of unprecedented suddenness and ferocity by focusing on half a dozen pioneer families – most of them immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia. Hailed by the Washington Post as “a vital addition to the lore of Western immigrant pioneering,” this national bestseller has sold over 100,000 copies and has been adopted in history and literature classes in high schools and colleges nationwide.
2015-09-0129 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoAlex Grecian—The Devil's WorkshopThey thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more.
Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestsellers The Yard and The Black Country.
London, 1890. A small group of the city’s elite, fed up with the murder rate, have made it their business to capture violent criminals and mete out their own terrible brand of retribution. Now they are taking it a step further: They have arranged for four murderers to escape from...
2015-09-0126 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoLaurie King & Les Klinger—A Study in SherlockIn this episode King and Klinger discuss the story collection they edited entitled a Study in Sherlock. Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and reveal their own personal obsessions with the Great Detective.
2015-09-0130 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoSandra Brown—Operation ThrillerIn this episode Brown discusses her book Operation Thriller. Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-two New York Times bestsellers, including LOW PRESSURE (2012), LETHAL(2011), TOUGH CUSTOMER (2010), SMASH CUT (2009), SMOKE SCREEN (2008), PLAY DIRTY (2007), RICOCHET (2006),CHILL FACTOR (2005), and WHITE HOT (2004).Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages.
2015-09-0122 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMike Bond—House of JaguarChopper pilot and Vietnam war hero Joe Murphy finds himself in the middle of the brutal Guatemalan revolution when he witnesses an attack on a Mayan village by the Guatemalan Army and its CIA “advisors”. Badly injured, he escapes on a nightmare trek through the jungle, hunted by the Army, the CIA, and death squads.Healed by guerrilla doctor Dona Villalobos, he falls in love with her and tries to save her from the revolution’s widening horror of insanity, tragedy, and death. She convinces him to return to San Francisco to reveal this hidden war to the US media, but th...
2015-08-2730 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoEve Spangler - Understanding Israel/Palistine, Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the ConflictThe Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the longest, ongoing hot-and-cold war of the 20th and 21st centuries. It has produced more refugees than any current conflict, generating fully one quarter of all refugees worldwide. Everyone knows that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is important itself, and is also fueling tensions throughout the Middle East. Yet most people shy away from this conflict, claiming it is "just too complicated" to understand. This book is written for people who want a point of entry into the conversation. It offers both a historic and analytic framework. Readers, whether acting as students, parishioners, neighbors, voters, or dinner guests...
2015-08-2131 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoRobert Cunningham - Afghanistan on the BounceWhat was it like to serve in Afghanistan? That is the question civilians often ask returning servicemembers of the armed forces. Afghanistan: On the Bounce brilliantly conveys the full range of the troops’ experiences—on patrol, in combat, in the chow line, and in religious services—through photographs, stories, diagrams, and removable ephemera.
As a documentation/production specialist in Afghanistan, photographer Robert L. Cunningham accompanied soldiers of 40 different units on 132 combat missions, following them during their typical on-base routines as well as into hazardous situations. Here are detailed examinations of the servicemembers’ weapons, uniforms, vehicles, and gear, along with reflections on duty...
2015-08-2127 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoRaymond Khoury—Rasputin's ShadowIt all starts on a cold, bleak day in 1916, a mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men – a mysterious, horrified man of few words, and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar – hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage.
In the present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window in Queens. The apartment’s owners, a retired high school...
2015-08-2132 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoTess Gerritsen - What's Next?Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, where she was awarded her M.D.
While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, “Adrift”, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
Tess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardco...
2015-08-1305 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJeff Deaver - Solitude CreekJeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller.
A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire.
Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused...
2015-08-1314 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoPeter Leonard - Eyes Closed TightO'Clair is a former Detroit homicide investigator who now owns a motel in Pompano Beach, Florida in his retirement. He runs the place with his much younger girlfriend, Virginia, who's a knockout and can fix anything. One morning, he’s cleaning up after the previous night’s partiers when he sees a lovely young woman stretched out asleep on a lounge chair. He shakes her gently. Then he touches her neck and feels for a pulse. There isn't one. Her skin is cold, body starting to stiffen, definitely in the early stages of rigor.
When a second girl is murdered, O'Cl...
2015-08-1330 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDavid Baldacci - Memory ManAmos Decker's life changed forever--twice.
The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown of Burlington ever to go pro. But his career ended before it had a chance to begin. On his very first play, a violent helmet-to-helmet collision knocked him off the field for good, and left him with an improbable side effect--he can never forget anything.
The second time was at home nearly two decades later. Now a police detective, Decker returned from a stakeout one evening and entered a nightmare--his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law had...
2015-08-1205 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJoseph Finder - The FixerNew York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller about the secrets families can keep, and the danger of their discovery
When former investigative reporter Rick Hoffman loses his job, fiancée, and apartment, his only option is to move back into — and renovate — the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since the stroke that put his father in a nursing home.
As Rick starts to pull apart the old house, he makes an electrifying discovery — millions of dollars hidden in the walls. It’s enough money to completely transform Rick’s life — and...
2015-08-1128 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoAndrew Gerow Hodges, Jr.- Behind Nazi LinesIn 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one-man had the courage to fight the odds . . .
An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush. An eighteen-year-old Gary Cooper lookalike from Mobile, Alabama. These men and hundreds of other soldiers found themselves in the prisoner-of-war camps off the Atlantic coast of occupied France, fighting brutal conditions and unsympathetic captors. But, miraculously, local villagers were able to smuggle out...
2015-08-1124 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJay Richards - Silhouette of VirtueIt is 1973. A small college town in Southern Illinois is terrorized by a spree of sadistic assaults. The rapist tells the victims—all Asian women—that he is making them pay for America’s betrayal in Vietnam. When the only other Black faculty member is accused of the crimes, African American philosophy professor Nathan “Ribs” Rivers struggles to suspend his doubts about his colleague’s innocence. Rivers reluctantly yields to the urgings of his students and takes up leadership of a campus coalition formed to advocate for a fair trial. Professor Rivers embarks on a vision quest for the truth that is as m...
2015-08-1039 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoStephanie Sacks - What the Fork Are You Eating?It's labeled "natural," "grass-fed," or "free-roaming;" yet it might be anything but. It's time to find out what you're actually eating...
When your groceries are labeled “low-fat,” “sugar-free,” and even “natural” and "antibiotic-free," it’s easy to assume that you’re making healthy choices. Yet even some of those seemingly wholesome offerings contain chemical preservatives, pesticides, and artificial flavors and coloring that negatively affect your health. In What the Fork Are You Eating?, a practical guide written by certified chef and nutritionist Stefanie Sacks, MS, CNS, CDN, we learn exactly what the most offensive ingredients in our food are and how we can remov...
2015-08-1016 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoBrad Taylor-No Fortunate SonIn the latest thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series, a hostage situation places America’s most powerful political elite at the mercy of their worst enemies.
When veteran operator Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill receive a letter from Blaisdell Consulting—the umbrella cover company for their real employer, a top-secret counterterrorist unit called the Taskforce—they expect orders for their next mission-impossible tasking. Instead, they learn that their latest actions have gotten them fired, despite having saved thousands of innocent lives.
Pike’s shock and fury is redirected when their commander, Colonel Kurt Hale, asks him and...
2015-07-1027 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMick Ebeling-Not ImpossibleMick Ebeling—a film and TV producer by trade, an optimist by nature—set out on a simple act of kindness that quickly turned into a lifelong mission. In the process he discovered that he could, indeed, change the world. And, as he recounts his own adventures in this fast-paced, fascinating new book, he shows you how you can, too.
Then the question becomes: What other great challenges—and what other great inventions—might be made “not impossible”?
From the beginning, Ebeling has dreamed big, but that doesn’t mean his accomplishments have come easily. He’s had to deal with the voice i...
2015-07-1037 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDavid Baldacci - The EscapeTHE ESCAPE
It’s a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They know it’s impossible . . . until now.
John Puller’s older brother, Robert, was convicted of treason. His inexplicable escape from prison makes him the most wanted criminal in the country. Some in the government believe that John Puller represents their best chance at capturing Robert alive, and so Puller must bring in his brother to face justice.
But Puller quickly discovers that his brother is pursued by others who don’t want him to survive. Puller i...
2014-11-1910 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJohn P Davidson - The Obedient AssassinA dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter of world history and ten years of research, here is the story of the real-life reluctant soldier and killer, Ramón Mercader—the obedient assassin
Ramón Mercader was plucked from the front of the Spanish Civil War by the Soviets and conscripted to murder the great intellectual Leon Trotsky, a leader of the Bolshevik Revolution who was exiled in the 1920s for opposing Joseph Stalin.
2014-11-1939 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoLee Child - PersonalSomeone has taken a long-range shot at the French president but failed to kill him. The suspected sniper has serious skills and is a hard man to find. Reacher tracked him down once and put him in jail. Now he's asked to hunt him again, and put him away permanently.
Tracking the shooter will take Reacher from France to England after a killer with a treacherous vendetta. He'll need to uncover who did the hiring and what's behind the assassination attempt before executing his orders.
2014-11-1911 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoKira Peikoff - No Time to DieIn a Washington, D.C. research lab, a brilliant scientist is attacked by his own test subjects. At Columbia University, a talented biochemist is lured out of her apartment and never seen again. In the Justice Department’s new Bioethics Committee, agent Les Mahler sees a sinister pattern emerging…
Zoe Kincaid is a petite college student whose rare genetic makeup may hold the key to a powerful medical breakthrough. When she is kidnapped, the very thing mankind has wanted since the dawn of time threatens to unleash our final destruction.
2014-11-1927 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMIke Kelly - The Bus on Jaffa RoadA Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for Justice
After their children are killed in a terrorist bombing, three American families attempt to find out who was responsible. After winning a judgment in a U.S. court, the families encountered an unforeseen enemy – their own government.
2014-11-1926 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoEric Leuthardt—RedDevil 4RedDevil 4 is spine-tingling techno-thriller based on cutting edge research from surgeon and inventor Eric C. Leuthardt.Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Hagan Maerici is on the verge of a breakthrough in artificial intelligence that could change the way we think about human consciousness. Obsessed with his job and struggling to save his marriage, Dr. Maerici is forced to put his life’s work on the line when a rash of brutal murders strikes St. Louis.
2014-08-2023 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJames Lee Burke—Wayfaring StrangerIn his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life—connecting a fateful encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to heroic acts at the Battle of the Bulge and finally to the high-stakes gambles and cutthroat players who ushered in the dawn of the American oil industry.
In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun and being unsure whether it hit its mark.
Ten ye...
2014-08-2032 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMike Bond - Casual ConversationBestselling author, environmental activist, human rights and war correspondent, award-winning poet and international energy expert, Mike Bond has lived and worked in over thirty countries on seven continents. His works have been translated into many languages and have been praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic for their intricate plots, fascinating characters, extraordinary settings, and explosive pace.Based on his own experiences in dangerous, remote, and war-torn regions, his novels look deeply into the dark side of man as well as the good. They depict the terror and fury of battle and the intense joy of love, the...
2014-08-1026 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoAllan Topol—The Spanish RevengeCraig Page, the bold and daring EU Director of Counterterrorism, becomes the focal point of an effort to stop the feared terrorist Ahmed Sadi, whose goal is to provoke a Muslim uprising in Western Europe. Ahmed, a Muslim fanatic born in Paris to parents who emigrated from Algeria, calls himself Musa Ben Abdil, after a Muslim hero from the Fifteenth Century War with Spain. Page teams up once again the resourceful Elizabeth Crowder, a newspaper reporter who has also become his lover. Ahmed’s plans become far more menacing when he is joined by Chinese General Zhou, who had been ex...
2014-08-0835 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoGreg Zuckerman—The FrackersIn five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world’s fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened.
2014-07-2523 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoNelson DeMille—The QuestAn earlier, shorter version of The Quest was published in paperback in 1975. In 2013, I rewrote The Quest and doubled its length, making it, I hope, a far better story than the original, without deviating from the elements that made the story so powerful and compelling when I first wrote it. In other words, what made The Quest worth rewriting remains, and whatever is changed is for the better.
A sweeping adventure that's equal parts thriller and love story, Nelson DeMille's newest novel takes the reader from the war torn jungles of Ethiopia to the magical city of Rome.
While the...
2014-07-0729 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoAndrew Peterson—Forced to KillTrained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is the sole survivor of Montez de Oca, the brutal Nicaraguan interrogator who tortured countless souls to death before vanishing fourteen years ago. Though McBride’s body—as well as his soul—still bear the scars from the interrogator’s blade, he dares to hope the worst is behind him.
But when the FBI recovers a mutilated body from a remote Utah lake, McBride needs just one glimpse to know the truth: Montez de Oca has resurfaced, this time on American soil. And McBride will be damned if he lets him escape again. So begins a quest...
2014-07-0718 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoBarbara Hendricks—Lifting My Voice: A MemoirGrowing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful struggle for civil rights. After graduation from the Juilliard School of Music, Hendricks immediately won a number of important international prizes, and began performing in recitals and operas throughout the world. A Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, she is as devoted to humanitarian work as she is to her music. Always the anti-diva, Hendricks is a down-to-earth and straightforward woman, whether singing Mozart or black spirituals. She challenges stereotypes and puts the music first and presents a warm, engaging...
2014-07-0638 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoRidley Pearson—The Red RoomJohn Knox is an expert at surveillance and delicate, international dealings. So he is understandably thrown when David “Sarge” Dulwich, his contact at Rutherford Risk, hands him a photo of a transaction he recently facilitated in the Middle East. More curious to him, he’s shown that photo while in the Red Room, the private security company’s highly secure underground bunker, where eavesdropping is impossible and privacy ensured. Why all the cloak-and-dagger?
Knox is pressured into accepting a job as an art broker in the mysterious Istanbul, a city situated on two continents where East meets West and Islam meets Ch...
2014-07-0628 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoChris Pegula—From Dude to DadFrom Dude to Dad gives you the need-to-know essentials on pregnancy, birthing, and parenthood, and how it’s okay to be scared out of your mind. You’ll learn what the expecting mom is going through during each trimester, how you can be the best partner and dad-to-be, and how to immediately start bonding with baby.
Pegula, creator of Diaper Dude, "hip gear for cool dads," here offers a pseudocaveman guide to pregnancy and fatherhood. His adventures in fatherhood and baby gear began with an abhorrent selection of diaper bags, whereupon he decided to take matters into his own hands. The...
2014-07-0620 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDaniel James Brown—The Boys in the BoatThey thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more.
Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestsellers The Yard and The Black Country.
London, 1890. A small group of the city’s elite, fed up with the murder rate, have made it their business to capture violent criminals and mete out their own terrible brand of retribution. Now they are taking it a step further: They have arranged for four murderers to escape from...
2014-07-0112 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJeff Deaver—The Kill RoomRobert Moreno, an American citizen living in South America, is shot in the Bahamas by a sniper. The killing was commissioned by the U.S. government, who received a tip-off that Moreno was planning a terrorist attack on a U.S. oil company headquarters. But this intelligence was fatally incorrect: anti-American Moreno ordered a protest at the oil company, not an attack.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are drafted in to investigate. While Sachs traces Moreno’s steps in New York, Rhyme travels to the scene of the crime in Nassau, where he finds himself on a dangerous path trailed by...
2014-07-0137 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoLee Childs—A Wanted ManFour people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death—the knife work professional, the killers nowhere to be seen. All Jack Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a mass...
2014-06-2013 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDavid Baldacci—The TargetThe President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel.
Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are some in power who don't trust the pair. They doubt their willingness to follow orders. And they will do anything to see that...
2014-05-1913 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJeff Deaver —The Skin CollectorIn his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation's most renowned investigator and forensic detective.
Now, a new killer is on the loose: a criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues before the killer targets more victims-or Rhyme himself.
THE SKIN COLLECTOR
The killer's methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims' flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death.
When a connection is made to the...
2014-05-1825 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDale Brown—StarfireWith the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world’s first orbiting solar power plant.
Starfire will not only deliver unlimited and inexpensive electricity anywhere on planet Earth, it can also transmit power to the moon, and even to spacecraft and asteroids. It’s a crucial first step in the exploration of the solar system, and Bradley and his team are on the cutting edge.
But U.S. president Kenneth Phoenix’s plans to militarize and industrialize Earth’s orbit sp...
2014-05-1632 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMariana Cook —Justice: Faces of the Human Rights RevolutionNew York-based photographer Mariana Cook is known for her character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye. Among her previous bestselling photobooks are Mathematicians, Faces of Science, Mothers and Sons and Fathers and Daughters. Her latest collection introduces us to some of the women and men who are the faces of the human rights revolution, among them former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the 39th American President Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. Cook traveled the world to photograph and interview her subjects, and the accompanying texts--some written by...
2014-05-0826 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoStephen White—An Informal DiscussionStephen White is the author of the New York Times bestselling Alan Gregory novels. In his books, he draws upon over fifteen years of clinical practice as a psychologist to create intriguing plots and complex, believable characters. ----------------------------Born on Long Island, White grew up in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California and attended the University of California campuses at Irvine (where he lasted three weeks as a creative writing major) and Los Angeles before graduating from Berkeley in 1972. Along the way he learned to fly small planes, worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, cooked...
2014-04-1831 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoPeter Leonard—Eyes Closed TightO'Clair is a former Detroit homicide investigator who now owns a motel in Pompano Beach, Florida in his retirement. He runs the place with his much younger girlfriend, Virginia, who's a knockout and can fix anything. One morning, he’s cleaning up after the previous night’s partiers when he sees a lovely young woman stretched out asleep on a lounge chair. He shakes her gently. Then he touches her neck and feels for a pulse. There isn't one. Her skin is cold, body starting to stiffen, definitely in the early stages of rigor.
When a second girl is murdered, O'Cl...
2014-04-1230 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoTeresa Tamura—Minidoka An American Concentration CampAfter the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 — the same year my parents graduated from Caldwell High School — President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942. Roosevelt's mandate confined 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans to 10 internment camps in the western and midwestern United States. Minidoka Relocation Center was one of them.Those who lived in Washington, Oregon and Alaska went to Minidoka, a dry, desolate, sagebrush plain 20 miles northeast of Twin Falls, a two-hour drive from our home.
2014-04-0841 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMark Rubinstein—The Foot SoldierRight after college graduation, Costa, a lower-middle-class kid from Buffalo, New York, is drafted into the US army and plunged into the Vietnam War. The Foot Solder catapults the reader back to the conflict that changed America.
This is a compelling novella of morality—right or wrong in a split second in the hell of the jungle—when it really matters, regardless of rank, military orders, or rule books. It asks how a soldier survives, how he deals with dislocation, and how he reacts when given an order that defies everything he’s ever believed about the human soul.
2014-04-0826 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDee Williams—The Big TinyDee Williams’s life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at age forty-one, she was all too suddenly reminded that life is short, time is precious, and she wanted to be spending hers with the people and things she truly loved. That included the beautiful sprawling house in the Pacific Northwest she had painstakingly restored—but, increasingly, it did not include the mortgage payments, constant repairs, and general time-suck of home ownership. A new sense of clarity began to take hold: Just what was all this...
2014-04-0232 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoChris Pan Launois—L'American, A Photojournalist's LifeChris Pan Launois talks about his father John Launois and the part he played as one of the most celebrated photojournalist on modern times.
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Before television, the great picture magazines captured world events for millions of readers. They sent correspondents and photojournalists to the ends of the earth to record history in the making. Among this elite was the photographer, John Launois. During the 1960s and 1970s, the final decades of the “golden age of photojournalism,” John Launois blossomed as one of the most resourceful, inventive, prolific, highly paid, and widely traveled photojournalists at work during that period.
2013-10-0229 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMark Rubinstein—Love Gone MadWhen heart surgeon Adrian Douglas and Megan Haggarty, RN, meet at the hospital where they work, neither has any idea of the scorpion's nest into which they've stumbled. Strange and frightening events begin happening to each of them; someone is after them both--and the stalker is not only brilliant and crafty, but vows to exact revenge for the ultimate betrayal. As things spin out of control, Megan and Adrian fight for their lives.
2013-09-2326 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoAllan Topel—The Russian EndgameWhen former KGB agent Dimitri Orlov orchestrates an alliance between two world powers bent on domination, he unleashes a powerful chain of events that will rock the Western World. The agenda? Eliminate the President of the United States and seize classified military weaponry capable of shifting the balance of world power. But before this nefarious scheme can reach fruition, Craig Page is on the scene, joined by companion Elizabeth Crowder, ready to confront a painful past and the enemies that helped create it. But can the indomitable Director of Counterterrorism emerge victorious? Finding himself facing an old enemy unexpectedly catapulted...
2013-09-1725 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoCaroline Stossinger—A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust SurvivorThe subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism. ------------------- Before her death at 110, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer was an eyewitness to the entire last century and the first decade of this one. She had seen it all, surviving the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attending the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, and along the way coming into contact with s...
2013-05-0829 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoWilliam Gladstone—The Power of TwelveThe year 2012 didn’t mark the end of civilization as many had mistakenly predicted. Rather, it marked a turning point in human consciousness, a shift toward a more humanistic, less violent existence.-------------But not if Arnold Wheeler can help it.-------------Arnold is The Grand Light and Keeper of the Code of the Illuminati, which quietly and covertly control every major development on Earth. He is quite aware of the universal shift in consciousness predicted by the Mayans long ago. With this shift, humanity has the opportunity, for the first time, to reach its full potential. Except the Illuminati have other pl...
2013-03-3128 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMark Rubinstein—Mad Dog HouseRight after college graduation, Costa, a lower-middle-class kid from Buffalo, New York, is drafted into the US army and plunged into the Vietnam War. The Foot Solder catapults the reader back to the conflict that changed America.This is a compelling novella of morality—right or wrong in a split second in the hell of the jungle—when it really matters, regardless of rank, military orders, or rule books. It asks how a soldier survives, how he deals with dislocation, and how he reacts when given an order that defies everything he’s ever believed about the human soul.
2013-02-0525 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoLarry Bond & Jim Defelice—Red Dragon Rising: Blood of WarRed Dragon Rising: Blood of War, an explosive new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice.As depression and drought wrack China, the country’s new premier has launched a deadly war with Vietnam. The assault has left the world on the precipice of disaster….U.S. Army Major Zeus Murphy disobeys his commander and plunges headlong into the conflict, leading the Vietnamese in a covert attack against the Chinese army massing on the border. If the gambit fails, China will roll over Vietnam—and Zeus will lose the only woman he has ever loved, kept p...
2013-01-1729 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoMary Morgan Rockerfeller—Beginning With The End, A Story of Twin LossIn1961, Michael Rockefeller, son of then-governor of New York State Nelson A. Rockefeller, mysteriously disappeared off the remote coast of southern New Guinea. Amidst the glare of international public interest, the governor, along with his daughter Mary, Michael’s twin, set off on a futile search, only to return empty handed and empty hearted. What followed were Mary’s 27-year repression of her grief and an unconscious denial of her twin’s death, which haunted her relationships and controlled her life.
2012-08-2037 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDavid Baldacci—The InnocentAmerica has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career . . .
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape...
2012-08-1826 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoLisa Gardner—An Informal DiscussionLisa Gardner, a #1 New York Times crime thriller novelist, began her career in food service, but after catching her hair on fire numerous times, she took the hint and focused on writing instead. A self-described research junkie, her work as a research analyst for an international consulting firm parlayed her interest in police procedure, cutting edge forensics and twisted plots into a streak of internationally bestselling suspense novels, including her most recent release, Touch & Go.With over 22 million books in print, Lisa is published in 30 countries.
2012-07-0928 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoSusan Hertog—Ann Morrow Lindbergh: Her LifeIn this episode, Hertog discusses her book Ann Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life. An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea. Drawing on five years of exclusive interviews with Anne Morrow Lindbergh as well as countless diaries, letters, and other documents, Susan Hertog now gives us the woman whose triumphs, struggles and elegant perseverance riveted the public for much of the twentieth century.
2012-07-0925 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoSteve Berry—The Columbus AffairA family’s secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government—all are linked by a single puzzling possibility: What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret of why Columbus sailed in 1492? And what if that 500-year-old secret could violently reshape the modern political world?
2012-04-0925 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoVince Flynn—Kill ShotIn the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With each swift and untraceable kill, the tangled network of monsters responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians in the Pan Am Lockerbie attack become increasingly aware that someone is hunting them. Rapp is given his next target, and finds the man asleep in his bed in Paris. In the split second it takes the bullet to leave Rapp’s silenced pistol, the trap is sprung and he finds himself in the fight of hi...
2012-04-0931 minChapter One with Greg GrassoLarry Bond—Red Storm RisingJerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked SEALs, experts in seaborne commando operations, are to extract two Iranian nationals who have sensitive information on Iran's nuclear weapons program.But while en route, the ASDS minisub suffers a battery fire, killing one crew member and forcing the rest of the occupants, four SEALs and LCDR Mitchell, to scuttle their disabled craft and swim for shore. There they find the two Iranians waiting for them, but their attempts at returning to Michigan are thwarted...
2012-03-0133 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoLarry Bond—Red Dragon RisingMore than twenty years ago, Larry Bond helped Tom Clancy write Red Storm Rising, the iconic techno thriller of the Cold War era. Now he returns (with Jim DeFelice) to start a classic series for our era, Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising, which imagines the globe torn apart by climate change and its economic and geopolitical fallout. In book one of this four-book series, rapid climate change leads to mass riots in China, and a new communist premier seeks to relieve pressure by marching on traditional Chinese enemies in Southeast Asia. Desperately coping with its own problems, the United States...
2012-02-1533 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoJeffrey Deaver—An Informal DiscussionAn informal discussion with Jeff Deaver. We talked about traveling, cooking, drinking good wine, and a look into his creative process, work discipline and some humorous life stories. Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the Times of London, Italy’s Corriere della Sera, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Times. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into over twenty-five languages.
2012-01-2638 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoTess Gerritsen—On her career, work ethic and family.A fun chat with Tess and my co-host, Karen Peterson. Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career.While on maternity leave from her work as a physician, she began to write fiction. In 1987, her first novel was published. Call After Midnight, a romantic thriller, was followed by eight more romantic suspense novels. She also wrote a screenplay, “Adrift”, which aired as a 1993 CBS Movie of the Week starring Kate Jackson.
2012-01-2030 min
Chapter One with Greg GrassoDavid O. Stewart—American EmperorThe author discusses his book American EmperorThis vivid biography portrays Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades.
2011-12-0127 min