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The Women Books & More’s PodcastLove Child: Memoir of Family Lost and Found by Allegra HustonOne of my favorites from the KBCO archives.
Huston was born in London, the love child of a widely adored ballerina and the 2nd Viscount Norwich. When she was four, she lost her mother in an auto accident and was sent to Ireland to live with her mother’s estranged husband, the acclaimed, eccentric and intimidating film director John Huston. (The African Queen, Casino Royale, Prizzi’s Honor….)
“I was a motherless girl who never quite felt like I really belonged, a younger sister trying to find sense of self in the shadow of beauty and fame...2025-07-2827 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastHer Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed AmericaHere is one of my favorites from the KBCO archives.
So…you’ve probably heard of Abigail Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Annie Oakley and Eleanor Roosevelt. But what about the female mathematician who laid the groundwork for abstract algebra. Or the women of NASA who helped send John Glenn, the first American astronaut, into orbit.
From artists and writers to doctors, scientists and activists—Jill S. Tietjen’s Her Story is a beautifully illustrated book that spans more than four centuries and celebrates the many accomplishments of more than 900 unsung heroines of American history.
Tietjen...2025-07-2826 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastRescued Recipes - U.S. Holocaust MuseumThe Nazis were banging on the door. The Fenves family was about to be rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. Their gentile cook had the presence of mind to save the family recipe book by hiding it under her apron.
Chef Alon Shaya found the recipe book in the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C. and was reunited with 93-year-old Steven Fenves, the lone survivor of the family. During the pandemic—hundreds of miles apart—they worked to recreate some of the recipes from the precious book. Steven translated from Hungar...2025-07-2329 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastMidnight Black by Mark GreaneyWith his lover imprisoned in a Russian gulag, the Gray Man will stop at nothing to free her—in Midnight Black, Mark Greaney’s latest thriller in the NYT #1 bestselling Gray Man series.
A winter sunrise over the great plains of Russia is no cause for celebration. The temperature barely rises above zero and the guards at penal colony IK22 take their misery out on the prisoners—mainly on Zoya Zakharova. Once an master spy for Russian foreign intelligence, then partner and lover of the Gray Man, she has information the Kremlin wants and they don’t care what...2025-07-1627 min
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The Women Books & More’s PodcastDreamers of the Day by Mary Doria RussellThis is one of my favorites from the KBCO archives.
It is 1921 and a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio comes into a modest inheritance and uses it to escape her tyrannical mother by taking a trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. She stays at Cairos’ Semiramis Hotel (It’s still there, now an InterContinental) just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes.
She meets Winston Churchill, T. E Lawrence (Laurence of Arabia) and Gertrude Bell who, in a few days, randomly redraw the map of the Middle East. Their decisions cause conflict in the...2025-07-1129 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastJan’s Story by Barry PetersenA favorite from the KBCO archives
Barry Petersen is a CBS News correspondent. He has reported on wars, natural disasters and royal weddings but his most difficult assignment was writing Jan’s Story—a personal account of his wife’s diagnosis (in her mid-50s) of early-onset Alzheimer’s.
It is a true story. It is a love story. Barry has put into words the daily struggle he had to face, caring for the love of his life and watching her fade away until she didn’t recognize him anymore.
He says: “I couldn’t let t...2025-07-1130 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastThe White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Stephanie BarronHere’s one of my favorites from the KBCO archives. On a grey day in March of 1941, acclaimed British writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with heavy stones and walked into the fast flowing River Ouse. Her body was found three weeks later miles downstream. It was the tragic end of a brilliant novelist and essayist—one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. Or was it?
Six decades after Woolf’s death, landscape designer Jo Bellamy comes to Sissinghurst Castle (one of England’s most famous castle-estates) to study the famed White Garden created by Woolf’s lover, po...2025-07-1127 min
The Women Books & More’s PodcastIsabelle Allende talks about Ripper and her other booksOne of my top favorites from the KBCO archive.
Isabelle Allende’s books are a seductive blend of magical realism, accurate historical details and exude the alluring scent of Chilean jasmine. She comes into my recording studio trailing the scent of sweet vanilla and something musky, perhaps sandalwood. We sit and talk like old friends—about books and life.
She revels that she puts on full make up, stockings and, shockingly, a girdle—plus other clothes, of course—just to walk down a path in her garden to her writing studio.
Chilean-American author Allende h...2025-07-1028 min
American Civil War & UK HistoryAlbert Cashier With (Will Davis-Coleman & Patrick Courtney)Send us a textAlbert Cashier With (Will Davis-Coleman & Patrick Courtney)In this episode of American Civil War & UK History podcast, host Daz is joined by Will Davis-Coleman and Patrick Courtney, the hosts of The Cloak and Dagger Podcast. Together, they discuss a Union soldier named Albert Cashier.Albert D. J. Cashier (December 25, 1843 – October 10, 1915), born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish-born American soldier who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cashier adopted the identity of a man before enlisting, and maintained it until death. Cashier became fa...2025-06-161h 00