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Between The Covers
| Website: | https://www.wxel.org/btc/ |
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| Next Airing: | Sat, Apr 27th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV |
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Join host Ann Bocock on a literary odyssey through best-selling works of fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, and an exciting variety of additional genres. Taped in front of a live, studio audience at WXEL's studios in West Palm Beach, Bocock interviews some of the most prominent literary minds of our time during the half-hour program, featuring in-depth interviews with nationally recognized authors.
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Jonathan Escoffrey - If I Survive
Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the acclaimed story collection, If I Survive You, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. His debut collection follows an immigrant family struggling to make a life in America. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, Escoffery brings a fresh voice to what it means to be a male, non-white immigrant trying to survive.
Next Airing: Sat, Apr 27th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:49 Usage rights: 11/23/2023 to 11/22/2025 -
Patricia Engel - The Faraway World
From the New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Country, comes Patricia Engel's award-winning collection of short stories, The Faraway World. The ten stories are a collection about the Latin American diaspora. Engel's writing is a multi-layered exploration of complicated relationships and characters navigating living in two worlds.
Next Airing: Sat, May 4th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:48 Usage rights: 11/30/2023 to 11/29/2025 -
Christina Diaz Gonzalez- The Bluest Sky
Christina Diaz Gonzalez is the award-winning and bestselling author of several novels. The Bluest Sky is the powerful historical novel set in 1980 in Castro's Cuba. The young adult novel shows the emotional impact of The Mariel Boatlift and a quest for one family's freedom that is fraught with danger and deception.
Next Airing: Sat, May 11th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:48 Usage rights: 12/7/2023 to 12/6/2025 -
Phoebe Zerwick -Beyond Innocence
Beyond Innocence is the gripping story of injustice, incarceration, and failures of the American Justice system. Award winning investigative reporter Phoebe Zerwick has written a powerful account of a black man in a Southern state falsely accused, convicted, and sentenced to life for a brutal crime he didn't commit.
Next Airing: Sat, May 18th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:48 Usage rights: 12/14/2023 to 12/13/2025 -
Robert Watson - Escape
Robert Watson is an award-winning author, professor, and historian who has published over 40 books. Escape is the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby prison and the Civil War's largest jail break. Watson's well researched historical narrative reads like a thriller and brings to life the ingenuity of the prisoners who undertook the most daring escape in US history.
Next Airing: Sat, May 25th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:48 Usage rights: 12/21/2023 to 12/20/2025 -
Lisa Unger - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
Lisa Unger is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of psychological suspense. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six is a fast paced, multi-level locked-room mystery. Three couples in an isolated luxury cabin in the woods, family secrets, and surprising DNA results is a perfect set up for a thrill ride.
Next Airing: Sat, Jun 1st, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 12/28/2023 to 12/27/2025 -
James Grippando - Code 6
Code 6 is a thriller set in the world of Big Data. James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the Harper Lee Prize. Grippando is creator of the Jack Swyteck series, one of the bestselling legal thriller series in the world. At the heart of Code Six is the question, at what price do we open up our lives to Big Data?
Next Airing: Sat, Jun 8th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/4/2024 to 1/3/2026 -
Alka Joshi - The Perfumist of Paris
Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her books have been translated into 29 languages. The Perfumist of Paris is the conclusion to the complicated trilogy of family, relationships, secrets of a young Indian woman making her way from Jaipur to Paris.
Next Airing: Sat, Jun 15th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/11/2024 to 1/10/2026 -
Lynne Olsen - Empress of the Nile
Lynne Olson is the New York Times Bestselling author of nine books of history. Empress of the Nile is the story of a strong-willed Egyptologist, the young French woman Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt, who was responsible for the greatest archaeological rescue in history.
Next Airing: Sat, Jun 22nd, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/18/2024 to 1/17/2026 -
Laura Lippman - Dream Gir
One of the most acclaimed novelists in America today and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in the Lake, Laura Lippman returns with a dark, complex tale of psychological suspense with echoes of Misery involving a novelist, incapacitated by injury, who is plagued by mysterious phone calls. Chilling and compulsively readable, touching on timely issues that include power, agency, appropriation, and creation, Dream Girl is a superb blend of psychological suspense and horror that reveals the mind and soul of a writer.
Next Airing: Sat, Jun 29th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:49 Usage rights: 11/3/2022 to 11/2/2024 -
Kate Quinn - The Rose Code
Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she yearns to prove herself as more than a society girl and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets.
Next Airing: Sat, Jul 6th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:13 Usage rights: 11/10/2022 to 11/9/2024 -
Joshua Prager - The Family Roe
Despite her famous pseudonym, "Jane Roe," no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers-a previously unseen trove-and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America. For more than twenty years, Joshua Prager, has written about historical secrets.
Next Airing: Sat, Jul 13th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:35 Usage rights: 11/17/2022 to 11/16/2024 -
Megan Abbott - The Turnout
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's new novel, The Turnout is at the height of her game. Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. With uncanny insight and hypnotic writing, it is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity and power, and a tale that is both alarming and irresistible.
Next Airing: Sat, Jul 20th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:23 Usage rights: 11/24/2022 to 11/23/2024 -
Lauren Groff - Matrix
Lauren Groff is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times bestselling author. Matrix has been named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Time and more. Matrix is a feminist story set in the 12th century. Seventeen-year-old Marie de France is expelled from the Royal Court and sent to be the new prioress of an ailing abbey rife with sick and starving nuns. It is a sweeping novel of a Medieval visionary, a woman of power and strength.
Next Airing: Sat, Jul 27th, 2024 at 10:00 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:33 Usage rights: 12/1/2022 to 11/30/2024 -
Brad Melzer - The Nazi Conspiracy
From number one New York Times Bestselling author Brad Meltzer comes the little-known true story of a triple assassination plot that nearly changed history. It's the story of the Nazi plot at the height of World War Two designed to assassinate three world leaders, President Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. Meltzer's well researched story is filled with political intrigue, body doubles, and daring rescues.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 11/2/2023 to 11/1/2025 -
Geraldine Brooks - Horse
Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize winning and New York Times Bestselling author of historical fiction. Horse is based on Lexington, the most legendary thoroughbred in American History. Set in both the 1800s and in contemporary times, the novel weaves a sweeping multi layered story of an industry that was a 19th century American obsession built on the backs of enslaved people.
Length: 00:26:48 Usage rights: 11/9/2023 to 11/8/2025 -
Scott Turow - Suspect
Bestselling legal thriller author Scott Turow introduces a new private investigator in Suspect. She's Pinky, young, multi-tattooed and multi pierced detective who finds herself in the middle of two mysteries, one professional and one personal. Turow starts the novel with a twist, a female police chief accused of sexual misconduct.
Length: 00:26:48 Usage rights: 11/16/2023 to 11/15/2025