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Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "killing time before time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. But a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he had taken years before.

Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, and husbands and wives.

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest.

Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner recounts the remarkable career of Major John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of the Southwest Indian tribes. This classic work is a penetrating and insightful study of the Powell’s career, from the beginning of the Powell Survey, in which Powell and his men famously became the first to descend the Colorado River, to his eventual expulsion from the Geological Survey.

Sabrina Castro is a wealthy, attractive woman married to an older physician who no longer fulfills her dreams. An accidental misstep leads her down the path of moral disintegration. How she comes to terms with her life is the theme of this absorbing personal drama played out against the backdrop of an old Peninsula estate where her mother lives among her servants, her memories of Boston, and her treasured family archives

In this moving sequel to Big Rock Candy Mountain, Bruce Mason returns to Salt Lake City, not for his aunt's funeral but to encounter after 45 years the place he fled in bitterness. A successful statesman and diplomat, Mason had buried his awkward and lonely childhood and sealed himself off from the thrills and torments of adolescence to become a figure who commanded international respect.

Co-hosts Brendan and Zach discuss baseball and the MLB. Recaps, predictions, and segments all regarding the great game of baseball and its biggest league. They take on some challenging debates regarding baseball as well as discuss who and what they think are the real deal.

Unser Leben ist dabei, sich radikal zu verändern. Transformation ist anstrengend, es gibt sie nicht ohne Reibung. Sie ist aber auch aufregend, anregend, ein Abenteuer. Mit dem Zukunftsorte-Podcast wollen wir Lust machen auf Innovation und Transformation. In Staffel 3 beschäftigen wir uns mit dem Gebäude der Zukunft. Wie wird es aussehen? Woraus wird es gebaut? Wie läuft die Transformation Richtung Zukunft im Gebäudesektor ab? Wir schauen hinter die Fassaden und fragen nach - etwa wie nachhaltige Gebäudereinigung funktioniert oder wie zukunftsfähig der Baustoff Holz ist. Eine neue ...

Hier geht es um echte Kriminalfälle aus der Region, doch nicht nur darum. In "Hinreichend verdächtig – Ein True-Crime-Podcast der Rheinischen Post und der Staatsanwaltschaft Duisburg" betrachten wir Verbrechen nicht nur aus einer Perspektive. Pro Episode besprechen ein Gerichtsreporter und ein Vertreter der Staatsanwaltschaft Duisburg einen Fall: Was ist passiert? Wie liefen die Ermittlungen? Wie hat sich der Fall entwickelt? Und wie kam es zur Anklage? Dabei geht es nicht nur um das bloße Urteil. Auch die öffentliche Wahrnehmung des Falls und die Gesetze dahinter spielen eine Rolle. Wir...