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Late-night radio you can sink your teeth into.... Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, 60s psychedelia, 80s Goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers how the DJs maintain their cred:... (more)

Miss America

by Howard Stern

The inimitable shock-jock radio host shares his own offbeat, outrageous views and offensive observations on life, the world, modern American society, and more. Reprint.

Thunderstruck

by Erik Larson

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush” In Thunderstruck , Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of... (more)

Late Nights on Air: A Novel

by Elizabeth Hay

The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs . Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and... (more)

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

by Pope Brock

In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen young con man–arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers. It was all nonsense, of course, but thousands of paying customers quickly turned “Dr.”... (more)

The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of Wmms and Cleveland Rock Radio--a Memoir

The Buzzard: Inside the Glory Days of Wmms and Cleveland Rock Radio--a Memoir

by John Gorman

This rock and roll radio memoir takes you behind the scenes at the nation's hottest station during FM's heyday, from 1973 to 1986. Sex and drugs, music and merchandising--it was a wild time when the FM airwaves were wide open for innovation. John Gorman led a small band of true believers who built Cleveland's WMMS from a neglected stepchild into an influential powerhouse. The station earned high praise from... (more)

Shrinking Violet

by Danielle Joseph

High school senior Teresa Adams is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand, she rocks out -- doing mock broadcasts for Miami's hottest FM radio station, which happens to be owned by her stepfather. When a slot opens up at The SLAM, Tere surprises herself by blossoming behind the mike into confident,... (more)

Radio On: A Listener's Diary

by Sarah Vowell

There are approximately 502 million radios in America. For this savvy, far-reaching, and well-written diary, celebrated journalist and author Vowell turned hers on and listened—closely, critically, creatively—for an entire year. As a series of impressions and reflections regarding contemporary American culture, and as an extended meditation on both our media and our society, this keenly focused book is as... (more)

Now You're Talking! All You Need to Get Your First Ham Radio License, Fifth Edition

Now You're Talking! All You Need to Get Your First Ham Radio License, Fifth Edition

by Larry D. Wolfgang

Published by the ARRL,this book prepares you for getting your ham radio Novice license as well as taking the Technician exam. It includes information on selecting your equipment and describes the popular operating modes-essentially all the information you need to get started being a ham. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by Ilene Rosoff

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts: Book 2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts

The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases

by Douglas Adams

The remaining books in Douglas Adams's masterpiece are finally to be dramatised on BBC Radio 4, where it first began - and we're publishing the scripts! Twenty-five years after the original radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero Arthur Dent are being brought to life in their original medium. This dramatisation of the... (more)

Lost City Radio

by Daniel Alarco?n

For ten years, Norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios—a people broken by war's violence. As the host of Lost City Radio , she reads the names of those who have disappeared—those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody... (more)

Mixed Signals

by Liz Curtis Higgs

Love Is on the Air Belle O’Brien, the woman behind the warmest voice in Virginia radio, has one problem: Her oldies show on WPER-FM is a solid-gold hit, but her love life, at thirty-two years and counting, is an off-the-charts disaster. The pickings are slim in small-town Abingdon. Will it be smooth-talking Patrick Reese, the man who launched her radio career a decade earlier? Moody but handsome David Cahill,... (more)

Finding My Voice

by Diane Rehm

: “A fetching, straightforward account of the struggles and successes of a respected radio personality. Rehm, host of an eponymous National Public Radio Show, offers an intimate look into her childhood, marriage, career, and battle with a rare neurological disorder that has affected her speech and thus nearly destroyed her career… Told with honesty and simplicity. An articulate and inspirational travelogue of one... (more)

Radio Waves: Life and Revolution on the Fm Dial

Radio Waves: Life and Revolution on the Fm Dial

by Jim Ladd

An explosive, unforgettable look at the FM radio business through the eyes of one of its most colorful and idealistic personalities. Ladd follows the birth, blazing success, and tragic demise of FM free-form radio. "A perceptive book on the corporate takeover of rock. . . . Devastating".--Boston Globe.

On The Line

by Donna Hill

Joy Newhouse is the diva of the airwaves, a relationship expert who scores big with listeners for her jaw-dropping, scathing commentary on men, women, sex—no subject is taboo for this provocative radio shock jock. When she's fired suddenly by new management, Joy isn't happy off the air and out of the spotlight. So she writes a book that features her most titillating calls and letters, a bestseller ripe... (more)

Low Profile Amateur Radio: Operating a Ham Station from Almost Anywhere

by Al Brogdon

More and more ham radio operators are faced with installing equipment and antennas amid a flurry of modern day limitations. The need to operate a low profile Amateur Radio station may be imposed by the confines of a small home or apartment. Other hams are restricted by deeds or leases that regulate the size of the antenna they can install. First edition readers will find this second edition contains ALL NEW... (more)

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2008 (Writers' and Artists' Yearbook)

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2008 (Writers' and Artists' Yearbook)

"Full of useful stuff. It answered my every question."-J.K. Rowling The best-selling yearbook for writers and artists, this is a comprehensive, up-to-date directory of media contacts that contains a wealth of practical advice and information on a huge range of topics including copyright, finance, submitting a manuscript, e-publishing, prizes, and awards. Features include hundreds of new contacts and updated... (more)

The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Radio Show

The Complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Radio Show

The Complete BBC-4 Radio Series of Both "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Douglas Adams's Guide to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on One Double CD Set. These Discs Are Recorded with Mp3 Files (Not Regular Audio Discs) So that the Extensive Running Time Can Fit. The Audio also Includes a Previously Unbroadcast Interview with Author Douglas Adams. Also Included is Douglas Adams' "Guide to the Galaxy", a... (more)