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Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton knows the wonders of our oceans and the weird and wondrous creatures that call it home. She also reco...

In 1982-83, William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, a chronicle of traveling America’s back roads, spent 4...

The Westport Historical Society and the Westport Branch Library present William (Bill) Bundschu: Abuse and Murder on the Frontier...

Mary Roach, designated as “America’s funniest science writer” by The Washington Post, takes us on a tour of the alimentary c...

Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell conducts a public conversat...

Does the 2008 financial collapse lie at least in part at journalists’ feet? Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Dean St...

In a discussion of his book, business management and leadership expert Joel Kurtzman makes the argument that America remains by fa...

After the deaths in the early 1950s of botanist T.J. Fitzpatrick and his wife, a treasure trove of rare books was found in their modest home in Lincol...

Some countries are so good at educating children that virtually all their youngsters can make complex arguments and solve complex problems. In othe...

Agatha Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan discusses her latest mystery, The Wrong Girl, about an i...