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Featuring:

Greg Dawson

Hiding in the Spotlight:: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946

Greg Dawson (Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946) has been a reporter, feature writer, TV critic and columnist at six newspapers including the Boston Herald and Orlando Sentinel, where he now writes a consumer column.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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Alice Faintich

The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom

Alice Faintich is speaking for her father, Stefan Waydenfeld, who wrote The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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Kenneth Gorrell

Soldier of the Press: Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa 1936-1943 (editor)

Kenneth Gorrell is the editor of Soldier of the Press, a memoir of his cousin and United Press reporter Henry Gorrell, who covered front-line fighting in Europe and Africa from 1936 until 1943.Henry's manuscript was completed in 1943 but published now for the first time. Kenneth is a consultant living in New Hampshire.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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David Newsom

Witness to a Changing World

David Newsom (Witness to a Changing World), served in Naval Intelligence and the U.S. Foreign Service. He also taught at Georgetown University and the University of Virginia. The author of numerous books, this will be presented by his wife, Jean Newsom.

Genre:Non-Fiction

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