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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb

October 20, 2026
Sutra Americana

Sutra Americana

Monona Wali

Sharma and Sushila were ahead of their time in marrying for love and across castes in early 1950s India. When their oldest daughter is nine, they leave their home and family for Sharma to take an academic position in astrophysics in America.
October 13, 2026
A Bunch of Fives

A Bunch of Fives

William Kely McClung

Danny Bradigan survived brutal fighting in Afghanistan and fought as a professional boxer, but a bullet finally puts him in a coma. Part of his recovery involves heading to a small Appalachian town where he’s inherited a property and a car mechanic business.
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October 7, 2026
The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories

The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories

Judith Dancoff

The seven stories and novella that comprise The Calamity of Desire, Judith Dancoff’s debut collection of short fiction, each focus on a famous painter or well-known work of art.
September 8, 2026
Vanishing Point

Vanishing Point

Ellen Prentiss Campbell

Beginning in the 1880s and spanning three generations through the 1980s, Vanishing Point (Apprentice House Press, 2026) explores the life and family of Pennsylvania artist George Hetzel and his large, complex family.
August 18, 2026
All We Hide

All We Hide

Robyn Gigl

After Lauren Kelly transitions to female, her bosses in a small-town District Attorney’s Office do whatever they can to push her into retirement. Now stuck in the Homicide Cold Case unit, she investigates the 20-year-old murder of a trans sex worker whom she knew in high school.
July 28, 2026
Haggard House

Haggard House

Elisabeth Rhoads

It’s the 19th century, and a village in northern Michigan is the setting for Adam Bolton’s strange, decrepit house, called Haggard House by the community.
July 14, 2026
A Moment's Surrender

A Moment's Surrender

John Burt

It’s 1980, a decade after he dropped out of grad school, and Paul Bishop is a lowly writing instructor at a college in Nevada.
July 7, 2026
Achilles's Wife

Achilles's Wife

Judith Starkston

Thetis, the sea goddess who tried to make her son Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the River Styx, is now faced with trying to shield him from being killed in yet another war.
June 23, 2026
Crown City, A Japantown Mystery

Crown City, A Japantown Mystery

Naomi Hirahara

In Crown City (A Japantown Mystery)" (Soho Crime, 2026), Ryunosuke “Ryui Wada is orphaned at 18, with no family or path left in Japan. He’s lucky when merchants from the states pay for him to get to Pasadena to work in their store selling authentic Japanese merchandise.
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Earth 7: A Novel

Earth 7: A Novel

Deb Olin Unferth

Thanks to “forever” plastics, the earth has reverted to sand and dust. Dylan has been raised by her scientist mother in a pod under the sea, and longs to escape the loneliness of being confined. The only friend she ever had was a pen pal from Mars, who disappeared. With great effort, she’s escorted onto land, to the place of her mother’s employment where she becomes the groundskeeper.
June 2, 2026
We Meet Apart

We Meet Apart

Martha Conway

It’s 1940 and Gaby’s parents and sister succumb to Typhus after staying in France to care for Gaby and Sabine’s dying grandmother. The war is in full swing and Gaby can’t get home to Poughkeepsie, NY. Her aunt lives in Ireland, which stayed neutral during WWII, so she heads there. But the aunt has just died, and 18-year-old Gaby makes her way to the remote manor of her aunt’s husband’s relatives, where she’s hired as a servant.
May 12, 2026
Marriage to the Sea

Marriage to the Sea

Sarah Stone

Six years ago, Katya Zamarin’s mother was murdered by a stranger who also maimed her Aunt Julia. More recently, her father died of a heart attack.
May 5, 2026
The Violet Hour

The Violet Hour

James Cahill

A wealthy, old art collector always wants more, a successful gallery owner finds herself alone, and a famous painter at the top of his game might have been involved with the mysterious death of an art gallery employee.
April 21, 2026
And The Ancestors Sing

And The Ancestors Sing

Radha Lin Chaddah

Starting in the late 1970s, three women navigate post-Cultural Revolution China.
April 1, 2026
Far From Uncertain: One Woman’s Life of Crime & Other Righteous Deeds

Far From Uncertain: One Woman’s Life of Crime & Other Righteous Deeds

Teddy Jones

When a young reporter comes to interview Margaret Kenyon, the oldest practicing nurse in the Texas panhandle, she tells him that he’ll have to listen to her story before she answers any questions.
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