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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb

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A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for her Place on the Bench

A Judge’s Tale: A Trailblazer Fights for her Place on the Bench

Janet Kintner

Janet Kintner survived a difficult father and several assaults, but she didn’t let any of it stop her from pursuing law school as one of three women at the University of Arizona.
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Becoming Sarah

Becoming Sarah

Diane Botnick

Sarah Vogel was born in Auschwitz and liberated at age three, but she has no memories of being there and nobody to tell her the story of her birth or her mother.
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Aftertaste

Aftertaste

Daria Lavelle

In Aftertaste (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Konstantin Duhovny’s father died when he was young, and his mother is too anguished to raise him, so he raises himself, but not very well.
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Fun City Heist

Fun City Heist

Michael Kardos

Mo Melnick has perfect pitch, which didn’t help him in his career as a drummer, but he used to be in a rock band and now his job is sitting on the Jersey Shore renting out chairs and beach umbrellas.
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White: A Novel

White: A Novel

Aviva Rubin

Sarah Cartell, who grew up in a White Supremacist family controlled by a violent grandfather who preaches hate and violence, learns from books and a kind librarian that there’s another way to see the world.
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November 19, 2025
If the Owl Calls

If the Owl Calls

Sharon White

As the Sami community (Norway) struggles to protect ancestral lands from the building of a damn in 1979, Oslo detective Hans Sorensen arrives in the north of the country to investigate sabotage on a damn.
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November 11, 2025
Happy New Years

Happy New Years

Maya Arad

After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.
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November 4, 2025
Simone in Pieces

Simone in Pieces

Janet Burroway

Simone Lerrante is a Belgian orphan whose memory is damaged by the trauma of her father being shot by Nazis and her subsequent escape to England.
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October 14, 2025
Violent Seed

Violent Seed

Mary Price Birk

Lady Anne is in the Cotswolds with her 8-month-old son, there to restore a famous walled garden. The magnificent home has been hosting a television cooking special over the summer, and Anne’s husband, Lord Terrence Reid, is there to enjoy a “Summer of Chefs” week with his wife and baby son.
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September 30, 2025
Isabella's Way

Isabella's Way

Barbara Stark Nemon

In early-seventeenth-century Portugal, Spain, France, and Germany, dangers are plentiful—especially for those of Jewish heritage. Non-Catholics have been expelled from Spain, and the Inquisition has come to Portugal to impose its prohibitions.
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September 9, 2025
Mona's Eyes

Mona's Eyes

Thomas Schlesser

Mona’s Eyes (Europa Editions, 2025) is an enchanting debut novel written by art historian Thomas Schlesser. It tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in Paris who briefly loses her vision.
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September 2, 2025
The Beauty and The Hell of It and Other Stories

The Beauty and The Hell of It and Other Stories

Lynda Williams

The Beauty and the Hell of It and Other Stories (Guernica, 2025) conjures up images of women who struggle through difficult transitions, unpleasant encounters, or ghastly boyfriends and husbands.
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August 26, 2025
Go On Pretending

Go On Pretending

Alina Adams

Rose Janowitz is surprised to get a production job with a radio soap opera and stunned to fall in love with the show’s African American leading man.
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August 12, 2025
The Dime Museum

The Dime Museum

Joyce Hinnefeld

The Dime Museum is a novel told in stories that span from the 1920s, when Dime Museums were a way for people to gawk at human differences, through 2020, during the ravages of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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July 8, 2025
Yankeeland

Yankeeland

Lacy Fewer

Lacy Fewer inherited sacks of letters from a great aunt who emigrated from Ireland to America in 1908 and turned the letters into a novel.
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