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NBN Podcast Episodes Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Literary Fiction
April 1, 2026
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.
March 24, 2026
Song of the Bluebird
Esther Goldenberg
Much of history has revolved around the journeys, challenges, and relationships, of men, but Serrah, daughter of Asher describes the teachings of her mother, grandmother, and all the women who shared their skills, compassion, hopes, and dreams.
March 3, 2026
Well of Deception
Cynthia Leal Massey
When turkey farmer Maggie Schneider is shot to death one morning in 1958, her neighbor and brother-in-law, Amos Becker, is the prime suspect, but he’s disappeared.
February 24, 2026
Dog
Yishai Ishi Ron
Told through the eyes of an Israeli combat officer who’s haunted by the trauma of fighting in Gaza, Dog (Soncata Press 2025) is a gritty story about PTSD, the effects of war, and resilience.
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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.
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.
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.
November 19, 2025
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.
November 11, 2025
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.
November 4, 2025
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.
September 9, 2025
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.
September 2, 2025
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.
August 26, 2025
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.
August 12, 2025
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 1, 2025
Port Anna
Libby Buck
Port Anna tells the story of a quiet town on the Maine coast that has attracted the attention of wealthy investors seeking a picturesque, windswept summer cottage overlooking the ocean.
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