America

Listen to Leah Erdmann as she recommends The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya.

Listen to Michael Maxwell as he recommends The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.

Listen to Leah Erdmann as she recommends How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz.

Listen to Jennifer Havlik as she recommends Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott.

Listen to Kelsey Patterson as she recommends Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang.

Their land taken, their people persecuted, three young boys, hungry and desperate, do something terrible, and the consequences echo through history. What we must remember is often what we want to forget.

We'd just arrived. Long trip. Hadn't planned ahead. We'd just hopped in the Chevy and left because that's what college students did; they just took off to…

This is Barb Gross with the Sioux City Public Library, and you’re listening to “Check it Out.” As a new year’s resolution – which now seems like a…

This is Jessi Wakefield with the Sioux City Public Library and you’re listening to Check It Out. Throughout American history there have been quite a few…

For the record, the Rock Island Express the boys hit that night was eight cars long--four coaches, two sleepers, and two baggage and express cars. It left…