Episodes

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner tells the story of the west’s most infamous bank robbery, with an hour-by-hour account of the James-Younger gang’s holdup of the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, and the two-week chase that followed— the near misses, the fateful mistakes, and the bloody conclusion on the Watonwan River. But these outlaw robbers are not the only main characters: there are heroic townspeople and citizen pursuers who dramatically defeat the undefeated. How can you k...

Summer is fun in the sun, but not with a sunburn. In addition to the discomfort, overexposure to the sun can lead to premature aging of the skin and skin cancer, including melanoma. In Health Matters, our health professional, Heather Brittany offers suggestions to protect your skin from getting burned. After the teen years, not many people look forward to adding another year to their birthday. However, planning for retirement is critical no matter what your age. It’s never to early or too late t...

Everyone wants to save money! Some people clip coupons, others watch for sales, and still more troll the internet looking for the best deals. But you don’t have to be obsessed to save big time. Slash your bills with a little bit of savvy shopping and you’ll hang onto to cash this month. If you own a business, do you know how to make it better? Learn strategies the increase your customer service while making employees happy. Scams are on the rise, especially those that target seniors. Internet sc...

Have you heard of Agenda 21? Most people haven’t and it’s important to get informed. Agenda 21 is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 to create sustainable development. But what is it really? Are America freedoms at risk? Are American farmers going to lose their property to imminent domain? Summer is in full swing in the garden. This is the season of plenty. For a gardener, the shed becomes a playhouse, and shears the tool...

Welcome to Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!® with your hosts Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany on the Voice America Empowerment Channel. Our goal is to seed, stimulate, and support space for positive, meaningful conversations that will get you talking around the dinner table. To launch our program on our new network, we are excited to showcase multi-award winning author and peace advocate Nola Hennessy. This Peace Angel is coming to America as she prepares to publish her autobiography with Brown...

Alison's Adventures, is a documentary film series created by Alison Teal, that shares the wisdom of exotic cultures and authentic people Follow Alison as she travels the world looking into the secrets to survival, sustainability, and happiness. Watch her Discovery Channel series Naked & Afraid. Essayist and entertainment industry veteran, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel, Forever Interrupted was inspired by a personal experience eloping with a man she had only recently met. It’s a heartrending story ...

From James Beard and IACP award–winning chef and cooking instructor Peter Berley: mouthwatering seasonal vegetarian menus that can be created in under an hour in the new book, Fresh Food Fast. A Food & Wine Best of the Best Cookbook, Berley provides 48 sophisticated home-cooked vegetarian meals—twelve for each season. June is the most popular month of the year for weddings. Blessed with pleasant weather and an abundance of flowers, summer weddings are always in style. Bride-to-be, Heather Britta...

Want to lose weight easily and maintain a healthy lifestyle? Heather Brittany will show you how five subtle tweaks to your daily diet will pay off big in our Health Matters segment. What makes people happy? Is it where you live, how much money you make, children or lack of them, a great job, busy social life, volunteering, nature? Empowerment expert Cynthia Brian provides 10 ways to make better choices to feel happier. Do you know how to keep your pet safe in an emergency? There is no doubt that...

Picnics, barbecues, and poolside parties are part of summer fun, While warm weather is great for outdoor gatherings, it also can be the perfect storm for breeding bacteria in food. Reduce your risk of food poisoning and have fun in the sun with tips from Health Matters specialist, Heather Brittany. How can we raise healthy, happy teens? Cynthia Brian, author of Be the Star You are!® for Teens, has been a specialist in coaching young people for over two decades and also produces the teen radio pr...

Do you understand the purpose of your medical tests? Are they screening or diagnostic? Learn to decode the results in Health Matters with Health professional, Heather Brittany. When spring has sprung and the gardening bug has bitten you, it’s essential to follow a few tried and true rules of gardening to grow the best specimens with ease. Goddess Gardener Cynthia Brian digs in with simple steps to improve your yard. Writers are mysterious and the general public has the impression that once you’v...

Bestselling author Alexandra Stoddard’s latest release, The Shared Wisdom of Mothers and Daughters, is a lovely little tome, full of the pearls of wisdom which Stoddard has become known for. In it, Stoddard reflects not solely on what she’s taught her daughters (and other women), but muses on the valuable life lessons her 30-and 40-something daughters have brought home to her. Prescription drug abuse is skyrocketing among teens, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. It’s an ep...

An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, The Golem and the Jinni tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive separately in New York in 1899. Imaginative and meticulously researched, this enchanting debut novel from Helene Wecker is historical fiction. Set primarily in turn-of-the-century Manhattan, it deliberately details the immigrant experience while bringing the city itself to life with such passion that New York of yore seems like a magical lan...

With SEDUCTION, international bestseller M.J. Rose returns with a haunting historical suspense novel about Jac L’Etoile, a present day mythologist, who discovers Victor Hugo’s lost journal chronicling those séances and awakens a mystery that spans centuries. The result is an intricately plotted, historically evocative, atmospheric tale with a spellbinding ghost story at its heart. Mother’s Day is Sunday. How will you show the mom in your life how much you appreciate her?; Mother/Daughter dynamic...

Helen Bryan brings women out of the shadows of history and celebrates their resilience and courage. Her last novel War Brides was an overnight bestselling success. In THE SISTERHOOD, set in Spain during the sixteenth century and present-day, she weaves two stories separated by centuries about the resilience of the female spirit. Bestselling author Liza Palmer carries readers to North Star, Texas, in the amusing and poignant Nowhere But Home, a funny and touching story of food, football, and fool...

Ed Rosenthal's Protect Your Garden is an easy-to-use troubleshooting guide that helps you identify and eliminate things that want to harm your plants. Over one hundred full-color photographs help you determine exactly what is plaguing your flowers and edible plants. Protect Your Garden then provides easy and safe solutions. Building Soils Naturally: Innovative Methods for Organic Gardeners by Phil Nauta (AKA The Smiling Gardener) is all about helping you to grow the best quality food possible, s...

Russ Hovendick motivates people through his multiple roles as a national award winning executive recruiter, career coach, training consultant, business owner, and volunteer chaplain/counselor within the Juvenile, Jail, and Prison system of South Dakota. His books, How to Interview and How to Get a Raise will help you jumpstart your dream job. It has been known for over 100 years that the diet of a pregnant woman directly affects the growth and health of her baby. Reproductive health professional...

Why are men and women irresistibly drawn into romantic relationships, not so much by what they see, feel and think, but more by an invisible and irresistible magnetic-like force? Psychotherapist and author of The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us, Ross Rosenberg, describes a revolutionary way of conceptualizing dysfunctional relationships. In Alison Atlee’s historical debut novel, The Typewriter Girl , a girl in turn-of-the-century England struggles to be viewed on her own me...

A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home, The Paradise Guest House by New York Times best selling author of French Lessons, Ellen Sussman, makes sense of life after suffering a tragedy. The spectrum of colors that line the produce aisle - from robust red to vibrant orange to every shade of green - contain fruits and vegetables rich in nutritious organic pigments. To get a broad range of nutrients in your diet, eat foods in ...

Peter Eisner, author of The Pope’s Last Crusade weighs in on the selection of Pope Francis; the implications of the election of the first Latin American and the first Jesuit pope from a socially progressive nation such as Argentina, and what it means for the future direction of the Catholic church. The Pope’s Last Crusade tells the story of how Pope Pius XI enlisted an American Jesuit Priest, John LaFarge in 1938, to help him commission a papal encyclical condemning Hitler and the Nazis. The God...

The books by Australian author, Nola Hennessy, have won more awards as she embarks on a year of new beginnings. Nola will talk about from PMS to PMA and No Boxing Allowed and her upcoming autobiography and publishing opportunities. Forgiveness is the key to happiness and harmony and Nola will share how we can bring more of both into our lives. Studies show that being satisfied with your romantic relationship is one of the best predictors of happiness - even more important than education, income,...

Every once in a while, a story comes along that stays with you forever. and#8232;Penned by Brooks Olbrys, The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob

A vivid real-life re-creation of the race between pioneering journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland and its aftermath, from its frenzied start to the nail-biting dash at its finish, Matthew Goodman’s Eighty Days is history with the heart of a great adventure novel. From behind the walls of Jules Verne’s Amiens estate, to the back alleys of Hong Kong, the grounds of a Ceylon tea plantation, through storm-tossed ocean crossings and mountains blocked by snowdrifts, we’ll visit exotic locales ...

A killer's on the loose. To solve the trail of crimes, a determined reporter and a stubborn detective will have to work together...even if it kills them. Author Deborah Lynne writes Inspirational fiction: romance, romantic suspense, and mysteries with romance. She’s written six other books and Crime in The Big Easy is a romantic suspense thriller. The characters of New Orleans and the French Quarter come to life in this page turner. There are many legends and myths surrounding the Chinese Zodiac...

R.S. Guthrie who grew up in Iowa and Wyoming, is the author of the James Pruett Mystery/Thriller series Blood Land, Money Land and Honor Land. He has been writing since college everything from songs to micro-stories. He had and his wife had a beautiful son, Brody, who died of SIDS on February 21, 2008, an earth angel who touched many souls in his two short months of life. He has written a letter to his son that he offers for free to anyone who would find it healing. R.S. will discuss his books, ...