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Between The Covers

Join host Ann Bocock on a literary odyssey through best-selling works of fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, and an exciting variety of additional genres. Taped in front of a live, studio audience at WXEL's studios in West Palm Beach, Bocock interviews some of the most prominent literary minds of our time during the half-hour program, featuring in-depth interviews with nationally recognized authors.

Between The Covers  
  • Geraldine Brooks - Horse
    Saturday, September 28
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize winning and New York Times Bestselling author of historical fiction. Horse is based on Lexington, the most legendary thoroughbred in American History. Set in both the 1800s and in contemporary times, the novel weaves a sweeping multi layered story of an industry that was a 19th century American obsession built on the backs of enslaved people.
  • Jonathan Escoffrey - If I Survive
    Thursday, October 3
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the acclaimed story collection, If I Survive You, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. His debut collection follows an immigrant family struggling to make a life in America. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, Escoffery brings a fresh voice to what it means to be a male, non-white immigrant trying to survive.
  • Scott Turow - Suspect
    Saturday, October 5
    10:01 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Bestselling legal thriller author Scott Turow introduces a new private investigator in Suspect. She's Pinky, young, multi-tattooed and multi pierced detective who finds herself in the middle of two mysteries, one professional and one personal. Turow starts the novel with a twist, a female police chief accused of sexual misconduct.
  • Geraldine Brooks - Horse
    Monday, October 7
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize winning and New York Times Bestselling author of historical fiction. Horse is based on Lexington, the most legendary thoroughbred in American History. Set in both the 1800s and in contemporary times, the novel weaves a sweeping multi layered story of an industry that was a 19th century American obsession built on the backs of enslaved people.
  • Jonathan Escoffrey - If I Survive
    Saturday, October 12
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the acclaimed story collection, If I Survive You, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. His debut collection follows an immigrant family struggling to make a life in America. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, Escoffery brings a fresh voice to what it means to be a male, non-white immigrant trying to survive.
  • Scott Turow - Suspect
    Monday, October 14
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Bestselling legal thriller author Scott Turow introduces a new private investigator in Suspect. She's Pinky, young, multi-tattooed and multi pierced detective who finds herself in the middle of two mysteries, one professional and one personal. Turow starts the novel with a twist, a female police chief accused of sexual misconduct.
  • Patricia Engel - The Faraway World
    Saturday, October 19
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Country, comes Patricia Engel's award-winning collection of short stories, The Faraway World. The ten stories are a collection about the Latin American diaspora. Engel's writing is a multi-layered exploration of complicated relationships and characters navigating living in two worlds.
  • Jonathan Escoffrey - If I Survive
    Monday, October 21
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Jonathan Escoffery is the author of the acclaimed story collection, If I Survive You, which was longlisted for the National Book Award. His debut collection follows an immigrant family struggling to make a life in America. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, Escoffery brings a fresh voice to what it means to be a male, non-white immigrant trying to survive.
  • Christina Diaz Gonzalez- The Bluest Sky
    Saturday, October 26
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Christina Diaz Gonzalez is the award-winning and bestselling author of several novels. The Bluest Sky is the powerful historical novel set in 1980 in Castro's Cuba. The young adult novel shows the emotional impact of The Mariel Boatlift and a quest for one family's freedom that is fraught with danger and deception.
  • Patricia Engel - The Faraway World
    Monday, October 28
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Country, comes Patricia Engel's award-winning collection of short stories, The Faraway World. The ten stories are a collection about the Latin American diaspora. Engel's writing is a multi-layered exploration of complicated relationships and characters navigating living in two worlds.
  • Phoebe Zerwick -Beyond Innocence
    Saturday, November 2
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Beyond Innocence is the gripping story of injustice, incarceration, and failures of the American Justice system. Award winning investigative reporter Phoebe Zerwick has written a powerful account of a black man in a Southern state falsely accused, convicted, and sentenced to life for a brutal crime he didn't commit.
  • Christina Diaz Gonzalez- The Bluest Sky
    Monday, November 4
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Christina Diaz Gonzalez is the award-winning and bestselling author of several novels. The Bluest Sky is the powerful historical novel set in 1980 in Castro's Cuba. The young adult novel shows the emotional impact of The Mariel Boatlift and a quest for one family's freedom that is fraught with danger and deception.
  • Robert Watson - Escape
    Saturday, November 9
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Robert Watson is an award-winning author, professor, and historian who has published over 40 books. Escape is the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby prison and the Civil War's largest jail break. Watson's well researched historical narrative reads like a thriller and brings to life the ingenuity of the prisoners who undertook the most daring escape in US history.
  • Phoebe Zerwick -Beyond Innocence
    Monday, November 11
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Beyond Innocence is the gripping story of injustice, incarceration, and failures of the American Justice system. Award winning investigative reporter Phoebe Zerwick has written a powerful account of a black man in a Southern state falsely accused, convicted, and sentenced to life for a brutal crime he didn't commit.
  • Lisa Unger - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
    Saturday, November 16
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Lisa Unger is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of psychological suspense. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six is a fast paced, multi-level locked-room mystery. Three couples in an isolated luxury cabin in the woods, family secrets, and surprising DNA results is a perfect set up for a thrill ride.
  • Robert Watson - Escape
    Monday, November 18
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Robert Watson is an award-winning author, professor, and historian who has published over 40 books. Escape is the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby prison and the Civil War's largest jail break. Watson's well researched historical narrative reads like a thriller and brings to life the ingenuity of the prisoners who undertook the most daring escape in US history.
  • James Grippando - Code 6
    Saturday, November 23
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Code 6 is a thriller set in the world of Big Data. James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the Harper Lee Prize. Grippando is creator of the Jack Swyteck series, one of the bestselling legal thriller series in the world. At the heart of Code Six is the question, at what price do we open up our lives to Big Data?
  • Lisa Unger - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
    Monday, November 25
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Lisa Unger is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of psychological suspense. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six is a fast paced, multi-level locked-room mystery. Three couples in an isolated luxury cabin in the woods, family secrets, and surprising DNA results is a perfect set up for a thrill ride.
  • Alka Joshi - The Perfumist of Paris
    Saturday, November 30
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her books have been translated into 29 languages. The Perfumist of Paris is the conclusion to the complicated trilogy of family, relationships, secrets of a young Indian woman making her way from Jaipur to Paris.
  • James Grippando - Code 6
    Monday, December 2
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Code 6 is a thriller set in the world of Big Data. James Grippando is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the Harper Lee Prize. Grippando is creator of the Jack Swyteck series, one of the bestselling legal thriller series in the world. At the heart of Code Six is the question, at what price do we open up our lives to Big Data?
  • Lynne Olsen - Empress of the Nile
    Saturday, December 7
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Lynne Olson is the New York Times Bestselling author of nine books of history. Empress of the Nile is the story of a strong-willed Egyptologist, the young French woman Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt, who was responsible for the greatest archaeological rescue in history.
  • Alka Joshi - The Perfumist of Paris
    Monday, December 9
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Alka Joshi is the internationally bestselling author of the Jaipur Trilogy: The Henna Artist, The Secret Keeper of Jaipur and The Perfumist of Paris. Her books have been translated into 29 languages. The Perfumist of Paris is the conclusion to the complicated trilogy of family, relationships, secrets of a young Indian woman making her way from Jaipur to Paris.
  • Lynne Olsen - Empress of the Nile
    Monday, December 16
    5:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Lynne Olson is the New York Times Bestselling author of nine books of history. Empress of the Nile is the story of a strong-willed Egyptologist, the young French woman Christiane Desroches-Nobelcourt, who was responsible for the greatest archaeological rescue in history.

 

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  • Scott Turow - Suspect
    Thursday, September 26
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Bestselling legal thriller author Scott Turow introduces a new private investigator in Suspect. She's Pinky, young, multi-tattooed and multi pierced detective who finds herself in the middle of two mysteries, one professional and one personal. Turow starts the novel with a twist, a female police chief accused of sexual misconduct.
  • Brad Melzer - The Nazi Conspiracy
    Saturday, September 21
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    From number one New York Times Bestselling author Brad Meltzer comes the little-known true story of a triple assassination plot that nearly changed history. It's the story of the Nazi plot at the height of World War Two designed to assassinate three world leaders, President Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. Meltzer's well researched story is filled with political intrigue, body doubles, and daring rescues.
  • Geraldine Brooks - Horse
    Thursday, September 19
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize winning and New York Times Bestselling author of historical fiction. Horse is based on Lexington, the most legendary thoroughbred in American History. Set in both the 1800s and in contemporary times, the novel weaves a sweeping multi layered story of an industry that was a 19th century American obsession built on the backs of enslaved people.
  • Allison Pataki - The Magnificent Lives of Marjor Post
    Saturday, September 14
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    New York Times bestselling author Allison Pataki has reimagined the life of Marjorie Merriweather Post in her historical novel, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post. Pataki shows the journey from Midwest farm girl to heiress and how Marjorie Post reshaped American Life. The book is an intimate portrait of a larger-than-life woman, a powerful story of an heiress, trailblazer, businesswoman, diplomat, and philanthropist.
  • Brad Melzer - The Nazi Conspiracy
    Thursday, September 12
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    From number one New York Times Bestselling author Brad Meltzer comes the little-known true story of a triple assassination plot that nearly changed history. It's the story of the Nazi plot at the height of World War Two designed to assassinate three world leaders, President Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. Meltzer's well researched story is filled with political intrigue, body doubles, and daring rescues.
  • Kim Michele Richardson - The Book Women's Daughter
    Saturday, September 7
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestselling author of historical fiction Kim Michele Richardson has written the sequel in the Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek stories. The Book Woman's Daughter is the story of Honey Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman, who must fight for her independence and for books that set her free. Richardson's books are of courageous women who fight against racial prejudice and ignorance. The stories take place on the 1930s packhorse library routes in remote Appalachia, dangerous jobs that were predominately held by women.
  • Jocelyn Nicole Johnson - My Monticello
    Thursday, September 5
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    In the novella, My Monticello, a young black college student who is a descendent of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is forced from her neighborhood by a white militia. Set in the near future, this diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing white supremacists take refuge in Jefferson's historic plantation home, Monticello. My Monticello is Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's fiction debut. It was a finalist for the Kirkus Fiction Prize, National Book Critics Award and long listed for a Pen/Faulkner Fiction award.
  • Jocelyn Nicole Johnson - My Monticello
    Saturday, August 31
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    In the novella, My Monticello, a young black college student who is a descendent of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is forced from her neighborhood by a white militia. Set in the near future, this diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing white supremacists take refuge in Jefferson's historic plantation home, Monticello. My Monticello is Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's fiction debut. It was a finalist for the Kirkus Fiction Prize, National Book Critics Award and long listed for a Pen/Faulkner Fiction award.
  • Rick Bragg - The Speckled Beauty
    Thursday, August 29
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of twelve books. The Speckled Beauty is the tender story of how the author's life was transformed by a half blind, starving, stray dog. The Speckled Beauty is a compassionate Southern family memoir that begins with the arrival of the dog Speck at a critical moment in Bragg's life. It captures the devotion between two enabling each other to begin to heal.
  • Rick Bragg - The Speckled Beauty
    Saturday, August 24
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Rick Bragg is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the bestselling author of twelve books. The Speckled Beauty is the tender story of how the author's life was transformed by a half blind, starving, stray dog. The Speckled Beauty is a compassionate Southern family memoir that begins with the arrival of the dog Speck at a critical moment in Bragg's life. It captures the devotion between two enabling each other to begin to heal.
  • Zakiya Dalia Harris - The Other Black Girl
    Thursday, August 22
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    The Other Black Girl is a New York Times Bestseller and named a Best Book of 2021 by Time, The Washington Post, Esquire, NPR, and Vogue. This electrifying debut novel is set in the world of New York publishing, traditionally a predominately white environment. The tension starts when two young female black editorial assistants are vying for the same career path. The Other Black Girl is a commentary on diversity in the workplace starting with code switching and culminating in an obsessive, sinister plot. Zakiya Dalia Harris spent three years in the editorial department at a major NY publishing house before leaving to write this novel.
  • Zakiya Dalia Harris - The Other Black Girl
    Saturday, August 17
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    The Other Black Girl is a New York Times Bestseller and named a Best Book of 2021 by Time, The Washington Post, Esquire, NPR, and Vogue. This electrifying debut novel is set in the world of New York publishing, traditionally a predominately white environment. The tension starts when two young female black editorial assistants are vying for the same career path. The Other Black Girl is a commentary on diversity in the workplace starting with code switching and culminating in an obsessive, sinister plot. Zakiya Dalia Harris spent three years in the editorial department at a major NY publishing house before leaving to write this novel.
  • Julia Dahl - The Missing Hours
    Thursday, August 15
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    The Missing Hours is an explosive novel that begins with a college student and one violent act. An NYC Freshman is sexually assaulted and seeks revenge., but she has no recollection of the assault until a social media post surfaces. There is also a parallel story of family dysfunction and the intersection of class and justice. It is a face paced thriller that is a study of vengeance, obsession, and privilege. Julia Dahl is the award- winning author of four novels and is a former news reporter.
  • Julia Dahl - The Missing Hours
    Saturday, August 10
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    The Missing Hours is an explosive novel that begins with a college student and one violent act. An NYC Freshman is sexually assaulted and seeks revenge., but she has no recollection of the assault until a social media post surfaces. There is also a parallel story of family dysfunction and the intersection of class and justice. It is a face paced thriller that is a study of vengeance, obsession, and privilege. Julia Dahl is the award- winning author of four novels and is a former news reporter.
  • David Baldacci - Mercy
    Thursday, August 8
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    David Baldacci is an international number one bestselling author of more than 40 books. HIs novels have been translated into 45 languages with 150 million copies sold worldwide. His most popular series include The Camel Club, John Puller and King & Maxwell. Mercy is his fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. The book is a thriller that happens at warp speed, where FBI agent Atlee Pine searches for her twin sister who was kidnapped 30 years ago at the age of 6.
  • David Baldacci - Mercy
    Saturday, August 3
    10:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    David Baldacci is an international number one bestselling author of more than 40 books. HIs novels have been translated into 45 languages with 150 million copies sold worldwide. His most popular series include The Camel Club, John Puller and King & Maxwell. Mercy is his fourth book in the Atlee Pine series. The book is a thriller that happens at warp speed, where FBI agent Atlee Pine searches for her twin sister who was kidnapped 30 years ago at the age of 6.
  • Lauren Groff - Matrix
    Thursday, August 1
    4:00 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Lauren Groff is a three-time finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times bestselling author. Matrix has been named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Time and more. Matrix is a feminist story set in the 12th century. Seventeen-year-old Marie de France is expelled from the Royal Court and sent to be the new prioress of an ailing abbey rife with sick and starving nuns. It is a sweeping novel of a Medieval visionary, a woman of power and strength.