Helen Plum Library

"The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio...and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC. London, 1926. American-raised Maisie Musgrave is thrilled to land a job as a secretary at the upstart British Broadcasting Corporation, whose use of radio--still new, strange, and electrifying--is captivating the nation. But the...

Plans go awry when Amp, the four-inch-tall lead scout from the planet Erde, uses parts from fourth-grader Zack's walkie-talkie to build a quantum radio to alert his commanders to call off the pending invasion of Earth. Includes directions for building a radio

In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women--and of two countries torn apart by war

From 1977-1998, Chicago's The Loop created something that will never be forgotten. Author Rick Kaempfer has gathered all the people who worked there to tell the story of that great radio station in their own words

Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing

For 25 years, Chicago sports fans invited Terry Boers into their homes, cars, and offices as one of the premier voices of the city's first sports radio station, WSCR. Listeners from all walks of life embraced Boers' offbeat sense of humor and brutal honesty, and the one-time Sun Times columnist became on of the Windy City's most recognizable voices by the time of his retirement. In this highly anticipated memoir, the often guarded Boers delivers a...