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Nick Schenkel Book Reviews
Episodes released on Fridays

West Lafayette Public Library Director Nick Schenkel reviews selected works for the WBAA audience. New reviews are released once a month.

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  • It’s the summer of 1976 in Wabash, Indiana - Nick Schenkel has a review of an Indiana farm memoir “Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird: A Memoir” by Doug Crandell.
  • Author Craig Martin takes us on a romp through 1800's Lafayette in the book "Percy Hare and the Girl in the Game - An early legend of the Lafayette town." Nick Schenkel has the review.
  • Author Paco Calvo delves into the world of thinking plants in his book: “Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence.” Nick Schenkel has the review.
  • Nick Schenkel reviews "Mr. Kato Plays Family," a novel by Milena Michiko Flašar.
  • Nick Schenkel reviews “Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History,” by Rebecca Struthers, a history of humanities efforts at timekeeping, and how our devices for keeping time change our perception of it.
  • Nick Schenkel reviews "The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination," by Stuart Reid.
  • Nick Schenkel reviews "The Nigerwife: A Novel" by Vanessa Walters. This mystery/drama follows the story of Nicole Oruwari's life as an expatriate wife living in Lagos, Nigeria, and her disappearance.
  • Nick Schenkel reviews The Body by the Sea: A Brittany Mystery" by Jean-Luc Bannalec.
  • Nick Schenkel reviews the poetry of Robert Haas and Lafayette's own Evaleen Stein to celebrate the closing of National Poetry Month.
  • Nick Schenkel reviews "The Good Garden" by Chris McLaughlin.