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VIRA Broadcasting | God's Country by William Kent Krueger

God’s Country by William Kent Krueger

Cork O’Connor has never much trusted his own premonitions, but “God’s Country,” the twenty-second installment in William Kent Krueger’s long-running series, opens with him unable to shake one: a sense of dread hanging over a family trip into the Boundary Waters that he can’t quite name and can’t quite ignore.

VIRA Broadcasting | Delusional by James Patterson and James O. Born

Delusional by James Patterson and James O. Born

There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in when a case stops making sense — when the people responsible for chaos genuinely believe they’re the good guys. That’s the engine driving “Delusional,” the eighteenth entry in James Patterson and James O. Born’s Michael Bennett series, and it’s a sharper,

VIRA Broadcasting | The VIRA Briefing — September 1, 2026

The VIRA Briefing — September 1, 2026

VIRA BROADCASTING The Daily Briefing September 1, 2026 Today’s edition: 8 news stories and 3 book reviews from the VIRA newsroom. Here’s what mattered. Lead Story · Politics The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave. Russell Vought spent his first year atop the Consumer Financial

VIRA Broadcasting | Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Few reporting teams have the access that Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have built over the past decade, and Regime Change is the clearest demonstration yet of what that access can produce. The book is a detailed, on-the-ground account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, built from

VIRA Broadcasting | The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett

Seventeen years is a long time to make readers wait for a follow-up. Kathryn Stockett, whose debut The Help became a cultural phenomenon, has finally returned with The Calamity Club, and the wait turns out to have been worth it. Set in Depression-era Mississippi, the novel follows a group of

VIRA Broadcasting | The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

The Poison Daughter by Sheila Masterson

Some kisses are dangerous in the metaphorical sense. Harlow’s are dangerous in the literal one, and that single premise is enough to power one of the most talked-about romantasy releases of the year. Sheila Masterson’s latest standalone follows Harlow, a woman whose touch carries a poison she never asked for

VIRA Broadcasting | The VIRA Briefing — August 31, 2026

The VIRA Briefing — August 31, 2026

VIRA Broadcasting The VIRA Briefing August 31, 2026 Lead Story How to Check In on Your 401(k) Fees The rules governing your retirement plan may be shifting. The Trump administration is pushing 401(k) plans toward riskier private equity, real estate, and crypto holdings, and the Department of Labor has proposed

VIRA Broadcasting | Whistler by Ann Patchett

Whistler by Ann Patchett

Some writers chase drama. Ann Patchett has spent a long career proving she doesn’t need to — that a chance meeting in a museum hallway can carry as much weight as a car crash, if the sentences are patient enough to earn it. Her new novel, Whistler, is the latest

VIRA Broadcasting | This Is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panettiere

This Is Me: A Reckoning by Hayden Panettiere

Child stardom has produced no shortage of memoirs, but most of them arrive as cautionary tales told from a safe distance, years after the wreckage has been swept up. “This Is Me: A Reckoning” is not that book. Hayden Panettiere, who became famous as a preteen and a household name

VIRA Broadcasting | The True Meaning of Love by Danielle Steel

The True Meaning of Love by Danielle Steel

Danielle Steel has spent five decades writing about love under pressure, but “The True Meaning of Love” puts that pressure to its most severe test yet: a country under invasion. The novel opens on Vlad’s eighteenth birthday, a Ukrainian ballet school student who wakes up expecting an ordinary milestone and

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