Retired professor Pamela Geisel Plemmons is an expert in home orchard management, sustainable landscape practices, and integrated pest management.

Author Echo Heron is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author. Born in Troy, New York, her work tackles many genres, including fiction, mysteries, and historical fiction.

Former KCHO Jazz director Daniel E. Atkinson has written a book about the price of Black stardom in Jim Crow America.

History professor Greg Jackson explores eight historical examples of American political turmoil, showing that today’s challenges aren’t unprecedented.

"Cruisin’ the ‘Nade" takes you back in time to Chico in the 1960s.

Retired Butte College instructor Phillip Hemenway has published a collection of his poems, Core Samples

In a rebroadcast interview from thirteen years ago, Nancy’s Bookshelf honors NPR correspondent Don Gonyea’s forty-year career following his recent retirement.

A history book about America’s first World’s Fair, which celebrated the nation’s 100th birthday.

Google data editor Simon Rogers tells stories with Google’s data using questions that we ask. “How can I help?” “How to ask politely“ “Why is grief so lonely?” “How to boil an egg”

Two local authors wrote novels about family after university careers.

In her memoir "Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims," fourth-generation Chicoan Kate Washington chronicles diving feet first into a new life.

Chico author Douglas Keister‘s 49th book explores love, loss, and self-exploration. This novel features a 15th-century painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, that hangs in the Prado Museum in Madrid.