Brian and Barbara review the book Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, number one on the New York Times hardcover fiction list of September 3, 2023. In her ninth novel, award-winning author Ann Patchett builds a story within a story. Secluded on the family’s cherry orchard due to COVID, the Nelson family picks fruit together while listening as their mother, Lara, reveals the full story of her romantic involvement with one of the world’s most famous actors, Peter Duke, who she shared a stage with in a 1980s production of Our Town at a Michigan theater known as Tom Lake.    Twenty minutes with us, and you'll know whether to read it ... or regift it! Episode 14 of bestseller, recorded on 10/7/2023.

After the death of Holly Gibney's mother due to COVID, Holly accepts a job to help find a mother's missing daughter. As she investigates, she realizes that the missing daughter may be one of a few victims of a serial killer. Whew! Shelly and I are long time Stephen King fans, listen in to find out if this meets our expectations. Shelly's tea: Turmeric Tonic Candy's tea: Tension Tamer

After Serga A. Storms and his sidekick Coleman have been hunkered down in their condo during COVID, Serge comes up with a great way to venture out to all of his beloved Florida haunts. As he is offering road trips to all his fellow condo neighbors, things are brewing up with a reporter, the CIA and adventures in Honduras. Tim Dorsey has done it again! Another wild ride with Serge and Coleman. Shelly's Tea: Healing Honeysuckle Candy’s tea: Insane Cinnamon Orange Links mentioned: Celluloid Ping Pong Balls Abandoned Florida

Title 42 ends tonight. The end of Covid? Promising vaccine for pancreatic cancer. CBS News Correspondent Jennifer Keiper has tonight's World News Roundup.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dr. Joanne Liu is a professor at the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University and a practicing physician at the University of Montreal. She is the former international president of Medicines Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders and for the purposes of this conversation she served on the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.  This panel was co-chaired former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and Former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. It was formed by the World Health Organization in 2020 to provide an audit of how both the WHO and its member states were responding to COVID-19 and what steps need to be taken to prepare or prevent the next pandemic. As Dr. Joanne Liu explains, world leaders need to be approaching pandemic preparedness and response as if it were a potentially existential threat to humanity, on par with a nuclear catastrophe. This requires far greater levels of political attention than it currently receives.  We discuss at length why global cooperation around pandemic preparedness is lagging and what steps need to be taken in the near term to change course.     

On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast, COVID infections and hospitalizations are on the rise nationwide. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A new front may be opening in Ukraine as Russian attacks move west. Living with COVID. California water woes. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on "Face the Nation," with Russian forces moving forward with a brutal assault on Eastern Ukraine, we talk to White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan about what more the U.S. can do to help. Then, a conversation with former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb about a possible spring COVID surge. Joining the program is Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester to discuss rising costs in the U.S. And finally Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on the crisis at the southern border.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.