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NPR's Lynn Neary talks with book writers — Laura Miller of Salon.com, and blogger Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation — about worthy books that got overlooked by the mainstream book-review sections in 2007. Here's a rundown of their recommendations.

Just after Gordon Davis’ team rebuilt Central Park’s Sheep Meadow, it turned completely brown. Why “How do I know I’m not an arborist. I’m not a horticulturalist. I can’t tell an elm from an oak. That wasn’t my job.” His job was Parks Commissioner, and he was great at it. Davis tells us about Geoff Howard and The Sheep Meadow.

David D. Brown is executive producer and host of the award-winning cultural journalism program Texas Music Matters at NPR affiliate KUT-FM in Austin. He is former anchor of the award-winning public radio business program Marketplace, and a veteran public radio journalist. He has reported national and international affairs for Monitor Radio from bases in Atlanta, Boston, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

Shawn Stone, Digital Editor of The Alt joins us to talk about what he's seen lately and what cultural events are coming up this week in our region.Seen:…

As music director Steve Brown curates and selects the classics you hear during our daytime music programing.

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. His work has won several local broadcast journalism awards, and he was a 2013 Steinbrenner Institute Environmental Media Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.

Four days after massive flash floods in eastern Spain, authorities say they have recovered more than 200 bodies. People were trapped in their vehicles, homes and businesses.

As 2024 nears its end, we take a look at some memorable podcasts from NPR member stations that we featured this year.