LISTEN: How listening can save a life

Christine Miles is an expert when it comes to the skill of listening. That's a skill that could save lives of those battling mental health issues. She outlines ways we can all be better listeners and in turn build better relationships in her book "What Is It Costing You Not To Listen?"

Gas prices are up and the pain at the pump is causing many to wonder if there is anything that can be done. Energy expert Scott Angelle says there are definite steps that can be taken to make us less dependent on foreign oil while bringing the prices to a more affordable level.

It was June 13, 1942 when a group of Nazi saboteurs landed in Amagansett, New York. That's the fact that serves as the backdrop for Eve Karlin's "Track 61." Karlin visited Maine Street to talk about this little-known event in WWII history.

William Martin's research for his novel "December '41" helped him create a backdrop so real that his fiction becomes plausible. Martin visited Maine Street to talk about what inspired him to set a story in the weeks following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

At the end of the Cold War, three Americans were caught for spying for the KGB. It is widely believed there was another. Robert Baer chronicles this on-going hunt in his book "The Fourth Man." In his visit on Maine Street, Baer said the FBI is closing in on the culprit.

After reading hundreds of stories in her role as Chicken Soup for the Soul's editor-in-chief, Amy Newmark shared some great advice from their latest book "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 20 Keys to Happiness."