June 4, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Linda Gingrich reviews Choices: Realistic Alternatives in Cancer Treatment by Marion Morra & Eve Potts; and Cancer Care: A Personal Guide by Jack W. Glucksberg & Harold Singer.
June 6, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Dale Huffington, director of the Duluth Festival of the Arts, reviews The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill by Ronald Sanders.
July 2, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Bob Miller reviews Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind by Andrew Potok.
July 9, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, James Bohen, of Irish Books and Media, reviews Wheels Within Wheels: The Making of a Traveller, by Dervla Murphy.
July 11, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, librarian Mary Alice Sell reviews three young adult novels: I Hate to Talk About Your Mother by Hettie Jones; Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees by Lensey Namioka; and Tangled Butterfly by Marion Dane Bauer, a Minnesotan.
July 16, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Karen Nelson Hoyle, assistant professor and curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections, reviews A Companion to World Mythology by Richard W. Barber.
July 18, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Eoin McKiernan, president of the Irish American Cultural Institute at St. Thomas University, reviews Home Before Night by Hugh Leonard.
July 23, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Edward Berryman, organist and director of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis, reviews A New History of the Organ from the Greeks to the Present Day by Peter F. Williams.
July 30, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, David Robinson reviews Fly Away Home by Mary Hedin.
August 6, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Paul Gruchow comments on The World of Oz: An Inside Report on Big-Time Journalism by Osborn Elliott.