Maggie's Book Bites: Recent Episodes
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Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Victoria are in conversation about books that have twisters inside. Titles included in this episode are:
The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana by Janis Thornton
F5: devastation, survival, and the most violent tornado outbreak of the twentieth century by Mark Levine
Chasing Helicity (series) by Ginger Zee
Into The Storm by Reed Timmer
Jack Vs. The Tornado by Amanda Cleary Eastep
The Mighty Whirlwind by David Wagler
The Man Who Caught The Storm : The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras by Brantley Hargrove
The Rescuer by Dee Henderson
Scream Blue Murder by Susan Page Davis
The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs In Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop by Tristan Cooley
Shatterproof: Three Deadly Tornadoes and the Towns that Survived Them by Katrina Hoover
The Stormchasers by Jenna Blum
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South’s Tornado Alley by Kim Cross
The Weather Could Be Verse (Poetry) by Gary Sieber, Meteorologist
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Pat are in conversation books with an animal on the cover - an Expand Your Horizons task. Titles included in this episode are:
Coyote Lost & Found by Dan Gemeinhart (Coyote Sunrise #2)
Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski
The Line Tender by Kate Allen
Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
The One And Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (series)
Piglet: The Unexpected Story Of A Deaf, Blind, Pink Puppy and His Family by Melissa Shapiro
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts
Shark Heart by Emily Habec
The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler (Moose Springs, Alaska series)
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Sarah are in conversation about books sharing a common topic of gardening. Titles included in this episode are:
A Bit of Earth: A Year In The Garden With God by Andrea G. Burke (July publication)
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Camille T Dungy
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimerer
Flower Farming for Profit: The Complete Guide to Growing a Successful Cut Flower Business by Lennie Larkin
A Garden Called Home by Jessica Lee (picture book)
Garden Wonderland: Create Life-changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy by Leslie Bennett
Gifts From Georgia’s Garden: How Georgia O’Keeffe Nourished Her Art by Lisa Robinson (picture book)
The Girl from Earth's End by Tara Dairman
The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
The Keeper Of The Bees by Gene Stratton Porter
The Red Garden: Stories by Alice Hoffman
Simply In Season: Recipes that celebrate fresh, local foods in the spirit of More-with-Less by Mary Beth Lind & Cathleen Hockman-Wert
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T Dungy
Until The Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future by Ginny Yurich
The Words In My Hands by Asphyxia
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Jan are in conversation about the Expand Your Horizons task of watching a movie or reading a book featuring, authored by or narrated by Tom Hanks. Titles included in this episode are:
The Dutch House by Ann Prachett (narrator of audiobook)
Forrest Gump, and Gump & Co. by Winston Groom
Hits & Misses : Stories by Simon Rich
The Making Of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: A Visual History by Melissa Wagner
Uncommon Type : Some Stories by Tom Hanks
Waiting For Tom Hanks & Not Like The Movies by Kerry Winfrey
The World According To Tom Hanks: The Life, The Obsessions, The Good Deeds Of America's Most Decent Guy by Gavin Edwards
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Cherie are in conversation about books featuring Olympians & Athletes. Highlighted in this episode are:
9 Lives By 35: An Olympic Gymnast’s Inspiring Story of Reinvention by Mary Sanders
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Boys of Winter-US hockey team defeats Russians in 1980 Olympics by Wayne Robby and Mike Eruzion
Chariots of Fire. This a movie about track athletes, one Jewish and one a devout Christian, in the 1924 Olympics
Hard Pivot: Embrace Change. Find Purpose. Show UP Fully. By Apolo Ohno
Just Don’t Fall: A Hilariously True Story of Childhood Cancer and Olympic Greatness by Josh Sundquist
Olympic Portraits by Annie LeibovitzThe Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State by Aime Alley Card
Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitlers Olympics 1936 by Jeremy Schapp
We Are the Troopers: The Women of the Winningest Team in Pro Football History by Stephen Guinan
Women in Sports: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played To Win by Rachel Ignotofsky
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Martha are in conversation about books featuring dragons. Highlighted in this episode are: The Book of Dragons (short stories) compiled by Jonathan Strahan
A Death In Door County by Annelise Ryan
Dragon Masters (series) by Tracey West
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
A Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Regan Barnhill
Eragon (series) by Christopher Paolini
Fourth Wing (series) by Rebecca Yarros
Harry Potter (series) by JK Rowling
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
How To Train Your Dragon (series) by Cressida Cowell
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
The Rain Wild Chronicles (series) by Robin Hobb
The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons (expected July 2024)
And They Found Dragons (series) by Ted Dekker
The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung (2024 Caldecott Honor)
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, Cherie & Ginette are in conversation about book to screen adaptations. Highlighted in this episode are:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
The Maltese Falcon by Samuel Dashiell Hammett
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Sullivan’s Crossing (series) by Robyn Carr
Sweet Magnolias (series) by Sheryl Woods
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wool by Hugh Howey
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie and Micheala are in conversation about our favorite reads in 2023, so far. Highlighted in this episode are:
The Devil’s Highway by Luis Albert Urrea
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails by Camper English
Fourth Wing & Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Holly Stephen King
How To Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison
In Waiting (a short story inside Scattered Showers) by Rainbow Rowell
Indigo Isle by T.I. Lowe
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Solito by Javier Zamora
Spare by Prince Harry
Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan
Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future by Ginny Yurich
Wildfire by Hannah Grace
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie and Micheala are in conversation about Cozy Holiday Reads. Highlighted in this episode are:
A Court of Frost & Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
A Royal Christmas Wedding by Rachel Hauck
A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Becoming Us by Robin Jones Gunn
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
First Christmas on Huckleberry Hill by Jennifer Beckstrand
Finding Father Christmas, Engaging Father Christmas, Marrying Father Christmas by Robin Jones Gunn
Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
Lease on Love by Falon Ballard
Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison
The Wish by Nicholas Sparks
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Library Board President, Julie, are in conversation about books with an investigative journalism theme.
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko
The Girls Who Fought Crime by Mari Eder
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Sadie by Courtney Summers
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor
Slanted: How The News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism by Sharyl Attkisson
The Word Was Murder by Anthony Horowitz
We Carry Their Bones: The Search For Justice At The Dozier School For Boys by Erin Kimmerle
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of An All-American Teen by Kate Fagan
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Frontliner, Cherie, are in conversation about books that feature characters tackling censorship.
Answers In The Pages by David Levithan
Attack of Black Rectangles by A.S. King
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook
Banned Books: The Controversy Over What Students Read by Meryl Loonin
Banned Books: The World’s Most Controversial Books, Past and Present by DK Publishing
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradberry
For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More by Graham Tarrant
The Librarian Of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age by Amy Sohn
Slanted: How The News Media Taught Us To Love Censorship And Hate Journalism by Sharyl Attkisson
Suggested Reading by Dave Connis
Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer
The Daughter of the Pirate King by Trishia Levenseller
The Daughter of the Siren Queen by Trishia Levenseller
Deep As The Sky, Red As The Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
The Lost Boy by Christina Henry
Mermaid and Pirate by Tracey Baptiste
Never, Never by Serena Valentino
Pirate Latitudes by Micheal Crichton
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared To Rule The High Seas by Leigh Lewis
The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story or Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos
Prince Of Song And Sea by Linsey Miller
Sea Serpent's Heir: Pirate's Daughter by Mairghread Scott
The Siren by Kiera Cass
Those We Drown by Amy Goldsmith
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic by David Lester
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Stephenie, the Youth Services Manager, are in conversation about books that have and are red, white, and new.
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Yours Truly by Abby Jiminez
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by 18 Afghan Women
You: The Story by Ruta Sepetys
Borrow My Heart by Kasie West
Tap! Tap! Tap! By Herve Tullet
When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhha Lai
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Weather Together by Jessie Sima
The Lake House by Sarah Durst
Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu
An Appetite for Miracles by Laeken Zea Kemp
Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken
We Don’t Lose Our Class Goldfish by Ryan T. Higgins
Hoops by Matt Tavares
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Micheala, the Communications Manager, are in conversation about books that have and are trending on BookTok & Bookstagram.
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas (series)
Bergman Brothers by Chloe Liese (series)
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Funny Feelings by Tarah DeWitt
Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (series)
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy
It Ends With Us and It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
Spare by Prince Harry
Sugaring Off by Gillian French
The London Seance Society and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Sandi, a local paramedic and avid reader, are in conversation about books with a medical theme.
Anatomy & Immortality (Duology): A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind Of An American Family by Robert Kolker
Harvest (Medical Thrillers series) by Tess Gerritsen
Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta series) by Patricia Cornwell
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails by Camper English
Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin
Fatal by Michael Palmer
Extreme Measures by Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life by Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter M.D.
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Sarah, former library staff and avid reader, highlight books featuring road trips or traveling.
-Alice Across America: The Story of the First Women’s Cross-Country Road Trip by sarah Glenn Marsh
-Between Two Kingdoms by Sukeika Jouad
-A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti
-Into the Wild by John Krakuer
-The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
-Maps For A Getaway by Annie England Noblin
-Paper Towns by John Green
-The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinheit
-Sister Chicks On The Loose by by Robin Jones Gunn
-Subpar Parks: America's Most Extraordinary National Parks and Their Least Impressed Visitors by Amber Share
-You Are My Sunshine: A Story of Love, Promises, and a Really Long Bike Ride by Sean Dietrich
Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Victoria, the Technology Specialist, highlight books featuring remarkable women.
-Barbizon: the Hotel That Set Women Free, The by Paulina Bren
-Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World, The by Shelley Puhak
-Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage and Justice, The by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Victoria has this checked out from another library)
-Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier, The by April White
-Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII, A by Sarah Helm (Victoria owns this book)
-Moment Of Life: How Empowering Women Changes The World, The by Melinda Gates
-Secret History Of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed The Power Of Home And Changed The Way We Live, The by Danielle Dreilinger
-Secrets Of The Sprakkar: Iceland’s Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing The World by Eliza Reid
-Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of OSS and SOE by Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis
-She Came To Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
-Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II, The by Svetlana Alexievich (Victoria has this from another library)
-When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
-Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage by Nathalia Holt
Join Maggie and Sarah in conversation about books with a theme of unique histories. These aren't just your typical text books and our hope is that we'll encourage listeners to give non-fiction a try thanks to the topics in these books.
Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story Of The Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke
Fight like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Meet Me By The Fountain: An Inside History of The Mall by Alexandra Lange
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing The Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries by Greg Melville
Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum by Meghan McCarthy
The Crayon Man by Natascha Biebow
The Secret History Of Food: Strange But True Stories About The Origins Of Everything We Eat by Matt Siegel
There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America by Amy Argetsinger
Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began In A Shelter And Inspired The World by Nikita Stewart
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen
Join Maggie and Brittney from the Nappanee Public Library as they discuss the annual reading challenge called Expand Your Horizons. The goal is to introduce new authors, new genres, new places, and things through various tasks. One such task is to read a book or watch a movie starring, about, or written by Dolly Parton, while the books Brittney and I talk about today aren’t nearly all of the possibilities, our hope is that participants will have a broadened idea of what will work for the challenge.
Nappanee Public Library is excited to announce a new podcast that is being added to our monthly programs. Maggie's Book Bites, hosted by Maggie, is all about books and reading. New episodes will air monthly. This teaser is an excerpt from an interview with Martha from Evie's History Bytes.