Personal Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Rudy, chats with author Conor Bender about World War II history, the challenges of writing historical fiction, and The Laws of Historical Accuracy. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Titles, series, and creators mentioned in this episode include:

• Jubilee by Conor Bender

• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

• The Martian by Andy Weir

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

• Tom Clancy

• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

• Joe Abercrombie

• Neil Gaiman

Personal Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Brandon, chats with author Wendi Coffman-Porter about story endings, roleplaying games, and of course, Baby Yoda. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Titles, series, and creators mentioned in this episode include:

• Fantastic Beasts film series

• Altered Carbon series

• Aether Ones by Wendi Coffman-Porter

• Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin

• David Weber’s Honorverse book series

• On Writing by Stephen King

• The Mandalorian series

• The Stand by Stephen King

• The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

• The Dragonlance book series

• Piers Anthony

• Elizabeth Moon

• David Weber

• The Deed of Paksenarrion

• The Black Company series by Glen Cook

Personal Librarians of the Dallas Public Library, Carlos and Rudy, chat with author Natalia Sylvester about washing your elbows, Natalia’s Feminist Manifesto, and of course her book “Running”. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Titles mentioned include:

• “Running” by Natalia Sylvester

• “Everyone Knows You Go Home” by Natalia Sylvester

• “Dreaming in Cuban” by Cristina García

Personal Librarians of the Dallas Public Library, Jessica and Misty, chat with author M. L. Rio about Shakespeare, Ian McKellan, and of course M. L. Rio’s book “If We Were Villains”. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Titles discussed in this episode include:

• Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

• Shakespeare’s King Lear

• Shakespeare’s A Midnight Summer’s Dream

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson

• If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by the Reduced Shakespeare Company

• License to Quill: A Novel of Shakespeare & Marlowe Novel by Jacopo della Quercia

Personal Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Jessica, chats with author Amber Lough about languages, Amber’s book, “Open Fire”, and of course, the importance of voting. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Titles discussed in this episode include:

• A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth E. Wein

• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein

• They Fought for the Motherland by Laurie S. Stoff

• Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth E. Wein

• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Librarian of the Dallas Public Library, Shannon, chats with author Brandy Colbert about Enola Holmes, book endings, the importance of voting, and Brandy’s book, “The Voting Booth”. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Titles discussed in this episode include:

• “The Black Kids” by Christina Hammonds Reed

• “Felix Ever After” by Kacen Callender

• “Yes No Maybe So” by Aisha Saeed and Becky Albertalli

• “Watch Over Me” by Nina LaCour

• “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson

• “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith

• “Ways to Make Sunshine” by Renee Watson

• “Grown” by Tiffany D. Jackson

• “Black Buck” by Mateo Askaripour

• "Floating in a Most Peculiar Way" by David Racinei

This program was made possible by the 19th Amendment Centennial Fund

Dallas Public Library personal librarian Audrey chats with author of Dumplin’, Puddin’, Side Effects May Vary, and Faith: Taking Flight; Julie Murphy. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Authors and titles mentioned in this episode include:

• Fault in Our Stars

• Faith: Taking Flight

• Lily Anderson

• Amy Spaulding

• Leah Johnson’s You Should See Me in a Crown

Dallas Public Library personal librarians Rudy and Morgan discuss the Spoken Word, nail polish and sour cream, Hank the Cowdog, and of course David Sedaris. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Authors and titles mentioned in this episode include:

• Maya Angelou

• Joy Harjo

• Charles Simic’s Mirrors at 4 a.m.

• Sarah Vowell & This American Life

• Hank the Cow Dog by John R. Erickson

• Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

• Kate Beaton

• Tracy K. Smith

• Frank O’Hara

• David Sedaris

Dallas Public Library personal librarian Jessica chats with author James Venhaus about the size of football players, Hamilton, and of course, the Night Owl Society. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext

Books and plays mentioned in this episode include:

• Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

• A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante

• Tom King’s Batman

• Brian Michael Bendis’ Superman

• Watchmen by Alan Moore, John Higgins, & Dave Gibbons

• James Venhaus’ Night Owl Society

• John Lewis & Andrew Aydin’s March

• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott

• Art Spiegelman’s Maus

Dallas Public Library Personal Librarian Rudy and award-winning Science Fiction author Ken Liu discuss Ken’s writing methods, the realities of the Singularity, and the origin of Silk Punk.

Titles mentioned in this episode include:

• The Paper Menagerie

• The Grace of Kings

• The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

• Unconquerable Sun