Fairfield What Are You Reading?

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read.

Fairfield Public Library

Fairfield, CT

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Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

Guests: Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian and Elaine Barrie, Adult Services Librarian.

Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great!

This month's FPL staff picks:

Claudia Silk:

The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club book 4) by Richard Osman

The Well-Lived Life: A 102 Year Old Dr.'s Six Secrets to Health & Happiness at Every Age by Gladys McGarey

xoxo Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships and Tactful Pettiness by Cody Rigsby

The Golden Gate by Amy Chua 

The Second Chance Year by Melissa Weisner (12/5/23 release date)

The Last Love Note by Emma Grey (1/24/23 release date)

 Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis 

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

Elaine Barrie:

The Spectacular by Fiona Davis

The General and Julia by Jon Clinch (11/14/23)

Philip Bahr:

The Bell in the Fog by Lev LC Rosen

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read.

Fairfield Public Library

Fairfield, CT

fairfieldpubliclibrary.org

Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

Thanks to our podcast editor Emma Jane Kennely for making us sound great!

This month's FPL staff picks:

Mary Coe:

A Life with Ghosts: true, terrifying, and insightful tales

Life with the Afterlife: 13 truths I learned about ghosts by Amy Bruni

And the Devil Shivered: a year in my life by Dustin Pari

Ghost Hunting: true stories of unexplained phenomena from

All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan

Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin

Looking forward to:

After Annie by Anna Quindlen

The Hunter by Tana French

Susan Balla

The Caretaker: A Novel by Ron Rash

On Great Fields: The Life And Unlikely Heroism Of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain by Ronald C. White

The Bell In The Fog by Lev Ac Rosen

The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose

Mastering the Art of French Murder (An American In Paris Mystery) by Colleen Cambridge

Hallowe'en Party: Inspiration for the 20th Century Studios Major Motion Picture A Haunting in Venice (Hercule Poirot series Book 36) by Agatha Christie

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night: A Novel by Sophie Hannah Book 5 of 5: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

Leslie Hagel:

Mister Magic by Kiersten White

The September House by Carissa Orlando

Briefly, at end, The Night House by Jo Nesbo

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read.

Fairfield Public Library

Fairfield, CT

fairfieldpubliclibrary.org

Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great!

This month's FPL staff picks:

Tamara Lyhne:

Stinkbird Has a Superpower by Jill Esbaum

Your One and Only Heart by Rajani LaRocca, M.D.

Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohenn

Upcoming:

The Bad Guys in Look Who's Talking (The Bad

Guys #18) by Aaron Blabey

Cat on the Run in Cat of Death (Cat on the Run

#1) by Aaron Blabey

Emily Muller:

Best Wishes: The Sister Switch by Sarah Mlynowski and Debbie Rigaud, ill. Maxine Vee

Home Away From Home by Cynthia Lord

Lo and Behold by Wendy Mass, ill. Gabi Mendez

Upcoming:

The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown

Stefanie Bergstrom, Branch Children's Librarian

Angus Is Here by Hadley Dyer

Firefly Summer by Morgan Matson

Rebel Girls minis

Upcoming:

new Percy Jackson

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Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

This month's FPL staff picks:

Jan Fisher:

First Ladies by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Save What’s Left by Elizabeth Castellano

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

Block Party by Jamie Day

The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Finding Me by Viola Davis

Amy Peck:

Better Living Through Birding: Notes From a Black Man In

Leader of the Pack : An Andy Carpenter Mystery [#10]

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley (May 2023)

The Heartbeat of the Wild: Dispatches From Landscapes Of

Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries Of Octopuses

Upcoming:  

The Last Devil To Die : A Thursday Murder Club Mystery [#4] by Richard Osman (Sept 2023)

Leslie Hagel:

The Senator's Wife by Liv Constantine 5/23/23

The Spectacular by Fiona Davis 6/12/23

Hedge by Jane Delury 6/6/23

The Only One Left by Riley Sager 6/20/23

The Woman in the Castello by Kelsey James 7/25/23

California Golden by Melanie Benjamin 8/8/23

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Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

This month's FPL staff picks:

Jennifer Laseman:

Warrior Girl on Earth by Angeline Boulley (author of Firekeeper's Daughter)

World Made of Glass by Ami Polonsky

The Davenports (The Davenports, #1) by Krystal Marquis

Spell Bound by F.T. Lukens

Elaine Barrie:

The Gifts by Liz Hyder

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann (author of The Killers of the Flower Moon)

Next!: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work by Joanne Lipman

Philip Bahr:

looking forward to four new books being released on June 6, 2023:

Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza

The Last Gay Man on Earth by Ype Driessen

Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page

Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style by Paul Rudnick

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Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

This month's FPL staff picks:

Sue Balla:

A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story Of Desegregation In America by Rachel Louise Martin (June 2023)

The Spectacular by Fiona Davis (June 2023)

You Shouldn’t Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose (April 2023)

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (May 2023)

Phaedra by Laura Shepperson (Jan 2023)

The Wager: A Tale Of Shipwreck, Mutiny, And Murder by David Grann (April 2023)

The General And Julia by Jon Clinch (November 2023)

Linda Quinn:

Woman in the Photo by Mary Hogan

Ms. Davis by Sybille Titeux de la Croix

The Beach at Summerly by Beatriz Williams

What Remains by Wendy Walker

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Claudia Silk:

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb

Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt

The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick

Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand

Same Time Next Summer by Annabelle Monaghan

Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

Nora Goes Off Script by Annabelle Monaghan

Summer Stage by Meg Mitchell Moore

Philip Bahr:

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

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Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

This month's FPL staff picks:

Jan Fisher:

All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay

Beyond that, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

The Private Lives of Public Birds: Learning to Listen to the Birds Where We Live by Jack Gedney

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx

Amy Peck:

A Siege Of Bitterns (Birder Murder mysteries #1) by Steve burrows (2016)

Killers Of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (2022)

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (2022)

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World By Christian Cooper (June, 2023)

Leslie Hagel:

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

American Mermaid by Julia Langbein

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patty Callahan Henry

The Only One Left by Riley Sager

These are the ones I’m looking forward to reading:

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

The Senator’s Wife by Liv Constantine

Spectacular by Fiona Davis

We are honored that our 2023 One Book One Town (OBOT) title was written by a resident of Fairfield. This year’s OBOT selection is I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye by Ivan Maisel.  It is an honest and emotionally deep memoir in which Ivan reflects on the loss of his dear son Max to suicide, the impact of  grief on family and community, and the painful journey which brings Ivan to a place of seeing grief as an expression of love. 

We are so fortunate to have Ivan and his wife Meg Murray with us for the podcast to focus on their journey as individuals, as a couple and as parents to their three children including Max. Please join us for a very special edition of Fairfield, What Are You Reading.

Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great!

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read.

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org

Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services

This month's FPL staff picks:

Tamara Lyhne:

Stefanie Bergstrom:

Emily Muller:

Upcoming releases: The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read.

Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services