Happy New Year.  Welcome back to the KPL podcast for 2025.  This week we interviewed author Susan Barker about her new book, Old Soul.  This novel is a horror novel but also a love story that explores the nature of evil.

Author Reads
You Like it Darker by Stephen King
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

This week on the KPL Podcast we provide and list of some of our favorite books of 2024.  We tried to limit ourselves to 4 books apiece so 8 in total.
1. Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben Goldfarb   episode 226

2. The Measure by Nikki Erlick

3. The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach  episode 256

4. The Cook's Book: recipes for keeps and essential techniques to master everyday cooking by Bri McKoy   episode 221

5. The Talented Mrs Mandelbaum: This of rise and fall of an American organized crime-boss by Margalit Fox

6. The Secret History of sharks: the rise of the ocean's most fearsome predators by John Long episode 249

7. Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett

8. The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong  episode 252

This week on the KPL Podcast, we have bestselling author Adam Mansbach.  We talk Golems, Judaism, and his novel, The Golem of Brooklyn.  This is a timely book that wonders how a Golem in the modern world would work. Listen to learn more.
Author Reads
1. Rule of Bone by Russell Banks
2. 2666 by Roberto Bolano
3. Apeirogon by Colum McCann

This week on the KPL Podcast, we have debut author Anne Shaw Heinrich.  We discuss her first novel, God Bless the Child.  This book is an emotionally charged story of motherhood, family, and redemption. Listen to the episode to learn more about this amazing story.

Author reads
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Nora by Nuala O' Connor
Fortune's Rock by Anita Shreve

This week on the podcast, I have awarding winning author and playwright Beth Kander.  We discuss her latest book, I Made It Out of Clay.  A funny rom com that tackles themes of grief, family, and safety.  Eve is still reeling from the death of her father but needs to find a date for her sister's wedding.  So she creates a golem to be her date. Listen to learn more.

Author Reads 
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Made for You by Jenna Satterthwaite
American Rapture by CJ Leede

It's all about audiobooks this week.  If you are ready to travel for the holiday season then you may enjoy the following audiobooks.
1. The Measure by Nikki Erlich
2. The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
3. Mind Games by Nora Roberts
4. The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley
5. Yellowface by RF Kuang
6. Leg by Greg Marshall
7. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
8. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
9. Looking for Alaska by John Green
10. The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
11. The Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
12. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

This week on the KPL podcast we have debut author Julie Leong. Her first novel, The Teller of Small Fortunes,  is a wonderful, whimsical cozy fantasy about a traveling fortune teller who only tells small fortunes.  Along the way she makes friends and uses her gift to locate the daughter of a soldier. Listen to learn more.
Author reads
1. The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
2. The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August

Welcome back to the KPL Podcast.  This week we have returning author and fellow librarian Eva Jurczyk to discuss her second novel, That Night in the Library.  Just like her previous book, this story is also set in a rare books library.  A group of students on their last night at the university decide to lock themselves in the basement of the library and throw a party.  As soon as they start, the lights go off and someone dies.  Listen to learn more.

Author Reads
1. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
2. Colored Television by Danzy Senna
3. Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

This week on the KPL podcast we have YA author, Jennifer D. Lyle.  Her latest novel Snow Drowned is a compelling book about young teen navigating harrowing circumstances during a once in a century snow storm. 

Author Reads
1. Do What Godmother Says by LS Stratton
2. The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
3. The September House by Carissa Orlando
4. The Rise of the Dragon volume 1: an Illustrated history of the Targaryen Dynasty by George RR Martin 

This week on the KPL podcast learn about sharks.  Dr. John Long is a paleontologist with years of experience studying sharks and shark fossils.  His latest book is about how sharks evolved to become the ocean's apex predators. Check out his latest book, The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators, The Secret History of Sharks.

Other books by John Long