KPL Podcast

This week on the KPL Podcast, check out our interview with Elle Everhart about her new book Hot Summer.  A sapphic romance set against the backdrop of a Love island-inspired reality TV dating show. The novel follows a young woman, Cas Morgan, who finds herself thrust onto the current season of the UK’s eponymous hit reality show in the hopes of securing a long-awaited promotion. But her plan goes off course when she enters the villa.

This week on the KPL Podcast we have the winner of the AWP Prize for the Novel. Parul Kapur’s Inside the Mirror is set in the aftermath of colonialism, as an impoverished India struggles to remake itself into a modern state. Jaya’s story encompasses art, history, political revolt, love, and women’s ambition to seize their own power.

This week in the KPL Podcast, we have bestselling author Suzanne Park and we talke about her new book One Last Word.  The main character, Sara Chae is the founder of One Last Word, an app that allows you to send a mes­sage to anyone you want after you pass. Safeguards are in place so the app will only send when you’re definitely, absolutely, 100% dead, but when another Sara Chae dies and her obituary is posted online, Sara discovers that drafted messages she had drunkenly uploaded  one night have been released —one each to her emotionally charged mother, to her former best friend who ghosted her, and to her unrequited high school crush.

Author Reads
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
My Vampire Plus One by Jenna Levine
Missing White Women by Kellye Garrett

We have reached the midpoint of 2024 and are discussing some of the amazing books we have read thus far.  The list includes fiction and non fiction books of 2024.
1.Throwbacks home interiors : one of a kind home design from reclaimed & salvaged goods by  Bo Shepherd & Kyle Dubay,
2. The Night of the Storm by Nishita Parekh
3. Hot springs : photos and stories of how the world soaks, swims, and slows down by Greta Rybus.
4. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnam Khan
5. Praisesong for the kitchen ghosts : stories and recipes from five generations of Black country cooks  by Crystal Wilkinson ; photographs by Kelly Marshall.
6. Queens of London by Heather Webb
7.The menopause brain : new science empowers women to navigate the pivotal transition with knowledge and confidence by Lisa Mosconi, PhD.
8. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson by Ellen Baker
9. Your first million : why you don't have to be born into a legacy of wealth to leave one behind : an entrepreneur's guide by Arlan Hamilton
10. The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

This week on the KPL Podcast we have debut author Tasha Coryell.  Love Letters to a Serial Killer is her first novel about a 30-something woman who starts writing an accused killer in jail and falls in love.  Listen to learn more

Author Recommendations
The Poppy War by RF Kuang
Yellowface by RF Kuang
Babel by RF Kuang

This week we have returning guest Sidney Karger here to tell us all about The Bump, his latest novel.  This is funny, sweet story about a couple that embarks on a road trip before the arrival of their baby.  Plenty of hijinks as well as twists and turns as the couple drives from New York to California.

Author Recommendations
1. Yellowface by RF Kuang
2. Funny Story by Emily Henry
3. Everyone On This Train is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson

This week on the podcast we have bestselling author Steven Rowley.  He has a new book out, title The Guncle Abroad and its the sequel to The Guncle.  Patrick is back to impart more of life wisdom to his niece and nephew as they grapple with their father's upcoming marriage.

Author Recommendations
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

Welcome back to another episode of the KPL Podcast.  This week we spoke with bestselling author Lisa Barr about her latest novel, The Goddess of Warsaw.  This is an exciting novel about a Jewish Holocaust survivor turned actress and assassin.  An enthralling novel about survival and revenge.  Listen to learn more,

Author recommendations
Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki
The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

This week on the KPL Podcast we have New York Times bestselling author Emiko Jean telling us all about her new book The Return of Ellie Black.  A fast paced thriller about a young girl who returns two years after her disappearance.

Annie bot by Sierra Greer

This week on the KPL Podcast we have author and book lover Shannon Reed.  Her latest book is, Why We Read, On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out. This a collection of laugh-out-loud-funny stories from her life as a reader and the poignant ways in which books have impacted her students.

Author Recommendations
1. Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
2. Plainsong by Kent Haruf
3. Egg A Dozen Ovatures by Lizzie Stark
4. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen