KPL Podcast

We have local author Bobby Bostic on this week's episode of the KPL podcast.  His is an incredible story of resilience in the face of adversity.  Bobby wrote several books while serving time in prison and he tells us all about those books.  @freebobbybostic
Bobby's Books
1. Life Goes on Inside Prison
2. When Life Gives You Lemons Make Lemonade
3. Dear Mama: The Life and Struggles of a Single Mother

Website
www.freebobbybostic.com

This week on the KPL Podcast, we have returning guest Lecia Cornwall.  Her latest novel, That Summer in Berlin is a thrilling historical fiction set during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.  The story follows one young English woman spying on the German while pretending to be a tourist.  Who would suspect a photo crazy debutante of spying.
Recommendations:
One Woman's War by Christine Well

This week on the KPL Podcast, we award winning children's book author, Daniel Vandever.  Both of his books have won the American Indian Library Association's, Youth Literature Awards.  Listen to a reading of Herizon on the Kirkwood Public Library's Youtube Channel
Fall In Line, Holden 2018 Youth Literature Award
Herizon won 2022 Youth Literature Awards, Picture Book

This week on the podcast we spoke with Alexa Martin author of best-selling Playbook Series.  Her latest novel is a great light-hearted read and we had fun during the interview.  Better than Fiction is a must read  and many others agree.  It is  Amazon's Best Romances of November, Buzzfeed’s New Romances to Read This Fall, Cosmopolitan's Best Books Coming Out In November, Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of November,  and Women's Health's Swooniest Romance Novels of 2022.  A recommendation list for books set in libraries or bookstores.
1.  The Boy With the Book Store by Sarah Echavarre Smith
2. Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
3.  Still Standing by Kristen Ashley
4. The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
5. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
6. The Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
7. The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan
8. The Lyons of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror. Check out her newest book, Man Made Monsters,  Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection – from werewolves to vampires to zombies – all the time-worn horror baddies are there. 
The Whalebone Parrot by Darcie Little Badger
There, There by Tommy Orange
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Beadworkers by Beth Piatote
The Street by Anne Petrie

This week's guest is debut author Olesya Salnikova Gilmore and she has written an amazing retelling of the Baba Yaga Slavic folktale. The Witch and The Tsar takes you to Russia during the reign Ivan the Terrible. 
1. Circe by Madeline Miller
2. Thistlefoot by Jenna Rose
3. Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
4. Cackle by Rachel Harrison
5. The Hacienda by Isabel Canas

This week on the podcast we local author and teacher Jan Jacobi, discussing Abraham Lincoln.  He is currently writing a five series on the 16th President.  His latest novel, Lincoln in Springfield is book two of five.  The books covers Lincoln's life as a young lawyer practicing in Springfield, Illinois. 
1. Young Lincoln by Jan Jacobi
2. Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Michaelson
3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
4. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
5. Odyssey by Homer
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Spooky season is here and so we had to have at least one horror on the podcast.  Horror writer Rachel Harrison is here to talk about Such Sharp Teeth, a book about a female werewolf.  Jigisha will also be discussing the top 8 scariest books ever written. Let us know what you think of the list. Write to us at [email protected]
1. The Orphanage
2. This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
3. The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
4. The Shining by Stephen King
5. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
6. Dracula by Bram Stoker
7. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
8. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
9. Carrie by Stephen King
10. The Omen by David Seltzer
11. Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The Thursday Murder Club is back investigating another cold case.  This time there's no body, no clues, and, no answers.  The Bullet That Missed is the third book in the The Thursday Murder Club series.   Listen to the episode and learn a little more about Richard Osman.
1. The Thursday Murder Club
2. The Man Who Died Twice

This week on the KPL podcast we have investigative journal Sally Denton highlighting her latest true crime novel, The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land.  The book takes a deep dive into the grisly murder of nine women and children, who were members to two Mormon outposts in Mexico.