KPL Podcast

Award-winning novelist SJ Sindu visits this week on the KPL Podcast! We will be discussing her thought provoking newest release Blue Skinned Gods. Then Jigisha and Ryan bid adieu to the year with a look back at some of their favorite books of 2021. All this and more on the KPL Podcast!
1. Bewilderness by Karen Tucker
2. Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls by Daniel Scott Tysdale
3. Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4. Quiet in her Bones by Nalini Singh
5. Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
6. The Personal Librarian by Victoria Christopher Murray and Marie Benedict
7. The Twilight Zone by Nona Hernandez

Neuroscientist Rebecca Schwarzlose drops in for an episode that is equal parts engrossingly fascinating and ridiculously silly on the KPL Podcast! First up we will be chatting about her book Brainscapes: The warped, wondrous maps written in your brain and how they guide you. Speaking of brains, afterwards Ryan and Jigisha share some of their favorite books and movies featuring those grey matter munching zombies. All this and more on a very special KPL Podcast.
Recommendations
1. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
2. Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are? by Jennifer Groh
3. New Mind Readers by Russell Poldrack
4. Train to Busan
5. Night of the Living Deb 
6. iZombie by Chris Roberson
7. I am Legend
8. Zombieland

This week Science Fiction and Fantasy author Stina Leicht visits the KPL Podcast! We will be chatting about her latest space spanning thrilling adventure Persephone Station. Next Jigisha and Ryan make some sci-fi and Star Trek recommendations. All this and more on this week's stellar KPL Podcast!
1. Infomocracy by Malka Older
2. The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman
3. Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salessess
4. Artificial Condition -Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
5. Star Trek
6. Star Trek Next Generation
7. Deep Space Nine
8. Voyager

Nalini Singh is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter series. She is also our special guest this week on the KPL Podcast! We discuss her most recent title Archangel's Light. Then Jigisha and Ryan chat about some of their favorite book series. All this and more on this week's KPL Podcast!
1. Educated by Tara Westover
2. Battle Royal by Lucy Parker
3. A Master Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
4. All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Nalini's Website
www.nalinisingh.com

Pillars of the Earth superstar author Ken Follett joins us this week on the KPL Podcast. WE discuss his latest heart pounding thriller, Never! Afterwards, hosts Jigisha and Ryan enjoy a Missouri Bicentennial history segment. All this and more on this week's KPL Podcast!

Recommendations:
Cemetery Road by Greg Iles
Blue Moon by Lee Child
The State Historical Society of Missouri
Sacred Sun

This week a very special episode of the KPL Podcast. We are joined by author Jared Reinmuth and graphic artist Ameziane in conversation about their book Big Black: Stand at Attica. It is the true story of Frank "Big Black" Smith and is an unflinching look at the price of standing up to injustice in one of the bloodiest civil rights confrontations in American History.

Disturbing the Universe
Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson
A Time to Die by Tom Wicker
Miss Davis by Ameziane

 You're in for a scare! It's a fun-filled Halloween episode this week on the KPL Podcast. First up we chat with horror author Cassandra Khaw about her latest haunted tale, Nothing but Blackened Teeth! Then Jigisha and Ryan discuss some global monsters, folklore, and urban legends that keep their nightlights on. All this and more on a very haunting episode of the KPL Podcast! 

1. The Eye
2. Shutter
3. Saint Death's Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney

It's the KPL Podcast's 100th episode! This week author Tae Keller joins us in conversation of her 2021 Newbery Award Winning title, When You Trap a Tiger! Then Jigisha and Ryan reminisce about the past 100 episodes, learn a bit about the origin of children libraries in a history segment, and talk about a few other things that reached 100 this year. All this and much more on this celebratory episode of the KPL Podcast!

Recommendations
1. Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee (released in 2022)
2. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
3. Zia Erases the World by Bree Barton (released in 2022)

 A frightfully fun episode is in store for you this week on the KPL Podcast! We are joined by debut author, Ryan Douglass and will be discussing his instant New York Times Bestseller, The Taking of Jake Livingston. Then Jigisha and Ryan get excited about their Halloween viewings with the help of scary movie recommendations. All this, a poetry reading, and more on this week on the KPL Podcast! 

Recommendations
1. My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
2. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
3. Malignant
4. Hocus Pocus
5 Intensity by Dean Koontz
6. The Last Witch Hunter
7. Viy
8. Return of the Living Dead

 It's an episode filled with history and fiction this week on the KPL Podcast. First up we are joined by Historical Fiction and Romance author, Lecia Cornwall. We discuss her latest book, The Woman at the Front. Then Jigisha shares three awe inspiring heroes of World War One in a long overdue history segment. This and more on this week's KPL Podcast! 

Books:
1. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robyn Wall Kimmerer
2. A Most Clever Girl by Stephanie Marie Thornton
3. A Lab of One's Own by Rita Colwell
4. The Hello Girls: America's First Women soldiers by Elizabeth Cobbs
5. Courage Portraits by Gordon Brown
6. Jane Addams Spirit in Action by Louise w. Knight