KPL Podcast

This week a very special episode of the KPL Podcast. We are joined by Professor Amanda Tyler, coauthor of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's last book, "Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union." We discuss the lasting legacy of her friend and mentor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Herma Hill Kay, Martin Ginsburg, the Supreme Court and so much more. It is a conversation not to be missed. Please join us.  Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]

Paving the Way: the First American Women Law Professors by Herma Hill Kay

 It's a Star Wars Day celebration this week on your KPL Podcast! Not one author, not two, but three authors join us to chat about this beloved topic. Jigisha and Ryan are joined by Claudia Gray, E.K. Johnston, and John Jackson Miller. In addition we sample highlights from our Star Wars Day panel with Professor Suzanne Scott. Check out the library's youtube channel for the whole conversation! It's an episode of galactic proportions on this week's KPL Podcast.   Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]

Star Wars Panel Discussion

Books by Claudia Gray
Into the Dark
Star Wars: Lost Stars
Star Wars: Bloodline

Books by EK Johnston
Queen's shadow
Ahsoka

Books By John Jackson Miller
Star Wars from a Certain Point of View
Kenobi
A New Dawn

Your KPL Podcast is blasting off for another out of this world adventure! This week we are joined by Hugo Award Winning bestseller, Becky Chambers.  We will be discussing her Wayfarers series and it's latest title "The Galaxy, and the Ground Within," and more. We also get a visit from engineer Dave Dixon for a chat about the science of satellites. It's a science fiction and science fact filled episode on your KPL Podcast!  Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]

Learn more about Becky Chambers at www.otherscribles.com
Recommendations:
The Wayfarers Series (four book series)
1.  The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
2.  A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
3. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
4. The Galaxy and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers

5. A Psalm of the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
6. Alien Oceans by Kevin Hand
7. 2001 A Space Odyssey 

It's a reunion this week on the KPL Podcast! Mystery author and St. Louis native Elaine Viets checks back in with us for a fun-filled conversation about her latest book "Death Grip." Then Jigisha and Ryan mixes Missouri history with National Poetry Month with a brief biography of T.S. Eliot. All this and more on this week's KPL Podcast!    Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]
Recommendations
1. An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris
2. Grounds for Murder Tara Lush
3. Ben Kinkade series by William Barnhardt
4. New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
5. Before She was Helen by Caroline Cooney
6. TS Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordan
7. Young Eliot: From St. Louis to the Waste by Robert Crawford
8. TS Eliot: A Short Biography by John Worthen
9. The Complete Poems and Plays by TS Eliot

A  special One Author, One Kirkwood episode is in store for you this week on the KPL Podcast. Enjoy highlights from this year's live event with the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half and The Mothers, Brit Bennett! Funding for the One Author series of programs is provided by the Edward Chase Garvey Memorial Foundation. Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]
One Author One Kirkwood Event
Brit Bennett
Stephanie Powell Watts

We are jam packed with celebration this week on the KPL Podcast! First we're visited by New York Times Bestseller Lisa Scottoline. We will be discussing her latest title "Eternal." Then, Jigisha and Ryan party down for National Library Week by sharing what they and other library staff members are reading in this week's Readers Advisory segment. Lastly for National Poetry Month we've a poetry reading! All this and more on a super celebratory episode of the KPL Podcast. Don't miss out! Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]
Recommendations:
1. Normal People by Sally Rooney
2. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
3. Madness of Sunshine and Quiet in her Bones by Nalini Singh
4. The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
5. Debbie Macomber's Table by Debbie Macomber
6. Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy by Douglas Adams
7. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
8. The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewel
9. A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot
10. Cross her Heart by Melinda Leigh
11. We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
12. Library Book by Susan Orlean
13. A Long Way to A Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
14. Difficult Damsels by Nikita Gill in the book Fierce Fairytales Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

This week on the KPL Podcast we're off to the literary frontier with bestselling author and journalist Anna North! We will be discussing her latest title "Outlawed," alternate history, midwifery, and more! Jigisha and Ryan also share some of their favorite Westerns in this week's Readers Advisory. All this and more on this thrilling episode of the KPL Podcast.  Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]
Recommendations
1. Crazy Cat by Patrick McDonnell
2. Midwife's Tale by Laurel Ulrich
3. God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney (June 2021)
4. Oh Beautiful by Jung Yun (November 2021)
5. The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
6. Legend by Jude Deveraux
7. Twin of Ice and Twin of Fire by Jude Deveraux
8. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
9. No Country for Old Men Movie
10.  Tombstone
11. True Grit by Charles Portis
12. True Grit (1969)
13. True Grit (2010)
14. Brisco County Junior
15. Firefly
16. Cogewea by Mourning Dove 

This week on the KPL Podcast we're off to solve a whodunnit with bestseller mystery maven J.A. Jance! We will be discussing her latest Joanna Brady mystery "Missing and Endangered." Ryan and Jigisha then chat about the life of the Unsinkable Molly Brown in another of our Missouri Bicentennial History segments. All this and more on this thrilling episode of the KPL Podcast.  Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]
1. Molly Brown from Hannibal Missouri by Ken Marks
2. Molly Brown Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the KPL Podcast! 

This week we speak with sci-fi fantasy author Claudia Gray about her latest "House of EL: Book One." Then Jigisha brings to our attention the life of Rosalind Franklin in our next science segment. Finally your hosts chat about graphic novel recommendations and an upcoming library program they are excited to share. All on this can't miss episode of the KPL Podcast!  Have a topic you'd like us to explore? Comments? Please write to us at [email protected]
Recommendations
1. The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
2. Dancing with a Octopus by Debra Harding
3. Double Helix by James Watson
4. Rosalind Franklin and DNA by Anne Sayre
5. The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox
6. My Sister Rosalind Franklin by Jenifer Glynn
7. California Dreamin by Penelope Bagieu
8. Dresden File Graphic Novel by Mark Powers
9. Excalibur by Tini Howard
10. What so Funny about Truth, Justice, and the American Way

This week on the KPL Podcast we are visited by International Bestseller Nadia Hashimi. We will be discussing her most recent release Sparks Like Stars, Afghanistan, and much more. Also Jigisha and Ryan also share some of their recent favorite female protagonist lead titles for National Women's History Month.  All this and more on this week's KPL Podcast. Happy listening!   
Recommendations:
1. Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
2. Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim
3. Harley Quinn season 1
4. Birds of Prey
5. Agatha Raisin by MC Beaton
6. Agatha Raisin Series
7. The Legend of Korra