Maggie's Book Bites

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Victoria, Micheala, and Maggie are in conversation about some of their favorite reads from 2025 and a few that they are still hoping to get to by the end of the year. Included in this episode are:

-The Book Club of Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick

-Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough

-The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

-The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

-Agent Zo: The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter by Claire Mulley

-Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

-June In The Garden by Eleanor Wilde

-Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II’s Most Daring Heist by Alexander Rose

-The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

-Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau

-The Siege: A Six Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special Forces Raid that Shocked the World by Ben MacIntyre

-A Walk in the Woods  by Bill Bryson

-Lessons In Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Sarah & Maggie are in conversation about fiction books sharing a time slip and/or dual narrative timeline. Included in this episode are:

-By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

-A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

-Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

-Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

-Homecoming by Kate Morton

-Landline by Rainbow Rowell

-My Friends by Fredrik Backman

-The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

-Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

-Under The Same Stars by Libba Bray

-The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Claire & Pat join Maggie in conversation about books that are better as audio and/or books that are only published as audio. Included in this episode are:

-Adventures in Odyssey

-Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

-The Boy In The Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

-Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry

-Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

-The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

-I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

-The Magnolia Story by Chip & Joanna Gaines

-MeatEater’s Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Misses by Steven Rinella

-My Friends by Fredrik Backman

-Paper Bag Christmas by Kevin Alan Milne

-Soundtrack by Jason Reynolds

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Pat & Cherie join Maggie in conversation about some non-fiction books that have piqued their interest lately. Included in this episode are:

-The Art Thief : A True Story Of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

-Everything Is Tuberculosis : The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

-The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club : Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes by Sepideah Gholian

-Holy Ground : On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope by Catherine Coleman Flowers

-How to Survive History : How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes by Cody Cassidy

-It’s Your Funeral! : Plan the Celebration of a lifetime before it’s too late by Kathy Benjamin

-Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century : A Traveler’s Guide to Blue Moons and Black Holes, Mars, Stars, and Everything Far by Neil deGrasse Tyson

-Oh No He Didn't! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work by Wendy J Murphy 

-The Party Of Your Life : Get The Funeral You Want By Planning It Yourself by Erika Dillman

-The Plan : Manage Your Time Like A Lazy Genius by Kendra Adachi

-They Poisoned the World : Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals by Mariah Blake

-Reconnected : How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human by Carlos Whittaker

-The Secret Life of Groceries : The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

-Steve Martin Writes the Written Word by Steve Martin

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Wanda, owner of Nappanee's Independent Bookstore Bella's Books & Curiosities, is in conversation with Maggie about books with a list inside ("to-do lists", bucket lists, hit lists, or even a series of challenges) within the narrative. Included in this episode are:

-All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

-The Bucket List by Rachel Hanna

-The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas

-The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

-The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh

-The List by Kiersten Modglin

-The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

-The Quit List by Katie Bailey

-The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Joni & Maggie are in conversation about Books Within Books aka Nested Books. Included in this episode are:

-The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

-Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

-Death On The Island by Eliza Reid

-If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italio Calvino

-Magpie Murders (series) by Anthony Horowitz

-No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

-The Recipe For A Perfect Wife by Karma Brown

-The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

-The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson

-The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry

-The Thirteen Tale by Dianne Setterfield

-Thursday Next (series) by Jasper Fforde

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Victoria & Maggie are in conversation about books with kings & queens, one of the 2025 Expand Your Horizons reading tasks. Included in this episode are:

-Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror by Pardis Mahdavi

-Island Queen by Vanessa Riley

-The Selection (series) by Kiera Cass

-Spare by Prince Harry

-The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett

-Crown, Cloak, and Dagger : the British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

-In Search of A Prince by Toni Shiloh

-Katherine of Aragon: the True Queen by Alison Weir

-Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spymaster by Paddy Hayes

-Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Garret, Sarah, & Maggie are in conversation about books with untraditional characters, plots & settings. Included in this episode are:

-The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Greene

-The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

-Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

-Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

-The House In The Cerulean Sea duology by T.J. Klune

-In 27 Days by Alison Gervais

-Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

-The Road To Roswell by Connie Willis

-A Silent Voice Vol. 1 by Yoshitoki Oima

-Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

-This Is How Lose The Time War by Amal El- Mohtar and Max Gladstone

-Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

-Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Victoria & Maggie are in conversation about biographies and memoirs. Included in this episode are:

-Between Two Trailers by Dana Trent

-Born Standing Up  & Number One Is Walking by Steve Martin

-Brace For Impact by Gabe Montesanti

-But You Don’t Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging by Hala Gorani

-In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA Unmasked by Jonna Mendez

-Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War against the West by John Sullivan

-The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller

-Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond

-So Anyway…: A Memoir by John Cleese

-Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home by Mondiant Dogon

-The Watchmaker’s Daughter: the True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom by Larry Loftis

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Michelle & Maggie are in conversation about books written by or featuring Deaf & Hard of Hearing characters. Included in this episode are:

- Dust by Alison Stein

- El Deafo by Cece Bell

- A Game Most Foul by Alison Gervais

- Quiet Beautiful Things by Samantha Christy

- Show Me A Sign trilogy by Ann Clare LeZotte

- The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais

- Sugaring Off by Gillian French

-T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte

- Wonderstruck by Ben Selznick

- The Words In My Hands by Asphyxia

- Would Like To Meet by Rachel Winters