Maggie's Book Bites

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Jan are in conversation about the Expand Your Horizons task of watching a movie or reading a book featuring, authored by or narrated by Tom Hanks. Titles included in this episode are:

The Dutch House by Ann Prachett (narrator of audiobook)

Forrest Gump, and Gump & Co. by Winston Groom

Hits & Misses : Stories by Simon Rich

The Making Of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: A Visual History by Melissa Wagner

Uncommon Type : Some Stories by Tom Hanks

Waiting For Tom Hanks & Not Like The Movies by Kerry Winfrey

The World According To Tom Hanks: The Life, The Obsessions, The Good Deeds Of America's Most Decent Guy by Gavin Edwards

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Cherie are in conversation about books featuring Olympians & Athletes. Highlighted in this episode are:

9 Lives By 35: An Olympic Gymnast’s Inspiring Story of Reinvention by Mary Sanders

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

Boys of Winter-US hockey team defeats Russians in 1980 Olympics by Wayne Robby and Mike Eruzion

Chariots of Fire. This a movie about track athletes, one Jewish and one a devout Christian, in the 1924 Olympics

Hard Pivot: Embrace Change. Find Purpose. Show UP Fully. By Apolo Ohno

Just Don’t Fall: A Hilariously True Story of Childhood Cancer and Olympic Greatness by Josh Sundquist

Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitlers Olympics 1936 by Jeremy Schapp

We Are the Troopers: The Women of the Winningest Team in Pro Football History by Stephen Guinan

Women in Sports: Fifty Fearless Athletes Who Played To Win by Rachel Ignotofsky

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie & Martha are in conversation about books featuring dragons. Highlighted in this episode are:

A Death In Door County by Annelise Ryan

Dragon Masters (series) by Tracey West

Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin

A Girl Who Drank The Moon by Kelly Regan Barnhill

Eragon (series) by Christopher Paolini

Fourth Wing (series) by Rebecca Yarros

Harry Potter (series) by JK Rowling

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 

How To Train Your Dragon (series) by Cressida Cowell

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

The Rain Wild Chronicles (series) by Robin Hobb

The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons (expected July 2024)

And They Found Dragons (series) by Ted Dekker

The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung (2024 Caldecott Honor)

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, Cherie & Ginette are in conversation about book to screen adaptations. Highlighted in this episode are:

All  Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland

The Maltese Falcon by Samuel Dashiell Hammett

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Sullivan’s Crossing (series) by Robyn Carr

Sweet Magnolias (series) by Sheryl Woods

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

Wool by Hugh Howey

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie and Micheala are in conversation about our favorite reads in 2023, so far. Highlighted in this episode are:

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails by Camper English

Fourth Wing & Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

Holly Stephen King

How To Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison

In Waiting (a short story inside Scattered Showers) by Rainbow Rowell

Indigo Isle by T.I. Lowe

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

Solito by Javier Zamora 

Spare by Prince Harry

Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan

Until the Streetlights Come On: How a Return to Play Brightens Our Present and Prepares Kids for an Uncertain Future by Ginny Yurich

Wildfire by Hannah Grace

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie and Micheala are in conversation about Cozy Holiday Reads. Highlighted in this episode are:

A Court of Frost & Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

A Royal Christmas Wedding by Rachel Hauck

A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams

Becoming Us by Robin Jones Gunn

Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

First Christmas on Huckleberry Hill by Jennifer Beckstrand

Finding Father Christmas, Engaging Father Christmas, Marrying Father Christmas by Robin Jones Gunn

Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling

Lease on Love by Falon Ballard

Lovelight Farms by B.K. Borison

The Wish by Nicholas Sparks

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Library Board President, Julie, are in conversation about books with an investigative journalism theme.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko

The Girls Who Fought Crime by Mari Eder

I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Sadie by Courtney Summers

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor

Slanted: How The News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism by Sharyl Attkisson

The Word Was Murder by Anthony Horowitz

We Carry Their Bones: The Search For Justice At The Dozier School For Boys by Erin Kimmerle

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of An All-American Teen by Kate Fagan

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Frontliner, Cherie, are in conversation about books that feature characters tackling censorship.

Answers In The Pages by David Levithan

Attack of Black Rectangles by A.S. King

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook

Banned Books: The Controversy Over What Students Read by Meryl Loonin

Banned Books: The World’s Most Controversial Books, Past and Present by DK Publishing

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson

Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News by Eric Berkowitz

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradberry

For the Love of Books: Stories of Literary Lives, Banned Books, Author Feuds, Extraordinary Characters, and More by Graham Tarrant

The Librarian Of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age by Amy Sohn

Slanted: How The News Media Taught Us To Love Censorship And Hate Journalism by Sharyl Attkisson

Suggested Reading by Dave Connis

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Business Manager, Garrett, are in conversation about books that set on the high seas.

The Daughter of the Pirate King by Trishia Levenseller   

The Daughter of the Siren Queen by Trishia Levenseller   

Deep As The Sky, Red As The Sea by Rita Chang-Eppig   

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor   

The Lost Boy by Christina Henry   

Mermaid and Pirate by Tracey Baptiste   

Never, Never by Serena Valentino   

Pirate Latitudes by Micheal Crichton    

Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared To Rule The High Seas by Leigh Lewis   

The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story or Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos   

Prince Of Song And Sea by Linsey Miller

Sea Serpent's Heir: Pirate's Daughter by Mairghread Scott             

The Siren by Kiera Cass             

Those We Drown by Amy Goldsmith

Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson             

Under the Banner of King Death: Pirates of the Atlantic by David Lester

Podcasting from Nappanee Public Library, Maggie, the Youth Services Assistant, and Stephenie, the Youth Services Manager, are in conversation about books that have and are red, white, and new.

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Yours Truly by Abby Jiminez

Hello Stranger by Katherine Center  

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff  

The Words We Lost by Nicole Deese 

Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo    

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by 18 Afghan Women    

You: The Story by Ruta Sepetys

Borrow My Heart by Kasie West

Tap! Tap! Tap! By Herve Tullet

When Clouds Touch Us by Thanhha Lai

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

Weather Together by Jessie Sima

The Lake House by Sarah Durst

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

An Appetite for Miracles by Laeken Zea Kemp

Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken

We Don’t Lose Our Class Goldfish by Ryan T. Higgins

Hoops by Matt Tavares