Stacks and Stories

Stacks and Stories

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Stacks and Stories episodes

  • Judge a Book by its Cover

    Join Alex and Amanda as they talk all things book covers! From books that are better than their cover, covers that are better than their books, cover reprints that are just kind of bad, cover trends, and cover marketing, they cover (get it?) almost everything in the wide world of book design!

     

    As a note, Alex mentions a book with an orange cover set on Jupiter that she can't remember the title of. This book is The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older.

     

    Books mentioned in this episode

    • If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy
  • Happy Place by Emily Henry
  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  • The Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Cleary
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
  • Anna & the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
  • Old Enough by Haley Jacobson
  • My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin
  • The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
  • Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
  • The Wayfairer series by Becky Chambers
  • The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
  • The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
  • The Tia Rosie's Kitchen Mysteries series by Mia P. Manansala.
  • The Donut Legion by Joe R. Lansdale.
    • 47 min
  • Dark Academia

    Join Riley, Shellie, and Tracy as they discuss dark academia, why they enjoy it, and if not, what they do enjoy that’s adjacent.

    Books Mentioned

    • Blue Angel by Francine Prose
  • Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
  • The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
  • The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
  • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
  • Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessel
  • Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
    • 37 min
  • Nonfiction with Katie and Natalie

    Join Katie and Natalie as they discuss why they prefer nonfiction to fiction, what their favorite nonfiction reads are, and more.

    Books Mentioned

    • 1776 by David McCullough
  • A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy by Joyce Kaufman
  • Educated by Tara Westover
  • The Encyclopedia of the Cat edited by Bruce Fogle
  • The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
  • In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
  • The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party by Daniel James Brown
  • Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
  • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
  • The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  • A Promise Land by Barack Obama
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
    • 50 min
  • All Together Now

    This year’s collaborative summer library program theme is ‘All Together Now’. The theme focuses on friendship, unity, kindness, and togetherness. We’ve asked various MLC staff to give a quick overview of a book or movie they love that they feel fits the theme. Want to hear seven different recommendations? Then stay tuned!

     

    Books and films mentioned in the episode:

    • Calendar Girls, directed by Maria Loohufvud & Love Martinsen.
  • Dress-Up Day by Blanca Gómez.
  • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
  • Hello Bookstore, directed by A.B. Zax.
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune.
  • Lala's Words by Gracey Zhang.
  • Madhouse at the End of the Earth by Julian Sancton.
  • Still Life by Sarah Winman.
  • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna.
    • 19 min
  • Shelf Absorbed featuring Recent Reads

    Join Shellie and Tracy on this installment of Shelf Absorbed as they discuss what they’ve recently read and if one of them has started appreciating rereads. So, stay tuned.

    Books Mentioned

    • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  • The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
  • Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
  • Gigi, Listening by Chantel Guertin
  • “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith
  • The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
  • The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
  • The Weeds by Katy Simpson Smith
  • You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
    • 40 min
  • MLC Moments - Adaptations & Reworkings

    Join Katie and Lacy as they talk about adaptations and reworkings of books! They talk Mississippi movies, Mississippi musicals, and Mississippi books based off of previously existing books in three, quick, five minute MLC Moment snippets.

    16 min
  • MLC Moments - History

    If you turn on the Mississippi Public Broadcasting radio station on Saturdays at 11 am, you’ll hear a short, five minute little MLC Moment from us. These are quick tidbits of information, all drawn from what you can find at your local public library. Because they’re so short, we’re combining some of them into a longer episode for our regular podcast feed. This episode is all things historical. Join Tracy as she talks about microhistories and a famous murder case, while Alex takes you deep into the WPA files created in the 1930s.

    16 min
  • Middle Grade Reads

    What's 'middle grade' mean to begin with? Join Charlie and Elisabeth as they talk all things middle grade, from past to present to future!

     

    Books mentioned in the episode:

    • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
  • The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • The Goosebumps series by R.L. Stine
  • The Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich
  • The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulson
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
  • The Lucky Ones by Linda Williams Jackson
  • Lily's Promise by Kathryn Erskine
  • J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard
  • Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs by Pam Munoz Ryan
  • Gussy by Jimmy Cajoleas
  • Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Weird Kid by Greg van Eekhout
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  • Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf
  • Nic Blake and the Remarkables by Angie Thomas
  • The Secret Battle of Evan Po by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
  • The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
    • 52 min

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