Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Surprise, it's a minisode! We had so much to say about Rachel Hawkins'The Villa that we made it a separate episode. Let us know what you think and if you'd like to see more of this kind of episode.

Read about how wild the Shelley/Byron carriage road-trip of 1816 was. It was even wilder than this article says, but it gives a good overview. 

If you'd like to read the nonfiction book Laura read about the Shelley/Byron Carriage Road-Trip of '16, it's called The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature's Greatest Monsters by Andrew McConnell Stott. Check it out from our print collection (820.9145 Sto) or on Hoopla.

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

This month we recommend:

Chain of Thorns by Cassandra Clare

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Homecoming by Kate Morton

The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate

Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman

Warrior Girl Unleashed by Angeline Boulley

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Sun and the Star by Mark Oshiro and Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan

The Last Heir to the Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Moorewood Family Rules by HelenKay Dimon

Happy Place by Emily Henry

Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

The Wager by David Grand

The Making of Another Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Summer Reading by Jenn McKinlay

Witch King by Martha Wells

The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

Alecto the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (expected release date October 10, 2023)

Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree (expected release date November 7, 2023)

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

This month, we recommend:

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

LEGO: a Love Story by Jonathan Bender

James Herriot's books

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

On Animals by Susan Orlean

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Kate DiCamillo's books

Katherine Applegate's books

Cynthia Rylant's books

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Maus by Art Speigelman 

McTavish books by Meg Rosoff

The Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun

Spencer Quinn's Chet and Bernie books AND his Bowser and Birdie books

Mrs. Murphy series by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Burton

Rock Harbor series by Colleen Coble

Ukulele of Death by E.J. Copperman (coming May 2023)

Baking Bad by Kim M. Watt

Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

This month, we recommend:

Britannica's Baby Encyclopedia: For Curious Kids Ages 0-3 by Sally Symes

Off Limits by Helen Yoon

Sir Ladybug by Corey R. Tabor

Odder by Katherine Applegate

The Big Book of 30-Day Challenges by Rosanna Casper

Teen Thrillers: try books from Karen McManus, Tiffany D. Jackson, or Holly Jackson

BookTok recommended YA books 

Truly Devious (Stevie Bell series) by Maureen Johnson

Legendborn and Bloodmarked by Tracey Deonn

Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Lui

Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman

The Idiot Girl's Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro

Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Hell's Half Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier by Susan Jonusas

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

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

The Little Book of Life Hacks: How to Make your Life Happier, Healthier and More Beautiful by Yumi Sakugawa

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Shreier

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Twelfth Grade Night by Molly Horton Booth by Stephanie Kate Strohm; illustrated by Jamie Green

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (Also available in graphic novel!)

Wanderlust USA: The Great American Hike edited by Cam Honan

Crap Taxidermy by Kat Su

Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes by Travis Baldree

Meddling Kids Edgar Cantero

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Kanehito Yamada; illustrated by Tsukasa Abe

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII by Sonia Purnell

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candace Millard

The Galapagos Affair (film) directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller

The Dinner Party Project by Natasha Feldman

By the Book by Jasmine Guillory

Season of Love by Helena Greer

My True Love Gave to Me, edited by Stephanie Perkins

The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Marple: 12 New Mysteries by various authors

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

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We recommend:

The Betty Crocker Cookbook

America's Test Kitchen and their cookbook collection

I'm Just Here for the Food by Alton Brown

The Wok by J. Kenji López-Alt

Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines

Dessert Person and What's for Dessert? by Claire Saffitz

Bake by Paul Hollywood

Nadiya Bakes by Nadiya Hussain

Savory Bakes by Erin McDowell

The Dude Diet by Serena Wolf

Damn Delicious Meal Prep by Chungah Rhee

Make it Ahead by Ina Garten

Beautiful Boards by Maegan Brown

Stilton. The cheese. Just a whole block of it. Enjoy.

Smitten Kitchen Keepers by Deb Perelman

Katie Brown Entertains by Katie Brown

The Woks of Life by Bill, Judy, Sarah, and Kaitlin Leung

Indian-ish by Priya Krishna

East and Made in India by Meera Sodha

Instantly Indian by Madhur Jaffrey (and all her other books)

Plenty and Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi

Supercook.com

Marcella Hazan and her simple yet beautiful tomato sauce with onion and butter.

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

It's Book Two! Thanks so much for listening to us. Now have some spooky recommendations, as a treat:

Foods you should be eating this season include but are not limited to: Pumpkin rolls, candy corn (Laura does not endorse this one), pumpkin-shaped cookies, Pumpkin Reeses Peanut Butter Cups, this specific Halloween candy, and Almond Joy or Mounds depending on your relationship to tree nuts.

Movies and TV that we love include Diabolique, E.T., the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Young Frankenstein, Knives Out, The Book of Life, Hocus Pocus, It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Supernatural, and The X-Files.

We also encourage you to make spooky crafty fall things and also check out some special effects makeup!

BOOKS: 

Creepy Crayon by Aaron Reynolds

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco

Body by Asa Nonami

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Edgar Allen Poe's works

HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Tana French's books

Ruth Ware's books

Thr3e by Ted Dekker

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle

It's our Podiversary! Celebrate with Rachel and Laura while they talk about the books they're looking forward to reading this fall and do a fun quiz with a very special guest.

Get some early literacy information at Read Aloud 15 Minutes, and sign your little pre-readers up for 1000 Books Before Kindergarten at WCPL on the Beanstack website or app!

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl. Copies of this book will be available for purchase at the circulation desk, but you can get started reading now on the Libby app! Make sure you register for our book discussion on September 21st!

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Scattered Showers by Rainbow Rowell

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath by Garth Nix

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

Thursday Next series (The new book is coming in 2023, so you have time to catch up.)

Amish Horror, the genre you didn’t know you needed

Patricia A. McKillip’s books

Note: Our elevator work has yet to begin. We will announce the start of construction on our social media and will share any updates about accessibility with as much notice as possible. Keep an eye out, and sign up for text alerts on our website for updates on library closures. 

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle. A special thank you to Marion Castle for being our quiz show host in this episode and for providing us with such an excellent bookish dad joke.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

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All the books recommended in this month's podcast are available digitally via the Libby app or Overdrive. If you need help getting started with ebooks, ask us at the circulation desk! 

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett--Here's a Discworld reading guide to tell you what book to start with!

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. (We also love: Fortunately, the Milk, Coraline, and Stardust, all by Neil Gaiman)

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (The book is COMPLETELY different from the movie, but Laura loves both!)

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

Truly Devious series by Maureen Johnson

The Rook by Daniel O’Malley

Agatha Christie books

Rachel loves a cookbook! Check out Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines, The Dude Diet by Serena Wolfe, or the great ones from Yotam Ottolenghi.

Rachel’s Slump-Busters: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Louise Penny's books, When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

Laura’s Slump-Busters: All are graphic novels! Check out Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu, The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen (Laura misspoke--the main characters of the book are Vietnamese), Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill, Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, and everything by Kate Beaton

This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.

Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. Each month, we'll let you know what's going on at the library, along with making a few book recommendations, introducing you to another member of our staff, and filling you in on services you may not even know are available at your library.

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This month, we discussed bookish "Would you rather" questions. Here are the books we mentioned in our answers:

Louise Penny (of course)

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Poirot series by Agatha Christie

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Hunger Games by Susanne Collins

Adult Assembly Required by Abbi Waxman

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

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This episode of The Bookmark podcast is hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle and was edited and produced by Rachel Castle.