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There were so many recommendations in July's podcast record that we couldn't leave half of them on the cutting room floor! Here are some extra recs:

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Welcome to The Bookmark, a podcast of the Wabash Carnegie Public Library, hosted by Laura Beutler and Rachel Castle. This month we're trying out a trend from TikTok and rolling for book recommendations. We also fill you in on how Summer Reading is going and give you a construction update so you know what to expect when you come visit us.

This is how we rolled:

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (Mystery)

Heavy by Kiese Laymon (Biography and Memoir)

Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune (Romance)

The Book of Blood and Shadow by Robin Wasserman (Dark Academia)

LEGO: A Love Story by Jonathan Bender (Biography and Memoir)

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Literary Fiction)

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Whittman (True Crime)

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Classic)

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (Children's Classic)

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (Western)

Outlawed by Anna North (Western)

The Devil's Revolver by V.S. McGrath (Western)

The Riddlemaster of Hed by Patricia A. McKillip (Fantasy)

The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip (Fantasy)

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (Historical Nonfiction)

Chuck Klosterman's books (Historical Nonfiction)

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore (Historical Nonfiction)

Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton (Adventure)

The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (Thriller)

The Martian by Andy Weir (Science Fiction)

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Science Fiction)

This Book Is Full of Spiders by Jason Pargin (Horror)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Dystopian)

Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla el-Waylly (Cookbook)

The Woks of Life by the Leung family (Cookbook)

The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook (Obviously also a Cookbook)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Thriller)

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Thriller)

Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brian (Historical Fiction)

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (Satire)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Satire)

Beauty Queens by Libba Bray (Satire)

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

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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 talked about…

Summer Reading! Download the Beanstack app on the app store of your choice and start tracking your reading minutes. You can win all kinds of fun prizes!

Buried Bones (podcast)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

The Heartwood Hotel by Kallie George

The Donut Fix by Jessie Janowitz

The Aurora Cycle by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Discworld series by Terry Pratchett

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

The Witchlands series by Susan Dennard

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter Theodora Goss

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Afterward by E.K. Johnston

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Louise Penny's Armand Gamache books

Howl's Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones

Stevie Bell mysteries by Maureen Johnson

Cassandra Clare's books

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves

Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

Armand Gamache books by Louise Penny

Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

Murderbot and The Witch King by Martha Wells

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Darkhearts by James L. Sutter

Once More With Feeling by Ellisa Sussman

The Only Purple House in Town by Ann Aguirre

Pageboy by Elliot Page

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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.

The Wabash Carnegie Public Library will be closed from May 12th to May 29th due to construction. Stock up on print materials and get to know our digital collections!

This month, we talked about…

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Agatha Raisin (TV series)

Death in Paradise (TV series)

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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 talked movies and TV adaptations.

Thumbs up adaptations:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

The Hobbit (Peter Jackson's version)

The Hobbit (animated--Rachel likes this, Laura strongly disagrees)

Pinecone and Pony

Heartstopper

Shadow and Bone

About a Boy

High Fidelity

Jurassic Park

The Princess Bride

The Outsiders

To Kill a Mockingbird

Little Women

The Wizard of Oz

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Good Omens

Howl's Moving Castle

The Princess Diaries

Sherlock

The Martian

World War Z

Ready Player One

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Fight Club

Divergent (Rachel likes this)

The Maze Runner

Anne of Green Gables (with Megan Fellows)

Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes

David Suchet's Hercule Poirot

The Hollow Crown

Bleak House

Persuasion (2007)

Jane Eyre (2006)

Easy A

Julie and Julia

Thumbs DOWN:

The Hobbit, animated version (Laura REALLY hates this)

The Woman in White

The Moonstone

Paper Towns

Divergent (Laura hates this)

The Fault in Our Stars

Twilight

The Hunger Games

The Scarlet Letter

The Nanny Diaries

The original Percy Jackson movies (the Percy Jackson books are getting another adaptation and will hopefully be very good this time--coming soon to Disney+)

Paper Towns

The Dark Is Rising

City of Bones (film)

The Girl on the Train

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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. 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.