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Katie Stokes is the owner, publisher, and editor in chief at Edible San Diego. Katie works with dynamic organizations dedicated to creating more value and well-being in the world. She is a leader who helps diverse teams meet and exceed goals. Her entrepreneurial spirit and abilities deliver new opportunities and value for the Edible organization. Her specialty is finding and creating new relationships with diverse stakeholders, building impact on shared interests and benefits. 

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Getting Ready to Eat Local and Think Global for the Planet this Earth Day

 The New Vegan Guard at Grossmont Center Food Court

 Kitchen Contentment, Liz Murphy

 The Mexican Keto Cookbook, Torie Borrelli

 Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

 Finding The Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard

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Since launching The Bookshop Podcast in October 2020, I’ve spoken with over 85 indie bookstore owners worldwide. If you are a regular listener, you’ll have often heard the name Libro.fm mentioned in episodes. Libro.fm is an online audio bookstore that splits the profit from customer purchases with their local bookstore. 

In this episode, I chat with Mark Pearson, co-founder of the company, to learn more about the Libro.fm, his publishing company, and the audiobook industry.  

Libro.fm

 The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, Nathaniel Ian Miller (audiobook)

 The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven, Nathaniel Ian Miller (hardcover/paperback)

 Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter (audiobook)

 Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter (hardcover)

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Peri Chickering is the author of Leadership Flow: The Unstoppable Power of Connection. She holds a master’s degree in human development and a Ph.D. in human and organizational systems. Her early career as a mountaineer and wilderness guide took her traveling around the world. Out of these years, she created wilderness-based leadership schools in South Africa and Bulgaria. 

Taking her leadership experience from the outdoors inside, she has worked with clients in private, governmental, and nonprofit sectors. Her clients include Disney Theatrical, USDA Forest Service, World Bank, Stanford Woods Institute, University of Chicago, and Renaissance Reinsurance.

Peri Chickering

 Leadership Flow: The Unstoppable Power of Connection, Peri Chickering

 The DAO de Jing

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Located in the town of Westport, County Mayo, Ireland is Tertulia, a bookshop like no other. 

Brid Conroy and Neil Paul opened Tertulia with a mission to contribute to a positive change in the way the world thinks, and a vision to live in a world where every story matters, to live in a world that understands that (our) stories are interconnected. Brid and Neil believe this understanding can help make our world a more equal society.
Tertulia, a bookshop like no other

Tertulia: The Philosopher’s Hat Club

All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

 The Fire Starters, Jan Carson

How confidence Works, Ian Robertson

Persian Fire, Tom Holland

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While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, David Poses was in the kitchen, measuring the distance from his index finger to his armpit. He needed to be sure he could pull the trigger with a shotgun barrel in his mouth. Twenty-six inches. Thirty-two years old. More than a decade in a double life fueled by depression and heroin.

In this interview, David and I talk about recovery, music, and depression, and share our thoughts on legalizing drugs and what really works in recovery. 

David’s writing has been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Daily News, and he’s appeared on national TV programs, including The Doctors TV Show, and numerous radio shows and podcasts.

David Poses

 The Weight of Air, David Poses

 Strung Out: A Memoir of Overcoming Addiction, Erin Khar

My Fair Junie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, Amy Dresner

 Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, Maia Szalavitz

 SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

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Hi! 
Today I’m chatting with Jennifer Jackson, director of Paper Bird Children’s Books & Arts in Freemantle, Western Australia.

Paper Bird is a creative hub for children where they can interact with writers and illustrators, attend workshops and books clubs, and listen to children’s stories told by local indigenous authors.

Jennifer has worked in London, Perth, and Melbourne in child mental health services and is an avid supporter of children’s literature and art centers across the world. She has collected her ideas, vision, and enthusiasm to create a story house for children.

Paper Bird Children’s Books & Arts

Woylie Project

Magabala Books

 Freemantle Press

 Books By Noel Nannup

 Australian Aboriginal Literature

 Books By Kim Scott 

The Legend of Moondyne Joe, Mark Greenwood, Frané Lessac

 Here’s a picture of a Quokka for you!

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Hi, and welcome to episode #83 of The Bookshop Podcast!

Today I’m chatting with Jessica Barksdale Inclán, the author of fifteen novels, including the award-winning The Burning Hour, Her Daughter’s Eyes, The Matter of Grace, and When You Believe. Her debut poetry collection, When We Almost Drowned, was published in March 2019, and her second poetry book, Grim Honey, was published in April 2021. Her latest novel, The Play’s the Thing, is a time-traveling tale of Shakespearean romance between a 21st-century English professor and the Bard of Avon. 

 A Pushcart Prize, Million Writers Award, and Best-of-the-Net nominee, Barksdale Inclán was an English professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California, for thirty-one years, and continues to teach novel writing for UCLA Extension and the MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University. She holds an MA in English from San Francisco State University and an MFA from Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. 

 Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jessica lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.

Jessica Barksdale Inclán

The Play’s the Thing, Jessica Barksdale Inclán

Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell

The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

 Then Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich

 Louise Erdrich Books

 Ann Patchett

 Toni Morrison Books

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Hi, today I’m in Edinburgh, a UNESCO City of Literature, chatting with David Bloomfield and Julia König from Golden Hare Books!

 Golden Hare Books carries an ever-changing collection of fiction and non-fiction for readers of all ages. Their titles cover all genres from cooking to travel, kid’s picture books to science fiction, and everything in between.

 In 2019, Golden Hare Books won Bookshop of the Year for the UK and Ireland.

 Golden Hare Books

Leonard and Hungry Paul, Rónán Hession

Panenka, Rónán Hession

Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

Caroline Eden Books

Annie Ernaux books 

Suppose A Sentence, Brian Dillon

Essayism, Brian Dillon

The Legend of Astridr: Birth, Mandy Jackson-Beverly

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I’m super excited to bring my interview with author Jane Yolen to you today. Jane is 82 years young, has published over 400 books, and in my book, she is a true storyteller and an inspiration to writers of all stages.  

Enjoy!

Here’s Jane Yolen’s full bio:

Beloved children's book author Jane Yolen has been writing and publishing since the early sixties when she sold her first book (about women pirates) on her twenty-second birthday. But she began her publishing career as a journalist (short-lived) and as an editor (longer-lived) for Knopf and Harcourt in the children’s department.

She is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, MA, with an Med (master of education) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has six honorary doctorates for her body of work: Smith College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Keene State College, College of Our Lady of the Elms, Westfield State University, and Bay Path College.

She was the first Western Massachusetts author to win a Public Radio’s Arts & Entertainment Award, and the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture at St. Andrews University in Scotland in a series that began in 1927. She has won awards from both the Jewish Book Council and the Catholic Book Council, making her very ecumenical.

Jane was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America for two years, and on the board of the Society of Children’s Book Writers for forty-five years.

Her books and stories have won three World Fantasy Awards, two Nebulas, three Mythopoeic Awards, two Christopher Medals, three SCBWI awards, the Massachusetts Book Center award, two Golden Kite awards, and a Caldecott Medal. She was nominated in 2020 for the Astrid Lindgren Award, plus many others. Her award from the Boston Science Fiction Association set her good coat on fire which she takes as a lesson about the dangers of awards.

Yolen lives in Western Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland.

Jane Yolen

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Jane Yolen Books

Arch of Bone, Jane Yolen

 Ursula K. Le Guin, Books

 Adam Stemple, author

 Heidi Stemple, author

 Jason Stemple, photographer

 Gregory Maguire, author

 Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

 In Calabria, Peter S. Beagle

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Today I'm chatting with Susan Kehoe from BROWSEABOUT BOOKS about Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, keeping our purchases local, reading out of your comfort zone, and what the actual job of a bookseller entails.

Founded by the Crane family in 1975, BROWSEABOUT BOOKS has expanded and reinvented itself many times while evolving into one of the nation's top independent bookstores. BROWSEABOUT BOOKS is known for books and a fantastic selection of toys, stationery, and unique gifts. 

 BROWSEABOUT BOOKS is open 363 days a year! 

 BROWSEABOUT BOOKS

 Lean Fall Stand, Jon McGregor

 A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

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