Heading into the weekend and wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Tune into this episode to hear a preview of all the festivities happening in Tiny Town this holiday season.  Amy has her book recommendations to help you reach your 2024 reading goals and JoAnn is so excited to introduce our new teen library assistant Arianne!

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Books I’ve Read Recently That I Enjoyed

The Black Bird Oracle by Deb Harkness (5th book in the All Souls Series)

1. A Discovery of Witches

2. Shadow of Night

3. The Book of Life

4. Time’s Convert

5. The Black Bird Oracle

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny #19 (!) – audiobook is notable as she has a new Quebecois

narrator, Jean Brassard

What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley #11 in his Flavia DeLuce series

Newish Books I’d Like to Read

Now or Never by Janet Evanovitch #31 in her Stephanie Plum series

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob

Sheffield

Time of the Child by Niall Williams (set in same town as This is Happiness)

The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

Upcoming Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading

Havoc by Christopher Bollen Dec 3, 2024

The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin Dec 3, 2024

Pretty Dead Things by Lilian West Dec 10, 2024

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis January 5, 2025

It’s Halloween podcast episode! Stop and check out The Black Cat Cafe display on the library lawn and get ready to Trick or Treat on Main Street! MEOW!! We can’t wait to see your costumes!! Stacy Clark, President of Turnstone Corporation joins us on this episode to introduce herself and the team building the new library.  Don’t miss her interview for the three month outlook on the new library project! Happy Halloween! See you at the polls…get out and VOTE!!

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Books I read that I enjoyed:

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Guillotine by Delilah Dawson

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno Garcia

New Books I’d Like To Read:

The Wedding Witch by Erin Sterling

The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke

Upcoming Books I’d Like to Read:

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny

A Queen’s Game by Katharine McGhee

Elphie: A Wicked Childhood by Gregory Maguire

September has come and gone too fast! Catch up with the local librarians this episode for the Library Groundbreaking Event recap, fall programming line up, book recommendations and more! Happy fall!!

Amy’s Book Recommendation

Books I Read Recently that I Enjoyed

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (nominated for National Book Award in 2018)

The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer (she wrote The Wishing Game)

Finished Laurie Gelman’s Class Mom series:, Class Mom, You’ve Been Volunteered, Yoga Pant Nation, Smells Like Tween Spirit

New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (wrote We Begin at the End)

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (he wrote The Thursday Murder Club series)

Graveyard Shift by ML Rio (novella)

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

Bringer of Dust by JM Miro (2nd book in The Talents series, 1st was Ordinary Monsters)

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

Guillotine by Delilah Dawson

When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (Grades 3-7)

Upcoming Books I Want to Read

10/1- The Mistletoe Mystery by Nita Prose

10/1- Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

10/22- Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret by Benjamin Stevenson

10/29- The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

11/5- The Author’s Guide to Murder by Lauren Willig, Beatriz Williams, Karen White

Hooray! Construction of the new road to the new library has begun!! Tune into this episode to catch up on all the good news from Mont Vernon and what’s been happening at the library this summer.  JoAnn is wrapping up the adventurous Summer Reading Program and Amy has great book recommendations to get you to the end of summer! Happy August!!

Amy’s Book Recomendations

Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed

New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading

Upcoming Books I’d Like to Read

June is upon us and it’s time to sign up for the  Summer Reading Program! Tune in to hear our plans for a BIG ADVENTURE at the library for children and adults.  June also means graduations and we are so proud to have the SHS 2024 Valedictorian Jackson Hipp, and Salutatorian Owen Stine as our special guest interviews. Both boys are from Mont Vernon and are wicked smart! Listen in to hear their plans for the future.  Have a great summer everyone! Keep reading!!

The month of May has arrived and tiny town is blooming. Catch up with the librarians in Mont Vernon to hear what’s happening in town and get excited for summer reads! Don’t miss our interview with Friend of the Library, Hayley Parker. She’s our special guest and honored Friend of the Year for 2023! Be sure to wave to her in the Spring Gala Parade!

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (Luckiest Girl Alive, The Favorite Sister)

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynne Barnes (YA)

1st in a series, the rest are as follows:

The Book of Fire by Christie Lefteri (The Beekeeper of Aleppo)

The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay (The London House, Lizzy & Jane, Dear Mr. Knightley, plus others)

New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench

Upcoming Books I’d Like to Read

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley 5/7

Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski 5/7

Long Island by Colm Toibin 5/7

The Stolen Child by Ann Hood 5/7

Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews 5/7

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware 5/21

You Like It Darker by Stephen King – short stories – 5/21

It’s National Library Week…Ready, Set, CELEBRATE!! Tune into this episode to hear all about what have planned for the week and to celebrate the new library WIN!  Amy has awesome book reviews and Sue Ries is joining us to tell us all about the up coming Friends of the Library Plant Sale. Drop in and celebrate with us! Cheers!!

Amy’s Recommendations:

Books I’ve Read Recently I Enjoyed:

Martyr! By Kaveh Akhbar

Family, Family by Laurie Frankel (she also wrote One Two Three & This is How It Always Is)

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Code Name Helene & I Was Anastasia)

The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

After Annie by Anna Quindlen

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Table For Two by Amor Towles

New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading: (all these books came out in March 2024)

The Hunter by Tana French (it’s a sequel to The Searcher! Read that one first)

The Great Divide by Cristina Enriquez

Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano

All books in the series:

Finlay Donovan is Killing It

FInlay Donovan Knocks Em’ Dead

Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun

Also a Short story, Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank

Upcoming Books I Want to Read:

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo – April 9

Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda – April 9

Funny Story by Emily Henry – April 23rd

The Demon of Unrest by Eric Larson – April 30th

The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny – October 29th

The Jackal’s Mistress by Chris Bohjalian – March 2025

Cheers to the New Year! Big things on the horizon at the library in 2024! Catch up on what is happening at the library in January and join the conversation around volunteering.  Amy has great book recommendations and a list of new release to help you “Read More in 2024”! Don’t miss a minute of the Tiny Town Library Podcast.

Amy’s Recommendations

Books I’ve Read Recently That I Enjoyed:

The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan by Beth Merlin and Danielle Modafferi – released Jan 2024

Homecoming by Kate Morton – released April 2023

The Wager by David Grann – released April 2023

The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell – released March 2023

Speech Team by Tim Murphy – released July 2023

The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston –  released July 2022

Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading:

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan – January 9

The Women by Kristin Hannah – Feb 6

Fourteen Days by Margaret Atwood (and others!) – Feb 6

(Celeste Ng, John Grisham, Dave Eggers, Tommy Orange, Louise Erdrich, and Neil Gaiman & More)

The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo – Feb 13

End of Story by A.J. Finn  – Feb 20