Tiny Town Library Podcast

It’s National Library Week! We’ve packed the week with programs and a new episode of the podcast. Listen in to catch up on the latest news that affects your library and libraries across the country. Sarat Rogers joins us as our local person of interest today to introduce herself and gives us a sneak peek of the Town Egg Hunt.  Thank you for your support this week and always!

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed:

The Safekeep by Yael Van de Wouden (Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted)

The Jackal’s Mistress by Chris Bohjalian

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (Once There Were Wolves and Migrations)

Upon A Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading:

The Sirens by Emilia Hart (Weyward)

Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, We Should All Be Feminists)

Heartwood by Amity Gage

Snowglobe by Soyoung Park

Upcoming Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading:

My Friends by Fredrik Backman 5/6/25

Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins (American Dirt) 5/15/25

We All Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough 5/20/25

Tiny Town is thawing out and spring is around the corner!  Town Voting and Town Meeting are quickly coming up next week and creating community conversations. Listen in to this episode for the latest news from town, book recommendations from Amy, and our interview with college student and Wizarding Week professor Nick Brown. Happy (almost) Spring!!

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed:

Playground by Richard Powers

The Heart of Winter by Johnathan Evison

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey

New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading

The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay 1/21

Dream State by Eric Puchner 2/18

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld 2/25

Upcoming Books I Want to Read

Heartwood by Amity Gaige 4/1

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry 4/22

The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner 4/29 (The Lost Apothecary)

Winter is upon us and we’ve loaded the calendar with events and programs to get you out the door and into the library.  Need a distraction from it all? We’ve got new book recommendations from Amy and tons of programs coming up in February. Be sure to catch our interview with the newly appointed Mont Vernon Recreation Co-Directors Autumn Grdina and Jessica Hinkley. Stay warm everyone!

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Books I’ve read that I enjoyed:

The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin

The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

This is Happiness by Niall Williams

How to Winter by Kari Leibowitz

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann

New Books I’d Like to Read:

The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap

Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin

Homeseeking by Karissa Chen

Upcoming books I’m looking forward to reading:

Black Woods Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (The Snow Child)

Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks (Horse)

The Dollhouse Academy by Margarita Montimore (Oona Out of Order)

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