Tiny Town Library Podcast

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

We made it to the end of the year and are celebrating at the library! Join us at our Christmas Tea Party to hear town news and Amy’s Best of 2023 book list! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and there is so much to do, but first the library podcast!  We have a lot to be thankful for and hope that you all have a wonderful start to the holiday season.  Tune in to hear about the fun we have planned for December, Amy’s awesome book recommendations, and our interview with an outstanding young patron from Mont Vernon. Happy Thanksgiving Tiny Town!

This October has been sooo busy!  Listen in to the librarians chatter about the Friends of the Library fundraiser, epic Halloween preparations, and the final fundraiser of the Mont Vernon Library Charitable Foundation “One for the Books” Charity Auction. Catch up on all the good news and meet one of our newest resident, Megan Upperman, from MVLCF Auction Committee.

Amy’s Recommendations

Books I’ve read recently I enjoyed:

Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson Nov. 2022 (also wrote Nothing to See here) 

Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark July 2022

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 2008 Booker Prize winner

Incidentally, Booker Prize 2023 Shortlist was announced at the end of September:

Winner will be announced November 26th.

New releases I’d like to read:

The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennett, Witch by Melinda Taub Oct. 3

A Winter in New York by Josie Silver Oct. 3 (she wrote One Day in December)

Upcoming books I’m looking forward to reading:

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters Oct. 31

The Future by Naomi Alderman Nov. 7 (she wrote The Power)

Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park Nov. 7

The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook Nov. 7

It’s fall in New England! The leaves are starting to change and it’s time for fall programs at the library. On this episode, we will be highlighting all the fun things happening at the Friends of the Library Harvest Market event. Don’t miss Amy’s book recommendations for new and upcoming releases.

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Books I’ve Enjoyed Recently:

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Fairytale by Stephen King

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading:

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

Mother Tongue: A History of Women’s Words by Jenni Nuttall

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Emma Donoghue’s other books I liked:

The Wonder

The Pull of the Stars

Haven

Other upcoming books that haven’t been published yet:

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward – Oct. 3

People to Follow by Olivia Worley – Oct. 31

Class by Stephanie Land Non fiction (Maid) – Nov. 7

The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose (The Maid) – Nov. 28

We’re celebrating 10 years of summer reading with Miss JoAnn and our teen volunteers. Listen in for our Summer Reading Program wrap up and catch our interview with two of our top teen volunteers Evie & Charlotte. Don’t miss Amy’s  final book recommendations for the last days of summer.  Thank you to our community for a magical summer at the library!

Newer Books:

The Housekeepers by Alex Hay

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

The House is On Fire by Rachel Beanland

Older Books:

Spare by Prince Harry

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

The Thursday Murder Club Series by Richard Osman

Newly Purchased:

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller

And Yet by Kate Baer

New Releases:

The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

Reign- American Royals 4 by Katherine McGee

It’s been hot, hot, hot at the library!  We’re half way through the summer with still tons of Summer Reading Program fun to go.  Catch up with the library staff for the latest town news, summer reading updates and awesome beach read recommendations.  Grab a good book before you head on vacation.  Have a great summer!

Amy’s Book Recommendations

Beach Reads

Other Books

Looking forward to:

Tune in for a mini episode of the Tiny Town Library Podcast to recap all the magic that happened at Wizarding Week!  We will also be announcing the theme of the 2023 Summer Reading Program on this episode.  Miss JoAnn has gone rogue this year and has created her own theme!!  She will be making the magic here at the library all summer. A special thank you to all of the volunteers who helped make Wizarding Week a success.  Be sure to click on the link below to visit Earl Riche’s photo albums onFlicker that captured the entire experience at Wizarding Week!

Wizarding Week Photo Albums: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvfotog/