Unabridged: A Book Podcast

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-1:39

*Main Discussion: 1:40-42:40

​*Book Pairings: 43:24-50:14

*Classroom Connections: 50:15-53:50

*Jen - Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

*Ashley - Kristin Cashore's Graceling

*Sara - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope / Young Reader's Edition / Picture Book

*William Kamkwamba's TED Talk

*The Atlantic review by Vann R. Newkirk II, "Where Fantasy Meets Black Lives Matter"

*Nic Stone's Dear Martin

*Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give

*Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely's All-American Boys 

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books mentioned

*Jenni - Melissa Hill's Keep You Safe

*Sara - Beth Vrabel's Caleb and Kit

*Ashley - Patricia McCormick's Never Fall Down

*Jen - Robin Sloan's Sourdough

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*Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

*Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

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Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!

*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:44

*Main Discussion: 0:45-29:32

*​Book Pairings: 29:38-39:21

*Classroom Connections: 39:22-45:03

book pairings

*Jen - F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

*Sara - Emily St. John Mendel's Station Eleven

*Ashley - Cormac McCarthy's The Road

*Jenni - Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies

books mentioned in classroom connections​​

*Sara - Lois Lowry's The Giver series

*Jenni - Louis Sachar's Holes

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​books mentioned

*Jen - As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes and Joe Layden, narrated by Cary Elwes

*Jenni - Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, narrated by Linda Stephens

*Ashley - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling, narrated by Jim Dale

*Sara - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, narrated by George Newburn

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Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book!

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:53

*Main Discussion: 0:54-21:24

*​Spoilers: 4:49

*Book Pairings: 21:29-28:34

*Classroom Connections: 28:35-31:11

*Jen - Gayle Forman's If I Stay

*Sara - Sharon Huss Roat's How to Disappear

*Ashley - Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss

*Jenni - Susan Nielson's We Are All Made of Molecules

books mentioned

*Sara - Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird

*Jen - Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables 

*Ashley - Jacqueline Woodson

*Jenni - Kwame Alexander

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:50

*Main Discussion: 0:51-27:31 --> Spoilers: 6:40 / 9:50--for real!

​*Book Pairings: 27:38-37:40

*Classroom Connections: 37:41-46:48

*Ashley - Adam Ross's Mr. Peanut

*Jen - Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars (the novella "A Good Marriage")

*Sara - Clare Mackintosh's I See You

*Jenni - S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep

*Ashley - Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones

*Jen - Barry Lyga's I Hunt Killers

*Sara - Lisa McMann's Wake, Fade, and Gone

*Jenni - Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians (Now published as And Then There Were None)

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books and authors mentioned

*Mary Downing Hahn's Daphne's Book 

*Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved

*Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles

*Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

*Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

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Spoilers are inevitable throughout our discussion, so consider whether or not to listen if you haven't yet read the book! 

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*Introduction and Summary of the Book: 0:00-0:58

*Main Discussion: 0:59-37:50​

*​Book Pairings: 37:57-48:18

*Classroom Connections: 48:19-54:51

book pairings

*Jen - Jennifer Niven's All the Bright Places

*Sara - Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project

*Ashley - Corey Ann Hadyu’s OCD Love Story and Neil Hilborn’s slam poem "OCD"

*Jenni - John Neufeld’s Lisa Bright and Dark

other works mentioned

Laurie Halse Anderson's

*The Impossible Knife of Memory 

*Speak

*Wintergirls​

books mentioned in classroom connections

*Ashley - author study of John Green works

*Jen - T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Allie Brosh's Hyperbole and a Half​

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books (and other things!) mentioned

*Jen - Stephen King's Dark Tower series; first book - The Gunslinger

*Jen - Lee Child's Jack Reacher series; first book - Killing Floor

*Jenni - Emily Giffin's Something Borrowed and Something Blue

*Jenni - Monica McInerney's The Alphabet Series, Hello from the Gillespies, Family Baggage, At Home with the Templetons

*Sara and Ashley - J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series; first book - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

*Sara - Kiera Cass's Selection series; first book - The Selection

*Ashley - Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series; first book - Clockwork Angel

*Ashley - Laini Taylor's Daughter of Smoke and Bone series; first book - Daughter of Smoke and Bone

*Jen - O'Neal's Razor and Book Series Recaps

*Sara - Gayle Forman's If I Stay and Where She Went

*Ashley - Leah Bardugo's Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom; connected collection of fairy tales - Language of Thorns

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