Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Joni & Maggie are in conversation about Books Within Books aka Nested Books. Included in this episode are:

-The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

-Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

-Death On The Island by Eliza Reid

-If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler by Italio Calvino

-Magpie Murders (series) by Anthony Horowitz

-No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

-The Recipe For A Perfect Wife by Karma Brown

-The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

-The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne by Kate Winkler Dawson

-The Story She Left Behind by Patti Callahan Henry

-The Thirteen Tale by Dianne Setterfield

-Thursday Next (series) by Jasper Fforde

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Victoria & Maggie are in conversation about books with kings & queens, one of the 2025 Expand Your Horizons reading tasks. Included in this episode are:

-Book of Queens: The True Story of the Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror by Pardis Mahdavi

-Island Queen by Vanessa Riley

-The Selection (series) by Kiera Cass

-Spare by Prince Harry

-The Windsor Knot by S.J. Bennett

-Crown, Cloak, and Dagger : the British monarchy and secret intelligence from Victoria to Elizabeth II by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

-In Search of A Prince by Toni Shiloh

-Katherine of Aragon: the True Queen by Alison Weir

-Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spymaster by Paddy Hayes

-Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Garret, Sarah, & Maggie are in conversation about books with untraditional characters, plots & settings. Included in this episode are:

-The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Greene

-The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

-Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

-Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

-The House In The Cerulean Sea duology by T.J. Klune

-In 27 Days by Alison Gervais

-Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

-The Road To Roswell by Connie Willis

-A Silent Voice Vol. 1 by Yoshitoki Oima

-Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

-This Is How Lose The Time War by Amal El- Mohtar and Max Gladstone

-Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

-Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Victoria & Maggie are in conversation about biographies and memoirs. Included in this episode are:

-Between Two Trailers by Dana Trent

-Born Standing Up & Number One Is Walking by Steve Martin

-Brace For Impact by Gabe Montesanti

-But You Don’t Look Arab: And Other Tales of Unbelonging by Hala Gorani

-In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA Unmasked by Jonna Mendez

-Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s War against the West by John Sullivan

-The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets by Sarah Miller

-Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond

-So Anyway…: A Memoir by John Cleese

-Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home by Mondiant Dogon

-The Watchmaker’s Daughter: the True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom by Larry Loftis

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Michelle & Maggie are in conversation about books written by or featuring Deaf & Hard of Hearing characters. Included in this episode are:

- Dust by Alison Stein

- El Deafo by Cece Bell

- A Game Most Foul by Alison Gervais

- Quiet Beautiful Things by Samantha Christy

- Show Me A Sign trilogy by Ann Clare LeZotte

- The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais

- Sugaring Off by Gillian French

-T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte

- Wonderstruck by Ben Selznick

- The Words In My Hands by Asphyxia

- Would Like To Meet by Rachel Winters

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Sarah & Maggie are in conversation about some of their recent Non-Fiction reads. Included in this episode are:

-The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede

-A Fever In The Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

-Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

-Heartbreak: A Personal And Scientific Journey by Florence Williams

-Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson

-How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity by Jill Burke

-Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks To Embrace Your Limitations And Make Time For What Counts by Oliver Burkeman

-The Small And The Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed The Course Of History, From The Founding To The Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon

-Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water by Vicki Valosik

-World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Garrett & Maggie are in conversation about books sharing a topic of Vigilantes & Whistleblowers across several different genres. Included in this episode are:

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Batman graphic novels

Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu (YA)

The Queen of Thieves by Beezy Marsh

Braving The Wilderness: The Quest For True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers by Deborah Tuerkheimer

The Girls I’ve Been duology by Tess Sharpe

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (YA)

Podcasting from the Nappanee Public Library, Brittney & Cherie join Maggie in conversation about their favorite reads of 2024. Included in this episode are:

Baking with Whole Grains by Valerie Baer

The Bookshop: A History Of The American Bookstore by Evan Friss

Homestead Tsunami by Joel Salatin

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In the Likely Event by Rebecca Yarros

Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) by Abby Jimenez

Lowcountry Lost by T.I. Lowe

Lula Dean’s Little Library Of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

The Modern Pioneer Cookbook by Mary Bryant Shrader

Old Fashioned on Purpose by Jill Winger

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

The Soul of America by Jon Meacham

Storm Kings: America's First Tornado Chasers by Lee Sandlin

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

The World of all Creatures Great & Small by James Steen and Jim Wight

A Year Of Living Constitutionally by A.J. Jacobs