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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being part of the NYT’s Summer Bucket List Reading Challenge. We don't normally do formal challenges but we couldn't resist!

Featured Books:

• Reread A Book You Loved as a Kid (LH):
  • Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
  • The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
• A Book Set Somewhere You Have Never Been (LH):
  • The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
  • Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike
• A Book Published in the Last Year (LP)
  • A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl by Nanda Reddy
• A Book in a Genre You Don’t Normally Read (LP)
  • The Fate of Mercy Alban by Wendy Webb
• A Book in Translation (LP)
  • The Letter Carrier by Francesca Giannone

Author Mentioned in this Episode:

• Kate Morton

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• A Book in a Genre You Don’t Normally Read
  • Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Marmie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age Partied Her Way to Power by Jennifer Wright
  • The Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb
  • The Vanishing by Wendy Webb
• A Book Published in the Last Year
  • Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

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Welcome to Season 4! Today's episode features a celebratory stack of books tied together with the common theme of being our Real Time Reading Books aka the books in our hands right now. We have a little bit of everything...so onward!

Featured Books:

• Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan (LH)
• The Austen Affair by Madeline Bell (LH)
• Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins (LP)
• The Boxcar Librarian by Brianna Labuskes (LP)
• A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes
• The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith by Mariann Edgar Budde
• The Letter Carrier by Francesca Giannone
• The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon
• The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
• The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
• Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

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Today's episode is a Shorty...an episode with just a few books and we hope it will be just what you need. Our stack of books is tied together with the common connection of If You Liked This, Then You Should Read That. It's one of our favorite episodes to put together so let's roll!

Featured Books:

If You Liked...Leslie Style:

• The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros (LH)
• The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros (LH)
• The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard (LH)
• Love and Saffron by Kim Fay (LH)

If You Liked...Laura Style:

• The Women on Platform Two by Laura Anthony (LP)
• Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall (LP)
• All You Have to Do is Call by Keri Maher (LP)
• The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis
• The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
• Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins Valdez - The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman
• A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
• A Bookshop in Berlin by Francoise Frenkel - We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein
• Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton - Better Living Though Birding by Christian Cooper

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In today's episode our stack is tied together with the common connection of Who Dunnit...mysteries are the name of today's game. We'll also share a Book in Hand that Laura tries to convince Leslie to revisit. Will she be successful? You'll have to listen in to solve that mystery!

Featured Books:

• We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough (LH)
• The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective by Jo Nichols (LH)
• Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge by Spencer Quinn (LP)
• The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (LP)

Book In Hand:

• The Names by Florence Knapp

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue by Spencer Quinn

Additional Books That Go Along With Our Stack:

• Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man by Jessie Q. Sutano
• The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
• Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell

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In today's episode our stack of books is tied together with the common connection of Historical Fiction...we are looking to the past for inspiration! Join us as we delve into some FAB Historical Novels! Plus, we'll share a Book in Hand. Who says you can't live in the past??

Featured Books:

• The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis (LH)
• Vera by Carol Edgarian (LH)
• The Dressmakers of London by Julia Kelly (LP)
• The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman (LP)

Book in Hand:

• What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (LH)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Address by Fiona Davis
• The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis
• The Spectacular by Fiona Davis
• The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner
• Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman
• Green Glass House by Kate Milford
• The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

Additional Books That Go Along with Our Stack:

• Homecoming by Yaa Gyasi
• The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly
• Shadow On The Crown by Patricia Bracewell
• The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles

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In today's episode, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being books that you are allowed to judge by their covers. Go ahead…do it...we won’t judge you. Even our Book in Hand has a beautiful cover!

Featured Books:

• The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst (LH)
• The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick (LH)
• Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (LP)
• The Place of Tides by James Rebanks (LP)

Book In Hand:

• A Death on Corfu by Emily Sullivan (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
• Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• The Measure by Nikki Erlick
• The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
• Pastoral Song: A Farmer’s Journey by James Rebanks

Additional Books That Go Along With Our Stack:

*These books have great covers…we have not read them.*

• Ending by Maria Reva
• My Men by Victoria Kielland
• Birding by Rose Ruane
• The Manicurist's Daughter by Susan Lieu
• Grief is for People by Sloane Crosley

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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of containing lots of Family Drama! This is a stack of multigenerational, dramatic sagas. We'll also share a buzzy Book in Hand!

Featured Books:

• Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven (LH)
• A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg (LH)
• The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff (LP)
• Where the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice Monroe (LP)

Book In Hand:

• Finding Grace by Loretta Rothschild (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
• Search by Michelle Huneven
• How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard
• Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
• The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick
• The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg

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In this episode our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being Perfect Pairs...in other words...they go together like a fine dining experience! Bon Apetit!

Featured Books:

• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (LH)
• Manslaughter Park by Tirzah Price (LH)
• This Motherless Land by Nikki May (LH)
• These Silent Woods by Kimi Cunningham Grant (LP)
• What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown (LP)

Books Mentioned in This Episode:

• The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
• Educated by Tara Westover

Additional Books That Go Along With Our Stack:

• A Contrary Wind: a variation on Mansfield Park by Lona Manning
• Bonwyn: A Fantasy Austen Retelling by Grace J. Croy
• Edmund Bertram’s Diary by Amanda Grange
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson

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