Thad Hartman and Lissa Staley host a roundtable discussion with our guests around an engaging and interesting topic — Great Summer Reads!

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Great Summer Reads

Our guests this episode include Kathy Jennings, Stephanie Hall, Kelli Smith, Brian Adams and Cadie Maas to share their recommendations for great summer reads.

Books mentioned

Check out these great books and more from http://catalog.tscpl.org

• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• Paris by Edward Rutherford
• Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
• Bright Forever by Lee Martin
• Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
• Pulp Detective Fiction like the Hard Case Crime series
• Downloading audiobooks from the library’s Overdrive service http://ebooks.tscpl.org
• Corralled by Lorelei James # 1 in the Blacktop Cowboys series
• Saddled and Spurred by Lorelei James #2 in the Blacktop Cowboys series
• Flat-Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy # 1 in the Fast Track Series
• Hard and Fast by Erin McCarthy # 2 in the Fast Track Series
• Audiobooks by Rachel Gibson
• The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

 Your turn to talk

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Sylvia Plath

 Our guest this episode is Miranda Ericcson, who shares her knowledge and passion about Sylvia Plath’s life and works.

Books mentioned

Books discussed

• The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, first poet to be awarded the prize posthumously).
• Ariel: The Restored Edition (Includes facsimiles of her actual handwritten drafts, and publishes the poems in the order that Plath had intended).
• The Bell Jar
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Edited by Karen V. Kukil
• American Isis by Carl Rollyson
• Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted by Andrew Wilson

 Other recommended titles

• Her Husband by Dianne Middlebrook.
• Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, Collected short stories, essays, and journal excepts
• Letters Home, Edited by Aurelia Plath.
• Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
• Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath’s Rival and Ted Hughes’s Doomed Love by Yehuda Koren

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Book Group in a Bag

Deb Bryan

Our guest this episode is Deb Bryan. She reveals the book titles that will be added to the library’s Book Group in a Bag collection in 2013, as well as promotes that service to book groups.

Learn more about Book Group in a Bag and reserve titles for your book discussion group at http://bgib.tscpl.org.

Books mentioned

These are the new titles that will be added to the library’s Book Group in a Bag collection in 2013:

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
• The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
• Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
• My Abandonment by Peter Rock
• These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West–One Meal at a Time by Stephen Fried
• Brother I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat
• Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson (the Bloggess)
• Room by Emma Donoghue

Take advantage of the library’s Book Group in a Bag service to reserve 10 copies of the book, plus a discussion guide, in a handy bag that checks out for 6 weeks. Reserve online at http://bgib.tscpl.org.

Your turn to talk

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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

Our guests this episode are discussion with Erin Seeger and Autumn Friedli about the book Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin, which will be discussed at an upcoming Bean There, Read That book discussion group.

Join the book discussion on Tuesday, March 26, 2013 from 7-8:30 pm at PTs Coffee Roasting Company Cafe at 17th and Washburn.

At this book group for folks in their 20s and 30s, you can relive book discussions from your English classes, but with books you want to and honestly will read this time – plus food and drink (alcoholic or otherwise). Provide your own copy or borrow one at the Reference Desk in the library, first come, first-served.

Books mentioned

Read Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin in regular print, large print or listen to the Book on CD.

Consider discussing it with your book group, and take advantage of the library’s Book Group in a Bag service to reserve 10 copies of the book, plus a discussion guide, in a handy bag that checks out for 6 weeks. Reserve online at http://bgib.tscpl.org.

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Disaster Stories

  Our guest this episode is Brian Adams. We discuss current movies, classic movies, the upcoming Academy Awards, and the history of the Oscars.

Movies mentioned

This list of winners and nominees for the Academy Award for Best Picture is useful when listening to this podcast. Check it out to see which of these films you have seen, which ones you loved, and which ones you don’t think deserved to win.

Search for these movies and place requests at http://catalog.tscpl.org

Your turn to talk

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Thad Hartman and Lissa Staley host a roundtable discussion with our guests around an engaging and interesting topic — Disaster Stories!

In this special two-part podcast, we host Julie Nelson discussing books in Part One and Brian Adams discussing films in Part Two.

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Disaster Stories

  Our guests this episode are Julie Nelson and Brian Adams. We discuss books and movies about disasters and why people might enjoy those types of stories.

Books mentioned

Search for these books and place requests at http://catalog.tscpl.org

Natural Disasters

• The Children’s Blizzard by David Laskin
• Isaac’s Storm by Erik Larson

Manmade Disasters

• Gone at 3:17 by David Brown and Michael Wereschagin
• Johnstown Flood by David McCullough

Disasters Where the Humanitarian Response is Equally as Important as the Disaster

• The Grave Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly
• Curse of the Narrows by Laura MacDonald

Movies mentioned

Search for these movies and place requests at http://catalog.tscpl.org. If we don’t own a title, you can use our Interlibrary Loan service to borrow it from another library.

THE EARLY YEARS

• Deluge (1933)
• San Francisco (1936)
• In Old Chicago (1937)
• The Hurricane (1937)
• The Rains Came (1939)

1950s-1960s

• Titanic (1953)
• The High and the Mighty (1954)
• Zero Hour (1957)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• The Last Voyage (1960)

The 1970s-AIRPORT

• Airport (1970)
• Airport 1975 (1974)
• Airport ’77 (1977)
• The Concorde-Airport ’79 (1979)

1970S-THE GOOD STUFF

• The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
• The Towering Inferno (1974)
• Earthquake (1974)
• Juggernaut (1974)
• The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

1970S-THE OTHER STUFF

• The Hindenburg (1975)
• Two-Minute Warning (1976)
• Rollercoaster (1977)
• Avalanche (1978)
• The Swarm (1978)
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
• Meteor (1979)
• When Time Ran Out (1980)

THE SPOOFS

• The Big Bus (1976)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Airplane II-The Sequel (1982)

THE RETURN

• Independence Day (1996)
• Daylight (1996)
• Twister (1996)
• Volcano (1997)
• Dante’s Peak (1997)
• Titanic (1997)
• Armeggedon (1998)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Day After Tomorrow (2003)
• The Core (2003)
• Poseidon (2006)
• 2012 (2009)
• The Impossible (2012)

Your turn to talk

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The Big Read and The Great Gatsby

Valerie Reif

Tanya Walsh

Our guests this episode are Valerie Reif and Tanya Walsh.

The Big Read book is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Join the community in reading and discussing this classic during The Big Read, Feb. 1–March 2. Attend one of 29 programs centered around the book.  Learn more at http://tscpl.org/bigread/

Join your library and citizens across the county for this community reading experience and help combat the decline of civic, social, cultural and economic engagement that occurs when people spend less time reading.

Despite the fact that the book is a slim 200 pages, The Great Gatsby is still considered a touchstone of modern American fiction. Hundreds of copies of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are available from the library for this celebration of reading.

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Best Books of 2012

Our guests this episode are Stephanie Hall, Kelli Smith and Megan Johnson. We discuss the Goodreads Choice Awards Best of 2012 selections along with our other recommendations from 2012.

Books mentioned

Search for these books and place requests at http://catalog.tscpl.org

• Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
•  Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
• Winter of the World by Ken Follett (sequel to Fall of Giants)
•  Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Harlan Coben
• Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
• Garment of Shadows: a Mary Russell novel by Laurie R. King
• The Yard by Alex Grecian
• Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
• Wind Through the KeyHole: a Dark Tower novel  by Stephen King
• Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
• Third Grave Dead Ahead by  Darynda Jones
• Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
• Redshirts by John Scalzi
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (a 2011 pick, but still good)
• The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King (techincally a 2011 book that we are still talking about)
• Wool by Hugh Howey
• Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James
• Bared to You by Sylvia Day
• Lover Reborn by J. R. Ward
• Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost
• The Darkest Seduction by Gena Showalter
• The Twelve by Justin Cronin, sequel to The Passage
• The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
•  George by Alexander Dumas (similar to The Black Count, classic book)
• John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger
• L. A. ’56: A Devil in the City of Angels  by Joel Engel
• The Walking Dead Volume 16 graphic novel
•  American Vampire Volume 3 by Scott Snyder
• Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral
• Soulless by Gail Carriger
• One More Day by David Levithan
• The Fault in our Stars by John Green
• Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter (book 5)
• Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
• UnWholly by Neal Shusterman, sequel to Unwind
• America, Again by Stephen Colbert
• The Dakota Cipher by William Dietrich
• A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin (book 3 in A Song of Ice and Fire series)

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Great Christmas Reads 

 Our guests this episode include Lynn Shirley, Anne Pepper, Kate Hughes & Kelli Smith. 

 Books mentioned

Search for these books and movies and place requests at http://catalog.tscpl.org

• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• “Scrooge” a 1951 Christmas Carol movie starring Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns
• Christmas from the Heart of the Home by Susan Branch
•  Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore (illustrated by Jan Brett)
• Who’s that Knocking On Christmas Eve by Jan Brett
• When Elves Attack: a Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of the Sunshine State by Tim Dorsey
• An Idiot Girl’s Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List by Laurie Notaro
• The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
• The Eight Days of Hanukkah
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris 
• In God we Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd
• A Christmas Story (1983 film) 

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Thad Hartman and Lissa Staley host a roundtable discussion (41:44) with our guests around an engaging and interesting topic — Hunger Games and other books with a competition to the death!

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Hunger Games and more

Our guest this episode is Miranda Ericsson, who shelves books in the Circulation Department. She joins us to share her interet and expertise in the predecessors to The Hunger Games.

Books mentioned

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• The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
• The Long Walk by Stephen King
• The Running Man by Stephen King
• Theseus and the Minotaur

Your turn to talk

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