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Book Club Associate Amy and Readers' Advisor Marianne share titles guaranteed to get your book club talking.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
 
This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger   James, Percival Everett The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, Amor Towles Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell The Diamond Eye, Kate Quinn Solito, Javier Zamora Chain-Gang All-Stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Yellowface, R. F. Kuang Romantic Comedy, Curtis Sittenfeld Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt The Guncle, Steven Rowley Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang (Marianne's review) Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar Happiness Falls, Angie Kim  Click here to request a list of personalized reading recommendations.
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Erica and Brooke, one of the Library's Maintenance staff, talk about two new historical fiction titles and what we can learn from them.
Titles and authors mentioned in this episode:
The Women by Kristen Hannah Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford China Beach (TV Series) Lou Berney S.A. Cosby Dwyer Murphy The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon For a personalized list of reading suggestions, fill out our Ask A Bookie form.
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Erica and Bronwyn, the Library's Communications Coordinator, talk about the romantasy series that has taken over the internet: Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses, the RenFaire, and how books are better with friends.
Titles mentioned in this episode:
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Crescent City Series by Sarah J. Maas Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin Game of Thrones: the television series Dune by Frank Herbert Dune: the films The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) by Robert Jordan Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Outlander: the television series  
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For the 9th year in a row librarians Becky and Nate discuss last night's Academy Awards ceremony and celebrate the year in film.
Listen and discover the highlights - the movies recognized by the Academy and the movies that were overlooked but not to be missed.
Then find out how your library card is the ultimate ticket to the movies.

Readers' Advisors Erica and Amy share three recent books that bring their worlds -- a tense near-future, a legendary past, and present-day America - to life in vivid and unexpected ways.
Books featured in this episode:
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris Click here to register for the Spring Book Buzz.
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Erica and Marianne are sticking to their reading resolutions by digging into great historical fiction featuring real-life banditos and midwives. Then, Marianne gives us the inside scoop on this year's One Book, One Community series.
Titles discussed in this episode:
The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

The Frozen River, by Ariel Lawhon
The Violin Conspiracy, by Brendan Slocumb
For details on all of the One Book, One Community events, visit 1book.org.
For personalized book recommendations, visit www.cooklib.org/bookies.
For the library's blog, visit shelflife.cooklib.org.
Email us at webmaster@cooklib.org.