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Graphic Novels

Our guest this episode is Jason Lamb, the library’s Tween Librarian serving kids ages 9-12.

Books and Authors mentioned

• Little Mouse by Jeff Smith
• Bone by Jeff Smith
• Jack in the Box by Art Spiegelman
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Captain Raptor by Kevin O’Malley and Patrick O’Brien
• Fashion Kitty by Charise Mericle Harper
• Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm
• Lunch Lady by Jarrett Krosoczka
• Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye by Colleen A. F. Venable
• Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi
• Chiggers by Hope Larson
• Into the Volcano by Don Wood
• Arrival by Shaun Tan
• Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan
• Rust series by Royden Lepp
• Mercury by Hope Larson
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• My Dumb Diary by Jim Benton
• Dork Diaries by Rachel Renee Russell
• The Adventures of Beanboy by Lisa Harkrader
• Nancy Drew
• Hardy Boys
• Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Scooby Doo
• Ponyo
• Star Wars
• Goosebumps
• Ninjago and Bionicles
• 60-something years of Newberry winners 
• James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, Sue Grafton
• Erin Hunter’s Warrior series or the Seekers series
• Brian Jacques’s Redwall series
• Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series
• Polo series by Regis Faller
• Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Eve Bunting books
• Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
• Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

Your turn to talk

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Medical Memoirs

Our guest this episode is the fabulous Julie Nelson, Collection Development Professional. She also authors the library’s popular Lost in the Stacks column.

Books and Authors mentioned

• Designated Fat Girl by Jennifer Joyner
• This Won’t Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies) by Michelle Au
• Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway
• Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung by Martha Mason
• Schuyler’s Monster: A Father’s Journey with her Wordless Daughter by Robert Rummel-Hudson
• Alex: the Life of a Child by Frank DeFord
• Nurse by Peggy Anderson
• God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet
• Memoir of a Debulked Woman by Susan Gubar

Your turn to talk

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Chick Lit, Women’s Fiction, Lad Lit and more

Erin Seeger, Library Associate is currently working towards her Master of Library Science degree from Emporia State University. She discusses why she enjoys reading Chick Lit and why you might too!

Books and Authors mentioned

• Shopaholic series by Sophie Kinsella
• Something Borrowed series by Emily Giffin
• Arranged by Catherine McKenzie
• Bookends by Jane Green
• Marian Keyes
• In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
• The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
• Elizabeth Berg
• The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
• Meg Cabot
• Helen Fielding
• Why Girls are Weird by Pamela Ribon
•  Austenland by Shannon Hale
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
• Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
• Nick Hornby
• Jonathan Tropper
• John Green
• These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen

Movies mentioned

• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Devil Wears Prada
• In Her Shoes
• 27 Dresses
• Something Borrowed
• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Harry Potter
• Twilight
• Hunger Games

Your turn to talk

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CONTEST

Remember: the first person to post a comment requesting the new Chick Lit book that Erin promotes during the podcast gets the book!

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Steampunk – the books, the movies, the genre, the sub-culture

Our guest this episode is Susan Schafer, Public Services Specialist to talk about the genre of Steampunk. Susan also presented on this topic for the Celebrate the Book Reader’s Advisory Conference in November 2011.

As Cherie Priest says “steampunk is what the past would have looked like if the future had happened sooner.”

Books and Movies mentioned

• Wild Wild West television series and movie
• H.G. Wells
• Jules Verne
• Back to the Future III 
• Infernal Devices by KW Jeter
• Queen Victoria’s Bomb by Ronald Clark
• Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
• The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
• The Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld
• Clockwork Century series by Cherie Priest, first book is Boneshaker
• Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger
• New Crobuzon series by China Mieville
• Aurorarama by Jean-Christophe Valtat
• Burton and Swinburne  presents series by Mark Hodder, start with The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack
• The Half-Made World by Felix Gilman
• Steampunk and Steampunk II by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer
• Steampunk Bible by Jeff VanderMeer
• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
• Steamed by Katie McAllister
• Iron Duke by Meljean Brook
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. the complete series
• The Prestige
• Three Musketeers (newest movie version)
• etsy.com for corsets, goggles, Victorian clothing, modified Steampunk things
• Steamcon
• Steampunk Scholar
• Steampunk Tribune
• Clockwork Dolls
• Abney Park
• Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff (forthcoming)

Your turn to talk

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Great Books for Discussions

Our guest this episode is Hush listener and Goodreads contributor Melanie Lawrence. 

Books mentioned

• Devil in the White City: murder, magic and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson
• Confederates in the Attic: dispatches from the unfinished Civil War by Tony Horowitz
• Plain Folk: the life stories of undistinguished Americans by William M. Tuttle
• Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
• The Client by John Grisham
• Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
•  The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
• Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Unbroken: a World War II airman’s story of survival, resilience, and redemption  by Laura Hillenbrand
• Angry Housewives eating Bon bons by Lorna Landvik
• Our Boys: a perfect season on the plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape
• One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
• Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
• Englishman in Kansas by Thomas Gladstone
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Shack by William P. Young
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

 Social Networking sites for readers

• Goodreads
• Shelfari

Book discussion groups and resources

• Kansas Humanities Council Book Discussion at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, coordinated through the Topeka Room, 580-4510
• So Many Books, So Little Time Book Discussion at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, coordinated through Deb Bryan at the Reference Desk, 580-4540
• Literature with Lunch Book Discussion at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, coordinated through Lissa at the Reference Desk, 580-4540
• Book Group in a Bag – http://bgib.tscpl.org – a service of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library for anyone with a library card — allows book group leaders to reserve and check out 10 copies of a book, plus a discussion guide, all in a convenient bag.

Your turn to talk

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Books for Guys!

Our guests this episode are Dave Coleman, Red Carpet Specialist and Nate Hohl, Public Services Specialist. They also host the book review column “Uncommonly Good Books Read by Two Common Guys”

Books mentioned

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Einstein: his life and his universe by Walter Isaacson
• The Soul of Baseball by Joe Posnanski
• Our Boys by Joe Drape
• Moondust: in search of the men who fell to earth by Andrew Smith
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Robert B. Parker
• Harlan Coben
• Joseph Ellis
• David McCullough
• Stephen Ambrose
• John Feinstein
• Sweetness: the enigmatic life of Walter Payton by Jeff Pearlman
• Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
• And check out our Superbowl Predictions to see an example of the perils of pre-recording our podcasts  

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Thad Hartman and Lissa Staley wrap up the first year of HUSH podcasts with a discussion of the best books of 2011.

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It’s all about the best, at least in our opinion!

Our guest this episode is Stephanie Hall, Red Carpet Manager to chat about the best books of 2011 according to Goodreads, our library customers, and also our own reading tastes.

Books mentioned

• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
• 1Q84 by Haruki Marukami
• Smokin’ Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
• A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward and the Black Dagger brotherhood series - start with Dark Lover
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Geeks shall inherit the earth by Alexandra Robbins
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Two Kisses for Maddy: a memoir of loss and love by Matthew Logelin
• Where she went by Gail Forman sequel to If I Stay
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: a book by Patton Oswald
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Litigators by John Grisham
• The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
• Prince of Ravenscar by Catherine Coulter
• James Patterson
• A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
• Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
• If you Ask Me (and of course you won’t)  by Betty White
• Jeaniene Frost
• Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder series
• Shut Out by Kody Keplinger

Your turn to talk

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Thad Hartman and Lissa Staley interview Nancy Pearl, author of the Book Lust series and model for the librarian action figure.

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Book Lust and other reading recommendations

Our guest this episode is Nancy Pearl, Author and Librarian. She is a rock star among readers and her Book Lust series helps tempt readers with new book recommendations. Nancy invented and popularized the concept of a community reading and discussing the same book together. She is a frequent contributor to NPR on topics of books and reading. She is an inspiration for librarians, library customers and readers everywhere!

In this podcast, she confesses ”I wanted to be a librarian because I wanted to make the world a better place” and explains “The rule of 50″ for how to judge whether to keep reading a book that you aren’t enjoying.

Books mentioned

• Book Lust to Go by Nancy Pearl
• The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
• The Brothers K by David James Duncan
• The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli
• National Novel Writing Month
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
• E. Nesbit books
• Half-Magic by Edgar Eager
• The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
• A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Dorothy Dunnett
• And you heard it here first…a new series being published over the next two years– Book Lust Rediscoveries: reprints of Nancy Pearl’s favorite novels, including “A Gay and Melancholy Sound” by Merle Miller and “After Life” by Rhian Ellis
• Nancy’s best of 2011
• Rin Tin Tin: the life and the legend by Susan Orlean
• The Destiny of the Republic: a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president  by Candice Millard
• In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard
• The Summer of the Bear by Bella Pollen

Follow Nancy Pearl on twitter @nancypearl or Facebook

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What’s on Gina’s Kindle?

Our guest this episode is the library’s CEO, Gina Millsap. She share some titles that she has been reading on her Kindle, talks about checking out ebooks from the library, and tells us why her candidacy for President of the American Library Association is important to our library and to Kansas.

Resources mentioned

• The Googlization of everything: (and why we should worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan
• Karen Chance and pother aranormal/vampire fiction
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Fairy tales
• Zombies in fiction
• The Walking Dead
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Anne Rice
• Charlaine Harris
• Laurel K. Hamilton
• 2600 phrases for effective performance appraisals 
• Smokin’ Seventeen by Janet Evanovich (audiobooks)
•  I’ll mature when I’m dead by Dave Barry
• Steve Jobs: a biography by Walter Isaacson
• Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• The swarm by Frank Schatzing
• My Life by Bill Clinton
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• http://ginajmillsap.com/

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William Allen White awards

Our guest this episode is Jason Lamb, the library’s new Tween Librarian serving kids ages 9-12. He represented our library at the William Allen White awards ceremony this fall in Emporia, Kansas.

Books mentioned

• Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
• The Boy who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
• Also known as Harper by Ann Haywood Leal
• The boy who invented TV: the story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull 
• Extra credit by Andrew Clements
• All the broken pieces: a novel in verse by Ann E Burg
• The Great Death by John E Smelcer
• Years of dust: the story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin
• Read more about the current nominees for 3rd-5th grade and 6th-8th grade on the William Allen White award website.
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
• Frindle by Andrew Clements
• The Devil’s Donkey, Baseball Fever, and The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
• A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
• Swindle by Gordon Korman
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
• City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
• Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool  

Your turn to talk

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