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Joining us in the studio:
In this episode, Autumn Friedli recommends books from the Western United States for your Reading Around the World Challenge!
Show Notes
Listeners — Autumn is BACK! After a brief stint as a librarian elsewhere, Autumn Friedli returns to the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library and to the HUSH podcast as our very special guest for this episode. Prepare yourself for all of the Jake Ryan and River Phoenix references, and, of course, many book recommendations set in the Western United States.
How are we defining Western United States? West of the Midwest, and including Texas, Alaska and Hawaii.
In case we don’t mention enough titles to quench your insatiable thirst for more books, here are some additional lists:
- 100 Must-Read Books of the American West from BookRiot
- True West Best of the West 2018 Western Books
- Western Writers of America Spur Awards
What’s Next?
HUSH Upcoming Episodes
Thanks for listening! We love to hear from listeners. Don’t forget to sign up for our year-long Reading Around the World challenge!
- Sept 25, 2018 – Reading Around the World: Africa with guests Michelle Morris and Craig Paschang
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Lissa Staley
Lissa Staley helps people use the library. She is a Book Evangelist, Trivia Emcee, Classics Made Modern book discussion leader, NaNoWriMo Municipal Liaison, and frequent library customer. She loves her kids, being a librarian, living in Topeka, and helping people form connections and community. (She's the Community Connections Librarian!) She reads a new book every few days, but is enjoying the audiobook of "Empress of Forever" by Max Gladstone, the ebook "When We Were Magic" by Sarah Gailey and is eagerly awaiting John Scalzi's "The Last Emperox" in April!