Three Books is Ela Area Public Library’s podcast series where our hosts, Becca and Christen, chat about three popular/favorite books. They talk about what they’re reading this summer and get three book recommendations from Ela Staff.

0:2:28 Staff Picks Part 1

0:5:27 Becca is STILL reading Children of Blood & Bone

0:6:49 Staff Picks Part 2

0:9:23 Christen Book One- The Tin Man by Sarah Winman

0:13:31 Christen Book Two: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

0:22:53 Christen Book Three: The Murderbot Diaries (Series) by Martha Wells

0:33:22 Books to TV news- Sanditon by Jane Austen

0:34:55 Staff Picks Part 3

0:36:51 Becca doesn’t do summer reading

0:37:52 Becca Book One: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

0:48:24 Becca Book 2: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

0:52:13 Becca Book 3: The Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell with writing from ten other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez

1:02:38 Staff Picks Part 4

1:05:16 Closing Notes



Additional books mentioned by Christen and Becca -

I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman

The Martian by Andy Weir

Raina Telgemeier graphic novels

Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson

All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson

Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon



Watching -

Mindhunter

“An Origin Story” by Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye



Other Info -

Project Voice - http://www.projectvoice.co

The Cardboard Kingdom Projects and Info - https://chadsellcomics.com/thecardboardkingdom/



STAFF PICKS

Staff Picks Part 1

The New books by Nora Roberts

Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffen

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Whahong

The Poppy War by RF Quang

The Swedish Art of Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson

The Long Haul by Finn Murphy

The Real Queen Elizabeth by Andrew Maher

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Mare

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl

The Fallen by David Baldacci

After Anna by Lisa Scottoline

The Neuroscientist That Lost her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska

Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Daves

Love and Other words by Christina (Hobbs) Lauren

Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel



Staff Picks Part 2

A Lullaby of Summer Things by Natalie Reif Ziarnik

The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall

The Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea by Lynne Rae Perkins



Staff Picks Part 3

Battle Bunny by Jon Scieszka Mac Bennett

Dory and the real true friend by Abby Hanlon

Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo



Staff Picks Part 4

Americanah- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

The House Girl by Tara Conklin

Summer in Orcus by T Kingfisher

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

We Free Men by Terry Pratchett

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

Home of the Unwanted girls by Joanna Goodman

My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan



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