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Checked In: A Davenport Library Podcast

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27. Free Comic Book Day, AAPI Heritage Month, and Your Library

AAPI Heritage Month Reads

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala 

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim 

Noodle Shop Mysteries by Vivien Chien 

The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim 

The Farm by Joanne Ramos 

The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood 

We Are Not Free by Traci Chee 

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui 

Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 

Older Americans Month

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg  

The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson 

Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler 

A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean  

A Man Called Ove by Frederick Bachma

Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman 

Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge by Spencer Quinn 

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto 

Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood 

Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn 

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 

Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty 

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney 

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick 

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 

News of the World by Paulette Jiles 

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle by Matt Cain 

An Elderly Lady is up to no good by Helene Turste

Librarian Reads

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld 

A Proposal They Can’t Refuse by Natalie Cana 

The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes 

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss 

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 

The Long Game by Elena Armas 

Left Field Love by C.W. Farnsworth 

Dare to Lead by Brene Brown 

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice by Jessie Q. Sutanto 

Noodle Shop mysteries by Vivien Chien

Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

I Was Told There Would be Cake by Sloan Crosley

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

The Resort by Sarah Ochs 

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 

The Fury by Alex Michaelides 

She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright, illustrations by Eva Bee 

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard 

Mrs. Plansky’s Revenge by Spencer Quinn (#1 in Mrs Plansky series) 

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty 

Parachute Kids by Betty Tangc 

Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice by Elle Cosimano (book 4 in the Finlay Donovan series) 

Murder Before Evensong by the Revered Richard Coles (book 1 in the Canon Clement series) 

Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal 

Transitions: A Mother’s Journey by Elodie Durand 

Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline (book 2 in Marrow Thieves series) 

Assaulted Caramel by Amanda Flower (book 1 in Amish Candy Shop Mystery series) 

This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian 

Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi 

The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman 

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera