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Checked In: A Davenport Library Podcast

Each month, librarians from the Davenport Public Library in Iowa will dive into a variety of topics and connect listeners to the many great resources the Library and City of Davenport have to offer. Listen in for book suggestions, interviews, and more!

37. Seed Library Season is Upon Us!

Seed Library

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Eartheater by Dolores Reyes, Julia Sanches (translator)

Animal vegetable miracle: a year of food life by Barbara Kingsolver

Gaining ground: a story of farmers' markets, local food, and saving the family farm by Forrest Pritchard

Magic Garden Mystery series by Amanda Flower (first book is Flowers and Foul Play)

Farm to Table Mystery series by Amanda Flower (first book is Farm to Trouble)

The Gardener's Plot by Deborah Benoit

Death in Bloom series by Jess Dylan (first book is Death in Bloom)

The Scent of a Garden by Namrata Patel

Youth Media Awards

The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

Chooch Helped illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz and written by Andrea L. Rogers

Twenty-four Seconds from Now by Jason Reynolds

My Daddy is a Cowboy illustrated by C.G. Esperanza

Kwame Crashes the Underworld by Craig Kofi Farmer

Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin illustrated by Jamiel Law, written by Michelle Meadows

Brownstone written by Samuel Teer, illustrated by Mar Julia

A Little Like Magic written and illustrated by Sarah Kurpiel

Popcorn written and illustrated by Rob Harrell 

Chronically Dolores written by Maya Van Wagenen

Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability by Melissa Blake 

Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined written by David F. Walker, illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson,  

Daughters of Shandong by Eve J. Chung 

Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark 

How to Solve Your Own Murder: A Novel by Kristen Perrin 

I Feel Awful, Thanks written and illustrated by Lara Pickle 

I Was a Teenage Slasher written by Stephen Graham Jones 

The Witch of Colchis by Rosie Hewlett 

The Witchstone by Henry H. Neff 

Woman, Life, Freedom created by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Una Dimitrijević 

The Dream Catcher illustrated and written by Marcelo Verdad

Lola written by Karla Arena Valenti

Shut Up, This is Serious written by Carolina Ixta

Lunar Boy written and illustrated by Jes and Cin Wibowo

Canto Contigo written by Jonny Garza Villa

Aloha Everything written by Kaylin Melia George, illustrated by Mae Waite 

Continental Drifter written and illustrated by Kathy MacLeod 

Everything We Never Had written by Randy Ribay

Everything We Never Had written by Randy Ribay

An Etrog from Across the Sea written by Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen 

The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival written by Estelle Nadel and Sammy Savos with Bethany Strout, illustrated by Sammy Savos 

Night Owls written by A.R. Vishny 

Women's History: Strong Female Frienships

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey 

Hey Ladies!: The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year, and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty 

The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson 

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes 

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodie Ashton, and Jodi Meadows 

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes 

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares 

The Help by Kathryn Stockett 

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 

Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser 

Book to Screen

“A Complete Unknown” based on “Dylan goes electric!” by Elijah Walk 

“Conclave” based on “Conclave” by Robert Harris 

“Nickel Boys” based on “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead 

“Emilia Perez” based on one chapter of “Écoute” by Boris Razon 

“Sing Sing” based on "The Sing Sing Follies" by John H. Richardson

“The Substance” - Several critics have noted the film's similarities to Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray 

“Conclave” based on “Conclave” by Robert Harris 

“Emilia Perez” based on one chapter of “Écoute” by Boris Razon

A Complete Unknown, Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, Based on the Book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald; Searchlight Pictures 

Dune: Part 2, Screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, Based on the Novel Dune by Frank Herbert; Warner Bros. Pictures 

Hit Man, Screenplay by Richard Linklater & Glen Powell, Based on the Texas Monthly Article by Skip Hollandsworth; Netflix (This article is available through MasterFile!) 

Nickel Boys, Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes, Based on the Book The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead; Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios 

Wicked, Screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox, Based on the musical stage play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman, From the Novel by Gregory Maguire; Universal Pictures 

Librarian Wrap

The Wild Robot by Peter Reynolds 

The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner, narrated by Richard Armitage  

Drop Dead Sisters 

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker

My Calamity Jane

Just Another Missing Girl by Gillian McAllister

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. Narrated by Kyla Garcia

The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch, narrated by Ellis Evans 

Murder at an Irish Wedding by Carlene O’Connor (book 2 in Irish Village Mystery series) 

His & Hers by Alice Feeney, narrated by Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine 

The Christmas Tree Farm by Laurie Gilmore (book 3 in Dream Harbor series) 

The Gardener’s Plot by Deborah J. Benoit 

A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone, narrated by Joy Nash and Sebastian York (book 1 in Christmas Notch series) 

Dead and Gondola by Ann Claire (book 1 in Christie Bookshop series) 

The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex 

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson