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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!

38. Library Love, Earth Day, and Graphic Novels Galore!

Arab American Heritage Month

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. Available on DVD. 

Huda f are you? By Huda Fahmy 

We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal 

Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga

Huda f are you? By Huda Fahmy 

I Was Their American Dream by Malaka Gharib 

A Woman is no Man by Etaf Rum 

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Jouklader

The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S.K. Ali illustrated by Hatem Aly

Books about Libraries and Librarians

The Loud Librarian by Jenna Beatrice 

Library Books are Not for Eating by Todd Tarpley 

No Cats in the Library by Lauren Emmons 

No T. Rex in the Library by Toni Buzzeo 

Good Night, Library by Denise Brennan-Nelson 

Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library by Julie Gassman 

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes (love interest is a librarian) 

Funny Story by Emily Henry (youth librarian)

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

Dewey: The small-town library cat who touched the world by Vicki Myron --takes place in Spencer, Iowa 

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

Reading behind Bars: A True Story of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill Grunenwald

The Library Book by Susan Orlean 

The secret lives of booksellers and librarians : true stories of the magic of reading by James Patterson.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections by Eva Jurczyk 

The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt 

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 

The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis 

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson (The Book Woman’s Daughter) 

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes 

The Librarian of Boone’s Hollow by Kim Vogel Sawyer 

What You Wish For by Katherine Center 

The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore 

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill 

The Library of the Unwritten by AJ Hackwith 

The Starless Sea  by Erin Morgenstern 

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 

The Library Lover’s Mystery series by Jenn McKinlay 

Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey 

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng 

I Work at a Public Library by Gina Sheridan 

Librarian Wrap

The Davenports by Krystal Marquis

Inspired: slaying giants, walking on water, and loving the Bible again by Rachel Held Evans

The children on the hill by Jennifer McMahon

The Secret Lives of church ladies by Deesha Philyaw

When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

Call us what we carry by Amanda Gorman

My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows, narrated by Sophie Amoss 

Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister and narrated by Joanne Froggatt, Justin Avoth, and Kerry Wotton 

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and narrated by Miranda Sykes 

Battle Royal by Lucy Parker 

The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah narrated by Julie Whelan 

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson 

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 

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 Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson, narrated by JD Jackson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Joy Nash, Christopher Salazar, and Karen Malina White 

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, narrated by Richard Armitage 

The Gardener’s Plot by Deborah J. Benoit 

The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex, narrated by Tom Burke and Indira Varma 

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson, narrated by Guy Lockard and Kim Johnson 

Bride by Ali Hazelwood 

Dear Medusa by Olivia A. Cole, narrated by Olivia A. Cole 

A Love Catastrophe by Helena Hunting 

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner, narrated by Nancy Linari, Peter Berkrot, and Tristan Wright 

All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman 

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins