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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!

39. K-Pop, AAPI, Mother's Day Reads

AAPI - Hallyu Wave

Queen of Tears (K-drama)

See You in My 19th Life (K-drama)

A Business Proposal (K-drama)

Reborn Rich (K-drama)

Perfect Marriage Revenge (K-drama)

The Story of Park's Marriage Contract (K-drama)

Marry My Husband (K-drama)

Parasite (movie)

Train to Busan (movie)

A Taxi Driver (movie)

Broker (movie)

The Good, The Bad, and the Weird (movie)

Don't Mess Up My Tempo - EXO (cd)

Rosie - Rose (APT, her track with Bruno Mars, reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100) (cd)

New Jeans - NewJeans (a great example of how fun kpop album design is) (cd)

Any album by BTS.  (cd)

Villains are Destined to Die

Solo Leveling

True Beauty

Tower of God

Mother's Day Reads

Lessons in Chemistry by Betty Garmus 

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan 

The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson 

The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms 

You Made Me a Mother by Laurenne Sala illustrated by Robin Priess Glasser 

Are You My Mother? By P.D. Eastman 

I love you so... by Marianne Richmand 

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch 

Instant mom by Nia Vardalos

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 

Are you my mother? By Alison Bechdel

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 

I’m Glad My Mom died by Jenette McCurdy 

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

The Push by Ashley Audrain 

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver 

Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng 

The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain 

The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke 

National Mystery Month

Authors mentioned

Agatha Christie

Dashall Hammett

Juliet Blackwell

Mia P. Manansala

Janet Evanovich

Tirzah Price

Linda Reilly

Mary Kubica

Shari Lapena

Amelia Diane Coombs

Jenn McKinlay

Amanda Flower

Vivien Chien

Misha Popp

Elle Cosimano

Victoria Thompson

Richard Osman

Deanna Raybourn

Lauren Elliott

Ellery Adams

Catherine Bruns

Robert Thorogood

Vicki Delany

Tamara Berry

Karin Slaughter

Alice Feeney

Ruth Ware

Books mentioned

“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie

Cook up a Crime by (local author!) Charlotte Murray Russell

Bookmobile Cat Mysteries by Laurie Cass

“Murder by Cheesecake, a Golden Girls Cozy Mystery” 

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson 

Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica

Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter 

The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

Librarian Wrap

Revenge of the tipping point : overstories, superspreaders, and the rise of social engineering by Malcolm Gladwell. 

$9 Therapy : semi-capitalist solutions to your emotional problems by Megan Reid and Nick Greene 

Auggie and Me by R.J. Palacio 

Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland by Patricia Bryan and Thomas Wolf. 

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, Narrated by Caroline Lee and Geraldine Hakewill 

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt narrated by Marin Ireland and Michael Urie 

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama narrated by the author 

The Royal Librarian by Daisy Wood – narrated by Laurel Lefkow 

The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros 

The Most Likely Club by Elyssa Friedland and Narrated by Kristen Sieh 

What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Soloman

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

This Summer Will be Different by Carley Fortune 

A Love Catastrophe by Helena Hunting 

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

Everyone is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf, narrated by Brittany Pressley 

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson, narrated by Bahni Turpin 

All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman 

The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom by Shari Franke, narrated by Shari Franke 

A Scandal in Scarlet by Vicki Delaney (book 4 in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery series) 

Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II by Abbott Kahler, narrated by Cassandra Campbell 

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow 

The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers by Sarah Tomlinson, narrated by Helen Laser, featuring original music and performances by Joshua Grange with backing vocals from Eric Blanchard and Eric Dion 

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins 

The Chow Maniac by Vivien Chien (book 11 in Noodle Shop Mystery series)