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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!

40. Summer Reading Time is Here!

Great Outdoors Month

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black man in the natural world by Christian Cooper 

Last entry point : stories of danger and death in the boundary waters; Journalist Joe Friedrichs

Saving Yellowstone : exploration and preservation in Reconstruction America by Megan Kate Nelson.

Holes by Louis Sachar 

Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (book 1 – Little House in the Big Woods) 

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls 

Gather by Kenneth M Cadow 

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss 

Something Wilder by Christina Lauren 

The Jewel of the Isle by Kerry Rea 

Swept Away by Beth O'Leary 

Wild Life by Opal Wei 

 Boss My TBR

Cabin: off-the-grid adventures with a clueless craftsman by Patrick Hutchison.

The puzzler: one man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life by A.J. Jacobs.

Don't think, dear: on loving & leaving ballet by Alice Robb.

No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own 

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley.

Renovated to Death by Frank Anthony Polito. 

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds.

The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly Kennedy. 

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo.

Librarian Wrap

Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su 

Cultish: The language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell 

Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship, a documentary 

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley.

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict 

What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Soloman

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr Narrated by Marin Ireland and Simon Jones 

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl 

After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid, narrated by Julia Whelan 

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Codename Charming by Lucy Parker

This Summer Will be Different by Carley Fortune

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 

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, and Craig Borlase, narrated by Jill Duggar 

Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow 

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings, narrated by Tia Levings 

Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, narrated by Jefferson White 

Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman, narrated by M.L. Sanchez 

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

All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg, narrated by Therese Plummer 

Murder by Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Cozy Mystery by Rachel Ekstrom Courage 

Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation by Cara Meredith, narrated by Jessica Humphreville

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, narrated by Renata Friedman 

Who Deserves Your Love: How to Create Boundaries to Start, Strengthen, or End Any Relationship by KC David, LPC