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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!

43. Back-to-School, QC Beats, and Library Card Sign-Up Month!

Music

 Byron "BK" Davis - memoir “Ivory Towers,” as well as a jazz CD, “Invisible secret."

If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos 

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears 

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton.

Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

The Singer Sisters by Sarah Marian Seltzer 

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 

Red Rising by Pierce Brown 

Divine Rivals and Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross 

Mary Jane by Jessca Anya Blau 

Vinyl Resting Place by Olivia Blacke 

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Read 

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas 

Summertime Punchline by Betty Corrello  

Me by Elton John

Be Late for Something Day

Crime and Punishment 

Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Toni Morrison 

J.R.R. Tolkien 

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 

Librarian Wrap

Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland by Patricia L. Bryan 

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

Ursula, Under by Ingrid Hill

The music advantage : how music helps your child develop, learn, and thrive

The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews Narrated by Kathleen McInerney

The House of Lost Secrets by Anstey Harris 

Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely  

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross, narrated by Alex Wingfield and Rebecca Norfolk (book 1 in Letters of Enchantment series) 

I Don’t Need Therapy: and other lies I’ve told myself by Toni Lodge, narrated by Toni Lodge 

The Crime Brulee Bake Off by Rebecca Connolly, narrated by Sophi Roberts 

A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat 

Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross, narrated by Rebecca Norfolk and Alex Wingfield (book 2 in Letters of Enchantment series) 

Murder Off the Books by Tamara Berry (book 3 in By the Book Mystery series) 

Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan, narrated by Kristen DiMercurio 

Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young, narrated by the author 

Solid Gold Murder by Ellen Byron (book 2 in Golden Motel Mystery series) 

Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel 

What Happens in Amsterdam by Rachel Lynn Solomon, narrated by Elizabeth Lamont 

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker Chan, narrated by Natalie Naudus (book 1 in Radiant Emperor series)

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson