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Episode Overview
In our fifth episode, host Jill is joined by Adam and Sheila as they discuss some of the top award winners to come out of 2016 ALA Midwinter conference as well as some of the titles they've recently finished reading. Our reader recommendations are pulled from some of our Twitter followers and we also spend time remembering the late great David Bowie and Alan Rickman.
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Featured OverDrive Staff
Jill, Sheila, and Adam
Intro (0:00-2:38)
ALA Award Winners (2:39-6:11)
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena, Illustrated by Christian Robinson
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak
Recent Reads (6:12-15:39)
Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld
A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
The Gap of Time by Jeannette Winterson
William Shakespeare Star Wars by Ian Doescher
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones
A Step Toward Falling by Cammie McGovern
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Every Day I Fight by Stuart Scott
Readers Advisory Recommendations (15:40-23:16)
Readalikes for Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Readalikes for Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Readalikes for In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Pre-Pubs and Other Books (23:17-30:12)
Morning Star by Pierce Brown, Book 3 in the Red Rising Trilogy
View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman
Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz
Pax by Sara Pennypacker, author of the Clementine Series
Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell
The Oxford Inheritance by Ann A. McDonald
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
The Likeness by Tana French
At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
Remembering Alan Rickman and David Bowie (30:13-End)
Their bookish roles include Labyrinth: The Novelization, Harry Potter series, Sense and Sensibility, and The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Music
"Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com
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