Book Lounge by Libby

Today's episode is an interview with Cleveland native, Susan Orlean, author of the New York Times Bestselling book The Orchid Thief. She discusses the writing process behind the book and the movie adaptation, as well as gives us a sneak peek of the book she's currently working on.   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Today's Episode, Jill and Adam welcome back their good friend and romance writing treasure, Penny Reid! Penny talks about her latest books, offers some cozy mystery book recommendations and tells us about possibly the best holiday tradition ever. She also chats up her wonderful fan club/ reader group which you can join below. Adam and Jill also provide some classic book recommendations and offer a reminder to keep tagging us in your Cat and Dog social media posts for a chance to win a Kobo Aura One from us on our 200th episode! Join Penny Reid's reader club here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SharksofAwesome/   Books Mentioned in this episode Kissing Tolstoy by Penny Reid   Dr. Strange Beard by Penny Reid   The Miss Fortune Mystery Series by Jana DeLeon   The Secret Seal Isle Mystery series by Lucy Quinn   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is an interview with debut young adult author FC Yee. His book The Epic Crush of Genie Lo draws from Chinese folklore and features an incredible heroine.    Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Jill and Adam are joined by Madeline McIntosh, the President of Penguin Publishing, to talk about their wonderful Penguin Hotline. During the holiday season, you can get book recommendations for yourself or those you're shopping for by visiting penguinhotline.com and filling out a short list of questions. Recently, we had our listeners send in their interests and Madeline provides a list of recommendations for them! Take a listen to see if yours made the list and to get some great suggested reads!   Books mentioned in this episode: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry The Midnight Line by Lee Child The Drifter by Nick Petrie Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre The Spy who came in from the cold by John Le Carre Open Season by CJ Box I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami Draw Down by Paul Hawkin Gulp by Mary Roach The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven Chicagoland Vampire series starting with "Some girls bite" by Chloe Neill The Others series by Anne Bishop   A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'engle   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, Adam and Jill provide some classic Science Fiction book recommendations and then Adam chats with James S.A. Corey about Persepolis Rising, the latest installment of the wildly popular Expanse series. James S. A. Corey is actually the pen name used by collaborators Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck and they discussed their writing process, being involved in the television version of The Expanse, their favorite science fiction books, Star Wars and much more.  Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's our monthly top picks episode! Today, Adam and Jill discuss the December books they are most excited to read.    Books Mentioned in this Episode Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey Fire on Ice by Oregonian Staff We'll Sleep When We're Old by Pino Corrias The Clothes Make the Girl (Look Fat)? by Brittany Gibbons The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg Love, Janis by Laura Joplin Elmet by Fiona Mozley Es by Koji Suzuki The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Glass Town by Steven Savile  The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien Strangers in Budapest by Jessica Keener A Lady in Shadows by Lene Kaarbelbol The Last Suppers by Mandy Mikulencak House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata Improv Nation by Sam Watson Mad Hatters and March Hares by Ellen Datlow The Stinky Cheese Man by John Sciezka   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is an interview with New York Times Bestselling author Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star.   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Thanksgiving! We're so thankful that we get to spend time every week chatting books and we're even more thankful you all decide to listen to us! Today's episode is Adam all by himself talking about Neil Gaiman, one of his favorite authors. Of all the reading Adam has done, the author he's read the most would most likely be Mr. Gaiman. He even offers up his Top 5 Neil Gaiman novels which will definitely lead to people yelling... Gobble Gobble!   Say Hello! Find us on Twitter or Instagram at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com   Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com   Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is a live interview with Karan Mahajan, winner of the Anisfield-Book Award which recognizes books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity. This interview took place during Cleveland Book Week where Jill, Adam and Karan discussed his book The Association of Small Bombs, the depiction and media coverage of terrorism and much more.   We'd like to thank The Cleveland Foundation for asking us to be a part of this important literary event.   Say Hello! Find us on Twitter or Instagram at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com   Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com   Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrea and Christina are back and this time they are talking with Jill about historical fiction! Along with deep diving into their shared love of Tudor history, the women also discuss World War II historical fiction and offer some young adult options as well. Books Mentioned In This Episode:  A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller The Forbidden Orchid by Sharon Biggs Waller The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Atonement by Ian MacEwan Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell Outlander by Diana Galbaldon Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by Alison Weir Anne Boleyn, a King's Obsession by Alison Weir Jane Seymour, the Haunted Queen by Alison Weir The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory The Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory The Last Tudor by Phillipa Gregory Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir Scarlet by AC Gaughen Lady Thief by AC Gaughen Lion Heart by AC Gaughen Titanic the Long Night by Diana Hoh Remembering the Titanic by Diana Hoh The Illusionist's Apprentice by Kristy Cambron Dear America Series The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley The First Lie by Diane Chamberlain Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain   Say Hello! Find OverDrive on Facebook at OverDriveforLibraries and Twitter at @ProBookNerds. Email us directly at professionalbooknerds@overdrive.com  Music "Buddy" provided royalty free from www.bensound.com  Podcast Overview We're not just book nerds: we're professional book nerds and the staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks available through public libraries and schools. Hear about the best books we've read, get personalized recommendations, and learn about the hottest books coming out that we can't wait to dive into. For more great reads, find OverDrive on Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices