Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Susan Balla, Circulation Manager, Linda Quinn, Adult Services Associate, and Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Sue Balla: A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story Of Desegregation In America by Rachel Louise Martin (June 2023) The Spectacular by Fiona Davis (June 2023) You Shouldn’t Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose (April 2023) Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (May 2023) Phaedra by Laura Shepperson (Jan 2023) The Wager: A Tale Of Shipwreck, Mutiny, And Murder by David Grann (April 2023) The General And Julia by Jon Clinch (November 2023) Linda Quinn: Woman in the Photo by Mary Hogan Ms. Davis by Sybille Titeux de la Croix The Beach at Summerly by Beatriz Williams What Remains by Wendy Walker Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld The Only One Left by Riley Sager Claudia Silk: The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand Same Time Next Summer by Annabelle Monaghan Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston Nora Goes Off Script by Annabelle Monaghan Summer Stage by Meg Mitchell Moore Philip Bahr: The Celebrants by Steven Rowley

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Jan Fisher, Deputy Town Librarian, Amy Peck, Head of Technical Services, and Leslie Hagel, Adult Services Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Jan Fisher: All That Is Mine I Carry With Me by William Landay Beyond that, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell The Private Lives of Public Birds: Learning to Listen to the Birds Where We Live by Jack Gedney Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx Amy Peck: A Siege Of Bitterns (Birder Murder mysteries #1) by Steve burrows (2016) Killers Of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn (2022) An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (2022) Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World By Christian Cooper (June, 2023) Leslie Hagel: Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson American Mermaid by Julia Langbein Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patty Callahan Henry The Only One Left by Riley Sager These are the ones I’m looking forward to reading: The Celebrants by Steven Rowley The Senator’s Wife by Liv Constantine Spectacular by Fiona Davis

We are honored that our 2023 One Book One Town (OBOT) title was written by a resident of Fairfield. This year’s OBOT selection is I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye by Ivan Maisel.  It is an honest and emotionally deep memoir in which Ivan reflects on the loss of his dear son Max to suicide, the impact of  grief on family and community, and the painful journey which brings Ivan to a place of seeing grief as an expression of love.  We are so fortunate to have Ivan and his wife Meg Murray with us for the podcast to focus on their journey as individuals, as a couple and as parents to their three children including Max. Please join us for a very special edition of Fairfield, What Are You Reading. Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services OBOT Co-chair: Mary Coe, Branch Reference Librarian, Guests: Ivan Maisel, author, and his wife Meg Murray Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great! Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Tamara Lyhne, Head of Children's Services, Stefanie Bergstrom, Branch Children's Librarian, and Emily Muller, Children's Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Tamara Lyhne: Garvey in the Dark by Nikki Grimes Capturing Cow Farts and Burps by Erin Twamley Cooking with Chef Sloth (Part of the Animal Chef Series) School Trip by Jerry Craft On Air with Zoe Washington by Janae Marks Stefanie Bergstrom: Miles Lewis series – King of the Ice by Kelly Starling Lyons, ill. Wayne Spencer The Girl who Built an Ocean: An Artist, an Argonaut, and the True Story of the World's First Aquarium by Jess Keating, ill. Michelle Mee Nutter The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey by Jason Chin Emily Muller: Mihi Ever After by Tae Keller, ill. Geraldine Rodríguez Lily and the Night Creatures by Nick Lake, ill. Emily Gravett Upcoming releases: The One and Only Ruby by Katherine Applegate

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Mary Coe, Branch Reference Librarian and Jennifer Laseman, Head of Teen Services Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great!

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org December 2022: Our Favorite Books for 2022 Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Library Staff Guests: Scott Jarzombek, Town Librarian Breathe: A Life in Flow by Rickson Gracie, Peter Maguire Amy Peck, Head of Technical Services Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Series by Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Club The Man Who Died Twice The Bullet That Missed Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark These Precious Days by Ann Patchett Emily Muller, Children's Librarian Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly Cress Watercress by Gregory Maguire Jan Fisher, Deputy Library Director An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron & Clint Howard To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Jessica Stevens, Woods Adult Services Librarian Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Linda Quinn, Adult Services Library Associate When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill Stefanie Bergstrom, Woods Children's Librarian A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin Bathe the Cat by Alice McGinty and David Roberts This Story is Not About a Kitten by Randall de Seve and Carson Ellis Elaine Barrie , Adult Services Librarian Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris The Guest List by Lucy Foley Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout Jennifer Laseman, Head of Teen Services As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Leslie Hagel The Measure by Nikki Erlick Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Mary Coe, Woods Adult Services Librarian Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono Susan Balla, Circulation Manager Yonder by Jabari Asim Tamara Lyhne, Head of Children's Services My Nest of Silence by Matt Faulkner They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune 2022 One Book One Town conversation with author T.J. Klune Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great!

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read. Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT fairfieldpubliclibrary.org Podcast host: Philip Bahr, Head of Adult Services Guests: Susan Balla, Circulation Supervisor; Linda Quinn, Adult Services Library Associate, and Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian Thanks to our podcast editor Max Berryman for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Susan Balla, Circulation Manager Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, The Nazi’s Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre Few other titles by Ben Macintyre: Operation Mincemeat Double Cross Agent Sonya Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn Murder at the Serpentine Bridge by Andrea Penrose #6 in the Wrexford & Sloane Mystery Series. First in series is Murder on Black Swan Lane Little Eve by Catriona Ward Other titles by Catriona Ward: The Last House on Needless Street Sundial American Midnight: Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921 by Adam Hochschild Some other titles by Hochschild: King Leopold’s Ghost To End All Wars The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner Author of The Lost Apothecary Weyward by Emilia Hart (debut) Linda Quinn, Adult Services Library Associate Anywhere You Run by Wanda Morris Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham Life on the Mississippi by Rinker Buck Series follow-ups: Desert Star by Michael Connelly  (Ballard and Bosch) Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike) Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson (sequel to The Kind Worth Killing) Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (third in trilogy) Mentioned local authors: Juliette Brisman (A Heart Returned) Valerie Walsh (Shattered to the Core) Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman Marmee by Sarah Miller Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout Anywhere You Run by Wanda Morris All Her Little Secrets by Wanda Morris Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye by Ivan Maisel

Fairfield Public Library's monthly podcast helps you find your next great read.  Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT This month we welcome our new podcast editor, Max Berryman. Welcome and thanks Max for making us sound great! This month's FPL staff picks: Amy Peck, Head of Technical Services The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and the Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack Davis also mentioned: Finding Me by Viola Davis (audiobook) Jessica Stevens, Branch Adult Services Librarian Surrounded by Narcissists by Thomas Erikson The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid also mentioned: Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid Growing Up Getty: The Story of America's Most Unconventional Dynasty by James Reginato Elaine Barrie, Adult Services Librarian The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Gramus Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: stories by Alice Munro (The short story is "Queenie") Philip Bahr, Podcast Host and Head of Adult Services The Measure by Nikki Erlick Heat Wave (The Extraordinaries #3) by TJ Klune

Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/childrens/ https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/learning-and-research/find-a-good-book/ Tamara Lyhne, Head of Children's Services A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser The Science Spell Book Magical Experiments For Kids by Cara Florance Odder- Katherine Applegate Library Girl by Karen Henry Clark Stefanie Bergstrom, Woods Branch Children's Librarian The Witchlings by Claribel Ortega The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton Coming soon: A Taste of Magic by J. Elle

Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/learning-and-research/find-a-good-book/ Jan Fisher, Deputy Town Librarian Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir by Séamas O’Reilly Madhouse at the End of the Earth: the Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager Trust by Hernan Diaz Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto Looking forward to: Thank you for listening by Julia Whelan Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendship by Nina Totenerg The Audies (Audiobook Awards): audiopub.org/members/audies Read for Joy: Katherine Center https://youtu.be/7VVyUA4dTAw Mary Coe, Branch Reference Librarian Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark Meant to Be by Emily Giffin The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill  Coming soon: Eyes Turned Skyward by Alena Dillon / October 18, 2022 / William Morrow The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell / September 6, 2022 / Knopf Shrines of Gaiety by Atkinson / September 27, 2022 / Doubleday Leslie Hagel, Reference Librarian Last Call at the Nightingale by  Katherine Schellman The Girls in Queens by Christine Kandic Torres The Lost Summers of Newport by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White Tell Us No Secrets by Siena Sterling The Measure by Nikki Erlick The It Girl by Ruth Ware The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda The Bodyguard by Katherine Center Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell