On today's episode I had the pleasure of talking to Ashley Hudson, bookseller and librarian in Daphne, Alabama, just outside Mobile. In the spirit of Valentine's Day and Black History Month we discussed some seasonally appropriate favorites and of course a few options on the To-Be-Read Pile. You can check out the link to her library (including recordings of speaking engagements) here https://www.facebook.com/DaphnePublicLibrary

Here are the books mentioned in this episode:

The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle

Gild (The Plated Prisoner Series) by Raven Kennedy

Sunkissed by by Kasie West

The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman

The Moose Springs, Alaska Series by Sarah Morgenthaler

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

The Modern Love Series by Alisha Rai

First Comes Like by Alisha Rai

Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer

Fifty Shades of Earl Grey by Andrew Shaffer

Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman

Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski

99 Days by Katie Cotugno

The Slave Who Went to Congress by by Frye Gaillard and Marti Rosner

A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost by Frye Gaillard

Watermelon Wine by Frye Gaillard

Race, Rock and Religion: Profiles from a Southern Journalist by Frye Gaillard

The Dream Long Deferred by Frye Gaillard

Lessons from the Big House: One Family's Passage Through the History of the South by Frye Gaillard and Nancy Gaillard

Alabama's Civil Rights Trail: An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom by Frye Gaillard

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Smash It! by Francina Simone

Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas 

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Off the Record by Camryn Garrett

Daughters of Nri by Reni K Amayo

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

The Bromance Book Club Series by Lyssa Kay Adams

10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston

The Bridgerton Series by Julia Quinn

House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Ice Planet Barbarians Series by Ruby Dixon