Professional Book Nerds

Ep. #497 - On today's episode, Mallory O'Meara joins Adam to chat about their post Halloween reading adventures, holiday bookish traditions, and her upcoming book Girly Drinks! Also, the paperback of Lady from the Black Lagoon is now available!

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Books mentioned in this episode

Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins

A Girl Is a Body of Water By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

Who I Was with Her By Nita Tyndall

The Devil & The Dark Water by Stuart Turton

The Midnight Library By Matt Haig

The Neil Gaiman Reader

Migrations By Charlotte McConaghy

Fable by Adrienne Young

Surrender Your Sons By Adam Sass

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals By Becky Mandelbaum

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire

A Winter's Promise By Christelle Dabos

Wintersong By S. Jae-Jones

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Introducing The Making of an Icon with Kylie Minogue from I am Paris.

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The Loco-Motion, Padam Padam, Can’t Get You Out of My Head... these are just some of the global hits from Kylie Minogue, but you don’t know half of her story.
Paris is hitting the dancefloor down memory lane with Kylie to explore the most iconic moments from her career and uncover some fun secrets from her past.

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Tiffany joins Emma, Jill, and Joe to discuss all things series and how to tackle them when it feels daunting. They also share their favorite series of all time, if they prefer stand-alone books, how they feel about re-reading, and more. It's like book therapy!

Titles mentioned in this episode (we've linked the first book in each series):

Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French

A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J Maas

Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas

Winston Brothers series by Penny Reid

Knitting in the City series by Penny Reid

The Mediator series by Meg Cabot

You series by Caroline Kepnes

A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin

All Souls series by Deborah Harkness

A Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

The Wicked Years series by Gregory Maguire

Beartown series by Fredrik Bacman

Will Trent series by Karin Slaughter

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Emma chats with one of her favorite authors of all time, Sarah Dessen. They discuss Sarah's writing career, the magic of libraries, the teenage years, book recommendations, and so much more. If you want to hear Emma live out some of her teenage dreams by asking her favorite author questions, listen to this delightful conversation.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
• The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen
• Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
• This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
• Lock & Key by Sarah Dessen
• The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen
• Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
• That Summer by Sarah Dessen
• Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
• Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen
• What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
• Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
• The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
• Once and For All by Sarah Dessen
• Not Nothing by Gayle Forman
• Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode on OverDrive.com or in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace

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Introducing The Trans Athletes Who Changed the Olympics—in 1936 from The New Yorker Radio Hour.

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In “The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports,” the journalist Michael Waters tells the story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports. Koubek shocked the sporting world in 1935 by announcing that he was transitioning, and now living as a man. The initial press coverage of Koubek and another prominent track star who transitioned, Mark Weston, was largely positive, but Waters tells the New Yorker sports columnist Louisa Thomas that eventually a backlash led to the 1936 Berlin Olympics instituting a sex-testing policy for women athletes. Any female athlete’s sex could be challenged, and cisgender women who didn’t conform to historical gender standards were targeted as a result. These policies slowly evolved to include chromosome testing and, later, the hormone testing that we see today. “And so as we talk about sex testing today,” Waters says, “we often are forgetting where these policies come from in the first place.”

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