North Liberty Library

Guest: Natalie Benway Website: https://www.welllivedlife.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/well.livedlife/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Well-Lived-Life/100087409642027/

Aetherbound by E.K. Johnston Read Alikes: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card

Will’s Race for Home by Jewell Parker Rhodes Read Alikes: One crazy summer by Rita Williams-Garcia Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Curtis

Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier Read Alikes: A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace

The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Read Alikes: The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln The Mysterious Benedict Society Book by Trenton Stewart

My Fairy God Somebody by Charlene Allen Read Alikes: Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo Me (Moth) by Amber McBride Finding Jupiter by Kelis Rowe

Guest: John Kenyon Website: www.iowacityofliterature.org One Book Two Book (February 21-22, 2026): https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/onebooktwobook/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IowaCityofLit/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iowacityoflit/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/iowacityoflit.bsky.social

Family Week by Sarah Moon Read Alikes: Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbaila Small Town Pride by Phil Stamper The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson

The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson Read Alikes: Kill Creatures by Rory Power Nothing More To Tell by Karen M. McManus Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Abike-Iyimide

Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting by Roseanne A. Brown Read Alikes: Pahua and the Soul Stealer by Lori M. Lee Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day by Kelly J. Baptist Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Bittersweet in the Hollow by Kate Pearsall Read Alikes: Delicious Monsters by Liselle Sambury The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst All That's Left to Say by Emery Lord

Guest: Shamichael Hallman Website: https://northlibertylibrary.org/digital-history/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shamichael Substack: https://shamichael.substack.com/

Weird Sad and Silent by Alison McGhee Read Alikes: Maeve Mulvaney Has Had Enough by Kelly Mangan Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera

Bad Creek by Peyton June Read Alikes: Prelude for Lost Souls by Helene Dunbar She is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran The Haunted by Danielle Vega

Aarzu All Around by Marzieh Abbas Read Alikes: Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

Artifice by Sharon Cameron Read Alikes: This Book Won’t Burn by Samira Ahmed Rez Ball by Byron Graves They Went Left by Monica Hesse

Dreamslinger by Graci Kim Read Alikes: Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B Alston Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa by Julian Randall The Dragon's Apprentice by James Riley

Invisible Son by Kim Johnson Read Alikes: Chaos Theory by Nic Stone We are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

Just Keep Walking by Erin Soderberg Downing Read Alikes: The Secret Language of Birds by Lynne Kelly The Labors of Hercules Beal by Gary D. Schmidt Tumble by Celia C. Perez

What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez Read Alikes: Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi Read Alikes: Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan The Magical Imperfect by Chris Baron

Guest: Nick Shimmin North Liberty Digital History Collection (NLDHC): https://northlibertylibrary.org/digital-history/ NLDHC Deed of Gift Form: https://northlibertylibrary.org/deed-of-gift-digital-history-collection/ Nick's Email: nshimmin@northlibertyiowa.org

Rez Ball by Byron Graves Read alikes: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley Looking For Smoke by K.A. Cobell We Still Belong by Christine Day

The Queen Bees of Tybee County by Kyle Casey Chu Read alikes: Martin McLean, Middle School Queen by Alyssa Zaczek Eli Over Easy by Phil Stamper Ava on the Edge by A.J. Sass

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross Read alikes: An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson Lovely War by Julie Berry A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid