Whoops we added the wrong audio file to the last episode…2nd try! Tune in to hear all about the most colorful, art filled, fun Summer Reading Program from Miss JoAnn, take note of Amy’s beach read recommendations and stay until the end to hear the Summer Concert Series line up from co chair Doug Irvine! See you at the library! Have a great summer!! Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed: Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave by Elle Cosimano -5th book in series, 6th comes ou...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 37 min
It’s National Library Week! We’ve packed the week with programs and a new episode of the podcast. Listen in to catch up on the latest news that affects your library and libraries across the country. Sarat Rogers joins us as our local person of interest today to introduce herself and gives us a sneak peek of the Town Egg Hunt. Thank you for your support this week and always! Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed: The Safekeep by Yael Van de Wouden (Booker Prize 2024 shor...
Apr 10, 2025•1 hr 17 min
Tiny Town is thawing out and spring is around the corner! Town Voting and Town Meeting are quickly coming up next week and creating community conversations. Listen in to this episode for the latest news from town, book recommendations from Amy, and our interview with college student and Wizarding Week professor Nick Brown. Happy (almost) Spring!! Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed: Playground by Richard Powers The Heart of Winter by Johnathan Evison The Lion Women of...
Mar 05, 2025•51 min
Winter is upon us and we’ve loaded the calendar with events and programs to get you out the door and into the library. Need a distraction from it all? We’ve got new book recommendations from Amy and tons of programs coming up in February. Be sure to catch our interview with the newly appointed Mont Vernon Recreation Co-Directors Autumn Grdina and Jessica Hinkley. Stay warm everyone! Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I’ve read that I enjoyed: The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin The Cliffs by J. Courtney...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 5 min
It’s a magical time of year and we’d like to thank our listeners for tuning into the Tiny Town Library Podcast for 50 EPISODES! Listen in to this episode to recap 2024 and hear from our town welfare officer Juli Harvey. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and have a Happy New Year Tiny Town! Amy’s Top 24 of 2024 Horse by Geraldine Brooks North Woods by Daniel Mason Prophet Song by Paul Lynch The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden Family Family by Laurie Frankel The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon ...
Dec 25, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Heading into the weekend and wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! Tune into this episode to hear a preview of all the festivities happening in Tiny Town this holiday season. Amy has her book recommendations to help you reach your 2024 reading goals and JoAnn is so excited to introduce our new teen library assistant Arianne! Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I’ve Read Recently That I Enjoyed The Black Bird Oracle by Deb Harkness (5th book in the All Souls Series) 1. A Discovery of Witches 2. Sha...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 9 min
It’s Halloween podcast episode! Stop and check out The Black Cat Cafe display on the library lawn and get ready to Trick or Treat on Main Street! MEOW!! We can’t wait to see your costumes!! Stacy Clark, President of Turnstone Corporation joins us on this episode to introduce herself and the team building the new library. Don’t miss her interview for the three month outlook on the new library project! Happy Halloween! See you at the polls…get out and VOTE!! Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I read...
Oct 28, 2024•59 min
September has come and gone too fast! Catch up with the local librarians this episode for the Library Groundbreaking Event recap, fall programming line up, book recommendations and more! Happy fall!! Amy’s Book Recommendation Books I Read Recently that I Enjoyed The God of the Woods by Liz Moore The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (nominated for National Book Award in 2018) The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer (she wrote The Wishing Game) Finished Laurie Gelman...
Oct 01, 2024•56 min
Hooray! Construction of the new road to the new library has begun!! Tune into this episode to catch up on all the good news from Mont Vernon and what’s been happening at the library this summer. JoAnn is wrapping up the adventurous Summer Reading Program and Amy has great book recommendations to get you to the end of summer! Happy August!! Amy’s Book Recomendations Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed First two books in Attica Locke’s Highway 59 Series: Bluebird, Bluebird Heaven, My Home 3rd Boo...
Aug 01, 2024•54 min
June is upon us and it’s time to sign up for the Summer Reading Program! Tune in to hear our plans for a BIG ADVENTURE at the library for children and adults. June also means graduations and we are so proud to have the SHS 2024 Valedictorian Jackson Hipp, and Salutatorian Owen Stine as our special guest interviews. Both boys are from Mont Vernon and are wicked smart! Listen in to hear their plans for the future. Have a great summer everyone! Keep reading!!
Jun 06, 2024•1 hr 3 min
The month of May has arrived and tiny town is blooming. Catch up with the librarians in Mont Vernon to hear what’s happening in town and get excited for summer reads! Don’t miss our interview with Friend of the Library, Hayley Parker. She’s our special guest and honored Friend of the Year for 2023! Be sure to wave to her in the Spring Gala Parade! Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I Read Recently That I Enjoyed Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll (Luckiest Girl Alive, The Favorite Sister) The Inh...
May 09, 2024•1 hr 9 min
It’s National Library Week…Ready, Set, CELEBRATE!! Tune into this episode to hear all about what have planned for the week and to celebrate the new library WIN! Amy has awesome book reviews and Sue Ries is joining us to tell us all about the up coming Friends of the Library Plant Sale. Drop in and celebrate with us! Cheers!! Amy’s Recommendations: Books I’ve Read Recently I Enjoyed: Martyr! By Kaveh Akhbar Family, Family by Laurie Frankel (she also wrote One Two Three & This is How It Always...
Apr 14, 2024
Don’t miss the chance to meet up with your favorite librarians on the latest episode of the Tiny Town Library Podcast. We filled the library calendar this month with meetings, meet ups, and “Meet & Greets” before Town Meeting in March to help open lines of communication. Listen in for up to date town news, book recommendations and an interview with Christine Hamilton from the Library Building Committee. Thanks for listening! Amy’s Book Recommendations: Books I’ve read recently that I’ve enjo...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 44 min
Cheers to the New Year! Big things on the horizon at the library in 2024! Catch up on what is happening at the library in January and join the conversation around volunteering. Amy has great book recommendations and a list of new release to help you “Read More in 2024”! Don’t miss a minute of the Tiny Town Library Podcast. Amy’s Recommendations Books I’ve Read Recently That I Enjoyed: The Last Phone Booth in Manhattan by Beth Merlin and Danielle Modafferi – released Jan 2024 Homecoming by Kate M...
Jan 24, 2024•1 hr 7 min
We made it to the end of the year and are celebrating at the library! Join us at our Christmas Tea Party to hear town news and Amy’s Best of 2023 book list! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Amy’s Best of 2023 1. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng 2. Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 3. Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo 4. Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson 5. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 6. Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 7. Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka 8. This Other Ede...
Dec 24, 2023•52 min
It’s the day before Thanksgiving and there is so much to do, but first the library podcast! We have a lot to be thankful for and hope that you all have a wonderful start to the holiday season. Tune in to hear about the fun we have planned for December, Amy’s awesome book recommendations, and our interview with an outstanding young patron from Mont Vernon. Happy Thanksgiving Tiny Town!
Nov 22, 2023•1 hr 6 min
This October has been sooo busy! Listen in to the librarians chatter about the Friends of the Library fundraiser, epic Halloween preparations, and the final fundraiser of the Mont Vernon Library Charitable Foundation “One for the Books” Charity Auction. Catch up on all the good news and meet one of our newest resident, Megan Upperman, from MVLCF Auction Committee. Amy’s Recommendations Books I’ve read recently I enjoyed: Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson Nov. 2022 (also wrote Nothing ...
Oct 26, 2023•54 min
It’s fall in New England! The leaves are starting to change and it’s time for fall programs at the library. On this episode, we will be highlighting all the fun things happening at the Friends of the Library Harvest Market event. Don’t miss Amy’s book recommendations for new and upcoming releases. Amy’s Book Recommendations Books I’ve Enjoyed Recently: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Fairytale by Stephen King The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese New Books I’m Looking Forward to Reading: The Vaster...
Sep 29, 2023•53 min
We’re celebrating 10 years of summer reading with Miss JoAnn and our teen volunteers. Listen in for our Summer Reading Program wrap up and catch our interview with two of our top teen volunteers Evie & Charlotte. Don’t miss Amy’s final book recommendations for the last days of summer. Thank you to our community for a magical summer at the library! Newer Books: The Housekeepers by Alex Hay Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano The House is On Fire by Rachel Beanland Older Books: Spare by Prince H...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 1 min
It’s been hot, hot, hot at the library! We’re half way through the summer with still tons of Summer Reading Program fun to go. Catch up with the library staff for the latest town news, summer reading updates and awesome beach read recommendations. Grab a good book before you head on vacation. Have a great summer! Amy’s Book Recommendations Beach Reads The Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand You Are Here by Karin Lin-Greenberg The Beach At Summerly by Beatriz Williams Drowning by T.J. Newman Ot...
Jul 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Tune in for a mini episode of the Tiny Town Library Podcast to recap all the magic that happened at Wizarding Week! We will also be announcing the theme of the 2023 Summer Reading Program on this episode. Miss JoAnn has gone rogue this year and has created her own theme!! She will be making the magic here at the library all summer. A special thank you to all of the volunteers who helped make Wizarding Week a success. Be sure to click on the link below to visit Earl Riche’s photo albums onFlicker...
May 23, 2023•39 min
Spring is in the air! We survived winter in Tiny Town and Town Meeting. Tune into our latest episode for the recap of the new library vote and plans to move forward. Don’t miss our interview with the famous Earle Rich Mont Vernon’s local photographer and all around genius. Happy Spring! Amy’s Book Recommendations: Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Frye The Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun by Elle Cosimano My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix Essex Dogs by Dan Jones Murder Your Emplo...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 16 min
We had hoped to get this episode out before the predicted Nor’easter hit but alas, the snow arrived and over came Tiny Town. With no power for two days, Town Election and Town Meeting have been RESCHEDULED! Enjoy this episode but know that Town Meeting is on Tuesday, March 21st at 7pm and Town Election Day is on Tuesday, March 28th. Get Out & Vote Tiny Town!! Amy’s Recommendations: Books I’ve Read Recently Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray Trespasses ...
Mar 16, 2023•1 hr 15 min
February is the month of LOVE! We are recognizing our lovely neighbors and patrons this month and reminding residents to “Love thy Neighbor” in any way you can. Join us for an interview with USPS Postmistress and longtime Mont Vernon resident Leslie Haas for her love stories. Happy Valentine’s Day to our listeners! Have love in your heart!! Amy’s Book Recommendations Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by June Dawson Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin The Minu...
Feb 10, 2023•57 min
Happy Holidays Tiny Town! Tune in to hear about all the holiday happenings around Mont Vernon plus an interview with Chief Slavin of the Mont Vernon Police Department. Amy has her “Best Books of 2022” reading list because of course you’re going to need a book recommendation for the New Year! Cheers!! Amy’s Best of 2022 1. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu 2. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart 3. Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 4. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus 5. Unlikely Anim...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 13 min
The holidays are coming and so is winter! In this episode, we’ll be sharing the good news about the new library project and how you can help support the efforts with year end giving opportunities. Also, Rebecca Hagedorn from the Mont Vernon Village School PTA stopped by to fill us in on the 1st fun event of winter in Mont Vernon. Have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Giving Tuesday Tuesday, November 29th: Visit the Mont Vernon Library Charitable Foundation website for more information www.mvlcf.or...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 13 min
It’s almost Halloween in tiny town! Tune in to our special Halloween episode for Trick or Treat tips, witchy book recommendations and a special interview with one of the local Girl Scout troops. Happy Halloween everyone! Amy’s Book Recommendations Witchy Books: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher Discovery of Witches Series by Deborah Harkness We Ride Upon Sticks by...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 12 min
The leaves are changing in New England, and we’re switching gears from summer to fall here at the Daland Memorial Library. Listen in for upcoming fall programs for kids and adults, new fall book recommendations and a visit from our Battle of the Burbs Champion Captain Paul Lavertu from Margaret Circle. Happy Fall Y’all! Amy’s Book Recomendations: “Blackbird House” by Alice Hoffman “The Magnolia Palace” by Fiona Davis “The Latecomer” by Jean Hanff Korelitz “The Midcoast” by Adam White Upcoming: N...
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr
Episode 24 Title: “The Time is Now” Listen in for a recap of summer at the library and an interview with board members of the Mont Vernon Library Charitable Foundation to hear all about their summer FUN raiser “Battle of the Burbs”! The library fundraising thermometer is moving up!! The Time is Now to learn about how you can support a new library in tiny town. Visit www.mvlcf.org to learn about the new library project and how to make a donation. Amy’s Book Recommendations: “Nightcrawling” by Lei...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Summer is here and the library is full of possibilities! Listen into to this episode to hear all that the library has to offer residents of all ages. We’ll also catch you up on the new library project and make recommendations for your next beach read! Have a great summer tiny town! Amy’s Recommendations: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Day Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson Bonnie’s Beach Reads Hotel Nantucket ...
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 11 min
