In Episode 63, Call Number with American Libraries looks at outdoor-related activities with conversations about bugs, beach reads, and outdoor learning. 

First, ALA Editions Senior Acquisitions Editor Rachel Chance speaks with Erin Rothenbuehler and Sean Duffy from Ohio County (W.V.) Public Library about a series of programs the library offers on bugs, most notably the Brood Ten cicadas. Next American Libraries Associate Editor Sallyann Price talks with Susan Maguire, Senior Editor, Collection Management and Library Outreach, at Booklist, and host of the Shelf Care podcast, about this summer’s best beach reads. Finally, American Libraries Senior Editor and Call Number host Phil Morehart speaks with Denni Grassel, director of Delmont (Penn.) Library, about Delmont's new outdoor learning center.

Episode 63: Getting Outdoors

On this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire spoke to Allison Escoto of the Center for Fiction about book groups, being a solo librarian, and getting the opportunity to read nonfiction for the Carnegie Awards. Then, Audio Editor Heather Booth chats with librarian and author Van Hoang about the walking audiobook club she runs at her library. Finally, Susan and Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman talk about her forthcoming book, River of Books: A Life in Reading as well as what she’s been reading and loving lately.

Here’s what we talked about:

Stanley Ellin, mystery writer
James, by Percival Everett 
Out of the Sierra: A Story of Rarámuri Resistance, by Victoria Blanco
Girl Giant and the Monkey King, by Van Hoang
The Monstrous Misses Mai, by Van Hoang
Sociopath, by Patrick Gagne, read by the author
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, by Naomi Klein, read by the author
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Cat Bohannon, read by the author
Elyse Dinh, audiobook narrator
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, by Florence Williams, read by Emily Woo Zeller
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration, by Shane O’Mara, read by Liam Gerrard
River of Books: A Life in Reading, by Donna Seaman
The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America, by Sara B. Franklin
The World She Edited: Katarine S. White at the New Yorker, by Amy Reading
Booker Prize Long List
Creation Lake, by Rachel Kushner
This Strange Eventful History, by Claire Messud
Playground, by Richard Powers
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
Wandering Stars, by Tommy Orange
Reading the Room: A Bookseller’s Tale, by Paul Yamazaki

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