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KPL Podcast
by Kirkwood Public Library
Each week the Kirkwood Public Library Podcast delves into in depth conversations with bestselling authors, provides book and film recommendations.
Episodes
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KPL Podcast October 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Eva Jurczyk
This week on the podcast we have returning author Eva Jurczyk discussing her latest novel, The Paris Files. A woman meets a man and the fall in love. They meet up in Paris for two weeks enjoying the city. Then the man suddenly disappears and no one knows what happened. The novel is told entirely...
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KPL Podcast October 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest E. Madison Shimoda
This week on the KPL Podcast, we are doing something a little different. We spoke with E. Madison Shimoda who translated Welcome to Kokoro Cat Clinic by Syou Ishida. In this episode we learn more about literary translation from Japanese to English. Author Reads Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by...
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KPL Podcast October 2026 Week 1 with Special Guest Sharon Cameron
This week on the podcast we have bestselling author, Sharon Cameron. She was here to talk about her latest novel, Up From the Ashes. This historical fiction is about two people finding each other and falling in love in the most horrific conditions in a Nazi death camp during WW2. Author Reads The...
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KPL Podcast September 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Ally Zetterberg
This week on the KPL podcast we have author Ally Zetterberg. Her new novel is a unique blend of comedy mixed with a thriller. Her new novel, The Dating Game is a fun and unexpected blend of comedy and thriller, with plenty of humor, suspense, and surprises. Author Reads I Think We Should Kill…
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KPL Podcast September 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Anne Shaw Heinrich
This week on the KPL Podcast we are back with Anne Shaw Heinrich and her latest book, The House of Teeth. This is book three the series, The Women of Paradise County. The book is also a finalist for the American Fiction Award. Previous Episodes God Bless the Child by Anne Shaw Heinrich Episode…
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KPL Podcast September 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest Emily Galvin Almanza
This week on the KPL Podcast, we have middle-grade author, Emily Galvin Almanza. Andromeda Diaz and the Reasonable Doubt is about the daughter of public defenders as she locates why a classmate was suspended from school. Author Reads The Mismeasurement of America: How Outdated Government…
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KPL Podcast September 2026 Week 1 with Special Guest Sarah Lotz
This week on the KPL Podcast we have author Sarah Lotz and we are discussing, How to Kill a Crime Writer. A young woman solves her mother's murder while working with a fictional detective from her mother's books. Author reads Hagitude by Sharon Blackie Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
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KPL Podcast August 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Natalie Moss
This Week on the KPL Podcast, take yourself to the South African bush. Natalie Moss' debut novel is set in the South African bush. Two sisters and friends journey through the bush on foot as they navigate the wildlife and stay ahead of the killers. Author Reads Homebound by Portia Elan Tomorrow…
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KPL Podcast August 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Jane Pek
This week on the KPL Podcast we have author Jane Pek. Her latest novel The Rivals explores the world of AI in a fun, interesting way. This is a mystery novel set in a dating agency. Claudia Lin works for an agency that explores the truth about online dating profiles. She uncovers an AI conspiracy...
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KPL Podcast August 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest Nicole Carr
This week on the KPL Podcast we have author/journalist Nicole Carr. We had a great conversation about her new book, The Price of Exclusion, The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation. The book explores the systemic racism, exclusionary and historical policies that dismantled Black medical...
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KPL Podcast August 2026 Week 1 with Special Guest Meg Shaffer
This week on the KPL podcast we have author Meg Shaffer. Her latest novel, The Book Witch, is a delightful cozy fantasy about a woman whose magical job is to preserve books and protect the stories within them. Armed with the ability to step inside the pages of a book, she must fix problems before...
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KPL Podcast July 2026 Week 5 with Special Guest David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels
This week on the KPL podcast we spoke with authors David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels about their new book, The Fight of Our Lives: Aids in America. A moving book that chronicles the Aids crisis of the 80's and 90's. A portrait of a group of people that fought to be heard even when countless…
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KPL Podcast July 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Cynthia Sweeney
The week on the KPL Podcast we spoke with Cynthia Sweeney about her latest novel, Lake Effect. The parents of two neighboring families have an affair and breakup the families. The novel explores long-term effects of divorce on family and how it alters relationships. Author Reads In the days of my...
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KPL Podcast July 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Hallie Cantor
This week on the KPL Podcast, we have author Hallie Cantor. We discussed her latest novel Like This But Funnier. A debut novel about a TV writer who is having difficulty getting any project into development. She accidentally finds her therapist husband's notes about a patient and decides to pitch…
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KPL Podcast July 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest Nancy Foley
This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with Nancy Foley. She is the author of I Am Agatha, a novel about a woman navigating life after her partner develops dementia. The novel explores themes of family, grief, memory, art, and family secrets. True Grit by Charles Portis Orange is Not the Only…
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KPL Podcast July 2026 Week 1 with Special Guest Liza Tully
This week on the KPL podcast we welcome back author, Liza Tully. The Forty-Year Grudge is the second book in the Merritt & Blunt series. The two women are back to solve a murder at a reunion for Aubrey Merritt's sorority. Great pacing and well-plotted, the book will keep you guessing until the…
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KPL Podcast June 2026 with Special Guest Edward Schmit
This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with Edward Schmit about his debut novel, The Open Era. The story is about two pro tennis players who begin a romance during the US Open. One is openly gay and the other is not. The two must navigate their feelings while still playing a match against each...
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KPL Podcast June 2026 Week 3 With Special Guest Wade Rouse
The KPL Podcast is back with another great episode. This week we spoke with Wade Rouse about his first novel under his own name. He also writes under the pen name Viola Shipman. That's What Friends Are For pays homage to the Golden Girls but also takes on heavy topics, such as aging…
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KPL Podcast June 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest Ruta Sepetys
This week on the KPL podcast we spoke with bestselling author Ruta Sepetys about her latest novel, A Fortune of Sand. Set in 1920s Detroit, about Marjorie Lennox, the youngest daughter of a wealthy automotive family, who joins a mysterious arts program and uncovers dark secrets about her family…
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KPL Podcast June 2026 Week 1 with Special Guest Laura Kamoie
This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with Laura Kamoie, the coauthor of A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams. This historical fiction takes leads you through Abigail Adam's life as is goes from wife to mother, to first lade, and then founding mother. This book is an eye opening study of...
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KPL Podcast May 2026 Week 5 with Special Guest Donna Jones Alward
The KPL Podcast is back with another great episode with historical fiction writer Donna Jones Alward. Her latest novel, Ship of Dreams, is set aboard the Titanic and follows two passengers as they navigate complicated relationships and dream of brighter futures. But when the Titanic strikes...
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KPL Podcast May 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Rachel Moore
On this week's episode of the KPL Podcast we have Rachel Moore. Her latest novel Safari Murder Party is fun, fast paced ride through both the corporate world and the natural world. A billionaire media mogul dies and his will states that his company and wealth will go to the last survivor of the...
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KPL Podcast May 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Lori Gold
This week on the KPL Podcast, we have author Lori Gold. Her new book, Kiss Marry Kill, takes a new spin on the conversation game. Three women play the game and end up in a slightly altered reality but are given the chance to make necessary changes to their lives. Listen to learn more. Author…
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KPL Podcast May 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest Sara Levine
This week on the KPL podcast we spoke with author Sara Levine about her fun and zany book, The Hitch. Imagine babysitting your nephew while his parents are away for week. You setup a room for him, plan meals and activities and are excited to get to spend time with him. One day you and the nephew...
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KPL Podcast May 2026 With Special Guest Nina McConigley
This week on the KPL Podcast we have Nina McConigley, telling us about her novel, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder. This a story, about sisters who decide to murder their abusive uncle. Set in the mid 80's the novel explores themes, of sisterhood, abuse, and growing up in Wyoming as a biracial...
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KPL Podcast April 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Moorea Corrigan
This week on the KPL Podcast we have author Moorea Corrigan to discuss her cozy historical fantasy, Thistlemarsh. Think Downton Abbey with Faeries. The book is set post WW1 in England. A young women inherits a manor house with certain conditions. She must renovate the house in one month or lose…
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KPL Podcast April 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Joan F. Smith
This week on the KPL podcast we have author Joan F. Smith and we discuss, Your Soulmail is Attached. A speculative fiction novel about how the world would change after every adult is told the name of their soulmate. Marriages break apart in some cases and in other situations relationships are...
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KPL Podcast April 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest JD Brinkworth
This week on the KPL podcast we have author duo Jo Dinkin and Catherine Brinkworth. Their first novel together is The Pie and Mash Detective Agency. The book is about two newbie private detectives assigned to solve the recurring disappearance of a woman named Nellie Thorn. A wonderful addition to...
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KPL Podcast April 2026 Week1 with Special Guest Shelley Noble
This week on the KPL Podcast we have bestselling author Shelley Noble telling us about The Sisters of Book Row. A historical fiction novel that explores Anthony Comstock and his ruthless campaign against Manhattan’s “Book Row.” Three sisters band together to challenge censorship and fight to...
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KPL Podcast March 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Marie Benedict
Bestselling author Marie Benedict is back with another wonderful historical fiction, titled Daughter of Egypt. We are introduced to two remarkable women whom history nearly erased. One is Evelyn Herbert, who was present at the archaeological discovery of Tutankhamun’s burial site, and the other…
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KPL Podcast March 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Sean Rost
This week on the KPL Podcast we have local Missouri author and historian Sean Rost. We discuss his new book, Catching Hell from All Quarters: Anti-Klan Activists in Interwar Missouri. He's taken a deep dive into rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan during interwar Missouri. Rost will focus on several...
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KPL Podcast March 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest Elizabeth Arnott
This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with bestselling author Elizabeth Arnott Her latest novel, The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives tells the story from the perspective of 3 women after their husbands are arrest for murder. When women begin dying in similar circumstances, they band together to...
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KPL Podcast March 2026 week 1 Special Guest Izzy Broom
This week on the KPL Podcast we spoke with Izzy Broom about The House of Hidden Letters. A dual timeline story set on a small Greek Island. A woman wins a contest to purchase a home on Folegandros for 1 Euro. As she begins renovations she finds letters belonging to the previous owner from 1940s...
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KPL Podcast February 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Michelle Maryk
This week on the KPL podcast we are speaking with author Michelle Maryk about her debut novel, The Found Object Society. Imagine a secret society that holds thousands of objects from all over the world and from different time periods. Each object can take you on a voyage to relive the last…
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KPL Podcast February 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Janie Chang
This week on the KPL podcast we spoke with author Janie Chang about her latest novel, The Fourth Princess. This is a gothic mystery set in Shanghai China during the early 1900's about two woman, Lisan comes to work for Caroline. Slowly, things begin to unravel as both women learn about the people...
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KPL Podcast February 2026 Week 2 with Special Guest Yosha Gunasekera
Another exciting week on the KPL Podcast. This week we spoke with author/attorney Yosha Gunasekera about her debut whodunit, The Midnight Taxi. The story is about a female Sri Lankan-American taxi driver in NYC. She picks up a fare late night and he is murdered in the backseat while she is…
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KPL Podcast February 2026 Week 1 with Special Guest Kashana Cauley
This week on the KPL Podcast we have author Kashana Cauley telling us about her latest novel The Payback. This story is an funny, satirical look at the student system in our country. Three women are stuck with massive student loan debt that is difficult to pay on their low income retail jobs.…
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KPL Podcast January 2026 Week 5 with Special Guest LS Stratton
This week on KPL Podcast we have author LS Stratton with her first YA novel Sundown Girls. The story focuses on a teenage girl named Naomi who was kidnapped as a toddler. She is now back with her family and the woman who raised is in jail for kidnapping. Her family goes on a weekend getaway in a...
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KPL Podcast January 2026 Week 4 with Special Guest Lynn Cullen
This week on the KPL Podcast we spoke with Lynn Cullen about her latest historical fiction, When We Were Brilliant. The book explores the friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Eve Arnold, the only woman to photograph Marilyn. Written from Eve’s perspective as if she were writing directly to...
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KPL Podcast January 2026 Week 3 with Special Guest Karen Winn
This week we spoke with Karen Winn about her latest novel The Society. This story revolves around a secret society known as The Knox. Two women's lives intertwine as they get involved with the Knox. Vivian is searching for answers to her heritage and disappears as she digs deeper in her family's...
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KPL Podcast January 2026 Week 2 with Special Guests Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith
On this week’s episode of the KPL Podcast, we spoke with authors Pamela Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith about their latest novel, Sounds Like Trouble. We had a great time talking about their collaborative writing process and how they first began working together. Sounds Like Trouble...
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KPL Podcast January 2026 week 1 with Special Guest Tamara Berry
This week on the KPL Podcast, we’re joined by Tamara Berry to talk about her latest novel, Murder Runs in the Family. When a granddaughter comes to stay with her grandmother in a retirement community, she quickly finds herself helping Grandma dodge a very real murder charge. Packed with...
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KPL Podcast December 2025 with Special Guest Eva Jurczyk
This week on the KPL Podcast, we welcome back returning author Eva Jurczyk to talk about her latest novel, 6:40 to Montreal. A clever homage to Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the book is a tightly crafted locked-room mystery set aboard a train traveling from Toronto to Montreal....
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KPL Podcast December 2025 Week 3 with Special Guest Jinwoo Park
This week on the KPL Podcast, we talk with Jinwoo Park about his latest novel, The Oxford Soju Club. Part spy novel and part exploration of identity, the immigrant experience, and the parent–child relationship, the book is richly layered and deeply engaging, with plenty to keep readers hooked.…
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KPL Podcast December 2025 Week 2 with Special Guest Annalee Newitz
This week on the KPL Podcast, we spoke with author Annalee Newitz about Automatic Noodle, their inventive new novel. Set in a future California where robots have won their freedom, the story follows a group of food-service bots in a deserted ghost kitchen who seize control of their old delivery…
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KPL Podcast December 2025 with Special Guest Kristi Demeester
This week on the KPL Podcast, we speak with bestselling author Kristi DeMeester about her new novel Dark Sisters. In this fierce and haunting Southern Gothic, DeMeester unravels an intergenerational curse that binds — and torments — the women of Hawthorne Springs, an affluent town ruled by a...
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KPL Podcast November 2025 Week 4 with Special Guest Laura Griffin
This week on the KPL Podcast, we speak with bestselling author Laura Griffin about her latest novel, Innocence Road. Set in the small town of Marfa, Texas, this suspenseful murder mystery opens with Deputy Leanne being called to a fresh crime scene at the edge of the desert, where a nameless…
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KPL Podcast November 2025 Week 3 with Special Guest Peggy Townsend
This week on the KPL Podcast, we’re joined by author Peggy Townsend to discuss The Botanist’s Assistant. If you’re looking for a cozy mystery with a STEM twist, this one’s for you. The story follows a research scientist whose life is upended when her boss is murdered—and no one seems interested…
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KPL Podcast November 2025 Week 2 with Special Guest Lucas Schaefer
Lucas Schaefer recently won the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Fiction for The Slip, his debut novel centered on the lives orbiting an Austin, Texas boxing gym and the disappearance of a 16-year-old boy. We talk with Lucas about what it was like to receive such an acclaimed honor, the story behind...
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KPL Podcast November 2025 Week 1 with Special Guest Chris Sweeney
This week we speak with journalist Chris Sweeney about his debut book, The Feather Detective Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne. The fascinating and remarkable true story of the world’s first forensic ornithologist, Roxie Laybourne. She broke down barriers for women,...
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Each week the Kirkwood Public Library Podcast delves into in depth conversations with bestselling authors, provides book and film recommendations.
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