Two Sides to the Story
by Lory Hierstetter and Ted Zaleski
Tune in if you are a book lover looking to expand your reading or writing, love libraries and bookstores, or like to make connections between readers, writers, words and books; and find more interesting literary information on our website twosides2thestory.com
Episodes
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Episode 79: Saving the Westernport Library
Carroll Book Festival https://carrollbookfestival.org Westernport Library https://www.alleganycountylibrary.info/westernport-library/ Westernport Library flood video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmrF_0wBmlk Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown...
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Episode 78: Interview with Charles Ferguson
Listen to ted’s interview with Charles Ferguson on his book Presidential Seclusion: The Power of Camp David. Charles spent three and a half years at Camp David as Chaplain and Historian. His book is not about his experiences, but is a history of Camp David from its predecessor the U.S.S. Potomac,...
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Episode 77: Interview with the 2026 Battle of the Books Winning Team The Purr-usalers
Listen in as Lory and Ted interview the Purr-usalers, the Sandymount Elementary School that won the Finksburg Battle of the Books event at Winters Mill High School. Lory and Ted emcee this event every year. A bookish activity favorite.e
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Episode 76: Two Years Later - A Second Interview With Melody Wukitch
Park Books https://www.parkbooksmd.com Independent Bookstore Day https://www.bookweb.org/independent-bookstore-day Ronald Malfi https://ronaldmalfi.com Tracy C. Gold https://tracycgold.com E.W. Beck’s https://ewbecks.com 1623 Brewing https://1623brewing.com When Women Were Dragons by Kelly…
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Episode 75: A New Chapter - Interview with Ali Rudolph
Rudolph Girls https://rudolphgirls.com Jeannie Bird https://www.jeanniebird.com Humane Society of Carroll County https://humanesocietycarrollcounty.org Cupboard Maker Books https://www.cupboardmaker.com Double Dog Dare Rescue https://doubledogdarerescue.org Tales and Tails Bookstore...
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Episode 74: Baldwin’s Book Barn, Babies, and the Carroll Book Festival
Old Fox Books & Coffehouse https://www.oldfoxbooks.com Birch Tree Books & Plants https://www.birchtreebookstore.com A Place Called Yellowstone by Randall K. Wilson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757073/a-place-called-yellowstone-by-randall-k-wilson/ Morgan Milller, Maryland State...
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Episode 73: Todd’s Side of the Story
Todd Burrier https://toddburrier.com Og Mandino The Greatest Salesman in the World https://wakefieldbooks.com/book/9780593976746 Parentheses Books https://www.parenthesesbooks.com Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Dean Koontz https://www.deankoontz.com Stephen King...
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Episode 72: Romance is in the Air
Carroll Book Festival https://www.carrollbookfestival.org Queen Anne’s Local Author Fair https://visitqueenannes.com/event/queen-annes-county-library-local-author-fair/ Episode 54: Interview with TimYoung https://www.twosides2thestory.com/podcast/episode-54-interview-with-tim-young Tim Young...
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Episode 71: Good Book Hunting Summer Edition
Morgan Miller, Maryland State Librarian episode https://www.twosides2thestory.com/podcast/episode-70-interview-with-maryland-state-librarian-morgan-miller McKay Used Books https://mckayusedbooks.com/general-faqs/ Cambria Station Antiques https://www.cambriastationantiques.com Old New River Books...
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Episode 70: Interview with Maryland State Librarian -Morgan Miller
It took a long time to get Maryland State Librarian and Two Sides friend, Morgan Miller to sit down long enough to do an interview. There is no truth to the rumor that we duct taped her to her chair. To make it happen, Lory and Ted couldn't both be there. Listen in as Ted talks with Morgan about...
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Episode 69: Interview with Amanda Friss of Parentheses Books
On Ted's trip to Harrisonburg, Virgina he interviewed Amanda Friss, owner of Parentheses Books. If you listened to Episode 68 when Lory and Ted interviewed Evan Friss on his book, The Bookshop; a History of the American Bookstore, you might remember that Amanda and Parentheses came up. Lory and…
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Episode 68: Interview with Evan Friss
At the Annapolis Book Festival, Lory and Ted interview Evan Friss on his book, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore. We also talk about his wife's bookshop, Parentheses, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, why bookstores are weird, and life in the Shenandoah Valley. If you are a bookshop…
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Episode 66: John Waters 2.0
John Waters: The Pope of Trash https://academymuseumstore.org/products/john-waters-pope-of-trash?srsltid=AfmBOooJPDKuXyfltLgiHf9x3Z0zKzV1l0lEtVS5x3-zDg_1WII0TnWu Academy Museum of Motion Pictures https://www.academymuseum.org/en Carroll Arts Center https://carrollcountyartscouncil.org Normals…
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Episode 65: The Bookworms Ultimate Revenge - 2025 Battle of the Books Winners
Carroll County Public Library Carroll County Public Library - Battle of the Books The Battle Book List BoB_Elementary.pdf
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Episode 64: National Treasure Hunt Interview with Aubrey Paris and Emily Black
National Treasure Hunt: One Step Short of Crazy by Aubrey Paris and Emily Black https://www.tuckerdspress.com/product-page/national-treasure-hunt-one-step-short-of-crazy National Treasure Hunt Podcast https://nthuntpodcast.com National Treasure Hunt Tour https://nthuntpodcast.com/tour National...
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Episode 63: Holiday Event at Exploration Commons and Interview with Candace Birger
Exploration Commons https://explorationcommons.carr.org Maker Expo https://ccpl.librarymarket.com/event/maker-expo-2024-227626 Candace Birger https://thefacesofwestminstermd.com/candace-birger/ Two Sides to the Plate episode...
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Episode 61: Carolina on our Minds and Interview with Jen Ferguson
Tracy Gold https://tracycgold.com/about/ A Constellation of Minor Bears by Jen Ferguson https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-constellation-of-minor-bears-jen-ferguson?variant=41377490501666 A Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson...
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Episode 60: Indie Book Shop Crawl
Tim Young https://creaturesandcharacters.com Annapolis Books Festival https://www.keyschool.org/community/annapolis-book-festival I Hate Picture Books by Timothy Young https://schifferbooks.com/products/i-hate-picture-books?srsltid=AfmBOopDvUS-pU_wZF_CQb85bUQEn2DU33GRQuv3uTJQrwR4XKsS4CPJ National...
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Episode 59: Carroll County’s Best
Carroll County Times Carroll’s Best https://baltimoresun.secondstreetapp.com/2024-Carrolls-Best/ Alter Image https://alterimagehairsalon.com Battle of the Books https://library.carr.org/programs/BoB.asp Liv Constantine https://livconstantine.com The Next Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine...
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Episode 58: Interview with Andy Auseon
Andrew Auseon http://www.andrewauseon.com Kids Writing Camp https://ccpl.librarymarket.com/kids-writing-camp Kids Authors Night https://ccpl.librarymarket.com/kids-author-night John Waters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters Ron Malfi https://ronaldmalfi.com Zenimax Online Studios...
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Episode 57: Interview with Melody, Owner of Park Books
Annapolis Book Festival https://www.keyschool.org/community/annapolis-book-festival Key School https://www.keyschool.org Park Books https://parkbooksmd.com Maryland Library Association Conference https://www.mdlib.org/content.asp?contentid=1 Ronald Malfi https://ronaldmalfi.com Independent...
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Episode 56: Interview with Ronald Malfi
Maryland Library Association https://www.mdlib.org/content.asp?contentid=1 Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742365/small-town-horror-by-ronald-malfi/ Park Books https://parkbooksmd.com Ronald Malfi at Park Books https://parkbooksmd.com/events/20240606…
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Episode 55: Interview with Tracy C Gold
Tracy Gold Park Books Annapolis Book Festival Chesapeake Children's Book Festival For Horse Lovers
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Episode 54: Interview with Tim Young
Tim Young Annapolis Book Festival Old Wye Mill Chesapeake Children's Book Festival
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Episode 53: Interview with Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott Official Website Annapolis Book Festival Two Sides to the Story
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Episode 52: The Brainy Book Wizards
Congratulations to Brody, Andy, Drew, Josh, Brooks, Rhys, and Nathan, The Brainy Book Wizards! Hear as this 5th grade team of seven boys talk about their victory on battle night. Ted and Lory get their immediate reactions to being crowned the champs of Battle of the Books 2024 for the Finksburg...
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Episode 51: Battle Season, Book Events and a Baby
Battle of the Books Kickoff: Night 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICAOBgkAbak Battle of the Books Kickoff: Night 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efTk1nN_LQ Carroll County Battle of the Books https://library.carr.org/programs/BOB.asp Carroll County Battle of the Books: After Hours...
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Episode 50: Interview with Sarah Adler
Sarah Adler hps://sarahadlerwrites.com/ Friends of Carroll County Public Library hps://library.carr.org/about/support.asp Mrs. Nash’s Ashes hps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712926/mrs-nashs-ashes-by- sarah-adler/ Books at Beck’s...
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Episode 49: Season Two Kickoff Part Two
Recorded at Exploration Commons, Ted and Lory celebrate completing the first season of Two Sides with a live audience and talk about plans for the second season.
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Episode 48: Season Two Kickoff Part One
Recorded at Exploration Commons, Ted and Lory celebrate completing the first season of Two Sides with a live audience and an interview with Carroll County Public Library Executive Director, Andrea Berstler.
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Episode 47: Two Sides To The Plate
Two Sides To The Story Jeannie Bird Baking Company Bud's at Silver Run Covalent Spirits The Food Chick Collision Course Carroll Hospital Center Expanding Boundaries International Carroll County Public Library Exploration Commons at 50 East
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Episode 46: Interviews with Battle of the Books After Hours Winning Teams
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Episode 45: Two Sides Lisa
Jennifer Franciotti https://www.wbaltv.com/news-team/95104051-577e-4401-8a37-3dca0fdac43b Library of Congress National Book Festival https://www.loc.gov/events/2023-national-book-festival/schedule/ Zaytinya http://www.zaytinya.com/ Rudolph Girls Books https://rudolphgirls.com/ The Wager by David...
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Episode 44: The Book People Project
The Book People Project Community Foundation of Carroll County Pipe the Side Brewing Two Sides to the Story Donate to The Book People Project
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Episode 43: Writing with a Partner
E.W. Beck’s https://ewbecks.com/ Richard Chizmar Stephen King Gwendy’s Buttonbox Trilogy https://www.simonandschuster.com/series/Gwendys-Button-Box-Trilogy Becoming the Bogeyman by Richard Chizmar...
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Episode 42: Interview with The Covergirls
1623 Brewing https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=1623+brewing&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Battle of the Books: After Hours https://library.carr.org/programs/BoBafterhours.asp Interview with the winning team from Year 2 of After Hours - The Well Read Hat Society. Episode 19: A Busy Month…
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Episode 41: The Magic Mix
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss https://bookshop.org/p/books/springfield-confidencial-mike-reiss/7392127 High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glen Frankel...
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Episode 40: Birthdays and Bookshelf Bliss
Two Sides Episodes Serendipity books by Stephen Cosgrove Are You My Mother? By P.D. Eastman Little Miss and Mister Men books by multiple authors The Reader’s Café https://abigailgmaitland.wixsite.com/thereaderscafepa Oprah’s Book Club https://www.oprah.com/app/books.html Reese’s Book Club...
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Episode 39: Reading Beyond Books
Scripps Howard If You Give a Child a Book https://spellingbee.com/give-a-book Kellogg’s Read Brightly https://www.readbrightly.com/kelloggs-feeding-reading-program/ Books by the Pound Searcy, Alabama https://www.booksbythepound.shop/ Michael Dirda reading rules...
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Episode 38: Ted’s Excellent Adventure - Part 2
The Joy of Books David Sedaris Lenny Bruce Isaac Asimov On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-writing-a-memoir-of-the-craft-stephen-king/15212476?gclid=Cj0KCQjwusunBhCYARIsAFBsUP-MUHVsqFKi8S2AzpNq8z-DMTCARj7DM0gdUNq-m8xg9SXdc1NJn3caAqtXEALw_wcB Carl...
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Episode 37: Ted’s Excellent Adventure - Part 1
Rudolph Girls Books https://rudolphgirls.com/ Birdie’s Café https://birdiescoffee.com/ Malaprop’s Bookstore https://www.malaprops.com/ Downtown Books& News https://www.dbnbooks.com/ Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar https://batteryparkbookexchange.com/ Battery Park Book Exchange &...
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Episode 36: Monica’s Road Trip
Northtown Books https://www.northtownbooks.com/ Decomposition Books https://decomposition.com/ Bicycling With Butterflies; My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman The Overstory by Richard Powers The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees,...
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Episode 35: Good Book Hunting in DC, MD, DE and PA
The Cupboard Maker Books https://www.cupboardmaker.com/ The National Book Festival https://www.loc.gov/events/2023-national-book-festival/about-this-event/ Grace Lin https://gracelin.com/ Red Emma’s https://redemmas.org/ Washington Street Books & Music…
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Episode 34: Two Sides Teasers
Red Emma’s https://redemmas.org/ It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz’s Story of Hope by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet and Anita Smith U.S. Women’s National Team https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/07/26/uswnt-players-reading-sophia-smith/ Wolfpack by Abby Wambach Make Trouble by John Waters…
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Episode 33: Second Interview with Charlie Goodyear
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard River of Doubt by Candice Millard River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard Garfield by Allan Peskin From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877-1896 by H. Wayne Morgan...
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Episode 32: On The Road Again
The Reader’s Café https://abigailgmaitland.wixsite.com/thereaderscafepa Episode #14 Virginia is for…Booklovers https://www.twosides2thestory.com/podcast/virginia-is-forbook-lovers Goodbye Yellow House by Janine Summers Miller The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho The Big Tree by Brain Selznick The...
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Episode 31: Two Sides on the Front Page and Other Book News
Carroll County Times interview Two Sides to the Story website We would love to hear from you on these topics, send us an email [email protected] Independent bookstores offer alternative to Amazon Prime Days...
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Episode 30: Tours on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
Farmer’s Daughter Gift & Garden https://farmersdaughtergardencenter.com/ Episode 29 Book Bargains at The Farmer’s Daughter https://www.twosides2thestory.com/podcast/book-bargains-at-the-farmers-daughter Episode 28 Two Sides in the Road...
About this show
Tune in if you are a book lover looking to expand your reading or writing, love libraries and bookstores, or like to make connections between readers, writers, words and books; and find more interesting literary information on our website twosides2thestory.com
Hosted by
Lory Hierstetter and Ted Zaleski