First Chapter Fridays with ACL
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pauli Murray was an activist, lawyer, priest, and so much more. While not as well-known as those who lauded her work like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth B...
A Princess in Theory
19 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Naledi Smith is working on her graduate degree and has no time for the annoying emails claiming she's the disappeared betrothed of Prince Thabiso of T...
Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story)
12 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's winner is the recent recipient of the Printz Award, given to the best work of young adult fiction each year. Everything Sad is Untru...
When You Trap a Tiger
05 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our Middle Grade pick this week is the latest recipient of the Newberry Medal, When You Trap a Tiger, written by Tae Keller. When Lily and her family ...
Dopesick
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s first chapter is adult nonfiction Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy. Macy plunges the ...
We Ride Upon Sticks
22 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s first chapter for adults is We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry. The year is 1989 and the Danvers, Massachusetts High School girls’ fiel...
Conversion
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our YA pick this week is Conversion by Katherine Howe, a chilling mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliveranc...
Echo Mountain
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our Middle Grade pick this week is Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk, a historical novel about a young heroine in Depression-era Maine who is navigating th...
The Hogfather
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A festive entry in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, which sees wizards, a monster bashing nanny, and actual gods racing to save the Hogfather.
Puddin'
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our YA pick this week is Puddin’ by Julie Murphy, a cozy, realistic fiction about unexpected friendship, romance, finding your own voice, and Texas-...
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
04 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a 2017 Newbery Medal-winning novel by Kelly Barnhill. In this book, we follow the story of Luna, who, after being raise...
Ep. 13 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s first chapter for adult listeners is Born a Crime: Stories from an Authentic South African Childhood by Trevor Noah. This memoir d...
Ep. 12: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For adult listeners this week. we're reading The Rosie Project by Australian author Graeme Simsion. In this lighthearted romantic comedy, social...
Jackaby by William Ritter
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are featuring Jackaby by William Ritter. The 1st book in an exciting YA supernatural detective series. A serial killer is on ...
I Can Make This Promise
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For our middle-grade pick this week, we have chosen a title by a Native author in celebration of National Native American Heritage Month. In her debut...
Halloween Special
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Halloween, Youth Services Librarian Hailee and Library Aide Vicki will be reading from three spooky short story collections! Scary ...
The Devil in the White City
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentiet...
An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood...
Small Spaces
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Small Spaces, New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle-grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding...
Radium Girls
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are featuring The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore. Drawing on previously unpublished source...
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary
18 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brilliant Maggie Hope uncovers terrible truths while working for newly sworn-in Prime Minister Winston Churchill in this historical spy thriller from ...
Truly Devious
11 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, listen to the first chapter of a Young Adult mystery set in a boarding school for gifted teens. In Truly Devious, New York Times best...
The Story Collector
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of First Chapter Fridays with ACL, a new podcast from the Augusta County Library. If you are looking for a new read, this...