Middle Ground Books: After Hours

The Page Turners series continues as the group settles in to talk through what they’ve been reading lately. The conversation bounces between time travel, romance, bookish love, and the usual side paths that come with a table full of readers. Along the way, they share what’s been happening around the shop and invite anyone in the Emporia area to stop by, hang out, and find their next favorite read.If any of these books caught your ear, you can get your copy through Middle Ground Books, wherever you are.Print books and ebooks are available worldwide through the shop’s Bookshop page, and audiobooks are available through the store as well.Print and ebookshttps://bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooksAudiobookshttps://libro.fm/middlegroundbooksIf you’re near Emporia, Kansas, visit Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street, Emporia, KS to browse in person, meet the team, and find your next great read. You can also explore upcoming events, book clubs, and everything happening at the shop at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.Follow and subscribe to @middlegroundbooks on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to stay connected with the shop and the reading community.📖 The Covered PagesGeorge Falls Through Time by Ryan ColletteGalentine’s Day by Rebecca AndersonOnce Upon a Tome by Oliver DarkshireMiddle Ground Books After Hours is produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. If you’re working on a podcast, business media, or creative project and need audio, video, or media assets, learn more at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.

The group revisits a conversation with Tiffany Killoren, talking through her move from practicing law into writing fiction, what it cost to walk away from one profession, and how that decision slowly opened the door to a writing career that found readers far beyond where it began.Stay connected with Middle Ground Books After Hours by following the store on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The team shares new arrivals, staff picks, community updates, and behind the counter moments.Explore upcoming events, book recommendations, and new releases at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.If you are near Emporia Kansas, stop by Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street to shop local, meet the hosts, and find your next great read.If you cannot visit in person, you can support the store through their Bookshop page at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks.Every purchase through Bookshop helps keep the shelves full and the community growing. You can also browse expanded reading lists curated by each host.Middle Ground Books After Hours is remotely produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. Learn more about creative audio, music production, and media services at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.Follow @CosmicAtomSounds on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. If you have a podcast or creative idea waiting to be heard, Cosmic Atom Sound Studios helps bring your vision to life and make it sound. Let us come together and build something new.

A January episode with a little something sweet in the air, offering a happy early birthday nod to A. A. Milne.The group spends the episode in the Hundred Acre Wood, talking all things Winnie-the-Pooh and the world Milne wrote into being.Stay connected with Middle Ground Books After Hours by following the store on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The team shares new arrivals, staff picks, community updates, and behind the counter moments.Explore upcoming events, book recommendations, and new releases at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.If you are near Emporia Kansas, stop by Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street to shop local, meet the hosts, and find your next great read.If you cannot visit in person, you can support the store through their Bookshop page at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks.Every purchase through Bookshop helps keep the shelves full and the community growing. You can also browse expanded reading lists curated by each host.Middle Ground Books After Hours is remotely produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. Learn more about creative audio, music production, and media services at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.Follow @CosmicAtomSounds on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. If you have a podcast or creative idea waiting to be heard, Cosmic Atom Sound Studios helps bring your vision to life and make it sound. Let us come together and build something new.📖 The Covered PagesThe Bookbinder’s Secret by A. D. BellOnce Upon a River by Diane SetterfieldMurder by the Book by Lauren ElliottSomewhere, a Boy and a Bear by Daniel BernstromThe House at Pooh Corner by A. A. MilneHalfway Down by A. A. MilneWaiting at the Window by A. A. MilneIf this caught your ears, you can find it through the links in the section above.

A special tribute episode in celebration of the belated "Tolkien day" based on Tolkien’s January 3 birthday.The group talks about J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, touching on their personal histories, their books, friendships, and all that helped shape their writing.Stay connected with Middle Ground Books After Hours by following the store on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The team shares new arrivals, staff picks, community updates, and behind the counter moments.Explore upcoming events, book recommendations, and new releases at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.If you are near Emporia Kansas, stop by Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street to shop local, meet the hosts, and find your next great read.If you cannot visit in person, you can support the store through their Bookshop page at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks.Every purchase through Bookshop helps keep the shelves full and the community growing. You can also browse expanded reading lists curated by each host.Middle Ground Books After Hours is remotely produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. Learn more about creative audio, music production, and media services at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.Follow @CosmicAtomSounds on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. If you have a podcast or creative idea waiting to be heard, Cosmic Atom Sound Studios helps bring your vision to life and make it sound. Let us come together and build something new.📖 The Covered PagesThe Hobbit by J. R. R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. LewisOut of the Silent Planet by C. S. LewisPerelandra by C. S. LewisThat Hideous Strength by C. S. LewisThe Pilgrim’s Regress by C. S. LewisThe Allegory of Love by C. S. LewisThe War of the Ring by Christopher TolkienThe Kalevala translated by Elias LönnrotPrometheus Bound by AeschylusThe Aeneid by VirgilThe Iliad by HomerThe Odyssey by HomerThe Mythmakers by John HendrixThe Rembrandt Heist by Anthony M. AmoreThe Museum of the Missing by Alex GeorgeThe Book Haters’ Book Club by Gretchen AnthonyRead This If You Want to Be a Great Writer by Ross RaisinNormal People by Sally RooneyYellowface by R. F. KuangDubliners by James JoyceDungeon Crawler Carl by Matt DinnimanIf this caught your ears, you can find it through the links in the section above.

Lance, Debra, and Megan look back at their favorite reads from 2025 and share what they’re excited to read in 2026. The episode touches on what’s ahead for the store, including new events and activities, and ways they’re hoping to make the shop an even more active place for readers to spend time together in the year ahead.📖 The Covered PagesSalt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael MossThe Everlasting by Alex E. HarrowWhitewash by Carey GillamPoisoning the Well by Sharon Udasin and Rachel FrazinThe Call by Yannick MurphyFast Like a Girl by Mindy PelzThe Menopause Reset by Mindy PelzIsabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver DarkshireThe Knight and the Moth by Rachel GilligWhere the Rivers Merge by Mary Alice MonroeThe Torchlight by Mura BofiniSomewhere, a Boy and a Bear by Daniel BernstromIf this caught your ears, you can find it through the links in the section below.Stay connected with Middle Ground Books After Hours by following the store on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The team shares new arrivals, staff picks, community updates, and behind the counter moments.Explore upcoming events, book recommendations, and new releases at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.If you are near Emporia Kansas, stop by Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street to shop local, meet the hosts, and find your next great read.If you cannot visit in person, you can support the store through their Bookshop page at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks.Every purchase through Bookshop helps keep the shelves full and the community growing. You can also browse expanded reading lists curated by each host.Middle Ground Books After Hours is remotely produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. Learn more about creative audio, music production, and media services at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.Follow @CosmicAtomSounds on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. If you have a podcast or creative idea waiting to be heard, Cosmic Atom Sound Studios helps bring your vision to life and make it sound. Let us come together and build something new.

This is the final part in the Christmas Special trilogy, closing out the holiday season with a conversation about Dungeon Crawler Carl and how it can actually be attuned to Christmas, kind of like Die Hard.📖 The Covered Pages Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt DinnimanIf this caught your ears, you can find it through the links in the section below.Stay connected with Middle Ground Books After Hours by following the store on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The team shares new arrivals, staff picks, community updates, and behind the counter moments.Explore upcoming events, book recommendations, and new releases at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.If you are near Emporia Kansas, stop by Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street to shop local, meet the hosts, and find your next great read.If you cannot visit in person, you can support the store through their Bookshop page at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks.Every purchase through Bookshop helps keep the shelves full and the community growing. You can also browse expanded reading lists curated by each host.Middle Ground Books After Hours is remotely produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. Learn more about creative audio, music production, and media services at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.Follow @CosmicAtomSounds on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. If you have a podcast or creative idea waiting to be heard, Cosmic Atom Sound Studios helps bring your vision to life and make it sound. Let us come together and build something new.A Thank You to Listeners and Followers:The cast of Middle Ground Books would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and yours, and to say thank you for joining them for the laughter and the in depth conversations about the books they have come to love and wanted to share with you, the listening audience, After Hours once the store is closed for the day. There is more to come, but in the meantime they wish you a safe closeout to the year and an even safer time bringing in the new year.Cosmic Atom Sound Studios would also like to thank you, the listener, for the interaction and support, and hope you enjoy every moment of hearing these three voices come through your speakers, headphones, or even your TV. Here’s to many more episodes ahead and, one day, to you visiting their shop in Emporia.

Part two of the three part Christmas special finds the group talking through children’s Christmas books and how those stories land differently now than they did growing up.The Covered PagesHow the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr SeussJan Brett Christmas and winter titles: The Mitten, The Hat, The Christmas Sweater, Alice in Wonderland, The Nutcracker, Gingerbread Baby, and The Night Before ChristmasHow Does Santa Go Down the Chimney by Mac BarnettThat Is Not My Hat by Jon KlassenElmore the Christmas Moose by Dev Petty and Mike BoldtMurray Christmas by E. G. KellerThe Twelve Days of Christmas by Greg PizzoliA Stickler Christmas by Lane Smith Let it Glow by Marissa MeyerThe Christmas Murder Game series: The Christmas Cracker Killer by Alexandra BenedictA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensA Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. SchulzThe Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgIf any of these caught your ears, you can find them through the links in the section below.Stay connected with Middle Ground Books After Hours by following the store on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The team shares new arrivals, staff picks, community updates, and behind the counter moments.Explore upcoming events, book recommendations, and new releases at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.If you are near Emporia Kansas, stop by Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street to shop local, meet the hosts, and find your next great read.If you cannot visit in person, you can support the store through their Bookshop page at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks.Every purchase through Bookshop helps keep the shelves full and the community growing. You can also browse expanded reading lists curated by each host.Middle Ground Books After Hours is remotely produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. Learn more about creative audio, music production, and media services at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.Follow @CosmicAtomSounds on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. If you have a podcast or creative idea waiting to be heard, Cosmic Atom Sound Studios helps bring your vision to life and make it sound. Let us come together and build something new.

The crew opens their first Christmas special by settling in with The Hogfather, the holiday tale they all read to get into the spirit of the season.The Covered PagesThe Hogfather by Terry PratchettMort by Terry PratchettThe Discworld series by Terry PratchettGood Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry PratchettThe Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry PratchettThe Carpet People by Terry PratchettIf any of these caught your ears, you can find them through the links in the section below.Stay connected with Middle Ground Books After Hours by following the store on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The team shares new arrivals, staff picks, community updates, and behind the counter moments.Explore upcoming events, book recommendations, and new releases at https://www.middlegroundbooks.com.If you are near Emporia Kansas, stop by Middle Ground Books and Gifts at 606 Commercial Street to shop local, meet the hosts, and find your next great read.If you cannot visit in person, you can support the store through their Bookshop page at https://www.bookshop.org/shop/middlegroundbooks.Every purchase through Bookshop helps keep the shelves full and the community growing. You can also browse expanded reading lists curated by each host.Middle Ground Books After Hours is remotely produced and audio engineered by Cosmic Atom Sound Studios. Learn more about creative audio, music production, and media services at https://www.cosmicatomsounds.com.Follow @CosmicAtomSounds on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. If you have a podcast or creative idea waiting to be heard, Cosmic Atom Sound Studios helps bring your vision to life and make it sound. Let us come together and build something new.