Daralyse Lyons sits down at Hilltop Books for an Among Books conversation with Stephanie Marudas.

Until recently, Daralyse was the publisher and executive director of The Chestnut Hill Local, an independent weekly newspaper serving Northwest Philadelphia and Southeastern Montgomery County. This conversation was recorded earlier this year when she was still in that position. Daralyse is now Chief Revenue Officer for The Bucks County Beacon.

To learn more about Daralyse:

https://www.daralyselyons.com/

Episode hosted and produced by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder. For more about Kouvenda Media and Hilltop Books:

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POST-SHOW READING LIST

The Red Tent

By Anita Diamant

Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination

By Nancy Colier

Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors

By Rudine Sims Bishop

*Essay was published in Perspectives: Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom. Vo. 6., no. 3. Summer 1990

https://scenicregional.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Mirrors-Windows-and-Sliding-Glass-Doors.pdf

Video with Rudine Sims Bishop

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=rudine+bishop+mirrors&mid=31495DB44F953A75790231495DB44F953A757902&FORM=VAMTRV

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

By Shonda Rhimes

The Emotional Yoga Experience: Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind

By Daralyse Lyons

The EFT Manual

By Gary Craig

A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

By Marianne Williamson

*Includes the poem "Our Deepest Fear"

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Englightenment

By Eckhart Tolle

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

By Mark Manson

Do or Do Not: How to Improvise Like a Jedi

By Mary C Carpenter

Bridge to Terabithia

By Katherine Paterson

***Remember Reading podcast episode about Bridge to Terabithia produced by Kouvenda Media***

https://pod.link/1447897366/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvNjMyMTc5NjY1

Number the Stars

By Lois Lowry

Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

By John Steptoe

Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti

By Gerald McDermott

The Art of Memoir

By Mary Karr

Summer Sisters

By Judy Bloom

David Woo sits down at Hilltop Books for an Among Books conversation with Stephanie Marudas.

David is an actor and serves on the Philadelphia local board of the SAG-AFTRA union.

To learn more about David:

https://www.southcamdentheatre.org/how-the-light-gets-in/

https://www.sagaftra.org/philadelphia-0

https://whyy.org/articles/audio-of-radio-times-program-featuring-weavers-ways-david-woo/

Episode hosted and produced by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder. For more about Kouvenda Media and Hilltop Books:

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Post-Show Reading List

Democracy in America

By Alexis De Tocqueville

Jack Ryan Series

By Tom Clancy

The Brotherhood of War Series

By W.E.B. Griffin

Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations

By John Carver

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By Michelle Alexander

Respect for Acting

By Uta Hagen with Haskel Frankel

National Cooperative Business Association: NCBA CLUSA

https://ncbaclusa.coop/

Weavers Way Co-Operative Association: The First 50 Years, published in The Germantown Crier, 2023

By Thomas F. Boyle

*Related article published in The Shuttle, the newspaper of Weavers Way Co-op

https://share.google/kD3X0V5XkxdyTwLO0

In Wake of financial scandal, Weavers Way looks to implement additional oversight

By Aaron Moselle

https://share.google/Mvq8ZS7tTH5l4YEqN

Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/

Gen. Robert E. Lee owned slaves

Marlene Patterson and Nadine Patterson sit down at Hilltop Books for an Among Books conversation with Stephanie Marudas.

They are mother and daughter and run a film production company called HipCinema, which stands for Harmony Image Productions Cinema.

To learn more about Marlene Patterson and Nadine Patterson:

https://hipcinema.net/

https://archive.storycorps.org/interviews/marlene-patterson-and-nadine-patterson/

Episode hosted and produced by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder.

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POST-SHOW READING LIST

Don Quixote

By Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The Good Earth

By Pearl S. Buck

Various speeches and writings by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., including:

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?

Green Eggs and Ham

By Dr. Seuss

The First Hidden Figure: Lewis Latimer

By Steve Mitnick

Popular Mechanics Magazine

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories

By Carolyn Keene

History/Biography of George Washington Carver

The Oz Books

By L. Frank Baum

Biographies/African American History

Golden Legacy Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Legacy

The Foundation Trilogy

By Isaac Asimov

The Illustrated Man

By Ray Bradbury

Kindred

By Octavia Butler

Lovely One: A Memoir

By Ketanji Brown Jackson

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family

By Pauli Murray

The Short: Personal Writing Tools to Free the Imagination

By Rae Shaw

God Bless the Child

By Kristin Hunter

Zamani Goes to Market

By Muriel Feelings

Moja Means One

By Muriel Feelings

Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book

By Muriel Feelings

Beloved

By Toni Morrison

The Salt Eaters

By Toni Cade Bambara

The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America

Edited by Jean Fagan Yellin and John C. Van Horne

Aurora Reading Club of Pittsburgh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Reading_Club_of_Pittsburgh

Nadine Patterson's collaboration with Emiko Tonooka, a Japanese American photographer and writer at Scribe Video Center:

https://scribe.org/catalogue/shizue

Anna Russell Jones documentary produced by HipCinema with Toni Cade Bambara.

https://hipcinema.net/work/

Pennsylvania State Senator Art Haywood sits down at Hilltop Books for an Among Books conversation with Stephanie Marudas.

Senator Haywood represents the state's 4th Senatorial District, which includes Montgomery & Philadelphia Counties.

To learn more about Senator Haywood:

https://www.palegis.us/senate/members/bio/1689/senator-art-haywood

Senator Haywood's Book

Campaigns for COMPASSION: A Story of Community Change

https://outskirtspress.com/arthaywood

Episode hosted and produced by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder.

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POST-SHOW READING LIST

Lovely One: A Memoir

By Ketanji Brown Jackson

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By Jonathan M. Metzl

The Bible

Gandhi: An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

Clyde: The Walt Frazier Story

By Walt Frazier and Joe Jares

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968

By Thomas E. Ricks

Campaigns for COMPASSION: A Story of Community Change

By Art Haywood

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

By Priya Parker

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership

By Harold Cruse

Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept

By W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

By W.E.B. Du Bois

The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union

By James M. McPherson

Among Books is a passion project about reading and more. The show brings the spirit of Kouvenda — a Greek word for chat, talk, conversation — front and center. With a focus on reading, guests discuss various books and share aspects of their lives in conversations that unfold from the lighthearted to the profound and everything in between. Produced and hosted by Stephanie Marudas of Kouvenda Media and mixed by Brad Linder, Among Books is recorded in person at the cozy Hilltop Books in Northwest Philadelphia. Show notes for each episode include a related reading list.

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