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Among Books with Marlene Patterson and Nadine Patterson | Ep 3

Among Books

Release Date: 10/03/2025

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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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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.

For more about Kouvenda Media and Hilltop Books:

https://www.kouvendamedia.com/

https://www.instagram.com/kouvendamedia/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/kouvendamedia

https://hilltopbooks.org/

https://www.instagram.com/hilltopbooksphilly/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/hilltopbooksphilly/

 

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/