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Find Your Next Read: HPL Staff Picks the Best Books of 2023

Release Date: 01/03/2024

Hey You Guys! Rose City Comic Con Preview

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Jen and Elizabeth from Hillsboro Public Library's SciFi Fantasy Collective return to the pod to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the show! They join Brendan to preview this year's Rose City Comic Con coming to the Oregon Convention Center Sept. 05-07. They talk about what they've been reading lately, which authors and comics creators will be at the con, how excited they are about the Goonies and Battlestar Galactica reunions, and what they think will be this year's most popular cosplay! Check out this of books and graphic novels talked about on the show Here is a of all the manga deluxe...

Find Your Next Read - Sizzlin' Summer Edition!☀️📚⛱️

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Find Your Next hosts Julie and Karen are here to help you get ready for summer with some of the hottest upcoming releases! Check out the list of books recommended in this episode: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/1297716497/2793482017

Librarian Brendan's Super Happy Fun Riddle Game Where the Winner Gets 5 Bucks!!

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On this month's episode of the podcast, library staff members Kate & Jen face off in the library's Thunderdome of Riddles to see who will prevail in this devastatingly difficult gauntlet of trivia, riddles, song lyrics, and lateral-thinking problems. Two will enter, only one will leave!

March Madness - Best Literary Villain

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March Madness is back! This month, Jen and Brendan tackle a bracket of literary villains to determine who is the most conniving, most ruthless, and most cold-blooded of them all. to see the list of books mentioned in the episode. Find the incomplete bracket , and the completed bracket .

Find Your Next Read: February Releases & Romantasy 🐉💘⚔️

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Ah, love is in air... and it's hurtling across the sky on the back of an enormous fire-breathing dragon! Julie and Karen are back with another Find Your Next Read episode. This time around, they're talking about what upcoming February titles they are looking forward to and try their best to define Romantasy, the hottest book genre out there right now. Check out this list of books talked about in the episode: https://tinyurl.com/3v2dryuw

Holiday Movie Madness 🎄🎅❄️

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Get your sleigh bells and airhorns ready, its time for the holiday movie showdown! In this episode repost, Jen and Brendan browse the holiday collection at the library and put together a 32-movie bracket, March Madness-style. Only one movie can take it all, but which will it be? Tune in to find out! Check out our holiday movie collection here: https://tinyurl.com/2wyarzmr

Hillsboro Public Library vs. The Evil Dead 💀💀💀

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On this week's episode, Jen, Rob, and Brendan watch the 1987 film Evil Dead 2 on Kanopy, the library's streaming video service. Tune in to listen to their review, and find out if Evil Dead 2 really is the best horror-comedy of all time!

Kanopy Watch Party - Spooky Edition! 👻😱🧛

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Jenny and Brendan return to the pod to explore more of Kanopy, the steaming video service you have access to with your library card. This time around, they pick out some horror movie selections, discuss which ones they think would work well for a group watch, and land on a flick you'll (hopefully) love. So go on over to , spend a credit to watch , and tune in to next week's episode to hear our reviews! Click to see a list of all the Kanopy films talked about in this episode.

Find Your Next Read: Fall Releases and Cozy Fantasy

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Get ready for low stakes and tea puns! Find Your Next hosts Julie and Karen are back to share the October and November releases they’re most excited about, and to give you a run down some of the best cozy fantasy titles to curl up on the couch with. Here's a list of the books mentioned in this month’s episode: https://tinyurl.com/nhf733b8

Find Your Next Read: The Books of Summer☀️📚⛱️

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Find Your Next host Julie is back, bringing in librarians Chris and Rob to recommed some of the summer's hottest new releases and trends for both kids and adults! Enjoy! Here's a list of the books mentioned in this episode: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1297716497_hillsboro_recommends/2560868829

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Looking for some great reads from 2023? Hillsboro Public Library staff share some of their favorites of the last year.

Here's the list of titles from the podcast episode: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1297716497/2450904359

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