Hillsboro Reads 2024 - An Interview with Author Thien Pham
Release Date: 03/06/2024
BiblioBirders: Spring Birding at the Brookwood Library 🐦⬛🦆🪿
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Katherine and Jay, also known as the BiblioBirders, join the podcast to talk about all the birds you can find on the trails and in the ponds behind the Hillsboro Brookwood Library this spring. Here are the birds identified in this episode: BiblioBirders previously released several videos on the Hillsboro Public Library's YouTube channel: Walk with a Librarian - BiblioBirders Edition! - Identify a Downy Woodpecker with BiblioBirders - BiblioBirders talk about "getting on a bird" - Katherine also wrote an article about inclusive birding...
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TV FOMO: The First And Last Episodes Of Supernatural
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There will never be enough time in the day to watch all those television shows that people are always talking about, or to catch up on the ones you may have missed. But on today's podcast episode we experiment with a new way to alleviate TV FOMO, by only watching the first and last episode of a show. Does it do the trick? Can you go to parties and pretend you've seen the whole show? Find out as Jen, Brendan, and special guest Rob give it a try with Supernatural! Check out the whole show from the library here:
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Hillsboro Reads 2024 - An Interview with Author Thien Pham
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Thien Pham is a graphic novelist, comic artist, and educator based in Oakland, CA. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Family Style and Sumo and did the art for the middle-grade graphic novel Level Up, written by Gene Luen Yang, and is an ongoing comic contributor to Eater SF. Currently Pham is working on his next graphic novel, teaching, and eating. A lot. His graphic memoir Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam is the Hillsboro Reads 2024 selection for young adults. Find Family Style in the catalog here:...
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Hillsboro Reads 2024 - An Interview with Author Cindy Baldwin
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Cindy Baldwin is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Where the Watermelons Grow, Beginners Welcome, The Stars of Whistling Ridge, and No Matter the Distance (a Junior Library Guild selection). Her book Where the Watermelons Grow is the Hillsboro Reads 2024 selection for young readers. Find Where the Watermelons Grow in the catalog here: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3312070 Hillsboro Reads 2024 runs from March 10th-14th. Learn more about Hillsboro Reads selections and events here:...
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Find Your Next Read: HPL Staff Picks the Best Books of 2023
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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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Holiday Movie Madness ❄️
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Get your sleigh bells and airhorns ready, its time for the 2023 holiday movie showdown! 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
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Find Your Next Read: Winter Releases and LitRPGs
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Faeries and djinn, cooking and family secrets, romance and murder are all on the menu this Winter. Hosts Julie and Karen share some upcoming releases they’re excited about, and guest Phil joins them to talk about LitRPGs and why they're so hot right now. Here are some lists the books mentioned in this month’s episode: Music clip played is from the audiobook "The Eye of the Bedlam Bride" by Matt Dinniman, narrrated by Jeff Hays.
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Find Your Next Read: Fall Releases and Haunted House Fiction
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Witches, ghosts, and curses, oh my! Find Your Next is back from hiatus with new hosts Julie and Karen to share some October and November new releases they’re excited about, and to take you on a tour of some spooky reads in a special segment on haunted houses. Here's a list of the books mentioned in this month’s episode: https://tinyurl.com/findyournexthauntedhouse
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TV FOMO: The first and last episodes of The Sopranos
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There will never be enough time in the day to watch all those television shows that people are always talking about, or to catch up on the ones you may have missed. But on today's podcast episode we experiment with a new way to alleviate TV FOMO, by only watching the first and last episode of a show. Does it do the trick? Can you go to parties and pretend you've seen the whole show? Find out as Jen and Brendan give it a try with The Sopranos! Check out the whole show from the library here: https://tinyurl.com/4j99a8u8
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Summertime at the Hillsboro Public Library 🌞📚
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For this month's episode, we have library programming and outreach coordinators Rocío and Stacy on the podcast to talk about what is going on at the Hillsboro Public Library this summer. They discuss how to participate in our summer reading program and highlight some of the programs and events we have going on, both inside and outside our library branches.
info_outlineThien Pham is a graphic novelist, comic artist, and educator based in Oakland, CA. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novels Family Style and Sumo and did the art for the middle-grade graphic novel Level Up, written by Gene Luen Yang, and is an ongoing comic contributor to Eater SF. Currently Pham is working on his next graphic novel, teaching, and eating. A lot. His graphic memoir Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam is the Hillsboro Reads 2024 selection for young adults.
Find Family Style in the catalog here: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4254315
Hillsboro Reads 2024 runs from March 10th-14th. Learn more about Hillsboro Reads selections and events here: https://www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/our-city/departments/library/events-and-programs/hillsboro-reads