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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

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...

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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