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  • Six Months of Book Clubs and Baking a Successful Club

    Six Months of Book Clubs and Baking a Successful Club
    2024/08/06
    We discuss books our library's book clubs have covered in the last six months and offers som tips to making your book club successful. Here is a partial listing of the discussed titles:

    January Chapters: The Swimmers

    January Facts: Ultra Processed People

    January Rise & Read: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl (Tso-Chil) Gonzales

    February Rise & Read: Instructions for a Heat Wave by Maggie O'Farrell

    February Investigating Mysteries: City Under One Roof by Iris Yamashita

    April He Said, She Said: Educated by Tara Westover

    Chapters March: Leave the World Behind

    Rise and Read March: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel!

    April Facts: Knowing what we Know by Simon Winchester

    April Investigating Mysteries: All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien

    April Chapters: Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

    June Facts: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

    July Chapters: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.

    July Rise & Read: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottleib
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    31 分
  • Who was Shakespeare?

    Who was Shakespeare?
    2024/05/13
    Librarians Veronica Reynolds and Joe Barbieri dive into the historical record on The Bard and discuss his family, his life and the questions that surround his work.
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    41 分
  • Mary Shelley: The Mother of Science Fiction

    Mary Shelley: The Mother of Science Fiction
    2024/03/27
    Veronica and Joe are back! They celebrate their return with a dive into the life of Mary Shelly, author of Frankenstien and The Last Man. Shelley's life matches the captial 'R' Romantic that she was at heart.
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    53 分
  • The Great American Novel?: The Great Gatsby

    The Great American Novel?: The Great Gatsby
    2023/06/07
    Librarians Veronica Reynolds and Joseph Barbieri begin a new series that asks the question: what is the great American novel? The most frequently listed title is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Joe and Veronica re-read the book and dive into it's highs and it's lows. Do they think it's the great American novel? What other books should they tackle in this series?
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    1 時間 23 分
  • Libraries in Music Videos

    Libraries in Music Videos
    2023/05/03
    Veronica Reynolds and Joe Barbieri talk about twelve music videos that feature libraries, the fate of music videos in general and the fate of the monoculture.
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    1 時間 6 分
  • The Importance of Being Oscar Wilde

    The Importance of Being Oscar Wilde
    2023/04/05
    Discover the amazing and tragic life of a literary figure that still looms large, one hundred and twenty-three years after his death. Witty, brilliant, and proud, Oscar Wilde left behind a legacy both troubled and rich.
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    1 時間 1 分
  • Alexander Dumas: His Father, His Life and His Legacy

    Alexander Dumas: His Father, His Life and His Legacy
    2023/02/08
    Father, son and grandson all lead fasinating lives. So fasinating there's only time for father and son as we race through two amazing lives.
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    55 分
  • The History of the English Language

    The History of the English Language
    2023/01/04
    Veronica Reynolds tells Joe Barbieri about the origins of the language we use every day! A quick romp through history tells us so much about how language evolves!
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