Find Your Next Read: Fall Releases and Haunted House Fiction

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: 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

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: https://www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/our-city/departments/library/events-and-programs/hillsboro-reads

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

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

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: 

• https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1297716497/2424628159
• https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1250159517/2386357460

Music clip played is from the audiobook "The Eye of the Bedlam Bride" by Matt Dinniman, narrrated by Jeff Hays.

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

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

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.

HPL's Summer Reading Program

Hillsboro Public Library Summer Calendar

Library on the Loose website

Wallace the Book Bug, the new WCCLS library mascot, stopped by the studio to give a rare interview, ruminating about his summers spent at the skate park, sharing his favorite new book trends, and giving an update on his SoundCloud.

Check out a list of Wallace's favorite cat manga here.

The Hillsboro Public Library is so fortunate to have Renée Watson deliver the keynote address for the 2023 Hillsboro Reads Local Authors Celebration. Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, educator, and community activist. Her books have sold over one million copies. Her young adult novel, Piecing Me Together (Bloomsbury, 2017) received a Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor. Her children's picture books and novels for teens have received several awards and international recognition. She has given readings and lectures at many renown places including the United Nations, the Library of Congress, and the U.S. Embassy in Japan and New Zealand. Her poetry and fiction centers around the experiences of Black girls and women, and explores themes of home, identity, and the intersections of race, class, and gender.

This event is brought to you as part of Hillsboro Reads, our annual event alternating between local author celebrations and community-wide reading programs. The purpose of the Hillsboro Reads Local Authors Celebration is to engage the Hillsboro community in celebrating local creativity by introducing well-known and up-and-coming authors and creators to the community through discussion, story times, and workshops. We owe special thanks to the Friends of the Hillsboro Public Library and to the Library Foundation for making this and all of Hillsboro Reads possible.