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Check Us Out covers books and all things library.

20/05/2021

May 2021 - Hiatus

A message from our director, Peter Coyl, about our podcast going on hiatus.

1 min
13/05/2021

May 2021 - Book Talk Discussion

This month's episode is from an Instagram Live session where Adrienne, Ken, and Kiersten discuss books they loved and ones they did not! Books discussed: Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas Standing at the Scratchlines by Guy Johnson Echoes of a Distant Summer by Guy Johnson

31 min
23/03/2021

March 2021 - Author Valerie Wilson Wesley

This month Selwa interviews local author Valerie Wilson Wesley on her recent book, "A Glimmer of Death." Books discussed: A Glimmer of Death by Valerie Wilson Wesley The Tamara Hayle mystery series by Valerie Wilson Wesley The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth edited by Wade Hudson & Cheryl Willis Hudson

29 min
22/02/2021

Feb 2021 - African American History Month, Award Winning Recommendations, Author Gabrielle Glaser

Maurice highlights African American History Month, career development, and leisure programs. Molly talks about four Open Book/Open Mind events as well as a few more. Kiersten shares fiction titles that won Youth Media Awards in 2021 that are available digitally or physically in our collection. Ken shares new February adult fiction titles. Adrienne explores the beginning of There There by Tommy Orange. Ariel interviews local author Gabrielle Glaser on her new book, "American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption." Books Discussed: A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed M. Masood The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles Blood Grove by Walter Mosley Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibrim X. Kindi Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story, by Daniel Nayeri Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh We Are Not Free by Tracy Chee All the Days Past, All the Days to Come,” by Mildred D. Taylor Legendborn by Tracy Deonn This is My Brain in Love by I. W. Gregorio Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez We Are Not from Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender This Light Between Us, by Andrew Fukuda They Went Left by Monica Hesse X: A Novel, by Kekla Magoon, co-written by Ilyasah Shabazz How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon

40 min
15/01/2021

Jan 2021 - Adult School Winter Classes Begin, Exciting New Adult Novels, Author Jessica Henry

In the January edition of Check Us Out: Molly discusses upcoming business and author programs in January and February as well as Creativebug. Maurice talks about the Winter classes beginning Tuesday January 19. Ken gets excited about this month's new adult releases. Kiersten promotes new YA releases all available as either Ebooks or Eaudio. Adrienne dives deep into "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". Selwa interviews local author Jessica Henry, author of "Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened." Books discussed: The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders The Fall of America Journals by Allen Ginsberg That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry The Cousins by Karen McManus A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne Admission by Julie Buxbaum Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

1 h 1 min

5 puntate

Check Us Out covers books and all things library.

Creatore

Montclair Public Library
Anni di attività

2018 - 2021
Puntate

5
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