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July is Parks and Recreation month, so we thought it might be fun to make book recommendations based on some of our favorite characters from the show Parks and Recreation. As always, if you want to check out any of our recommendations, you can find them on the library's catalog.
https://catalog.metrolibrary.org/?browseCategory=staff_picks 
And if you'd like to find out which Parks and Rec character is most like you, feel free to take the quiz below.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/angelicaamartinez/parks-and-rec-personality-quiz

Did you know that many of the people involved in getting Americans into outer space were from Oklahoma? In this month's episode Special Collections librarian Jennifer Green talks with us about some of the many Oklahomans involved in the early days of the space race, both behind the scenes and in the shuttle. 

In honor of the library's upcoming author visit on June 23, librarians Meg and Scott discuss the works of award winning author TJ Klune. Klune's works include the best seller, The House In The Cerulean Sea, The Greencreek series, The Extraordinaries series, and many more.
If you'd like to listen to more of Scott's book reviews, you can find them on his podcast, Unsolicited Book Reviews.
 

In this month's episode we talk about what makes us pick up a book in the first place, some of our favorite book covers, and the books behind those covers.

April is poetry month, so on this month's podcast we're joined by poets Durell Carter and Yoko Hill to talk about their organization, Red Dirt Poetry, and the wealth of talented poets currently writing in Oklahoma.

On this month's episode we talk about some of the books and movies available at the library by and about women, many of them about women with interesting Oklahoma ties.