The best of 2022! 

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Here is the list of highlighted items from the BPL staff:

Fiction Books

• Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez

Non-Fiction Books

• I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jeanette McCurdy

Youth

• 0-3 yrs

• The Hair Book - LaTonya Yvette and Amanda Jane Jones

• My Parents Won’t Stop Talking! - Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden

• A Taste of Magic - J. Elle

• Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao

• We Made It All Up - Margot Harrison

• Builders & Biomes

Movies

• The Batman

Video Games

• Elden Ring

Music

• Madison Cunningham - Revealer

Vampire Week is here! Plucked from our blog, Julianna tells us about her favorite vampire movies and everything the library has to offer this week.

Julianna mentions some of her favorite vampire movies. Here’s a list of them: 

• Interview with the Vampire

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Owen dives into the history of banning books, reasons books are challenged, and he even recommends his favorite challenged title. Here is a list of all the books Owen mentions:

• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Assistant Professor and the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino/a Studies Librarian at The OSU University Libraries, and Patti Vocal, The OSU Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) Outreach Coordinator, discuss the importance of bringing authentic Latinx and Latin American stories into K-12 classrooms through children's literature. Pamela and Patti talk to us about the CLAS BookBox project and share tips on how we can all celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month which is celebrated annually from September 15 - October 15.

Discover more Hispanic Heritage Month resources here.

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Jack Marchbanks sits down with Dionne Custer Edwards, Scott Woods, and Is Said for a discussion about Black poetry using James Weldon Johnson's groundbreaking anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry as a springboard.

Dionne Custer Edwards is a writer, educator, and the Director of Learning & Public Practice at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Scott Woods is a poet, writer, and the founder and director of the performing arts organization Streetlight Guild, and Columbus poetry legend Is Said, has received the King Arts Complex Legends & Legacies Award and was inducted into the Lincoln Theater Hall of Fame. 

This program is generously funded by Jack Marchbanks and The Kridler Family Fund at The Columbus Foundation.

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Ohio State University Eastern European experts, Theodora Dragostinova, Marianna Klochko, and Mykyta Tyshchenko, to try and make sense of the evolving crisis in Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

The panel discussed the history and progression of the conflict, the ensuing humanitarian crisis, and the international repercussions of the events.

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The best of 2021!

Special thanks to fo/mo/deep for lending us their song, "Bourbon Neat" for the podcast!

Find out about upcoming Bexley Public Library events at https://www.bexleylibrary.org

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Here is the list of highlighted items from the BPL staff:

Books

• American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears by Farah Stockman

Youth/Teen Books

• Woodland Dance by Sandra Boynton

Movies

• Loki

Music

• Moontype - Bodies of Water

New York Times best seller, Natalie D Richards, sat down with Josh to talk about Five Total Strangers becoming a Big Library Read, her book Seven Dirty Secrets coming out this month, and the inspiration for her writing. Visit her website, instagram, and twitter for up-to-date information about her work.

Special thanks to fo/mo/deep for lending us their song, "Bourbon Neat" for the podcast!

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Kristopher and Gretchen Armstrong sit down with Josh to talk about their literary journal Tomorrow and Tomorrow, how it highlights artists from Bexley, the importance of mixtapes, and ghost stories that are too unsettling for the campfire. 

Join writers and artists highlighted in Tomorrow and Tomorrow's "Ghosts" issue at Austen & Company (or virtually!) on November 4th for an evening of readings and conversation!

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LC Johnson, founder and CEO of Zora's House, shares her journey from the dream (literally!) of a co-working-community-space for women of color in Columbus to the bright future ahead for Zora's House. LC talks about how she, with the support of community, made it through one of the most challenging and uncertain times of her life. 

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