On this episode of Read, Watch, Listen, host Chris Barnes sitsdown with Jen Fitzgerald, our Youth Services manager.

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• Crow Mary by Kathleen Grissom
• We Still Belong by Christine Day

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• Fringe
• Haven
• Don’t Worry Darling

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• The Answer is…Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek
• Carbon Leaf

We are back with our annual short story competition, "73 Words in the 732." Enjoy these stories ready by local voiceover talent from the 2025 selectees.

You can enjoy all of the stories online at https://ilove.ebpl.org/short-stories

• Amruta Beri
• Alicia Soriano-Roa
• Monica Shah
• Alicia Soriano-Roa
• Kim Trachtenberg

Music courtesy of HitsLab https://pixabay.com/users/hitslab-47305729/ through Creative Commons

Presented on June 4, 2025

Shirley Russak Wachtel, East Brunswick author of the bestselling A Castle in Brooklyn, discusses the subject of generational trauma and how a daughter of the second generation of Holocaust survivors carries the parents' heartbreaking loss in her latest novel, THE BAKER OF LOST MEMORIES (Little A). A question and answer session will be held after Shirley's presentation along with a book signing.

Shirley Russak Wachtel is the author of A Castle in Brooklyn (Little A), and her latest book, The Baker of Lost Memories (Little A). She is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Shirley holds a doctor of letters degree from Drew University and for over thirty-five years has taught English literature at Middlesex College in Edison, New Jersey. Her podcast, EXTRAordinary People, features inspiring individuals who have overcome obstacles to make a difference. The mother of three grown sons and grandmother to three precocious granddaughters, she and her husband, Arthur, have lived in East Brunswick, New Jersey for thirty-seven years.

On this episode of Match+Book, host Paul takes you throughsome recommendations of newer nonfiction books to “sink your teeth into.”

Read them with your EBPL or STELLA library card here: https://ilove.ebpl.org/adults/news/matchbook-nonfiction-sink-your-teeth

• Cue the sun! : the Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum
• Nuclear War: a Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
• The Bookshop: a History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

On this episode of Match+Book, librarian Paul delves throughsome short story collection recommendations in celebration of National Short Story Month.

You can check out these titles with your EBPL or STELLAlibrary card: https://ilove.ebpl.org/adults/news/matchbook-short-story-collections.

To submit a short story in our 2025 short story competition,visit https://ilove.ebpl.org/adults/news/73-words-732-2025.

• Tenth of December : stories by George Saunders
• Get in trouble stories by Kelly Link
• The paper menagerie and other stories by Ken Liu

On this episode of Match+Book, host librarian Paul helps uspull ourselves out of hibernation and into our natural world.

Check out any of these titles with your EBPL or STELLAlibrary card:  https://ilove.ebpl.org/adults/news/matchbook-coming-spring

• The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan
• The Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
• Entangled Life: how fungi make our worlds, change ourminds & shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake

On this episode of Read, Watch, Listen, host Chris Barnes chats with teen library associate Sarah Zyto, whose love of books in many genres is undeniable!

Check out the items recommended using your EBPL or STELLA library Card: https://ilove.ebpl.org/adults-teens/news/read-watch-listen-sarah-zyto 

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• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingslover
• Pachinko by Jin Min Lee
• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C Ford

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• Fences (2016)
• Victor/Victoria (1982)

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• Finding Me by Viola Davis

• Alligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii

• Japanese Breakfast

On this episode of Read, Watch, Listen, host Chris Barnessits down with Dr. Wilbur Pan, who is newly elected to the East Brunswick Board of Education and a library super user.

Check out the items recommended using your EBPL or STELLA library Card!https://ilove.ebpl.org/adults/news/read-watch-listen-wilbur-pan

Follow Wilbur’s band Blaming Ray:https://www.facebook.com/BlamingRay 

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• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

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• Dune: Part 2

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• Linda Linda’s No Obligation
• The Smile – Cutouts and the Wall of Eyes
• Kending Lamar – Gnx
• Shellac – To All Trains

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