Get your sleigh bells and airhorns ready, its time for the holiday movie showdown! In this episode repost, 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

On this week's episode, Jen, Rob, and Brendan watch the 1987 film Evil Dead 2 on Kanopy, the library's streaming video service. Tune in to listen to their review, and find out if Evil Dead 2 really is the best horror-comedy of all time!

Jenny and Brendan return to the pod to explore more of Kanopy, the steaming video service you have access to with your WCCLS library card. This time around, they pick out some horror movie selections, discuss which ones they think would work well for a group watch, and land on a flick you'll (hopefully) love. So go on over to Kanopy, spend a credit to watch Evil Dead 2, and tune in to next week's episode to hear our reviews!

Click here to see a list of all the Kanopy films talked about in this episode.

Get ready for low stakes and tea puns! Find Your Next hosts Julie and Karen are back to share the October and November releases they’re most excited about, and to give you a run down some of the best cozy fantasy titles to curl up on the couch with.

Here's a list of the books mentioned in this month’s episode:  https://tinyurl.com/nhf733b8

Find Your Next host Julie is back, bringing in librarians Chris and Rob to recommed some of the summer's hottest new releases and trends for both kids and adults! Enjoy!

Here's a list of the books mentioned in this episode:

https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/list/share/1297716497_hillsboro_recommends/2560868829

Katherine and Jay, also known as the BiblioBirders, join the podcast to talk about all the birds you can find on the trails and in the ponds behind the Hillsboro Brookwood Library this spring. Here are the birds identified in this episode:

• Canada goose
• Cackling goose
• Wood duck
• Bufflehead
• American wigeon
• Mallard
• Hooded merganser
• Common merganser
• Northern shoveler
• Ring-necked duck
• Green-winged teal
• Eurasian wigeon
• Belted kingfisher
• Brewer's blackbird
• Cedar waxwing
• Tree swallow
• Acorn woodpecker
• Red-winged blackbird
• Cooper's hawk
• Osprey
• Bald eagle
• Great horned owl
• Brown-headed cowbird
• Dark-eyed junco

BiblioBirders previously released several videos on the Hillsboro Public Library's YouTube channel:

• Walk with a Librarian - BiblioBirders Edition! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PkObTxaxnQ 
• Identify a Downy Woodpecker with BiblioBirders - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMUI5XwN4w 
• BiblioBirders talk about "getting on a bird" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfTPWrv-UFc 

Katherine also wrote an article about inclusive birding through the library, which you can find here: http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2022/05/inclusive-birding-through-the-library/ 

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, Brendan, and special guest Rob give it a try with Supernatural!

Check out the whole show from the library here: https://tinyurl.com/53mx82hm

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