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The leaves are turning, the nights are getting longer, and there's magic in the air! Julie and Karen return with another Find Your Next Read episode, rounding up the most anticipated fall fiction releases and stirring up a special look at witchy fiction, from cozy spells and family secrets to dark magic and everything in between. Check out this list of books talked about in the episode: https://tinyurl.com/26yr8yff

Do you tell your children to Beware the Wheelers? Do you have an unreasonable fear of Judge Doom putting you in The Dip? Do you wish that Artax had fought harder to resist the sadness? Then this episode is for you! This month, Jen, Rob, and Brendan tackle a 32-movie bracket of traumatic, nightmare-inducing children's movies, March Madness-style. Only one movie can win it all, but which will it be? Tune in to find out! Click here to see the a list of movies discussed in the episode. Find the incomplete bracket here.

Do you tell your children to Beware the Wheelers? Do you have an unreasonable fear of Judge Doom putting you in The Dip? Do you wish that Artax had fought harder to resist the sadness? Then this episode is for you! This month, Jen, Rob, and Brendan tackle a 32-movie bracket of traumatic, nightmare-inducing children's movies, March Madness-style. Only one movie can win it all, but which will it be? Tune in to find out! Click here to see the a list of movies discussed in the episode. Find the incomplete bracket here.

Spring has sprung - and so have rivalries, revolutions, and long-forgotten stories! Julie and Karen return with another Find Your Next Read episode, rounding up the buzziest spring releases and taking a closer look at historical fiction, a genre packed with intrigue, resilience, and echoes of the world we live in today. Check out this list of books talked about in the episode: https://tinyurl.com/26yr8yff

Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and more. Her debut novel, Tilt, is the 2026 selection for the Hillsboro Reads program and is a national bestseller, a New York Times Editor's Choice, and was named a best book of the year by NPR, Time, Vogue, and Bustle. Set in Portland, Oregon, Pattee's powerful debut novel tells a gripping story of survival, resilience, and human connection after a massive 9.0 earthquake strikes the Pacific Northwest—an especially resonant story for our community. Find Tilt and the books Emma recommends in the catalog here: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/1297716497/2976820967 Hillsboro Reads 2026 runs through the month of March. Learn more about the Hillsboro Reads selection and events here:  https://www.hillsboro-oregon.gov/our-city/departments/library/events-and-programs/hillsboro-reads 

You don't want to wait for your life to be over, you want to know right now, is Dawson's Creek worth watching? There is never 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 missed. 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 series. Does it do the trick? Can you go to parties and pretend you've seen the whole show? Find out as Jen, Brendan, and Rob give it a try with Dawson's Creek! Check out the whole show from the library here: https://tinyurl.com/53mx82hm

Find Your Next hosts Julie and Karen are back to share some upcoming winter book releases they are excited about, and to share their favorite audiobook narrators. Check out the list of books recommended in this episode: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/1297716497/2915817487

For this year's Halloween episode, Jen, Rob, and Brendan watch the 2023 film Late Night with the Devil on Kanopy, the library's streaming video service. Tune in to listen to their review, and find out if it's really a good idea to commune with devil on live television!

Jenny, Rob, and Brendan are back on 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 watchLate Night with the Devil and tune in to our next episode to hear our reviews! Click here to see a list of all the Kanopy films talked about in this episode.

Jen and Elizabeth from Hillsboro Public Library's SciFi Fantasy Collective return to the pod to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the show! They join Brendan to preview this year's Rose City Comic Con coming to the Oregon Convention Center Sept. 05-07. They talk about what they've been reading lately, which authors and comics creators will be at the con, how excited they are about the Goonies and Battlestar Galactica reunions, and what they think will be this year's most popular cosplay! Check out this list of books and graphic novels talked about on the show Here is a list of all the manga deluxe and perfect editions in HPL's collection

Find Your Next hosts Julie and Karen are here to help you get ready for summer with some of the hottest upcoming releases! Check out the list of books recommended in this episode: https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/1297716497/2793482017

On this month's episode of the podcast, library staff members Kate & Jen face off in the library's Thunderdome of Riddles to see who will prevail in this devastatingly difficult gauntlet of trivia, riddles, song lyrics, and lateral-thinking problems. Two will enter, only one will leave!

March Madness is back! This month, Jen and Brendan tackle a bracket of literary villains to determine who is the most conniving, most ruthless, and most cold-blooded of them all. Click here to see the list of books mentioned in the episode. Find the incomplete bracket here, and the completed bracket here.

Ah, love is in air... and it's hurtling across the sky on the back of an enormous fire-breathing dragon! Julie and Karen are back with another Find Your Next Read episode. This time around, they're talking about what upcoming February titles they are looking forward to and try their best to define Romantasy, the hottest book genre out there right now. Check out this list of books talked about in the episode: https://tinyurl.com/3v2dryuw

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 abou