224. Inside Spielbound: How Games Bring Us Together

This week on The Book Drop, we’re on location at Spielbound Board Game Cafe to talk about the power of table top and board games to build community and spark storytelling! This is The Book Drop, featuring specials guests Kaleb Michaud and Ali Thariani.

Happening at the Library

• Stories After Dark: Found Family | Friday, Nov. 21, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Milton R. Abrahams Branch
• Bookbinding Workshop: Pamphlet Stitch Binding | Saturday, Nov. 22, from 10 a.m. to noon at Downtown Branch
• Omaha Public Library is hiring: https://go.cityofomaha.org/3150
• Opening day for OPL’s new Central Library is Sunday, April 19, 2026! 
• Use OPL's temporary catalog while our behind-the-scenes software upgrade continues. The MyOPL app and the main website login are temporarily unavailable.

All the books and resources we talk about in this episode can be found below!  

• Link: Omaha World-Herald Article from 2012 about Kaleb Michaud via OPL's Newsbank resource
• “Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-tac-toe, Catan to Snakes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games” by Marcus du Sautoy
• “It's All a Game: the History of Board Games From Monopoly to Settlers of Catan” by Tristan Donovan
• “Across the Board: How Games Make Us Human” by Tim Clare
• “Your Move: What Board Games Teach Us About Life” by Joan Moriarity
• “Storytelling in the Modern Board Game: Narrative Trends From the Late 1960s to Today” by Marco Arnaudo

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