Westbury Library Podcasts
Hear what's happening at the Westbury Library and in the community!
Episodes
Michelle interviews author Lynda Cohen Loigman about her latest book, The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern. She also shares some book recommendations which include:
The Maid's Secret (third in the Maid series) by Nita Prose
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Far and Away by Amy Poeppel
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
It's a Love Story by Annabel Monaghan
In 1949, librarian Jacqueline Overton asked members of the first generation to write about their memories at the Children's Library. This podcast will explore the lives of eight of the respondents.
In our nerdiest episode yet, Michael and Steve from IT discover an interesting common link and discuss video games, comic books, wrestling, voice actors, Lex Luthors and more!
Carmen, Michael, Jason, and Ian discuss travel, music, and famous people they'd like to meet.
The second part with more of Michelle's book loving friend's from the Friends and Fiction group. We discuss more books we loved in the recent months. Here are some of the books we discussed:
Call Her Freedom by Tara Dorabji
The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman
Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova
Between You and Me by Susan Wiggs
The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis
Roll the Sun Acro...
Newcomer Tuesday joins regulars Michael and Jason, and old friend Tigs returns as well.
Michelle interviews debut author Tara Dorabji about her book, Call Her Freedom and learns about what it is like to be a winner of the Books Like Us Award from Simon and Schuster. She also shared some great book recommendations including:
The Things We Didn't Know by Elba Iris Perez
The Sons of El Rey by Alex Espinoza
Martyr by Kaveh Akbar
Michael and Jason talk about opportunities for skills development and independence with Melody, one of the Library’s social work interns. Michael also performs more of his voice characterizations.
Michelle interviews author Rachel Linden about her latest book, The Recipe for a Charmed Life.
She also shared two books she read recently she really enjoyed. These include:
The Starlets by Jennifer Thorne and Lee Kelly
The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay
Jason and Michael return to discuss movies and voice acting with Ian, aka ‘Sham Rockwell’.
Ian and Carmen discuss popular podcasts and video games with newcomers Jason and Michael.
Michelle, reference librarian has a discussion with three of her book loving friends, Maria, Marilyn and Debby. She met them through Friends and Fiction, an author group that promotes their book and other authors.
Here are the books that they shared that they enjoyed and the other related books that were mentioned:
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon (Michelle)
When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel (Maria)
The Summer of My German Sold...
This is a prerecorded interview from a virtual visit at the Westbury Memorial Public Library with Elba Iris Perez back in June 2024.
Some of the books she recommended included:
On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correa
Things They Lost by Okwiri Oduor
Patrick, Judy, Carmen and Anthony have an interesting discussion that covers a variety of topics.
Views, thoughts and opinions expressed in Mixer Monday aresolely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect those of the Westbury Library.
Michelle interviews author Thao Thai about her book, Banyan Moon. She also recommends the following books:
God of the Woods by Liz Moore
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Strange Folk by Alli Dyer
Even though we had our most attendees so far, no one had a specific topic to discuss, so Ian broke out some vocal warmups.
It got a bit hectic but, in the end, this free-for-all was fun for all!
Check out some of the highlights from Michelle Loves Books podcast in the past year. Included are some book recommendations from Michelle, some surprises including a mini podcast with Hank Phillippi Ryan.
Book Recommendations from Michelle:
Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki
One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan
All That We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
We needed two sessions to accommodate our largest turnout yet. In Part I, Patrick, Chris and Judy discuss classic movies. Part II features Jackie, Oscar and Sandra discussing their summer plans and the best ways to learn conversational English.
Views and opinions expressed are those of the participants and do no not reflect those of the Westbury Library.
Sara and Patrick discuss changes in technology since the 1990’s and the challenges of raising children in the digital age.
Views and opinions expressed are those of the participants and do not reflect those of the Westbury Library.
Patrick, Gary and Nicole have a brief, interesting conversation about water.
Views and opinions expressed are those of the participants and do not reflect the position of the Westbury Library.
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