Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Emily Edmisten, who works part-time in our youth services department, and get to know more about her reading life.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Junie B. Jones series

The Hunger Games trilogy

Coraline

Harry Potter series

The Haunting of Hill House

The Probability of Everything

My Hero Academia series

Frankenstein

The River of the Gods

Cloistered

Music provided by Pixabay.

Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Amy Okamoto, our full time marketing director, and get to know about her reading life. *Disclaimer: Danae misspoke in this episode. The marketing position was not created for Amy, she just applied for the advertised position and is the first to hold it!

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Fox in Socks

Charlotte's Web

On the Road

1984

The Time Traveler's Wife

The Historian

Sue Grafton's A to Z mysteries

Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series

The Three-Body Problem

The Death Gate Cycle

Dune series

The Women

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.

Join Danae and Anneka as they sit down with Emily Hilkemann, who works full-time in our patron services department, and get to know about her reading life.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Berenstain Bear series

American Girl series: Kit and Josefina

I Must Betray You

Legends and Lattes

Last House on Needless Street

The House of the Cerulean Sea

Flash Fire

Nettle and Bone

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (TV series)

The Outsiders

A Clockwork Orange

Great Expectations

The Grapes of Wrath

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.

Join Danae and Anneka as we have a conversation with Allie Zuberbier, who works part-time in our circulation department, and get to know more about her reading life.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

American Girl series

Harry Potter series

Hunger Games series

Twilight series

Bridgerton series

James

Huckleberry Finn

Middlemarch

I Cheerfully Refuse

No Two Persons

River of the Gods

Destiny of the Republic

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.

Join Danae and Anneka as they chat with Jessica Chamberlain, the director of the Norfolk Public Library, and learn more about her reading life.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

A Gentleman in Moscow

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

The Book of Two Ways

Joyfull

Parks and Recreation

Monk

Murder She Wrote

Columbo

The Princess Bride

Frankenstein

The Lincoln Highway

Table for Two

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

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Join Danae as she sits down with Anneka Ramirez and Emily Hilkemann from the Patron Services department as they talk about "The Adventure Begins" 2024 Summer Reading Program and recommend a lot of titles to get you excited about reading!

Titles mentioned in this episode:

Everyone on This Train is a Suspect

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

The Guncle Abroad

The Guncle

Just For the Summer

Part of Your World

Yours Truly

The Surviving Sky

Sun of Blood and Ruin

Gods of Jade and Shadow

Black Sun

The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: the self-proclaimed greatest dragon in the multiverse

The Magicians

The Middling Affliction

The River

The Covenant of Water

Cutting for Stone

The Poisonwood Bible

Tom Lake

The Ministry of Time

You Are Here

Long Island

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/summer-reading-challenge-sign-ups-now-open!.html

Join Danae as she sits down with Whitney Porn and Jessie Roberts from the Youth Services department as they talk about "The Adventure Begins" 2024 Summer Reading Program and recommend a lot of titles to get you excited about reading!

Titles mentioned in this episode:

More Than Peach

A Rover's Story

Roxie Loves Adventure

Book's Big Adventure

Zelda's Big Adventure

Adventure Annie Goes to Kindergarten

CeCe Loves Science and Adventure

Daddy's Back-to-School Shopping Adventure

Brightstorm: a sky-ship adventure

Billy and the Giant Adventure

The Adventure is Now

The Series of Unfortunate Events

Peak

Stormbreaker series

Percy Jackson series

The Hunger Games series

Partly Cloudy

Ahoy

The Wrong Book

And Then, Boom!

Max in the House of Spies

The One and Only Family

Invisible

Snowglobe

Beach Cute

Such Charming Liars

Kill Her Twice

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/summer-reading-challenge-sign-ups-now-open!.html

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/library-news/golden-sower-kid-fest-is-may-31!.html

Welcome to Season One, Episode One of Check This Out! Danae Henkel and Anneka Ramirez will be chatting with full time Youth Services supervisor, Whitney Porn and getting to know all about her reading life.

Titles mentioned in this episode:

The Circle

The Snowy Day

The Warehouse

Digital Minimalism

Slow Productivity

The Witches

Walden

Slow Down: the Degrowth Manifesto

The Murderbot Diaries series

The Blue Castle

The Grapes of Wrath

Game of Thrones

The Office

Seinfeld

The Pout Pout Fish

Pillars of the Earth

The Locked Tomb Series

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/773930-a-library-is-many-things-it-s-a-place-to-go

https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/library/digital-library-collections/check-this-out-podcast.html

Music provided by Pixabay.