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05 16, 2020

All Booked Up with Cailey & Meg: Teen Dystopian Literature

By admin|2020-05-16T12:00:42-04:00May 16, 2020|

Finished “Hunger Games” and “Divergent” and want to know what’s next? Our Reference Librarians Cailey and Meg share some of their favorite dystopian YA books, including

The Rule of One by Ashley Saunders and Leslie Saunders
96 Miles by J.L. Esplin
All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.

Most of the books they discuss can be borrowed as ebooks using OverDrive or Libby. All you need is your Mentor Public Library card.

You can also pick up books, movies, and other items from the drive-thru at our Main Branch or curbside at our Lake and Headlands Branches. Get all the details here.

05 14, 2020

No Talking in the Library: Talking ’89 & favorite sports documentaries

By admin|2020-05-14T08:00:14-04:00May 14, 2020|

Reference Librarians Meredith Tomeo and John Foster discuss ’89, the documentary about Arsenal’s improbable victory against powerhouse Liverpool. They also share their favorite sports documentaries that they’ve been binging during the stay-at-home order.

Join us for a new episode of No Talking in the Library every Thursday. And, for more pop culture with Meredith and John, you can check out the No Talking in the Library archives.

By the way, your library card gives you access to thousands of movies, TV shows, and documentaries that you can be binge-watching right now FOR FREE with your library card. Check out the collections in Hoopla, Kanopy or RBDigital. All of which you can start watching right now.

05 9, 2020

All Booked Up with Cailey & Meg: Updated Classics

By admin|2020-05-09T12:00:23-04:00May 9, 2020|

Our new web series, All Booked with Cailey & Meg, has returned! This time, Reference Librarians Cailey and Meg chat about some of the updated classics they’ve read recently, including creative spins on “Pride & Prejudice,” “Little Women,” “Taming of the Shrew,” and “Moby-Dick.”

And, yes, one of them has dragons.

The novels they mention are:

All of the books they discuss can be borrowed as ebooks using OverDrive or Libby. All you need is your Mentor Public Library card. Because you can still borrow books, stream movies, and listen to music for free with your library card — even when our buildings are closed.

Keep reading!

05 7, 2020

No Talking in the Library: Baseball, Hockey & Waco

By admin|2020-05-07T08:00:01-04:00May 7, 2020|

What are Reference Librarians Meredith Tomeo and John Foster watching during the stay-at-home order? “A League of their Own,” of course!

Meredith talks about what she loves (the cast) and loathes (the last 30 minutes) about this classic. Meredith and John also discuss hockey documentaries and Taylor Kitsch as David Koresh.

Some of the ebooks and documentaries they discuss that you can still borrow while our buildings are closed include:

04 23, 2020

‘No Talking in the Library’ Returns!

By admin|2020-04-23T08:00:58-04:00April 23, 2020|

No Talking in the Library, MPL’s Pop Culture Podcast, is back!

Join our Reference Librarians Meredith Tomeo and John Foster talk about what they’ve been reading, watching, listening to, and playing. Every Thursday, we’ll share a new episode shared on our website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page.

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