Middle Country Public Library Podcast

Nicole has a list of the top scary TV shows for kids (mostly from the late 90s, early 2000s) that you might be interested in...plus she reveals her top 5 favorite Are You Afraid of the Dark episodes.

10 Kids Shows that Were Actually Pretty Scary

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Sara has a bit of a challenge for Nicole and Sal : she has cleverly created fake horror movie plots. Can they tell the difference between Sara's and the the real plot? Listen to find out!

 

Welcome to the 31 days of October! All this month we will be highlighting the spooky, scary, and sometimes silly.

Nicole has a nice collection of kids spooky books from the NYPL:

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/10/24/kids-halloween

Sara has selected some brand new fiction books that are meant to spook you:

Cruel acts / Jane Casey
The Poison Garden
The boatman's daughter
The patient / Jasper DeWitt
The hollow ones / Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Don't turn around / Jessica Barry

Want to SEE something scary? Check out Sal's horror movie list:

Carrie
Halloween
The Ring
2 Lava 2 Latuna
Ma
Don't Breathe
The Shining
The Omen
Night of the Living Dead
A Quiet Place
6 Souls
Psycho
Dead Silence
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Green Inferno
Rosemary's Baby
Get Out
Deathgasm
Silent Hill
Saw
Alien

Listen to our Movie Chat : Alien episode here

Bonus: Here is the episode of How Did This Get Made that Nicole mentioned!

Sal's pick for the next movie chat is Disney/Pixar's 2007 gem, Ratatouille starring the voice talents of Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, and Janeane Garofolo.

Have an MCPL card? Reserve the BluRay here.

Ratatouille on IMDb

10 Things You Probably Didn't Know about Ratatouille

Can you guess what the best selling console video game of all time is? Do you think Sara and Nicole can get it? Listen to find out as Sal tests them both with some video game trivia from Statista. Plus learn about our great video game collection at the library!

Statista is available to anyone who visits the library during normal business hours. Just ask a librarian for assistance in getting you on.

Did you know that we have a huge collection of video games for Nintendo, XBOX, and Playstation? Browse our catalog here.

Sara is making us hungry with some recipes she downloaded from the great resource, RBDigital, available to MCPL cardholders. Nicole once again shares some book horoscopes, plus Sal is trying to lose some weight before gaining weight during the holidays.

Download some cooking magazines plus much more at RBDigital https://www.rbdigital.com/middlecountrylibraryny/service/magazines/landing?

Bite-Size Salted Caramel Cheesecakes- Rachel Ray
Flourless Chocolate Tarte- A Taste of Home
Chocolate Cake in  a Pumpkin- Food Network
Cauliflower with Anchovies and Oil-Cured Olives- Eating Well

September Book Horoscopes are here

Need to lose weight? Try MyFitnessPal or LoseIt

Eat this, Not that! by David Zinczenko

Eat this, Not that Supermarket Survival Guide by David Zinczenko (eBook)

This week it's Nicole's turn to pick a film, and she used an MCPL Teen's recommendation: 2019's Just Mercy, starring Michael B. Jordan and Jaime Foxx.

The film is based on a true story, and this book by Bryan Stevenson. MCPL cardholders: Use these embedded links if you'd like to reserve the DVD or BluRay.

If you'd like to learn more about the organization depicted in the film, the Equal Justice Initiative, click here.

If you want to take a look at the original 60 minutes interview mentioned in this episode, click here.

Nicole has some info on detoxing your family's digital use; Sara has some fun trivia about dogs on National Dog Day.

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/dog-facts/

 

Sara has a fantastic list of new DVD seasons available at the library. Why don't you binge watch one or two?? Here's the list for MCPL card-holders:

Hawaii Five-O https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1949586

Deadwater Fell Season 1 https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b2017181

Killing Eve https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1898144

Mr. Mercedes https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1886956

Magnum P.I. https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1954984

Young Sheldon https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1890734

Seal Team https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1902397

S.W.A.T. https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1966057

NCIS New Orleans https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1691181

NCIS Los Angeles https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1562923

The Good Doctor https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1902383

Nicole has some great books about Women's Suffrage which celebrated it's 100th anniversary this week.

Here are links to the articles she mentioned:

https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11827

https://bookriot.com/suffrage-in-ya-fiction/

https://bookriot.com/books-about-black-women-in-the-suffrage-movement/

PLUS: watch the fabulous presentation by our very own Stephanie Vecchio and Jim Ward for this week's History Bites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PE9lZESstk

Sara and Nicole read the first paragraphs from their current picks for new book releases in this slightly different formatted episode.

Sara's Picks:

Stranger in the Lake by Kimberly Beale

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us:446/record=b2013750

Sin Eater by Megan Campisi

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us:446/record=b1992258

Thin Girls by Diana Clarke

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us:446/record=b2011213

Threshold by Rob Doyle

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us:446/record=b2005503

The Golden Wolf by Linnea Hartsuyker

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us:446/record=b1958408

The King’s Beast by Eliot Pattison

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us:446/record=b2004274

The King’s Evil by Andrew Taylor

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us:446/record=b1971281

Nicole's Picks:

The Voting Booth

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b2016314

Crying Laughing

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1970189

The Gravity of Us

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1980341

Changing the Equation: 50+ US Black Women in STEM

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1990489

Curse of the Nightwitch

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b2004478

King and the Dragonflies

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1977165

Blueberries for Sal (Wonderbook)

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b2013568

Malala: My story of standing up for girls' rights (Wonderbook)

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1986039

It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way

https://mcpac.mcpl.lib.ny.us/record=b1959877

 

How about we do another trivia episode and this time, we will chat about our favorite subject...libraries and librarians!

Statista is one of our fantastic online resources available to visitors of the Miller Business Center here at the library. For more information on the Miller Business Center, visit http://www.millerbusinesscenter.org.