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Brought to you by local Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library staff, we are here to build community and reach patrons in their favorite mediums. Check out Book With A View, a book club review podcast with Brianna, get diverse recommendations from Cyndee Selects, deep dive into true stories that inspired fiction with Jodi and Brianna on Beyond the Book, or talk scary movies with Michael on Library the 13th. We hope you enjoy getting to know your library in this fun new medium. New episod ...
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's been doing since her eigh…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel by Amy Price. The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime …
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dar…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll which is focused on infamous serial killer Ted Bundy and the Chi Omega Sorority House murders. You can check out your own copy of Bright Young Women here https://s…
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Welcome back to Book with a View/the Goodreads Virtual Book Club. This month we read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling …
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Welcome back to Book with a View/the Goodreads Virtual Book Club. This month we read My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusu…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren. It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.But perhaps worst of all, this is the …
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner. 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder …
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna LabuskesBerlin 1933. Following the success of her debut novel, American writer Althea James receives an invitation from Joseph Goebbels himself to participate in a culture exchange program in Germany. For a girl fr…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman which is based on the infamous urban legend Cropsey as well as the Willowbrook State School. You can check out your own copy of The Lost Girls of …
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Book Lovers by Emily Henry.One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming.... Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweeth…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at In the Garden of Spite by Camilla Bruce which is based on the infamous black widow of LaPorte Belle Gunness. You can check out your own copy of In the Garden of Spite https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/clien…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan. In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Cen…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Severance by Ling Ma. Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at I'll Be You by Janelle Brown that is based on a few infamous cults including NXIVM and Synanon. You can check out your own copy of I'll Be You here https://stks.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/ssjcpl/sear…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Circe by Madeline Miller. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--neither powerful like her father nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for co…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly and the true story of the infamous murder of Grace Brown in upstate New York. You can check out your own copy of A Northern Light here https://stks.ent.sirsi.net…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who understands her. Sh…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Harriet Said by Beryl Bainbridge and the true story of the infamous Parker-Hulme case in New Zealand. You can check out your own copy of Harriet Said exclusively on the Hoopla App! For more library n…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read Cultish by Amanda Montell. What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why so many of us binge Manson documentaries by the dozen and fall down rabbit holes researching suburban moms gone QAnon is because we’re lo…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at The Wonder by Emma Donoghue and the true stories of Fasting Girls from the 14th-19th centuries. You can check out your own copy of The Wonder at ssjcpl.org! For more library news visit ssjcpl.org. #s…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club/A Book with a View podcast! This month we read If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio for our December Found Family read. Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott, based on the true crime case of Marie Robards. Article mentioned in the show: https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/poisoning-daddy/ You can check out your own co…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read The Guncle by Steven Rowley. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holiday…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden and the long and fraught history of tribal and federal law. Here are a few links to get starting in your own research: https://www.lakotamall.com/history-an…
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Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read a short story collection by a local author from Stockton, CA; Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So. Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, based on the Satanic Panic that happened in the 1980s and 1990s. You can check out your own copy of My Best Friend's Exorcism here https://stks.ent.sirsi.n…
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Welcome back to A Book with a View! This month we read a middle grade book called Ghost Squad by Claribel A Ortega. Coco meets Stranger Things with a hint of Ghostbusters in this action-packed supernatural fantasy. For Lucely Luna, ghosts are more than just the family business. Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at All These Bodies by Kendare Blake based on the infamous murder spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate as well as the infamous Clutter Family Murders. You can check out your own copy of Th…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read a short story collection called Her Body and other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado. Her Body and Other Parties is a debut collection of shorty stories with a variety of stories dealing with the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses he…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations, previously Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at The Patient's Secret by Loreth Anne White, a book based on the Richardson Family murders in Alberta, Canada. You can check out your own copy of The Patient's Secret at an…
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Welcome back to the Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we participated in the National African American Read-In and read Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Harlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a socia…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations, previously Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, a book loosely based on the Amityville Horror. You can check out your own copy of Home Before Dark at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: …
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Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we discuss Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley. Firekeeper's Daughter is about eighteen year old Daunis Fontaine. Daunis has never quite fit in anywhere. She dreams of studying medicine but her plans are derailed when tragedy strikes and her mother becomes ill. This is a…
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Welcome to Dark Fascinations, previously Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian, a book loosely based on the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy and the study of psychopathy. You can check out your own copy of Never Sa…
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Welcome back to the A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month our book club theme was Winter Romance and the book we read was One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. One Last Stop is about a young woman named August who meets the love of her life in the Q train in New York. The only foil is that Jane may be a time traveler. Join us ne…
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Welcome back, campers! This episode, Michael and special guest Kathy Layfield discuss Lee Cronin’s 2017 supernatural horror film, The Hole in the Ground. To avoid spoilers, watch the film ahead of time for free with your library card at Kanopy. Don’t have a library card yet? Call us at 209-937-8221 and get one for free! Special thanks to Speaker Ne…
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Welcome to Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips, a book based on the infamous Great Depression Lonely Hearts Killer. You can check out your own copy of Quiet Dell at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: https://stks.…
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Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala. Arsenic and Adobo is a character driven cozy mystery set around food. Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup and is suddenly tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, while also dealing wit…
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Welcome back, friends! This episode, Michael and special guest Gissella Maltos discuss Yeon Sang-ho’s 2016 record setting zombie film, Train to Busan. To avoid spoilers, watch the film ahead of time for free with your library card at hoopladigital.com. Don’t have a library card yet? Call us at 209-937-8221 and get one for free! Special thanks to Sp…
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Welcome to Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood based on the killings of Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear in 1840s Canada. You can check out your own copy of Alias Grace at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: https:…
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Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! For the spookiest month of the year we read an equally spooky book, Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky. Imaginary Friend is a story about familial love and obligation, ghosts both real and imaginary, and an epic battle of good vs. evil. Go to goodreads.com and search SSJCPL to keep the …
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Welcome back, friends! This episode, Michael and special guest Jodi Crawford discuss Ti West’s 2011 supernatural horror, The Innkeepers. To avoid spoilers, watch the film ahead of time for free with your library card at ssjcpl.kanopy.com or hoopladigital.com. Don’t have a library card yet? Call us at 209-937-8221 and get one for free! Want to get i…
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Welcome to Beyond the Book, the podcast that deep dives into the true stories popular fiction is based on. This month Jodi and Brianna take a look at The Long Drop by Denise Mina and the true crime story of serial killer Peter Manuel the Beast of Birkenshaw. You can check out your own copy of The Long Drop at an SSJCPL branch nearest you here: http…
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Welcome to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This episode we read a book purely based off of it's cover. That chosen book was Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Join us as we talk about labyrinths, cults, and mind palaces. Go to goodreads.com and search SSJCPL to keep the conversation going. Visit SSJCPL.org for more library news. #ssjcpl…
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Welcome back, friends! This episode, Michael and special guest Shenae Crain discuss Francois Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell’s 2018 horror mystery, Summer of 84. To avoid spoilers, watch the film ahead of time for free with your library card at ssjcpl.kanopy.com or hoopladigital.com. Don’t have a library card yet? Call us at 209-937…
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Welcome back to A Book with a View, a Goodreads Virtual Book Club! This month we read Educated a memoir by Tara Westover about her childhood and in rural Idaho and beyond. Here are the discussion questions we used to base our conversation on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FzHJ932WYj5911U8pYM3DOj-1FLzP-iJ/view?usp=sharing Go to goodreads.com and …
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