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A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST

Ferndale Area District Library

Libraries aren’t as quiet as they used to be. A podcast for library lovers and the library curious. Book chatter with librarians, community perspectives and author interviews

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54:10

What's On Our TO BE READ Lists

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2025/01/08

This isn't a test, you can totally copy from our lists! Get some recommendations from our staff when we reveal our "To Be Read" lists for 2025, i.e., books we're looking forward to reading in the New Year!The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke Private Rites by Julia Armfield Oathbound by Tracy Denon Emily Wilde's

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46:00

End of Year Catch Up - Part Two: Art Heists & Book...

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/12/27

It's the last episode of the year! We're catching up on the books we're currently reading and previewing an upcoming change to the organizational layout of items in the Kids Corner!

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49:41

End of the Year Catch-Up + Thoughts on WICKED

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/12/20

This week, pod cohost Mary Grahame is back, and we're catching up on all the good things we've read and watched this year. Plus, we'll share our thoughts on WICKED and A CHRISTMAS CAROL!

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29:51

Library Spotlight: Berkley Public Library

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/12/14

It's our continuing series, "Cool Library People," where our staff (here at Ferndale) help introduce you, dear listener, to a variety of library workers based all around Michigan. It's a fun chance to hear different perspectives on the awesomeness of libraries, as well as get to know other institutions, as we do today, with the Berkley Public Library. We're chatting with one of its clerks, Lisabeth Posthuma, who notes her previous experience in teaching, as well as her life as a writer and published

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41:35

Favorite Books of 2024!

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/12/11

Our staff provide you with their personal recommendations, listing their favorite books of 2024!

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29:30

Cool Library People (Library Spotlight) - Van Buren...

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/12/04

This week, we're spotlighting the Van Buren District Library with our guest, Elissa Zimmer! Elissa is currently Van Buren's Assistant Director. Still, she was once, not too long ago, a Youth Librarian here at Ferndale, which will explain why our hosts are so familiar with Elissa from the get-go. Van Buren District Library serves residents with seven branch libraries. Elissa has been the branch manager of the Webster Memorial Library for more than two years; she became VBDL's Assistant Director in

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52:48

Baking Season! Quiz & Recommendations

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/11/22

On this week's episode, we have a panel discussion focusing on BAKING SEASON! Staff are talking about their favorite (and sometimes least favorite) things to bake, as well as playing a fun True-False-structured quiz to dispel myths and spread knowledge! We ALSO have some fun recommendations of books to check out from the library!

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51:29

Cool Library People: Madison Heights Public Library

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/11/15

This week, we're interviewing Rae Stoloff, the community engagement librarian at the Madison Heights Public Library. We're also joined by a special guest cohost, Becca Russell (former guest, as well), from the Royal Oak Public Library! We're talking about makerspaces, third places, libraries of things, and so much more!https://www.madison-heights.org/library https://ropl.org/1532/Library

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57:42

Eccentric Recs: Odd Books We Loved!

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/11/09

Every once in a while, our staff will pick up a book that has a bit of a strange premise, something that might be a little difficult to describe... Today, we're providing a roundup of odd books that we loved, weird books that we'd still recommend, eccentric reads that we found appealing!

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35:30

Library Spotlight: Center Line Library

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/11/01

Part of our ongoing series of chats with "cool library people," we're interviewing Sean Peacock from the Center Line Public Library! Sean is a library clerk at Center Line Library and has generated some amazing content for social media, but he's also an illustrator and comic artist! Find "A Little Too Quiet" wherever you get your podcasts! https://www.centerline.gov/202/Library https://www.allsorrows.com/about

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36:56

Scary Books

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/10/26

Our staff provide you with a round-up of scary book recommendations!

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37:42

Library Spotlight: Northville District Library

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/10/18

This week, Jeff and Mary Grahame are chatting with Katie Rothley from the Northville District Library. Katie is the Marketing & Public Relations Librarian at Northville! She has a lot of energy and ideas and plenty of interesting things to share about her library and the resources it offers to the community of Northville!https://northvillelibrary.org/

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48:48

Books We Did Not Finish (DNF)

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/10/11

What's a book you Did Not Finish? This week, our staff confess to some of their unfinished reads that still haunt them to this day! Sometimes it's just because we couldn't stand the book, but often it "just wasn't the right time..."

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42:34

Library Spotlight: The Royal Oak Public Library

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/10/04

This week, we're starting a new series where we invite librarians and staff from other libraries to chat with us about a number of different library-adjacent topics, particularly giving our guests a chance to talk about the specific libraries where they work. This week, Becca Russell, Youth/Teen Librarian at ROPL, joined us to talk about her passion for connecting with teen patrons and developing diverse collections, among many other things. And, yes, we briefly talk about bugs, so be

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55:18

Banned Books Week

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/09/28

We're back, after a brief hiatus, here on the last day of 2024's Banned Books Week. Hosts Jeff & Mary Grahame talk about the importance of observing Banned Books Week and why they prefer a bit of a cuter phrase for it, such as "Freedom to Read 'Em." This ongoing podcast is hosted and produced from inside the Ferndale Area District Library, just one mile north of Detroit, Michigan. Coming up in this season, we'll continue to bring you unique portraits of life inside of a library while

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41:20

Josh Malerman - Incidents Around The House

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/05/31

This week, we're chatting with Metro Detroit's own Josh Malerman, the NY Times Bestselling author of Bird Box, as he looks ahead to the forthcoming release of his latest work of suspenseful (and supernatural) horror, Incidents Around The House (out on June 25, via Del Rey). Malerman talks about his deep dive into the literary tradition of "haunted house" tales with this new story about Bela, an 8-year-old narrator who discovers a malevolent entity inside of her house that she refers to as "Other

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01:04:22

Summer Reading 2024

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/05/24

Looking for something to read this summer? We've got you covered! Not only can you get a list of great recommendations from our staff, but you can also mark your calendars for SATURDAY, JUNE 8, when we will host a Summer Reading Kickoff Party here at the library! Swing by to sign up for our fun reading challenge! www.fadl.org/kickoffThe Summer Book by Tove Jansson The Guest by Emma Cline Margo's Got Money Troubles - Rufi Thorpe The Guest List - Lucy Foley New Animal - Ella Baxter Legends &

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41:27

Sheela Lal - South Asian Shuffle & Unerased Book Club

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/05/14

Tune in to the podcast this week to hear our chat with Sheela Lal, the host of Ferndale Radio 100.7 FM's South Asian Shuffle (streaming Wednesday nights)! We also chatted with Sheela about the Unerased Book Club, which she co-founded back in 2018. Oh, and we ALSO chat about our monthly Chess Club! https://www.unerasedbookclub.com/ https://ferndaleradio.com/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCRdejUlw4Tmdo7g0nLFcZ_h_bDV-W43p

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50:46

Sacha Lamb - When The Angels Left The Old Country

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/04/25

Sacha Lamb is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult fiction, and graduate in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Their debut novel, When The Angels Left the Old Country, is a Sydney Taylor and Stonewall award winner, a Printz Honor book, and a National Jewish Book Award finalist, and received the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Sacha lives in New England with a miniature dachshund mix named Anzu Bean.When The Angels Left The Old Country was a shared-FAVORITE Book

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39:40

Ruth Behar - Across So Many Seas

A LITTLE TOO QUIET: THE FERNDALE LIBRARY PODCAST ·

2024/04/11

Ruth Behar is a Cuban-American author and currently a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her work, spanning fiction, poetry, and memoir, includes Lucky Broken Girl, Letters From Cuba, and her latest, Across So Many Seas. As you'll hear on the podcast, Ruth has a lot of fans here at the Ferndale Library. About her latest book, Across So Many Seas: Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar’s epic novel tells the stories of four girls from different generations

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