The Page Turner

In honor of Banned Books Week, Librarian Breanna and her co-hosts share their favorite banned or challenged books, what exactly banned books week is, and how we here at the library are bringing awareness to book banning and challenged books!

The Page Turner is back with our 1st quarterly episode of 2024! Sit back and enjoy as my co-workers and I talk about our favorite books of 2023, and what we're looking forward to in 2024! It's an eclectic list, and you won't want to miss it!

Very exciting topic today with a new special guest! Keith is one of our Library Pages here at Los Gatos. We often talk about horror, science fiction, and other darker genres, and we finally got him on the podcast! Tune in as we discuss our book pick, that uncomfortable feeling of the uncanny, horror tv and movies, unsatisfying series conclusions, and more!

Today’s episode is a fun one! Can you believe we’re already halfway through 2023? On today's episode you'll hear from some of our wonderful staff about how their reading lives are going, and what book they would say is their favorite so far this year!

Today's VERY special guest is author Kyla Zhao! Today we're chatting with her about her debut novel The Fraud Squad! Kyla begin writing her fist book during her undergraduate years at Stanford, and had her book presented to publishes nearly right after graduating! Tune in to find out how she got her writing start(writing on the fabulous high fashion life in Vogue Singapore, and other major publica...

Today's special guest is Peter Gomez! Peter is one of the Senior Pages here at the library. He helps keep the building from falling apart! All materials are smoothly put back together, and the library is kept neat in large part due to him and the rest of the pages! Today we're talking about the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu), a sci-fi trilogy that will be...

Special guests Grace Song and Shawnte Santos give their first reactions to Harry Potter and the Sorcery's Stone by J.K. Rowling. A book our patrons would be surprised the Librarians hadn't read before! Grace is our wonderful Children's Librarian, and Shawnte is our amazing latest addition to the Adult Librarian team!

Special guest Viviana Cois is a polylingual, lover of older texsts! Almost finished acquired her master's degree, Viviana hopes to begin her journey to finding her dream job in Librarianship! Tune in this week to hear us talk about Viviana's recommendation, Berlin Childhood Around 1900 by Walter Benjamin, a somber yet beautiful memoir from an author whose live was filled with beautiful yet hauntin...

Special guest today is Jenn Laredo! Jenn is the direct supervisor for the librarians at the library. Living the best of both worlds, she also purchases for our teen fiction collection, as well as being an avid reader of Young Adult fiction! On today's episosde we're chatting about Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, book one in a young adult fantasy series inspired by the tale of King Arthur. While inspire...

Our very special guest for today's episode is Ciera Pasturel, a voracious reader and a new librarian! We were so lucky to get her as our Summer 2022 Intern! If you've been following us on social media, you've seen Ciera pop up a couple times, and she did a social media take over for us for a couple days!

Wrapping up our summer series of speaking to YOU, the patrons, today we have a very special guest, Taara Jayaraj! Host Breanna chats with Taara, who has been coming to the library since she was 7 years old! Tune in as we chat about book to movie adaptations, how fiction and reality reflect each other, dystopian fiction, technology and the future, and more!

Continuing our summer series of speaking to YOU, the patrons, today we have a very special guest, Esha Bagora! Host Breanna chats with Esha, our teen representative on the Library Board! She is able to give a wonderfully unique perspective, by having a voice on both the patron side and advisory side of our library!

Hosts Breanna and Francisco chat with our first patron guest, Nancy Eldredge, about A (Very) Brief History of Life on Earth by Henry Gee. In A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the very latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightenin...

Hosts Breanna, and Very Special Guest Mary Smathers, discuss her book In This Land of Plenty. Mary Smathers is an independent author whose book In this Land of Plenty has been awarded numerous accolades included the Best Regional Fiction--E-book, Bronze, Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2021 and Shelf Unbound Best Indies, Top 100 Notable Book of 2020! In this Land of Plenty is an expansive Ame...

Hosts Breanna, and Very Special Guest Jen Siraganian, Poet Laureate of the Town of Los Gatos, discuss The Carrying by the prolific and talented Ada Limón. The Carrying is a poetry collection full of vulnerable, tender, acute, serious, and more brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. Listen to also learn more about the Town'...

Hosts Breanna, and Special Guest Francisco, discuss a graphic novel for the first time on the podcast! March is a trilogy, written by late Congressman John Lewis, about his time during the Civil Rights movement, starting when he was just a young teen. A thoughtful, beautiful curated, but most importantly truthful look at various harrowing and inspiring moments of the Civil Rights Movement and beyo...

Host Breanna, and special guests Carol and Amanda, discuss the first book in a steamy new series from the prolific romance author Gena Showalter. The Warlord is so much more than just a romance! There's warriors, people fighting to become Gods, scheming, two people falling in love...and did we mention the steaminess? The podcast is tame, but we recommend all listeners who decide to read this book...

Hosts Breanna, and Special Guest Amanda, discuss The Comfort Book by Matt Haig. This is a nonfiction title from the prolific fiction author that reads more like a journal than anything else. In it Haig makes note of positive and comforting quotes, memories, song quotes, philosophical quotes, and more as a point of comfort. Although the aim is to comfort, he doesn't back away from difficult topics,...

We're the 1st official podcast from The Los Gatos Public Library! Every month Librarian Breanna and a rotating cast of hosts, all who work at the library, will discuss a book in our collection, but that's not all! We also give insights into the behind the scenes of the library, upcoming events, answer listener book recommendations requests, and more! We post the first Tuesday of every month!

Join our hosts, Breanna and Gwyn, for both a non-spoiler review and a review with spoilers of Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. They do an in depth review of the book, suggest a read-alike, and give a behind-the-scenes story about the Los Gatos Library.

Join our hosts, Breanna and Gwyn, for both a non-spoiler review and a review with spoilers of The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood. They do an in depth review of the book, suggest a read-alike, and give a behind-the-scenes story about the Los Gatos Library.

Join our hosts Breanna and Gwyn in this bonus episode of The Page Turner where they discuss two books by Mac Barnett, in celebration of the authors visit to the Los Gatos Library. They read his picture book Extra Yarn and his chapter book The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity (the first in the Brixton Brothers series).

Join our hosts, Breanna and Gwyn, for both a non-spoiler review and a review with spoilers of Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King. They do in depth review of the book, suggest a read-alike, and give a behind-the-scenes story about the Los Gatos Library.

Join our hosts, Breanna and Gwyn, for both a non-spoiler review and a review with spoilers of Educated by Tara Westover. They do in depth review of the book, suggest a read-alike, and give a behind-the-scenes story about the Los Gatos Library

Join our hosts, Breanna and Gwyn, for both a non-spoiler review and a review with spoilers of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. They do in depth review of the book, suggest a read-alike, and give a behind-the-scenes story about the Los Gatos Library.