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• Overdue Finds - Political Thrillers

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  The last episode Bryce and Caroline recorded together with no guests might have been the Political Thrillers episode...mysteriously, no one seemed to want to go on record for that one!

• EPL Summer Reads

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  Why should kids get to have all the fun? EPL has a fun summer reading club for adults with lots of great prizes (including signed books from past Overdue Finds guests).

• Summer Starts at EPL

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  There's still time to join Summer Starts at EPL - the reading club, classes, activities and more! Get all the details at www.epl.ca/summer-starts.

• Mina

  Forsythe, Matthew, 1976-

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  Caroline's favourite book of the year so far is a picture book from Matthew Forsythe about a little mouse who's nervous about the new friend her father has brought home.

• Food IQ

  100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts

  Holzman, Daniel

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  Bryce found Food IQ so useful and accessible, he's considering getting his own copy! (Also available as an ebook)

• The It Girl

  Ware, Ruth

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  Ruth Ware is a favourite author of Caroline's, so the new book The It Girl might end up on her Best of 2022 list (once she actually reads it!). EPL has this title in print, large print, as a downloadable audiobook, as an audiobook, and as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Something Wilder

  Lauren, Christina

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  You can't judge a book by its cover, but doesn't Something Wilder look like a book that was made to be read in the summer? EPL carries it in print, as an ebook, and as a downloadable audiobook.

• Hearts on Fire

  Six Years That Changed Canadian Music, 2000-2005

  Barclay, Michael, 1971-

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  Caroline is still working her way through Hearts on Fire: Six Years That Changed Canadian Music. Maybe she'll be done by the time it's the end of the year "Best Of" episode! (Also available as an ebook.)

• Dropout Boogie

  Black Keys (Musical group)

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  Bryce recommends checking out the video for the single "Wild Child..." and then checking out the rest of the Black Keys' latest album! Also available to stream through Hoopla, where you can listen to it right now!

• Special

  Lizzo, 1988-

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  Lizzo's single "About Damn Time" just hit #1 on the Billboard charts - knocking out music by Harry Styles. (Also available to stream through Hoopla)

• Harry's House

  Styles, Harry, 1994-

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  It took Caroline a little while to realize that "As it Was" was the song she was hearing in videos all over the internet, but she really likes its throwback sound.

• Overdue Finds - #BookTok

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  Caroline is reluctant to admit that even after the #BookTok episode of Overdue Finds, there's a lot she doesn't understand about TikTok.

• SIX the Musical

  Studio Cast Recording

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  After being postponed during Covid, the musical SIX (about the six wives of Henry the VIII) finally premiered on Broadway (and later released an opening night album - EPL doesn't have that version, but it does have the original studio cast…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Best Fiends

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  Best Fiends has been Caroline's go-to game for the last two years...will it hang on for the three-peat?

• Wordle

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  Caroline loves puzzles and word games, so it makes sense that she's into Wordle, the free online game where you have six chances to guess a five letter word.

• Framed

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  Overdue Finds doesn't have an official game, but if it did, Bryce suggests Framed - every day you try to guess a movie from a single frame.

• Heardle

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  Can you name that tune in one second? Need a few more hints? Heardle is another version of a daily challenge, in this case testing how quickly you can identify a song.

• The New York Times

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  Wordle was sold to the New York Times, and even though it remains freely available, if you want to access The New York Times, you can with your EPL library card!

• TMNT: Shredder's Revenge

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  One of Bryce's favourite video games of 2022, Shredder's Revenge isn't available in a format to be added to the library collection (a limitation that a lot of games, music, TV and movies face!).

• LEGO Star Wars. The Skywalker Saga

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  Another of Bryce's video game picks is LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - you can revisit all nine core Star Wars movies! (Available for Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5)