Teen G.E.N. Talks (Teen Glendale Empowerment Now) vodcast is now a podcast! That’s right. Listen to new episodes and favorite episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Teen G.E.N. Talks is co-hosted by Montrose Library staff, Desiree and Melissa.

Ray Bradbury is one of literature’s most loved kings, not only of authoring such classics at The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 and a superb and lengthy collection of short stories, but also actively supporting arts advocacy. Bradbury championed the imagination and encouraged all young readers to do the same. Some of those avid readers turned their love of Bradbury’s work into the world of music.

Children’s Book Illustrator, Floyd Cooper, passed away last Thursday, July 16, in Easton, Pennsylvania. Cooper, a native of Tulsa, OK had collaborated with various authors on dozens of books, including one for which he won the Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations in Joyce Carol Thomas’ book The Blacker the Berry in 2009.

All who are interested in Glendale history are welcome to visit the History Room located on the second floor of the Central Library. Some of the materials we have are Glendale city directories dating back to 1906; photographs of early Glendale history; and archival collections on the Glendale Unified School District, Forest Lawn, theaters of Glendale and other Glendale-related topics. For now, visits are by appointment only, but those of you who cannot make it here, or prefer not to physically visit us, there is plenty Glendale history to explore online.

Music and more from our online streaming services: Naxos, Freegal and Alexander Street!

Last week, on June 22, 2021, Harper Collins published Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys, by Trader Joe’s founder Joe Coulombe and editor Patty Civalleri. In a weekend review, Los Angeles Times Book Critic and Culture Columnist Mary McNamara said of the book, “it is just as much fun as you’d expect.”

Author Meredith Talusan will discuss her critically-acclaimed book, Fairest: A Memoir. Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America.

Two of the most feel-good sports documentaries around, Endless Summer and On Any Sunday are incredibly enjoyable, even as background noise.