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‘How I Library’ Episode 19: Nick Brooks

June 13, 2025

In episode 19 of the “How I Library” podcast, show host and I Love Libraries editor Phil Morehart speaks with Nick Brooks. Brooks is the critically acclaimed author of the award-winning young adult (Y.A.) thriller, “Promise Boys,” a filmmaker, and a musician from Washington, D.C. His new book, “Up In Smoke,” is another page-turning Y.A. thriller that follows the events that spiral after a murder is committed during a Black Lives Matter protest. It’s part murder mystery, part call to revolution.

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'How I Library' Episode 18: Marium Zahra and Aruja Misra from PBS News Student Reporting Labs

HOW I LIBRARY EPISODE 18: Marium Zahra and Aruja Misra from PBS News Student Reporting Labs

Host Phil Morehart speaks with Marium Zahra and Aruja Misra, high school students from Texas who are participants in “On Our Minds,” an award-winning podcast series about the teenage experience from PBS News Student Reporting Labs. The new season asks teens, “Who Inspires You?” For Zahra and Misra, it was their school librarian.

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