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2025 Staff Favorite Games 

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Our video game and toy collections continued to grow in 2025. Staff are also patrons, and we loved using both collections this year! Keep reading and you may find your next favorite game!  Nintendo Switch  PlayStation 5  Toy Collection  Xbox 

2025 WEPL Staff Favorite Watches 

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Movies and TV had a solid year! We enjoyed lots of new movies and TV shows as well as old favorites. Keep reading to find your next watch and stay tuned for what our favorite games of the year were.  Favorite Movies  Favorite TV Shows 

2025 WEPL Staff Favorite Music 

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2025 was a big year for music and we had plenty of albums on repeat! Don’t forget you can stream music for free with your library card on hoopla. Check out the soundtrack to our 2025 below and stay tuned for our favorite watches next!  Favorite Albums 

2025 WEPL Staff Favorite Reads 

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As 2025 comes to a close, we wanted to reflect on some of our favorites of 2025. Over the course of the next few blogs, we will recap our favorite reads, favorite movies and TV shows, what we listened to on repeat, and the games we played. Keep reading to see what our favorite books of this year were- you […]

Power to the WEPL: Gale Courses

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Gale Courses is a database available for Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library cardholders for free. It is a lot like online college courses and offers a wide variety of subjects. You can access it by visiting the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library’s website, clicking “Research & Learn” on the top bar, then “Online Learning,” then “VISIT” under “Gale Courses.” You […]

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Willoughby Library Puzzle Contest 

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For puzzlers interested in a lively evening of competition. Each team will be given the same 750-piece jigsaw puzzle, then compete to see who can finish it the fastest. Prizes will be awarded for first, second, and third place. Open to all ages. Register here.  Do you enjoy digging into a jigsaw puzzle? Or puzzling over a mystery? […]

Anime for Adults  

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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another edition of Anime for Adults, a blog series where I (librarian Bryn) offer suggestions from the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library’s collection for anime, manga, and graphic novels that might appeal to an adult audience. Just because we’re grown-ups doesn’t mean we can’t indulge our inner otakus, and ho, ho, holy cow do I have a great suggestion for this month of December!  […]

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Wicked Recommendations 

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Wicked: Part One and Wicked: For Good are movies based on a play (Wicked,) based on a book (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire,) based on a movie (The Wizard of Oz,) based on a book (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.) There is a lot of lore to the […]

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Books, Board Games, and More with Bryn 

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Greetings! It’s a new month and time for a new post. However, this is not just another month, my friends. It’s December! Or, as some of us call it, D&Dcember! Therefore, buckle in friends, we’re going on an adventure into the world of Dungeons & Dragons!  For those of you that are unfamiliar with the idea of Dungeons & Dragons, it is, to put it simply, […]

Stories, Tech, and Curiosity: Willoughby-Eastlake Libraries Partner with Storypie

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All four Willoughby-Eastlake library locations are partnering with Storypie, a locally built, cutting-edge educational storytelling app for kids ages 3-12. To celebrate, every WEPL cardholder can unlock an extra free Storypie story, either from home or right inside the library. What Is Storypie? Storypie is a Cleveland-born education-through-storytelling app that turns screen time into learning […]

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