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All Booked Up with Cailey & Meg: Classic Hollywood

By admin|2020-08-22T12:00:56-04:00August 22, 2020|

Cailey and Meg discuss four books on their favorite topic — classic Hollywood! — including:

The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin
Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking compiled and edited by Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall
We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend & Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie by Noah Isenberg
Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts.

Most of the books they discuss can also be borrowed as ebooks using OverDrive or Libby. All you need is your Mentor Public Library card.

By the way, if you love classic Hollywood, then you should check out our digital service, Kanopy. It has a collection of more than 30,000 films, including award-winning movies and documentaries from all over the globe. You can borrow 10 each month with your library card.

Watch some of the world’s best films with Kanopy & your library card

By admin|2023-11-04T09:11:46-04:00January 20, 2018|

You can stream some of the greatest films ever made for free.

All you need is your library card and our newest digital service, Kanopy.

Kanopy has a collection of more than 30,000 films, including award-winning movies and documentaries from all over the globe.

Watch them on your favorite device—computer, tablet, phone, Apple TV, Chromecast or Roku—for free. Indulge your inner cinephile with masterpieces by Akira Kurosawa, Greta Gerwig, Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Orson Welles and more.

You have 30 tickets you can use each month on Kanopy. Each title on Kanopy will tell you how many tickets are required to view it and how long you have to watch it. Click here if you have any questions about how Kanopy tickets work.

Kanopy also has an excellent collection of animated story books and educational kids shows for children. The streaming on Kanopy Kids is unlimited! No tickets required.

You can watch online or use Kanopy’s app, which is available for free at the Apple and Google Play stores.

Your library card also gives you access to thousands of films and TV shows via Hoopla.

So start watching. It’s like having a world-class film festival, tailored to your personal interests, at your beck and call. For free.

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