Off the Shelf with Delaware Library

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Rich Yepsen, a volunteer with AARP Fraud Watch Network.

This week we chat about the upcoming AARP Scam Watch series at the Delaware Branch Library! 

Recommendations include The Mad Wife by Meagan Church, Where the Music Had to Go by Jim Windolf, and What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama.

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on August 21, 2026.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Dyesha Darby, Director of School-Based and Community Prevention with HelpLine of Delaware and Morrow Counties.

This week we chat about the upcoming QPR (Question, Persuade, and Refer) programming at the Orange Branch on August 24th. With participation from Helpline, this program will equip attendees with knowledge on how to support someone who may be in crisis. More info can be found here. September is also National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. If you or anyone you know is in a mental crisis, call 988 for help and advise. 

Recommendations include: The Housewife by Natalie Barelli and Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan. Also check out what the Maker Studios can do for parents of high school seniors!

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on August 14, 2026.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Jen Ruhe from Delaware City Schools.

This week we chat about back to school and getting students, teachers, and parents ready. Listen for an exciting announcement! 

Recommendations include Starter Villain by John Scalzi, Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston and the Fairs & Festivals list from DCDL staff.  

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on August 7, 2026.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Molly Meyers LaBadie and Nicole Fowles. This week's guests is national bestselling author Thao Thai.

We discussed Thao's new book The Seekers of Deer Creek! Tickets for her upcoming event at Beanbag Books are available on on their website. Thank you to our Friends of the Library for putting on this special event!

Recommendations include: The Women by Kristin Hannah, The Artist and the Feasts by Lucy Steeds, We Are Mighty by Sharon McMahon and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on July 31, 2026

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Molly Meyers LaBadie and Hannah Simpson. Guests include Suzanne Pingry from Connections Volunteers Center and Helpline, and Neha Hariharan and Jan Davis from the Sages & Seekers program.

This week we chat about the connections made during this summer's Sages & Seekers session, which met at the Library for several weeks. And, of course, what we're reading! 

Recommendations include Should the Waters Take Us by Stephanie Soileau, The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, Country People by Daniel Mason, and Upward Bound by Woody Brown.

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on July 24, 2026

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guest this week is Lori Kipfer from the Board of Library Trustees.

This week we chat about what we have been reading and back to school readiness. 

Recommendations include: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, Born Lucky be Leland Vittert and The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson.  

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on June 17, 2026.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Hannah Simpson. Guests include author Kevin Williams.

This week we chat about Kevin's new book "Not So Simple. My Adventures Among the Amish, Mennonites, Shakers, and other Plain People". An, of course, what we're reading.

Recommendations include Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, The Summer of Death by Geoffrey Williams, and The Last Resort by Erin Entrada Kelly.

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on July 10, 2026.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Garrett Guillozet, Health Commissioner, and Adam Howard, Deputy Health Commissioner of Preventative Health from the Delaware Public Health District.

This week we chat about the Mobile Health Clinic stops at the Ostrander Branch Library, the Walk with Ease program, and the Baby Expo on August 8. And, of course, what we've been reading! 

Recommendations include Starry Messenger by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Dreamland by Sam Quiones, The Astral Library by Kate Quinn, and The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King.

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on June 26, 2026.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Nicole Fowles and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Nichole Klatte from the Friends of the Library and New York Times bestselling author Laura Kamoie!

This week we chat about Laura Kamoie's upcoming visit to DCDL on June 25 (thanks to the Friends!) and her newest book A Founding Mother. 

Recommendations include Fox by Joyce Carol Oates, The Diva Says Cheesecake by Krista Davis, The Fortune Tellers of Rue Daru by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on June 12, 2026.

Recording of Off the Shelf Radio Show from WDLR with co-hosts Hannah Simpson and Molly Meyers LaBadie. Guests include Hannah Atibagos from the Central Ohio Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association!

This week we talk about Alzheimer's and Brian Awareness Month and the signs of memory diseases.

Recommendations include: Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook , Max the Brave by Ed Vere, and Dream Girl Drama by Tessa Bailey.

Listen live every Friday morning at 9 AM. https://my967.net/ 

This episode originally aired on June 5, 2026.