Amanda Paez, assistant to the city manager, and wearer of many hats, talks about her library crimes.

*CORRECTION: A note from Rachael -
Our Classics book club meets on Monday, September 30 at 5:30 PM to discuss “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie. Call 434-799-5195 to register! We hope you join us.

Books we discuss include:
“I Want a Pet - A School Zone Start To Read Book”
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie*
“Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson
“Throne of Glass” series by Sarah J. Maas
“Monster Hunter Mystery” series by Annelise Ryan
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” by Ian Fleming
“IT” by Stephen King
“Where the Red Fern Grows” by Wilson Rawls
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
“Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lindgren
“Jaws” by Peter Benchley
“Jurassic Park” by Michael Crichton
“The Neverending Story” by Michael Ende
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
“Winnie-the-Pooh” series by A.A. Milne

Russell and the Rach(a)els explore works by authors with Hispanic heritages.

Book we discuss include:

• “The Bullet Swallower” by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• “Family Lore” by Elizabeth Acevedo
• “Fruit of the Drunken Tree” by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” by Emil Ferris
• “River Woman, River Demon” by Jennifer Givhan
• “Mexican Gothic” and “The Daughter of Doctor Moreau” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• “Just for the Summer” by Abby Jimenez
• “Solito” by Javier Zamora
• “Hippie” and “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho

Russell, Rachel, and Rachael welcome our first guest from beyond the library walls, Michelle Larking, IB Literature teacher at Galileo Magnet High School. We discuss how to foster a love of reading through education and whether Russell should have been in the Zebra reading group.

Books we discuss include:

• “Babar” series by Jean de Brunhoff
• “Frog and Toad” series by Arnold Lobel
• “The Boxcar Children” series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• “A Patchwork Planet”, “Digging to America” and others by Anne Tyler
• “Under the Bayou Moon” by Valerie Fraser Luesse
• “The Sound of Waves” by Yukio Mishima
• “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
• “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
• “Kitchen” by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus
• “Little Bee” by Chris Cleave
• “The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo
• “Crank” by Ellen Hopkins
• “Agnes Grey” by Ann Bronte
• “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
• “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte
• “Tuck Everlasting” by Natalie Babbitt
• “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson
• “The Witches” by Roald Dahl
• “Sounder” by William H. Armstrong
• “Educated” by Tara Westover
• “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah
• “Devotions” by Mary Oliver
• “Christy” by Catherine Marshall