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JMRL serves the City of Charlottesville and the Counties of Albemarle, Greene, Louisa, and Nelson. There are eight library locations, the Bookmobile, and a Digital Library that can be accessed from anywhere.

Books on Tap met at Beer Run on Thursday, November 2 to discuss Anne Tyler’s 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award winning novel The Accidental Tourist. Following a horrible tragedy, Baltimore-based travel writer Macon Leary finds his marriage to his wife Sarah (and his life) unraveling. He attempts to regroup and recover with the help […]
Brown Baggers book club met Thursday, November 15 at noon to discuss Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. Readers can expect to find an unhappy family of poor sharecroppers in rural Georgia, headed by main character Jeeter Lester, in this southern gothic classic. Jeeter and his wife Ada and their twelve children are “overcome by the […]
Books on Tap met on Thursday, December 7th at 7 pm at Beer Run to discuss The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken. We talked about books and librarianship, the balance between surrealism and mundanity, the characters, and even the title. As always, opinions varied wildly, and we had a wonderful time actively discussing this title!  […]