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| *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?brainiac+adventures+in+the+curious '''Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs'''] by Ken Jennings. | *[http://aries.jmrl.org/search/t?brainiac+adventures+in+the+curious '''Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs'''] by Ken Jennings. | ||
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| + | *Also see my recommendations on [http://jmrl.org/wiki/Gordon_Avenue_Library_Staff_Recommends '''the Gordon Avenue Library staff picks page'''] | ||
| ==Krista Farrell (Central)== | ==Krista Farrell (Central)== | ||
Revision as of 14:27, 5 December 2011
Article in Adult Fiction and Adult Nonfiction and Personal Picks categories.
See what staff are reading (and recommending!)
Bob Bjoring (Central)
- How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet.
- A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
Anne Chiles (Central)
- And So It Goes by Charles J. Shields.
- Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky.
Nancy Cook (Central)
- Vanished by Sheela Chari.
- Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick.
Meredith Dickens (Gordon)
- Also see my recommendations on the Gordon Avenue Library staff picks page
Krista Farrell (Central)
- Poster: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer.
Noelle Funk (Scottsville)
- The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier.
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
Willow Gale (Bookmobile)
- The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart.
Gary Grant (Albemarle Trustee)
- The Orchard: A Memoir by Adele Crockett Robertson.
John Halliday (Central)
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.
Holly Huffman (Greene)
- Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage by Richard Stengel.
Lindsay Ideson (Northside)
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- This Life is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman.
Rhonda Johnson (Crozet)
- Vanished by Gary D. Schmidt.
Russ Lyttleton (Central)
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough.
Joyce MacDonald (Central)
- Let's Take the Long Way Home: a Memoir of Friendship by Gail Caldwell.
Gail Ott (Louisa)
- The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.
- The Reservoir by John Milliken Thompson.
Willoughby Parks (Central)
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua.
Heather Pehnec (Central)
- The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis by Kevin Brockmeier.
David Plunkett (Central)
- The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer.
Stella Pool (Central)
- World Without End by Ken Follett.
Ginny Reese (Greene)
- The False Friend by Myula Goldberg.
- No Such Thing As Dragons by Philip Reeve.
Jacqueline Rice (Central)
- Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Wendy Saz (Crozet)
- Emily Alone by Stewart O'Nan.
- Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson.
- Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden.
Linda Smoke (Central)
- The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman.
