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Nicole
Digital Librarian

Verna
Adult Services Librarian

John
Head of Adult Services

Lesley
Adult Services Librarian

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell

The Clothes They Stood Up In
Alan Bennett
[Cov. Book Club]

The Cold Blue Blood
David Handler

Blue Heaven
C. J. Box

The Dollmaker (KY Book Club)
Harriette Arnow

The Terror
Dan Simmons

Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire

Sue
Erlanger Branch Librarian

Becky
Branch Librarian

Gary
Adult Programmer

Jessica
Library Associate

The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein

The Fixer Upper
Mary Kay Andrews

The Living Dead
John Joseph Adams ed.

The War Hound and the World's Pain
Michael Moorcock

The Road to Jerusalem
Guillou, Jan

Ann
Business Librarian

Chad
ILL Coordinator

Brenda
Adult Programmer

Nathan
Reference Assistant

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

Crash
J. G. Ballard

My Sister's Keeper
Picoult, Jodi

Dead Until Dark
Harris, Charlene

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Ryan
Erlanger Programmer

Leigh
Erlanger
Readers' Advisory Librarian

Michelle
Erlanger
Library Associate

Grace (Eventually)
Anne Lamott

Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson

Tales of the City
Armisted Maupin

Wetlands
Charlotte Roche

Northern Lights
Phillip Pullman

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