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On The Same Page is a new podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we interview four of the mystery authors who took part in the Authors in Your Backyard panel at Gordon Avenue Library on September 30. We also we talk to Lydia Witman, Manager of UVA’s Patient and Family Library, about upcoming grant-funded community health literacy initiatives in which JMRL is taking part. As always we talk about books.

Titles from Book Chat:

Erica mentioned:

• Alan Bradley’s great Flavia de Luce mystery series (which begins with the book The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie)
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward (while discussing what Abby is reading)

Abby talks about:

• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. Abby mentioned that Ward’s earlier book Salvage the Bones won the 2011 National Book Award, but shortly after recording Sing, Unburied, Sing was announced as a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. And then Ward was awarded the 2017 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Swing Time by Zadie Smith

During our talk with the mystery authors we learned:

About Sisters in Crime and Sisters in Crime Central Va. Well-known national members include: Laurie King, Louise Penny, Dana Stabenow, G.M. Malliet, and Anne Hillerman.

Authors of the Central VA chapter (including Meredith Cole and Rosemary Shomaker) contributed to the Virginia Is For Mysteries anthology.

Rosemary Shomaker recommends:

• Dana Stabenow’s PI Kate Shugak series

Meredith Cole recommends:

• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith

Jenna Harte talks about:

• The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack, which reminded her of The Bookman’s Tale/First Impressions by Charlie Lovett

Mollie Cox Bryan recommends:

• The Promise Girls by Marie Bostwick
• Fiona Griffiths series by Harry Bingham

Bryan mentions that her first book, Scrapbook of Secrets, was written during NaNoWriMo. She has also written the Cumberland Creek series (set in the Shenandoah Valley)

General Links
Meredith mentions meeting a librarian at the Festival of the Book.

We talk about NaNoWriMo and how it provided inspiration for their writing. Find more JMRL NaNoWriMo resources on our Wiki.

Lydia Witman is the Library Manager at UVA’s Patient and Family Library. We talked about how October is Health Literacy Month and upcoming health literacy programming at JMRL provided by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine. Other agencies that will be involved with the grant are Jefferson Area CHIP, Ronald McDonald House, and Charlottesville Community Mental Health and Wellness Coalition. We also discussed JMRL’s current health information database Magill’s Medical Guide Online (accessible with a library card).

The book Lydia mentioned reading recently was Coyote Wisdom by Lewis Mehl-Madrona

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a new podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

In this episode we talk about the newly expanded Toy Library and learn more about the newly created Local Voices collection. As always we talk about a lot of books.

Titles We Talked About during Book Chat:

Zach mentioned:

• Leviathan by Jens Harder
• Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt (Abby thought he was talking about History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund)
• Fatal Invention by Dorothy E. Roberts (generously donated by Cville NOW)
• The Grip Of It by Jac Jemc (which reminded him of the SuperMega webcomic)
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Erica and Abby discussed:

• My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman (and his other works Beartown and A Man Called Ove)
• Alone by Chabouté
• Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick (and his previous works Midwinter Blood and Ghosts of Heaven)
• The Universe in Your Hand by Christophe Galfard
• #cvillestrong OverDrive collection
• Stand Strong & Stand Together collection donated by OverDrive

The Local Voices collection will go live later this month. To find out more about it, or add your work go to jmrl.org/localvoices.

If you missed the last episode’s conversation we had with Meredith about challenged books you can find it here.

The new Toy Library at JMRL was created by student volunteers from the University of Virginia, and is maintained by volunteers from UVA’s Madison House. To find a toy to check out, head to our catalog. Angela is listening to Spy School by Stuart Gibbs.

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On The Same Page is a new podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.

The second half of September is made up of Welcoming Week September 15-24 and Banned Books Week September 24-30.

Find titles Erica and Abby talked about in the catalog:

• The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell by W. Kamau Bell
• You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris* – which is part of the Stand Strong & Stand Together collection donated to JMRL by OverDrive after August 12.
• Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
• Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins – find downloadable audiobooks here and her Hunger Games trilogy here.
• Give and Take by Adam Grant – we also mentioned his previous book Originals as well as Option B, on which he collaborate with Sheryl Sandberg.

*Erica incorrectly says this is “You Shall Not Have My Hate”. Sorry! Abby was correct.

Liz talked about the programs JMRL is hosting for Welcome Week.

Titles Liz Mentioned:

• If The Creek Don’t Rise by Leah Weiss
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Fahrenheit 541 by Ray Bradbury

Meredith talked about the Request for Reconsideration form and process here at JMRL and why titles sometimes get suggested for this process.

Titles Meredith Mentioned:

• The Nest by Kenneth Oppel
• In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
• A Light In The Attic by Shel Silverstein
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
• Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Links Meredith talked about using to find information about materials:

• Common Sense Media
• School Library Journal
• The Horn Book

Access the policy governing library material selection and retention here. Request for Reconsideration forms are available at all library locations. Find more information about Banned Books Week events at JMRL on the Wiki.

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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On The Same Page is a new podcast from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library to keep you in the loop and on the same page about what’s happening at your library.
September is Library Card Sign Up Month. To find out more about how to sign up and what you can do with your library card, check out JMRL’s borrowing policies.

Find the downloadable materials we mentioned in the following links.

• Overdrive
  Freading
• RB Digital
  • eBooks and downloadable audiobooks
  • Downloadable magazines
• JMRL’s entire digital collection

Find titles Erica and Abby talked about in the catalog:

• Everyone’s A Aliebn When Ur A Aliebn Too by Jomney Sun
• Solo by Kwame Alexander
• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
• American War by Omar El Akkad
• Every Body Yoga by Jessamyn Stanley
• Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
• Blue Sky White Stars by Sarvinder Naberhaus

Erica also mentioned:

• Oprah Book Club
• Goodreads – a social network for reading

Neda talked about:

the Makerspace at the Northside Library

To use the printing service in the Northside Makerspace, fill out this form. 

Access the sites and programs Neda mentioned related to 3D printing and modeling:

• Thingiverse
• Tinkercad
• Cookie Caster – make your own cookie cutter
• Sketchup – 3D modeling software from Google
• Blender
• 123D Design (a recently discontinued piece of 3D modeling software)
• JMRL books on 3D printing

Neda’s Book recommendations

• Diary of an 8-bit Warrior by Cube Kid
• Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer & co
• Short Introduction to: Dinosaurs

Find the great programs Neda talked about for Tweens and Teens in our Beyond the Books library programming brochure.

This podcast is made possible with generous support from the Friends of Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. Find out more about the Friends, what they do, and how to support them at the following link.

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