An Embarrassment of Riches
Zoe is reading the laugh-out-loud funny 52 Loaves, about a man who sets out to bake the perfect loaf
of bread from scratch. This entails traveling around the world to see how bread is baked in other countries, planting the wheat, harvesting, winnowing and on....
Zoe is a delivery driver for the library system.
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Chris is reading Islamic Patterns by Keith Crichtlow, a study of geometric pattern in 
Islamic art and tile work.
Chris is a page at the Central library.
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Shane is reading Star Wars. Republic Command, Order 66, by Karen Traviss, about an average day in the life of a clone trooper.
Shane is a page at the Hollywood Library.
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Amy is reading Bruiser, by Neal Shusterman. It's about a boy who has the gift, or curse, of being able to experience another person's pain.
Amy is a youth librarian at the Hollywood Library.
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Larry just finished John McPhee's Levels of the Game and wanted another tennis read. He is now reading the gripping Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi.
Larry is a librarian at the Hollywood Library.
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What We're Reading Now
Colleen is reading The Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne, a philosophy of life via two wheels. Colleen is a library assistant at the Hollywood Library.
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Dan is reading Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery, edited by Elizabeth George. He is particularly enjoying the story "Paddy O'Grady's Thigh", by Lisa Alber, a tale of graveyards and grave desecration.
Dan is a clerk at the Central library.
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Ji
m is reading Philip Levine's collection, News of the World: Poems, the latest by this great and prolific American octogenarian poet who grew up in Detroit, lived in Fresno for years, and now loves living in Brooklyn.
Jim is the librarian who oversees the John Wilson Special Collections, where the library's rare books collection is housed.
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Terrilyn is reading The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey, a novel about the life of the enigmatic artist Gustav Klimt.
Terrilyn works on public programming for the library.
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Wife murdered,
Complex spiderweb plot;
Husband speaks not.
Helen is reading Old City Hall, by Robert Rotenberg. Helen is a library assistant at the Central Library.
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Angela is reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño. It's the story of four strangers who come together in a small town haunted by the disappearance and murder of many of its young women.
Angela is a supervisor at the Central library.
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Francie is reading The Other End of the Leash by Patricia B. McConnell. She sheds light on the way our dogs see us and provides guidance for better communication with your very best friend.
Francie is a librarian at the Central library.
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One day, a normal day, three friends went into the woods to play...
...and only one came out.
Mary is reading In the Woods, by Tana French.
Mary is a librarian at both the Hollywood and Central libraries.
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Eric is reading The Sublime Object of Ideology, by Slavoj Zizek, in an attempt to better understand how we are assuming ideological positions even when we believe we're demystifying ideology.
Eric works at the Central library, doing a little bit of everything.
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Seana is reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, a post-apocalyptic, lush, terrifying ride
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Seana works at the Central library in the Central Director's office.
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