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JCLMelissaHH

Library Staff

Johnson County Library

My favorite things are odd history, odd sc...Read More

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My favorite things are odd history, odd science, and odd people. I'm pleased to serve you as half of JCL's civic engagement team!

Specializations

Local history
History
Anthropology
Architecture
Urban planning
Government
Transportation
African American history
Community building
Legislative navigation

Areas of Interest

Microhistories
Middle grades
YA
Families
Cooking
Baking
Gardening
Podcasts
Music
Human cultures
Meteorology
Bungalows

My Rating Scale

Super amazing I love it SO MUCH.

I'm hugging this one in my mind right now.

Yeah, baby.

Now we're talking.

I didn't hate it...

It's definitely a book/movie/CD.

Not my cup of tea.

Oh, dear

Make it stop.

Nope.

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chmcho added a title to their For later shelf Dec 23 2025

The Correspondent

Evans, Virginia

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as “A cause for celebration”—an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to...

chmcho added a title to their For later shelf Dec 23 2025

Everything Is Tuberculosis

Green, John

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! • #1 Washington Post bestseller! • #1 Indie Bestseller! • USA Today Bestseller!John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the...

JCLMandaW moved a title to their Completed shelf

Library Staff Dec 22 2025

All the Blues in the Sky

Watson, Renée

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year | A Chicago Public Library Best Kids' Book of the Year | An NCTE Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book | A 2025 Horn Book Fanfare Selection Book# 1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée...

JCLMandaW rated a title

Library Staff Dec 22 2025

All the Blues in the Sky

Watson, Renée

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JCLMandaW added a title to their In progress shelf

Library Staff Dec 22 2025

Crime and Punishment

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg...