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Episode 118: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 8/27     Amie shares 4 great books she found on Jamie and Robs Goodreads’ lists that are 5 star reads!

Happy August Listeners! We’re taking every Tuesday off for July and August and re-releasing 8 of our favorite Episodes for you to enjoy! Click the button below to head to the Show Notes for Episode 43: Our deep dive into Stephen King novels with Jamie and Rob Stone

Episode 116: Friday Four from the Circ Desk      Taryn and Tami share 4 more great reads in celebration of Native Americans

Happy August Listeners! We’re taking every Tuesday off for July and August and re-releasing 8 of our favorite Episodes for you to enjoy! Click the button below to head to the Show Notes for Episode 44 - A Celebration of Native American Heritage Month

Happy August Listeners! We’re taking every Tuesday off for July and August and re-releasing 8 of our favorite Episodes for you to enjoy! Click the button below to head to the Show Notes for Episode 38 - Our interview with author Ben Rogers!

Episode 112: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 8/6           Episode 112: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 8/6 Amie Newberry & Tami Ruf   Tami is a HUGE fan of audiobooks and is always listening to one on her Libby app. She also manages her Libby audiobook holds so that she always has one ready as soon as she finishes her current listen. It’s easy with Libby - you can swap turns with the person behind you in line and not lose your place, or, you can suspend it for several weeks - so easy! Tami’s Recommendations Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas (This is part of her series The Hate U Give and gives the backstory about her dad Maverick). The Push by Ashley Audrain At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson

Happy August Listeners! We’re taking every Tuesday off for July and August and re-releasing 8 of our favorite Episodes for you to enjoy!   Click the button below to head to the Show Notes for Episode 39 - Audiobooks

Episode 110: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/30           Episode 110: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/30 Amie Newberry & Tami Ruf   Taryn gives you four excellent books about women by women for this weeks’ Friday Four. All four are non-fiction titles sure to entertain you! Taryn’s Recommendations Maiden Voyages: Women and the Golden Age of Transatlantic Travel by Sian Evans The Women’s History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Reels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred Gallagher The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown

Happy July Listeners! We’re taking every Tuesday off for July and August and re-releasing 8 of our favorite Episodes for you to enjoy! Click the button below to head to the Show Notes for Episode 61 - Our Romance Episode with Taryn where she teaches us SO MUCH about the Romance genre!

Episode 106: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/16           Episode 106: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/16 Amie Newberry & Tami Ruf   This week we re-released Episode 53, our conversation with Debi Stears, Collection Development Manager with the Washoe County Library System, so for your Friday Four, we are sharing four great books we’ve listened to or read on our Libby App. Jamie’s Recommendations Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall Troubles in Paradise (Book #3) by Elin Hilderbrand     Tami’s Recommendation Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Happy July Listeners! We’re taking every Tuesday off for July and August and re-releasing 8 of our favorite Episodes for you to enjoy! Click the button below to head to the Show Notes for Episode 53 - Our interview with Debi Stears, Collection Development Manager with the Washoe County Library System.

Episode 104: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/9                 Episode 104: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/9 Amie Newberry & Tami Ruf   This week on our Tuesday episode we re-released our wonderful interview with Nevada author, Willy Vlautin. What a terrific writer he is and we were so appreciative of his generosity of spirit and his time. For this weeks Friday four, we are celebrating three more Nevada authors: Ellen Hopkins, Robert Laxalt, and Terri Farley. Additionally, we are sharing Battleborn: Stories by Claire Vaye Watkins. Tami’s Recommendations Crank (book 1 of Crank) by Ellen Hopkins Sweet Promised Land by Robert Laxalt Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them by Terri Farley   Amie’s Recommendation Battleborn: Stories by Claire Vaye Watkins   Books Mentioned Glass (Book 2 of Crank) by Ellen Hopkins Fallout (Book 3 of Crank) by Ellen Hopkins Don’t Skip Out On Me by Willy Vlautin Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin

Episode 077: Interview with author Willy Vlautin The Motel Life Northline Lean on Pete The Free Don’t Skip Out On Me *** The Night Always Comes *** (Latest)       Episode 077: Interview with Willy Vlautin Amie Newberry & Tami Ruf   We’d like to thank Willy Vlautin for taking time to talk to us. It’s VERY exciting for these Reno High Grads to talk with such an amazing author and musician! All of the links for Willy’s books go to his website to purchase (and have them personally signed by the author too) directly from him - music too! Check his website out at WillyVlautin.com for more merchandise too! We were all so excited to speak with Willy that we all picked books to read, not just his newest title. The rundown of what we individually read looked like this: Tami Read - Don't Skip Out on Me (Tami has The Night Always Comes, The Motel Life, and Lean On Pete on her TBR line up!) Rob Read - The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, The Free, and The Night Always Comes (5 of the 6). Don't Skip Out On Me is now on Rob’s TBR! Jamie Read - The Motel Life & Lean on Pete (Next up for Jamie is Don’t Skip Out On Me) Amie Read - The Motel Life & Lean on Pete (Next up for Amie is Don’t Skip Out On Me) Willy's Favorite Authors John Steinbeck Raymond Carver Robert Laxalt Walter Van Tilburg Clark William Kennedy Books Mentioned The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch Sweet Promised Land by Robert Laxalt Ironweed by William Kennedy Sites Mentioned Sundance Books and Music Willy’s Music Richmond Fontaine The Delines   Music Influences Punk Rock  The Replacements Hüskür Do X Country Music   What did you Read during the Pandemic? Shoshone Mike by Frank Burgon Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain The Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin   What are you currently reading and writing? He's blurbing books currently! Jess Walters Books There are two books in the works - stay tuned! One is about a painter in St John's, Oregon and the second is about a musician, set in Reno, that ends up in Tonopah. Movie Mentioned Paris, Texas 1984 movie - available to rent on Amazon Prime Video     Show Notes for the Extra Interview on Patreon (Free) Click here to go to Patreon   All time Favorite Authors and Their Books John Steinbeck Ironweed by William Kennedy Fat City by Leonard Gardner Flannery O'Connor Barry Gifford Lucia Berlin Noir Authors Jim Thompson David Goodis Charles Willaford Western Author James Welch Willy’s Favorite Steinbeck Novels Canary Row Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men The Long Valley The Wayward Bus Tortilla Flat Other Books Mentioned Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas The Kestral for a Knave by Barry Hines University of Nevada Press  Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage by Susan Shillinglaw   Willy is a book purchaser over visiting the library but uses the Libby app and listens to numerous audiobooks If the world is ending Willy would take his first edition, signed, edition of Ironweed by William Kennedy

Episode 102: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/2   Tami and Amie each share their next two books on their TBR.             Episode 102: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 7/2 Amie Newberry & Tami Ruf   This Friday we’re looking ahead to the next four books on our TBR lists. Enjoy these! Tami’s Recommendations Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian The Premonition by Michael Lewis   Amie’s Recommendations The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne Redeployment Phil Klay   Books Mentioned Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Acceleration Hours: Stories by Jesse Goolsby

Episode 100: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 6/25           Episode 100: Friday Four from the Circ Desk - 6/25 Amie Newberry & Tami Ruf       Listener’s it’s our 100th episode!! And we have all of you to thank for our continued success! We love creating content for you and sharing wonderful book ideas you won’t hear about anywhere else - because we aren’t just interested in the newest book on the block! Email us at Tami@biggestlittlelibrary.net or Amie@biggestlittlelibrary.net with show ideas or books you’d love to see highlighted on the show! And now, here are your Friday Four nonfiction recommendations! Amie's Recommendations The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History by Andy Greene Brat: An 80s Story by Andrew McCarthy   Tami's Recommendation The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War by Malcolm Gladwell   Jamie's Recommendation How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith   Media / Movies Mentioned My Love on Netflix The Office on Peacock 12 Years A Slave Book and Movie Pretty in Pink - 80s movie St. Almo's Fire - 80s movie   Goodreads - a bookish website