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Mayor Pam in October

Discussion Questions for Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith

September's Guest Author is Bob Mazur

Mayor Pam Iorio’s guest on this episode of “Mayor’s Book Talk” is Bob Mazur, a special agent that spent five years infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Columbia’s drug cartels.  Mazur also played a key role in one of the most successful undercover operations in U.S. law enforcement history, codenamed Operation C-Chase. The two discuss Mazur’s book, The Infiltrator: My Life Inside the Dirty Banks Behind Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel.

September's Discussion Group Book

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll totake a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the end just four very special children will succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and resourceful children could compete. With their newfound friendship at stake, will they be able to pass the most important test of all?

Trenton Lee Stewart is married and lives with his wife and two sons in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Discussion Questions for The Mysterious Benedict Society

September's Recommended Reads

• A Happy Marriage, by Rafael Yglesias
• The Healthy College Cookbook, by Alexandra Nimetz, Jason Stanley, and Emeline Starr with Rachel Holcomb
• Perseverance, by Carolyn Rubenstein
• South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
• Sunday Night Football Cookbook
• That Old Cape, Magic by Richard Russo
• The Wilderness Warrior, by Douglas Brinkley
• This Is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper