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Rufus Steele 1938 by Susan Turner

October's Guest Author is Linda Taylor

Mayor Pam Iorio’s guest on this episode of “Mayor’s Book Talk” is Linda Taylor, nature lover and creator of her company, It's Our Nature which brings people, especially women, closer to the earth through natural movement.  The two discuss Taylor's book, Great Women Exploring Nature: How Wild Florida Influenced Their Lives.  The book combines history, travel ideas, nature awareness and art.  Readers will discover how a thread of Florida's wild nature wove itself into the lives of ten women. 

October's Discussion Group Book

Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith

After their parents are lost in an accident, thirteen-year-old twins Grace and Marty are whisked away to live with their Uncle Wolfe—an uncle that they didn’t even know they had! Intimidating Uncle Wolfe is an anthropologist who has dedicated his life to finding cryptids—mysterious creatures believed to be long extinct. Just as the twins and their uncle are getting to know one another, Wolfe finds out that his nemesis, Dr. Blakemoor, is headed to a Congolese jungle to poach a dinosaur and her clutch. Wolfe has to mobilize his team immediately if he wants to beat Blakemoor to the jungle. And his team does not include the twins. But Grace and Marty aren’t easily left behind. With breakneck daring, they literally drop into the Congo, falling from a helicopter. Through a series of perilous adventures, they eventually uncover long buried secrets about their identity and that of their uncle. Now, the twins must play a high stakes game, where the prize is a dinosaur egg, and the penalty, death.

Roland Smith was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, and currently resides there with his wife.

Discussion Questions for Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith

October's Recommended Reads

• Blame by Michelle Huneven
• Dexter By Design by Jeff Lindsay
• Ghoulish Goodies by Sharon Bowers
• Marielitos, Balseros And Other Exiles by Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes
• Spooner by Pete Dexter
• Pride And Prejudice And Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• Sense And Sensibility And Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters
• There Was An Old Monster! by Rebecca, Adrian & Ed Emberley
• What was I Scared of? by Dr. Seuss
• Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer