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Latest Staff Reviews

Staff Review
Coyote Run

Coyote Run

By Lilith Saintcrow
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Matt I.
Mar 18, 2025

War is, as they say, Hell, but in this future dystopia our guide through the Inferno that the Disunited States has become is not Virgil, but rather a genetically modified shapeshifter named Coyote. She will get you to where you need to go and possibly save some lives on the way!

Staff Review
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Family Writing Contest

By Lindsey Prewitt
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by Helen H.
Mar 5, 2025

Johnson County Library is pleased to announce that Lindsey Prewitt has won our poetry contest on the theme Family with her poem "One Step Closer."