Amanda Dembiec

Amanda is a classically-trained pianist who loves to read. Like any good librarian, she also has two cats named after Italian cities. Amanda spends her free time sitting in Nashville traffic, baking, and running the Interlibrary Loan office at the Nashville Public Library.

Latest Blog Posts

Happy Artober! Let's celebrate with a book about food math that is so cool, even a nonmath person (like me) will love it!
It's Burn Notice meets Psych with just a hint of Jack Bauer for zest. How much better can you get?
Happy Poetry Month! If you're not a big poetry fan, you need to check out Mary Oliver's new book because she'll convert you.
What? The library doesn't have enough weather books for you? Have no fear! ILL is here!!!
Imagine being a single mother to thirteen girls - all before you turn 21! Not many people would choose that life, but Katie did.
An original author, creating a fictitious author writing what amounts to fan fiction, that was then borrowed by another fictitious character for more fan fiction, and then back to the original author who took the fictitious author's character and wrote her own fan fiction? What's not to love about that?
When we travelled to Italy, I really wanted to learn more of the language because Italians don’t, as a rule, speak much English. What no one tells you before hand is that Italian is hard to learn. When I came across this book, I was hoping that it would give me the added insight to get better at Italian.