There is nothing like going to training as a librarian and watching a lot of (usually grumpy) adults getting all dewy eyed over their picturebook memories. For me, it wasDoggerby Shirley Hughes, which I remember taking out from the library every. single. week. And even now, that book ca...
The Lonely LibrarianFocuses on the importance of collaboration between teachers and school media center. Participation in teachers' meetings; Need of school media specialists to sell their library program; Use of Web Quest, an online, educational scavenger hunt/proje...
To hunt down the ancient artifact the Order seeks, Séverin calls upon a band of unlikely experts: An engineer with a debt to pay. A historian banished from his home. A dancer with a sinister past. And a brother in arms if not blood. Together, they will join Séverin as he explores t...
Taking inventory and doing the heavy lifting, at least until I am a devoted minimalist and don’t have any possessions (unlikely based on so many facts). “Never moving again” does sound lazy, though. And I will, I know, because not moving for too long means not growing/changing/...
Users can now filter books by genre, author, reading age (particularly useful for kids’ books), and family library status. These filters enable the swift identification of specific books based on personal preferences. Moreover, a new section called “unshelved” has been introduced, allowing ...
Melanie Stryder, a resistant host, and Wanderer, the alien soul within her, form an unlikely alliance. Both love the same man (Jared), leading to a unique love triangle as they search for him together. Why You Should Read: Ever since I first watched the still brilliant Roswell series (...
And, historically, what kind of books have actually gotten this treatment? Megan Rosenbloom, the world’s foremost expert on the subject, explores these questions and more in her book Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin, which ...
I’ve always disagreed with romance readers that their genre gets the least respect of any, because look at the way horror readers and writers get treated. There’s this perception that horror writers must be terrible people to come up with the kinds of stories they do (so many...
nobles attend candlelit balls and elegant garden parties, unrest brews amid the working class. The groom himself, Kit Carmine, is prickly, abrasive, and begrudgingly being dragged to the altar as a political pawn. But when Niamh and Kit grow closer, an unlikely friendship blossoms into ...
You can write the most brilliant book in history, but if the first sentence is a snoozer, it’s unlikely anyone will ever know about it. Author Peggy Hesketh writes: . First sentence:“The bees travel along the high-tension wires, just as surely as one true sentence follows the next....