52 Award Winning Titles Every Book Lover Should Read

The American Library Association presents an award-winning must-read book for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log. Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title, notes on the awards they've won, and prompts for further reflection, these recommendations are a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars. Includes: 52 Award-Winning book recommendations to keep you reading all year Prompts to reflect on each book as you complete the challenge Inspiration for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media

The American Library Association presents a must-read Young Adult book for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log. Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title and prompts for further reflection, these recommendations are a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars. Includes: 52 YA book recommendations to keep you reading all year Prompts to reflect on each book as you complete the challenge Inspiration for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media

The American Library Association presents a book by a must-read BIPOC author for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log. Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title and prompts for further reflection, these recommendations are a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars. Includes: 52 book recommendations to keep you reading BIPOC authors all year Prompts to reflect on each book as you complete the challenge Inspiration for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media

Unplanned careers affect everything and everyone. They can lead to frustration, negativity, and apathy at a time when we need to be focused, energized and motivated. Though your library career might have started “accidentally,” you can overcome organizational restructuring, changing job titles, and shifting responsibilities by cultivating a mindful existence in the library workplace. Building on the simple and fun approach that have made her previous books bestsellers, Hakala-Ausperk offers up a DIY-style program for revisiting personal values, understanding your options, identifying skill gaps, and creating plans for growth. Whether you’re a library veteran who’s feeling burned out, a new LIS grad just starting out, or somewhere in mid-career, this book will introduce methods to help you examine your individual interests, desires, and goals;show you how to understand your workplace’s priorities and culture, and offer tips for identifying where there’s either a match or a gap;demonstrate how you can improve your current position;prepare you to move forward through the creation of a personalized strategic professional plan that addresses professional development, gaining additional experience, and other options for growth;include tips for effective self-marketing, networking through colleagues and friends, and acing an interview;present ways to stay happy and engaged in a new role or position; andoffer guidance for sharing your skills and experience through mentorship, and retiring with grace. Ideal for both self-paced study and team-based staff development, this six-step plan will help readers renew themselves, their careers, and their organizations.

This simple yet comprehensive reading log and journal makes a great gift for yourself if you're an avid reader or a book lover in your life. Book lovers can set a reading goal, record all the "must-read" books so that you don't forget all the books you want to read. The reading log has two pages for each book so there's lots of space to record the key takeaways for easy reference so you can refer back to it easily. It also has the fun feature to add the name of the book you've finished to your own bookshelf in the reading journal. It can also be colored if you wish to further personalize it. There's room to record 52 books with two pages of space with prompts. The first page is the reading log where you can record the name of the book, author, book rating, start and finish date, genre, whom you'd recommend the book to, a one-sentence summary and a place to record your overall key takeaways from the book. On the second page, there's a note section where you can reference the page number or % of the book with specific quotes, notes or whatever you'd like to jot down. FEATURES OF THE READING JOURNAL FOR BOOK LOVERS: - convenient 6" x 9" size making it perfect for travel - clean white interior stock page109 pages to record 52 books- strong binding- designed by an avid reader CONTENTS OF THE BOOK JOURNAL: - Bookshelf to record books you've already read (room for 96 titles)- Reading log to record 66 books you "want to read", "currently reading" or "done"- Reading journal to record 52 books (2 pages each) READING LOG PROMPTS INCLUDE:- Name of the book- Author- Rating- Genre- Start and Finish Date- One-Sentence Summary- Key Takeaways- One page note section for each book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.