We’ve been so lucky to have some incredible authors speak at librarian events over the past few months. Below, check out videos of their talks to hear from these authors in their own words. Click to Watch Authors Speak at Our ALA Annual 2019 Lunch. Click to Watch Authors Speak at Our 2019 BookExpo Breakfast. Click […]
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REUSE, RECYCLE & RECIRCULATE Our Free Marketing Tools! Below are some materials we’ve created that are absolutely free for you to use to drive circs in your library. We’ve gathered Book Trailers, Excerpts and more on some of our most popular frontlist titles. Simply use the youtube and scribd links to repurpose these book promos […]
Download promotional material to share with your patrons HERE! Author Susan Cain is sharing quizzes, posters, shelf talkers, & more! [youtube 2Z35cOTo2Ns] Help us welcome Susan Cain @ Midwinter on January 21st, from 10am – 11am as an ALA Auditorium Speaker! We will have copies of QUIET for her to sign for you, hot off the […]
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Our friends at WaterBrook Multnomah are sharing a fun selection of holiday inspired contests, coloring pages, brain benders, and quizzes HERE! Some Christmas Facts & Figures: Number of Tweets needed to Tweet the carol Jingle Bells? Candy Canes Made per Year? Number of words in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? Top 10 Christmas Songs? Facts […]
Perhaps I’m a bit late to the party but I just finished reading Lisa See’s Shanghai Girls last week. I admit I wasn’t too sure about it because the cover, while gorgeous, was so pretty I figured it was going to be a “too pretty”. I should have known better. See wonderfully illuminates the plight […]
While surfing the web the other night I came across this article and video. photo courtesy of CNN.com Beth Hollis is a librarian for the Akron-Summit County Public Library in Akron, Ohio. By day anyway… By night she is MegaBeth of the Rubber City Roller Girls. At 53 years young she is the eldest member […]
Judy Blume and I have something in common. How cool is that? We both loved Swimming, by Nicola Keegan. You’ve read my take on the book (and if you were at ALA you saw it on the Staff Picks table as one of my selections) now here’s Judy’s: “I loved Swimming. It’s the most original novel […]
Check out this new trailer for Hot House Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire. Also keep in mind that author, Margot Berwin, will be a featured author at ALA next month. She is participating in the ALTAFF “First Author / First Book” discussion panel on Sunday 7/12 from 1:30 – 3:00 pm. A signing […]
