Library Love Fest

Top Tweets of the Week

Holy Hannah this has been a long week.  I am looking forward to some R&R this weekend...kickball, brunch, getting together my Halloween costume.  Hope you guys enjoy some down time too!

 

* CuyahogaLibrary We recommend this article by Plain Dealer reporter John Caniglia on how libraries are evolving to meet the needs... fb.me/WT8gfDsV

*ALALibrary Visibility @ your library: ALA President encourages us to celebrate Banned Books Week in letter to USA Today http://ow.ly/6EZKU

* LibraryJournal 10 Steps to a Better Library Interior: Tips That Don't Have To Cost a Lot http://ow.ly/6Fr14 inexpensive steps to reinvigorate your library

* ShelfAwareness 50 Addictive Twitter Feeds for Bookworms--authors, booksellers, publishers, media &more (lots of you are on this list!) t.co/aEISRDE8

* TheLiB Some excellent questions from @infodocket about Amazon/Overdrive lending in libraries. eBooks, Privacy, & the Library - t.co/qS0M4yMH

* MacmillanLib Join us for the Librarians' Sneak Peek Book Preview (Oct 19 at @RHLibrary's pad)! We'll have lunch & talk books! RSVP: bit.ly/neKJS5

* Heelslibrarian Banned Books Week Reminds Us That Censorship Is Alive and Well in the Internet Age huff.to/qggCG2 via @huffingtonpost

* PublishersWkly NPR's Top 100 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books bit.ly/rmZM1h

* davidleeking Guess what? Tomorrow is #followalibrary day! tweet ur favorite book w #myfavoritebook - more info here - bit.ly/mWJYpQ

* LibraryJournal Is Your Library Accessible? http://ow.ly/6JWk1 Providing equal access to your historic building can spur other crucial updates.

 

 - Annie

 

 

We Are Not in Kansas Anymore...

Thanks to Gregory Maguire who has spirited us away to his magical version of the Land of Oz.  Out of Oz, the final installment in the Wicked Years series, comes out November 1, and there are some fun features on Facebook to get you all excited.

If you like Gregory Maguire's FB page you will get to watch a beautiful book trailer, and enter the sweepstakes to win one of six pairs of tickets to various performances of Wicked around the country.

So Like his page and don't miss the opportunity!

- Annie

Fun at Work

There are ups and downs with every job.  But one of the perks for me is having co-workers who are not only smart, but smarty pants!

Exhibit A:
Kayleigh George posing as Jackie O just because. (Well, just because it’s her Halloween costume)

Exhibit B: 
Annie Mazes having fun with ear pens.

Not only are these guys great at their jobs, they also keep me thoroughly entertained – which is a requirement to work in the HarperCollins Library Marketing Dept.  Makes for a nice day at the office!

-Virginia

Jackie O(MG)

You guys....this is uncanny!  Can we talk about how Ms. Kayleigh George is Jacqueline Kennedy reincarnated?

This is just a preview to Halloween where she will be decked out in full Jackie O regalia, complete with spot-on accent. 

Are you dressing up for the holiday?  What costume ideas are floating around those clever minds of yours? Do tell!

- Annie

 

And the Award(s) Go To....

Congratulations to John Curran and Reginald Hill! Curran’s book, Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, has won the Macavity and Anthony Awards for Best Non-Fiction. Hill’s novel, The Woodcutter, has won the Barry Award for Best British Novel. For more information, including a complete list of winning titles, please see the following sites:

 

Macavity Award: http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html

Anthony Award: http://www.bouchercon2011.com/awards.php

Barry Award: http://www.deadlypleasures.com/barry.html

- Annie

Trifecta of Terrific Talent

 ***UPDATE***
Supplies have now run out.  Thank you to all who participated.

OMG this is so exciting I can barely contain myself...we have some huge books coming out this Fall and now I get to give away three of them!  I love my job.  While supplies last anyone who emails us here at LLF can choose one of the three following titles:

Micro by Michael Crichton and Richard Preston (On sale 11.22.11)
This boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.

 

 

Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire (On sale 11.1.11)
The final volume in The Wicked Years series finds the Land of Oz enmeshed in a civil war.  Rain, Elphaba's granddaughter, must find a way to settle the unrest with help from a familiar cast of characters and some latent inherited gifts.

 

Falling Together by Marisa de los Santos (On sale 10.4.11)
Old friends are reunited in this story that uncovers hidden truths, confronts long-ignored realities, and ultimately leads on a journey that will make each character stronger as they try to rebuild their relationship.

I will send the books out as soon as they are on sale (I know it requires a little patience, but totally worth it).  So which one do you want??

- Annie

 ***UPDATE***
Supplies have now run out.  Thank you to all who participated.

Top Tweets of the Week

OMGloomy....what a gross day.  Here are some tweets to brighten your day (yeaaahhh....humor me, please?)

* PublishersWkly Peter Brantley’s first column: In the digital age, libraries and publishers face a social reconstruction bit.ly/o8tkuf

* LibraryJournal Guest Post by Lauren Gilbert (@Uffish_L): A Librarian’s Brooklyn Book Festival Takeaways | In the Bookroom http://ow.ly/6yHtf #bkbf

* helgagrace  Check out this post by @Tuphlos in which she discusses starting a digital collection: cdstacked.blogspot.com/2011/09/outtak… #collectiondevelopment #ebooks

* ALALibrary RT @gslisdom: Virtual read-out of banned books is launched with videos from Judy Blume and Lauren Myracle http://ow.ly/6uIUK #bannedbooks

* ShelfAwareness Seattle libraries begin testing Kindle lending is.gd/28tWL8

* ALA_Booklist Are you a fan of the #booklistwebinar? Well, we've got weeks of them: http://j.mp/pzByZM!

* LibraryJournal Amazon and OverDrive Roll Out Kindle Books to Libraries http://ow.ly/6APLD

* bookbench Will libraries be a “space for playing with and reconstructing the pasts that the library has served served to codify”? bit.ly/oWsoYo

* PublishersWkly Podcast: PW’s Week Ahead for Friday, Sept. 23. Andrew Albanese on Kindle library lending and Rose Fox with PW Reviews bit.ly/rlW1Gm

* librarylovefest This is incredible. Chekhov's is my favorite: buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/the-…

 - Annie

Starred Review for A Train in Winter

Caroline Moorehead's moving non-fiction book, A Train in Winter, has been garnering a lot of praise including from Kayleigh who talked about it at our book buzz in New Orleans.  Recently Booklist hopped on the train (unintentional pun that I've decided not to edit) with a starred review:

* A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France.

They came from all walks of life, and from all over France. Professionals and housewives, grandmothers and teenagers, they were drawn to or drawn into the Resistance, perhaps by a heightened sense of moral outrage, or just because their husbands, lovers, brothers needed their assistance. Ultimately, they would all come together in Nazi concentration camps, where the petty harassment they once endured as furtive members of undercover cells would wither in comparison to unimaginable horrors. As the war escalated, so did the savagery of their captors. Two hundred and thirty women began the journey into Hitler’s hell at the death camps at Birkenau and Auschwitz; by the time the Allies arrived to liberate them at Mauthausen, only 49 were left. Through primary interviews with the seven survivorsand other groundbreaking  research, distinguished English journalist and biographer Moorehead (Martha Gellhorn, Lucie de la Tour du Pin) potently demonstrates how this disparate group of valiant women withstood the atrocities of the Nazi regime through their abiding devotion to each other. Heightened by electrifying and staggering detail, Moorehead’s riveting history stands as a luminous testament to the indomitable will to survive, and the unbreakable bonds of friendship. — Carol Haggas

We here in libraryland definitely recommend checking it out.

- Annie

Enter to Win Jacqueline Kennedy's Never-Before-Heard Interviews

**** UPDATE: THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

 

For more information on Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, don't miss the two-hour ABC Diane Sawyer Special, available to watch online.  

In Romance News...

                          

Booklist has just put together a Top 10 list of Romance Fiction for 2011, and there are two familiar titles among them.  Elizabeth Boyle's Lord Langley is Back in Town and Susan Elizabeth Phillips' Call Me Irresistible are hot, hot, hot and you should definitely check them out.  And for all you SEPPIES out there, the sequel to Call Me Irresistible comes out in July 2012.  The Great Escape follows the path of runaway bride Lucy Jorik after her ill-fated wedding, and will be just as irresistible as it's predecessor. Ok, ok twist my arm...I'll do a giveaway. First 10 commentors who tell me their fave romance of 2011 get a copy of Call Me Irresistible.

- Annie