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| | | April 23, 2018 |  Discovering America’s Favorite Novel | PBS Announces The Great American Read Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert On Friday, April 20, at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) introduced The Great American Read, an eight-part multiplatform series that will culminate in the first-ever national vote for America’s favorite novel. The series, created for PBS by the independent television production company Nutopia, will premiere May 22 with a two-hour episode introducing 100 top titles chosen in a national survey. Conducted by the Internet-based market research and data analytics firm YouGov and tapping 7,000 Americans distributed equitably by age, gender, region, and ethnicity, the survey aimed to discover not the best but the best-loved novels. The list that resulted embraces classics, popular titles, and YA works. |
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|  Albom, Philbrick, Picoult, & More | Barbara’s Picks Mitch Albom follows up The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Sarah Perry follows up The Essex Serpent, Jodi Picoult follows up nine consecutive No. 1 New York Times best sellers, Nathaniel Philbrick follows George Washington during the last year of the Revolutionary War, Neil MacGregor follows faith through multiple objects, and more. |
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|  Nineteen Killer Thrillers | Fiction Previews From Sara Blaedel, Denmark's Queen of Crime ( The Midnight Witness); to Tana French's stand-alone The Witch's Elm; to John Grisham's as-yet-untitled trip back to Clanton, MS, to another James Patterson title, killer thrillers to beat the autumn chill. |
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| 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners- Andrew Sean Greer's Less
- Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires
- Frank Bidart’s Half-light
- James Forman Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own
- Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf
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|  Dogs, Cats, Parrots, & Killers | Mystery Previews Rita Mae Brown's Homeward Hound, E.J. Copperman's Bird, Bath, and Beyond: An Agent to the Paws Mystery, Miranda James's Six Cats a Slayin’, and David Rosenfelt's Deck the Hounds—lots of our furry and feathered friends in this month's mystery. More Christmas titles, too, and M.C. Beaton, who will apppear at Day of Dialog. |
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|  From an MBA Mastermind to a Ravenmaster | Memoir Previews I am especially excited about There Will Be No Miracles Here by MBAs Across America founder Casey Gerald and distinguished novelist/memoirist Kathryn Harrison's On Sunset. But my secret favorite: Christopher Skaife's The Ravenmaster, by the beefeater who tends the ravens at the Tower of London. |
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|  Top Biography & History / Nonfiction Previews Of special interest: Stephen L. Carter's Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, the best-selling author and Yale professor's account of his lawyer grandmother. Other titles range from English history and the Korean War to Thomas Cromwell and Nietzsche, |
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|  Doubling Your Circ on a Dime How you manage your circulation matters—to keep patrons coming back for more and to demonstrate to stakeholders just how well-used the library is in your community. Don't miss this online course led by experts who have boosted their circulation numbers in creative and sometimes unexpected ways, without denting their budgets—April 25 & May 9. |
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|  Job Zone utilizes unique job matching technology to help you find the perfect job (and employers find the perfect candidate), whether you’re actively seeking or just keeping an eye out for your possibilities. Log on today and check out our newest features, including automated job and candidate matches, and email alerts. JOB OF THE WEEK The San Bernardino County Library System is seeking a new Librarian |
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