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The Personal Librarian was a top book club pick in November 2021, [3] March 2022, [4] and April 2022. [5] In 2021, the book was named a "Favorites of Favorites" by Library Reads, [6] as well as one of Booklist's top ten historical fiction novels. [7] It was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction. [8]
The Only Woman in the Room, published in 2019 by Sourcebooks Landmark, is a fictionalized biography of Hedy Lamarr. The book is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick. [7] In 2019, it received a space in Library Reads's Hall of Fame. [8]
Nancy Pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. [1]
In her forthcoming book, “That Librarian” (Bloomsbury, $29.99), Jones shares what came next: a sustained barrage of bizarre and erroneous social media posts about her, death threats, a leave ...
Previously a librarian in Louisiana, author Amanda Jones has been through the wringer when it comes to defending books. Hear her thoughts Sept. 9.
[1] Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan died in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan, and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Riding horses, donkeys or mules, on foot or by rowboat, [1] the librarians — various known as "book women", "book ladies" or "packsaddle librarians" — would follow long, mountainous routes, riding hundreds of miles each week in difficult weather and trail conditions, in dozens of rural counties where there were no libraries at all. [2]
The organization started in 1917, [1] when women in the book industry were excluded from joining the professional organization, the Bookseller's League. [5] Twenty one women met in New York at The Sunwise Turn bookshop on November 13, 1917, and founded the Women's National Association of Booksellers and Publishers - soon to become known as the Women's National Book Association - as an ...