How are your resolutions going? Hopefully you have the support you need to learn new skills and make the changes you want to this year. Your support could be friends, family, community and even a favorite website. Have you thought of the library as part of your support system? I’ve found reading books and articles that support the changes I’m trying to make helps keep me on course and reminds me of my goals. Discover a book, audio, e-book, CD, DVD, or digital resource every few weeks related to your resolution and you’ll have another tool for success by your side or at your fingertips.
You can find many books and DVDs in our catalog but we also have many e-books available that you can borrow by downloading to your Kindle, Nook, iPad, smartphone, or your computer. They range from fiction bestsellers to healthy cookbooks to children’s books. If you need help getting started, sign-up for one of our classes at the branches or online.
Because e-books are so popular, you’ll most likely need to a place a hold to check-out a popular title. Don’t let this stop you. Placing a hold will trigger additional copies to be purchased and most of the time, not many people are waiting. Keep an eye out for these icons when you search:
Check this to see titles you can check out today.
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Below you’ll find 7 titles for your healthy resolutions. You can also search for more titles for these popular topics:
Art Business Careers Cooking & Food Crafts Family & Relationships Finance Foreign Language Study [Mango too] Gardening Health & Fitness Home Design & Decor Religion & Spirituality Self-Improvement Study Aids & Workbooks
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The no pressure book group
Join Southbank Reads: an online book club
This discussion group is the best of all worlds. If you are busy or worried about winter driving, read a book and discuss it online. You can participate as little or as much as you want. Each month we’ll select a fresh and interesting title that members vote on. Discussion begins the last week of the month so you have plenty of time to read. It’s a no pressure way to try a book club for the first time. Ask me, it’s my first book club and I’m one of the hosts. -Ann
In January 2012, we will read & discuss the book, “The Postmortal” by Drew Magary.
To participate:
-Join GoodReads.com
-Join the “Southbank Reads” book group
-Read the book
-Start discussing! [January 22]
Request the book from Kenton County Public Library
More about “The Postmortal“: Imagine a near future where a cure for aging is discovered and-after much political and moral debate-made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems-including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult, and other horrors. Witty, eerie, and full of humanity, “The Postmortal” is an unforgettable thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.
Email your questions to: business [at] kentonlibrary [dot] org
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by Ann @kentonlibrary
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