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Author: Douglas Adams Title: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Genre: Science Fiction Publication Date: October 12, 1979 Number of Pages: 224 Geographical Setting: England, Space Time Period: 2000’s, considered the future from the year written Series (If applicable): The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Plot Summary: All Arthur Dent wanted to do was to keep his house from being destroyed for a bypass, and suddenly things started to change and become super weird all around him. At least he has his good friend Ford Prefect to keep him company during this whole mess. With the start of Arthur’s amazing adventure, we learn so much about the universe, and that is all thanks to the book that Ford keeps on him, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Subject Headings: Science fiction, Humor, Fantasy, Comedy Appeal: Language/Style – The story has lots of witty banter between characters, as well as many humorous turns of phrase, meant to make the reader chuckle when rea...

From the article, “Why the Banning of ‘A Birthday Cake for George Washington’ Really Matters,” we get a glimpse into understanding what happens with children’s books, particularly how part of the process is done. By reading, we learn that many children’s books are created with an author writing the story and an artist who draws the images for the book. Based on information from the Author, Ramin Ganeshram, many people had gone for how they looked and that they took away their “status as a person of color and glossed over the fact that the illustrator and editor are both African American” (Bloom, 2016, para. 28). Many people attacked the creator of the book for the art being too happy with the slaves smiling while working, and that it made the slaves look happy to be enslaved and to work for their master. The goal of the book was to try and show how although they were enslaved, there was status involved within the enslavement, and that the main character of the book, the historical fi...

Author: Ali Hazelwood Title: The Love Hypothesis Genre: Romance Publication Date: September 14, 2021 Number of Pages: 384 Geographical Setting: Stanford California and Boston, Massachusetts Time Period: Current time period, in the present Series (If applicable): The Love Hypothesis Plot Summary: Olive Smith is in her graduate Ph.D. program at Stanford and happens to be someone who wants what’s best for her friend, going so far as to say that she is on a date so that her best friend, Anh, can get together with Jeremy, who Olive went on a few dates with. The problem is that Anh just so happens to be at the lab when Olive is pretending to be on a date, so what is her solution? Kissing the first person she sees. And who happens to be said person? Dr. Adam Carlsen, who is notoriously known for being a tough person. Now in this predicament, there is only one solution that can save them both. They must continue the ruse and pretend to date. Subject Headings: Biologists, Sc...

One way that I regularly see as an idea is a blind date with a book, and this is commonly done with Romance books. I would love to flip the script and do a blind attack from a Horror book. This would give those who like the Horror genre something new, while also getting into books that they like. I would make sure to include blurbs on the book to help decide what book patrons would love to take home, but I would also keep a sheet with each blurb along with the title so that if someone wanted more details for a specific book, I would not have a problem getting them a little bit more about the book in general. This program would be a bit more passive for those who are just looking, but it would also have some sort of display to go with it just to bring it to the attention of the other readers. As for advisory, we could help others find a book that they may like in the display, as well as come up with new ideas to add to the display once some have been checked out. It would be a rotatin...

Goodman, Jessica. The Counselors. Libby. Unabridged. 9 hours. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. 2022. ISBN 9780593592977. $8.99. Three girls visit their favorite summer camp once again as counselors while trying to maneuver through their adolescent changes and keep their dark secrets from each other. Goldie Easton is going to be a camp counselor at Alpine Lake with her best friends, Ava, and Imogen, after having a really rough school year. The summer starts great but quickly twists into some trouble when they find one of the locals from Roxwood washed up on the shore of the summer camp. With the opportunity to meet with each other and talk the truth out between friends, they all hold something close and struggle to communicate, so is anyone really telling the truth to each other? A fantastic story of adolescents growing and learning from their mistakes as well as learning to communicate and talk with one another and trust others with their struggles and their wins. Also, a t...

When it comes to reviews, getting any reviews is super important since you know the material is being seen by many since not everyone will review something. Having Ebooks that get little to no reviews can make it difficult to ascertain what the book is about and how others feel about it. It makes it much more difficult for librarians to make determinations when there are no reviews, and it makes it difficult for determinations when there are a few reviews since you are only getting a small taste of what the book has to offer and what a few others think of the book. For the reviews on the book The Billionaire’s First Christmas by Holly Rayner, we have a taste of what the book is about from the Amazon review and the blog review. It certainly gives a very basic idea of what the book is about, along with a lot of opinions from the reviewers on how the book felt to their tastes, so it gives an idea of what kind of person may be looking for this kind of book and give a decent idea of the s...

When looking for a book at my local Public Library, I went in and asked for a new book, and I was prompted by Marian, a fake name and musical reference, on what book I was looking for. Her questions led her to find out that I was looking for a romance novel like the Ravenels series by Lisa Klepas, and that I have also dabbled in Lisa Klepas's other series called the Wallflower series and the Hathaway series. I wanted it to be a period romance in the Victorian era as a more romanticized story. I was recommended the books A Rogue by Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean from the Rule of Scoundrels series, as well as The Duke and I by Julia Quinn from the Bridgerton series. The first book had to be placed on hold due to it not being on the shelf at the library currently, but I was given the information to find The Duke and I on the shelf at the library so I had a book to take home that day and start reading. The whole interaction was amazing and well done by Marian and I would most likely g...