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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 Personal Librarian, co-authored by Victoria Christopher Murray and published in 2021 by Berkley Books, is a fictionalized biography of Belle da Costa Greene's life as the personal librarian to J. P. Morgan and the first director of the Morgan Library & Museum. The Personal Librarian received starred reviews from Booklist [12] and Library ...
The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. ... author of Oprah's 103rd Book Club Pick, Let Us Descend, based her second novel on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ...
Many public libraries lead book clubs as a library program on a regular basis. A librarian usually leads a discussion after participants read the book. Copies of the book are available to be checked out for the group meeting. Some libraries at secondary schools and tertiary education institutions form book clubs. For book discussion groups ...
Kaite Mediatore Stover, the library’s director of readers’ services, will lead a discussion of Amanda Jones’ “That Librarian” at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26, with the author briefly attending ...
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]
Previously a librarian in Louisiana, author Amanda Jones has been through the wringer when it comes to defending books. Hear her thoughts Sept. 9.
Helen Haines is best known within the library community as the author of Living with Books, which served as one of the leading texts on book selection and readers' advisory. In addition, Haines dedicated her career to combatting against literary censorship and promoting intellectual freedom as a hallmark of the library profession. [2]