Holiday Movies

In the mood for a holiday movie? Or what about listening to a new holiday CD? Browse our catalog at home or at the library. At home, click on the catalog button on our website (www.riverdalelibrary.org)

A reminder -  with your Riverdale library card, you can borrow from any of the Morris County libraries in MAIN (Morris Automated Information Network).

And the winners are:

The National Book Awards were announced on November 16th.

FICTION: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)

NONFICTION: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

(W. W. Norton & Company)

POETRY: Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split

(TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again

(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

National Book Award Finalists

Looking for another good read?
The finalists for the 62nd National Book Awards were announced October 16. They are:
 Fiction
Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn
(Bellevue Literary Press)
Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
(Random House)
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
(Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House)
Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision
(Lookout Books, an imprint of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
(Bloomsbury USA)
Non-Fiction
Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism
(Graywolf Press)
Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
(Little, Brown and Company)
Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
(Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Group USA)
Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
(It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

Poetry

Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split
(TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)
Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Carl Phillips, Double Shadow
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010
(W.W. Norton & Company)
Bruce Smith, Devotions
(University of Chicago Press)

Young People’s Literature

Franny Billingsley, Chime
(Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc. )
Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name Is Not Easy
(Marshall Cavendish)
Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again
(Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)
Albert Marrin, Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
(Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)
Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now
(Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

 
The winners  will be announced at the 62nd National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony on Wednesday, November 16 in New York City.

Your Reading History

Many patrons keep paper lists of what books they've read, or they use online sites, but now you can create a reading history  of books you checkout from our library. It's call Reading History.

Log in to the catalog with your library card barcode number, and your PIN, and indicate in your account that you want to create a reading history. You'll be saving any titles you checked out, and you can refer to it by clicking on the Reading History tab when you are logged in.

It's a great way to keep track of authors you like, and want to read in the future, or a book you started that you didn't have time to read, but want to get back to.

Let us know if you would like a library staff member to demonstrate how the feature works.