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.

Upcoming Book Discussion

Monday, October 24 is our Book Discussion Group meeting. We'll be discussing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

New members are always welcome!

Seasonal Reading - Bring on the Ghosts

Like to read a ghost story in October?

Check out this list of ghost and haunted house books recommended by Novelist, the database for reading!

Library Card

Due to our migration to another circulation system, we will need your library card to checkout any materials to you, from  Monday, October 24 through Thursday October 27.

Holds in October

Riverdale Public Library is a member of the Morris Automated Information Network (MAIN). MAIN is changing to a different circulation system, with added features for our patrons.


To ensure the migration goes smoothly for our patrons, placing a hold on books and materials will be suspended through the month of October.

The ability to place a hold on items will be restored when we are live in our new circulation system, a projected date of Monday, October 31.

Kindle eBooks Available for Borrowing

eBooks for Kindle devices are now available with your library card. In our catalog, click on "Download audiobooks/eBooks" and select your title for the Kindle. You'll need your library card, and will be asked to sign into your Amazon account to complete the download.

Don't forget our classes in using the library catalog for eBook downloading. Next class is Monday, October 3, at 6:30. Register now online at our website, www.riverdalelibrary.org, or call us at (973) 835-5044.