2011 Booklist Editor’s Choice Fiction

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Heather Braum

Rosemary Honn at Ottawa Library put together a fantastic slideshow and a list of several of the 2011 Booklist Editor’s Choice fiction books found in NExpress. I’ve embedded her slideshow below, as well as links to many of the books. Click the title to read the Booklist review. Click Find in NExpress to locate the book in NExpress.


**Top of the List

  1. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. Find in NExpress
  2. American Boy by Larry Watson. Find in NExpress
  3. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. Find in NExpress
  4. Broken Irish by Edward J. Delaney. Find in NExpress
  5. Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks. Find in NExpress
  6. The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje. Find in NExpress
  7. Chango’s Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William Kennedy. Find in NExpress
  8. Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland. Find in NExpress
  9. Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago. Find in NExpress
  10. Emily, Alone by Stewart O’Nan. Find in NExpress
  11. The Empty Family by Colm Toibin. Find in NExpress
  12. The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale. Find in NExpress
  13. Faith by Jennifer Haigh. Find in NExpress
  14. **The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright. Find in NExpress
    • “The vicissitudes of extramarital love and the obstructions to its smooth flow–including spouses, children, and the very clandestineness of the relationship–are tracked by Enright with a raw clarity expressed in magnetically precise prose. A stunning novel.” –Brad Cooper, Booklist, July 2011
  15. The Glass Demon by Helen Grant. Find in NExpress
  16. Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks. Find in NExpress
  17. Luminarium by Alex Shakar. Find in NExpress
  18. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. Find in NExpress
  19. The Matchmaker of Kenmare by Frank Delaney. Find in NExpress
  20. Millennium Peole by J. G. Ballard. Find in NExpress
  21. Saints and Sinners by Edna O’Brien. Find in NExpress
  22. The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Find in NExpress
  23. The Time in Between by Maria Duenas. Tr. by Daniel Hahn. Find in NExpress
  24. To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal. Find in NExpress
  25. Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante. Find in NExpress
  26. West of Here by Jonathan Evison. Find in NExpress
  27. When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman. Find in NExpress
  28. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan. Find in NExpress
  29. The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak. Not available in NExpress at this time.
  30. The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson. Find in NExpress

The Full List of the 2011 Booklist Editor’s Choice

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On Order Items from McNaughton, 2012, 1st edition

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Heather Braum

I have ordered 41 new titles, 74 books total, for the NEKLS leased collection through April 2012 release dates. Feel free to share this list with your patrons so they can place items on hold or use the list for your own pre-ordering purposes! If you notice I’ve missed a title or have a recommendation, please let me know.

Here’s what’s been ordered, including the release dates:

  1. Private, # 1 suspect (January 2, 2012) by James Patterson (5 copies)
  2. Private, #1 suspect : a novel (January 2, 2012) [Large Print] by James Patterson (2 copies)
  3. Love in a nutshell (January 3, 2012) by Janet Evanovich (4 copies)
  4. Love in a nutshell : a novel (January 3, 2012) [Large Print] by Janet Evanovich (1 copy)
  5. A devil is waiting (January 3, 2012) by Jack Higgins (1 copy)
  6. Gun games (January 3, 2012) by Faye Kellerman (1 copy)
  7. The hunter : a novel (January 3, 2012) by John T. Lescroart (1 copy)
  8. Breakdown (January 3, 2012) by Sara Paretsky (1 copy)
  9. The jaguar (January 10, 2012) by T. Jefferson Parker (1 copy)
  10. Gideon’s corpse (January 10, 2012) by Douglas J. Preston (1 copy)
  11. The rope : an Anna Pigeon novel (January 17, 2012) by Nevada Barr (1 copy)
  12. Shadows in flight (January 17, 2012) by Orson Scott Card (1 copy)
  13. Look of love : a Piper Donovan mystery (January 17, 2012) by Mary Jane Behrends Clark (1 copy)
  14. The fear index (January 31, 2012) by Robert Harris (1 copy)
  15. Kill shot (February 7, 2012) by Vince Flynn (2 copies)
  16. Catch me (February 7, 2012) by Lisa Gardner (1 copy)
  17. Left for dead : a novel (February 7, 2012) by Judith A. Jance (1 copy)
  18. Private games : a novel (February 13, 2012) by James Patterson (5 copies)
  19. Private games : a novel (February 13, 2012) [Large Print] by James Patterson (2 copies)
  20. Oath of office (February 14, 2012) by Michael Palmer (1 copy)
  21. Perfect blood (February 21, 2012) by Kim Harrison (1 copy)
  22. Celebrity in death (February 21, 2012) by J.D. Robb (2 copies)
  23. Victims : an Alex Delaware novel (February 28, 2012) by Jonathan Kellerman (1 copy)
  24. Lone wolf : a novel (February 28, 2012) by Jodi Picoult (4 copies)
  25. Fair game (March 6, 2012) by Patricia Briggs (1 copy)
  26. The thief (March 6, 2012) by Clive Cussler (2 copies)
  27. Phantom : an Alex Hawke novel (March 20, 2012) by Ted Bell (1 copy)
  28. Stay close (March 20, 2012) by Harlan Coben (3 copies)
  29. Fall from grace : a novel (March 20, 2012) by Richard North Patterson (1 copy)
  30. Guilty wives (March 26, 2012) by James Patterson (5 copies)
  31. Guilty wives (March 26, 2012) [Large Print] by James Patterson (2 copies)
  32. Betrayal : a novel (March 27, 2012) by Danielle Steel (2 copies)
  33. Gypped (April 3, 2012) by Carol Higgins Clark (1 copy)
  34. The lost years (April 3, 2012) by Mary Higgins Clark (3 copies)
  35. Letter from a stranger (April 10, 2012) by Barbara Taylor Bradford (1 copy)
  36. Come home (April 10, 2012) by Lisa Scottoline (2 copies)
  37. The Innocent (April 17, 2012) by David Baldacci (3 copies)
  38. The innocent (April 17, 2012) [Large Print] by David Baldacci (1 copy)
  39. Witness (April 17, 2012) by Nora Roberts (2 copies)
  40. Witness (April 17, 2012) [Large Print] by Nora Roberts (1 copy)
  41. The wind through the keyhole : a dark tower novel (April 24, 2012) by Stephen King (1 copy)

Image Credit: “the future “coming soon”” by Flickr user Scott Nolan under a Creative Commons license.

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Nutty for Non-Fiction

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Sharon

Non-fiction collection development often leaves librarians scratching their heads – what to buy? what to weed? what to recommend?   If you have questions, we have answers!

First, I want to share “Serendipity in the Stacks: Great Non-Fiction Finds” (1 pg, pdf), a wonderful breakout session presented by Christina Callison and Julie Nelson at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s Celebrate the Book workshop in November.  You can also read my notes from that session at the lybrarian blog.

We also have permission to share a presentation about Non-fiction Readers Advisory by Mary A. Kelly and Holly Hibner, authors of Awful Library Books (awfullibrarybooks.net).  They say you CAN judge a book by its cover!
(Unrelated, if you haven’t discovered awfullibrarybooks.net, it may make you cringe, giggle and it could possibly trigger an urgent desire to weed…)

Non-Fiction Readers Advisory

Also, you may be interested in this month’s Booklist “Spotlight on Crafts and Gardening,” which includes helpful articles, like “Top 10 Crafts and Gardening Books: 2011” by Brad Hooper.  You can ILL a copy of Booklist from the NEKLS professional collection, if you don’t subscribe to it yourself.  Carolyn just alerted met that NEKLS hasn’t carried Booklist since 2002!  So, who in NExpress does subscribe?

As far as weeding non-fiction goes, just use CREW!  It gives you specific guidelines for each Dewey range and many sub-ranges, along with easy-to-understand overviews of each section.   For example, when weeding the 610′s (Medicine and Health), CREW says to:

Weed ruthlessly when it comes to current medical practices. Patrons rely on up-to-date information and outdated information can be dangerous. Keep only the current year plus the previous year (one reference, one circulating) of Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) and other prescription and over-the-counter drug directories, replacing when new editions become available. Do not keep drug guides that are more than three years old regardless.

Hope this gives you some ideas on what to buy, how to sell non-fiction to your patrons, and what to weed!

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