Archive | January, 2023

New Year/New You: Books and Resources to Help with Resolutions Pt 1

11 Jan

It’s a New Year and Let’s Kick it off with a New You! Some of your New Year’s Resolutions may involve Exercise, Dieting, Getting a Job or Saving Money. Here are some suggested ebooks and other online resources available to Hoboken residents with their library cards that may help you achieve your goals and keep your Resolutions.

Saving Money & Spending Less
Know Yourself, Know Your Money
Rachel Cruze
A money expert helps you discover how you handle money and how to fix issues to better support financial gain. You can get out of debt and stay that way by following the author’s advice.

Finance for the People
Paco De Leon
A holistic view on getting a grip on your finances. Learn how to understand your interpretation of wealth and how to change your misconception to better your financial portfolio.

Valueline
Value Line’s Investment Survey Library Edition includes full-page reports with analyst commentaries as well as Timeliness(tm), Safety(tm), and Technical(tm) ranks on large cap companies. Published weekly, each Survey Issue includes: Ratings & Reports – Every week on-line you can receive new, full-page reports on stocks, plus analysis on industries Value Line tracks. In addition, The Value Line Investment Survey Library Edition offers projections of key financial measures, and concise, objective commentary on current operations and future prospects.

Morningstar
Hoboken Public Library patrons interested in financial information have access to Morningstar analysts’ independent opinion on stocks, mutual funds, and exchange rated funds.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship gives business owners 24-hour expertise covering all aspects of starting and operating a business, including finance, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, and taxes. It contains hundreds of sample business plans created by real-life entrepreneurs, award-winning eBooks, as well as content from over 300 business journals and magazines.

Healthy Diet and Fitness
Glucose Revolution
Jessie Inchauspe
Improve all areas of your health from weight, sleep, cravings, mood, energy, skin, and even slow down aging with 10 simple science-based hacks to manage your blood sugar levels while eating the foods you love.

Salad Freak
Jess Damuck
More than 100 inspired salad recipes combining color, texture, shape and flavor. Its not just about eating to feel good, but combining flavors to create fresh, bright and satisfying meals that you will want to make again and again.

Plantyou
Carleigh Bodrug
Over 140 easy and delicious plant-based oil free recipes. No special ingredients, tools, or know-how are required and helpful infographics are included. Great for beginner cooks wishing to experiment with a plant-based lifestyle.

52 Ways to Walk
Annabel Streets
A short user-friendly guide to attaining the full range of benefits that walking has to offer such as physical, spiritual and emotional. The latest scientific research about the benefits of walking are also included. *

The Gospel of Wellness
Rina Raphael
An exploration of some of the scams to avoid in the wellness industry. Balancing the good with the bad, this book explores what wellness has to offer, knocking down false idols and showing how to shape a better future.

Find a Job and Career Changes
Career Remix
Damon Brown
This guide helps you get the gig you want with the skills you’ve got. It offers plans of action and road tested insight to encourage job seekers to use their existing skills and resources to change careers and thrive in the current job market.

Love + Work
Marcus Buckingham
Learn how you can weave love back into the world of work as a force of good, how you can use your daily life routines to pinpoint your specific loves, and how you can make this a discipline for the rest of your life.

Get Hired Now!
Ian Siegel
ZipRecruiter CEO shows you how to accelerate your job search, stand out, and land your next great opportunity. He offers step-by-step instructions for writing a resume that works, finding the right jobs to apply for, and acing a job interview.

How to Get a Good Job After 50
Rupert French
In this step-by-step guide to finding the sort of job older employees want to have, a job serach expert shows you how to adopt a proactive, self-employed approach that builds selfesteem and promotes a self-managed job search program.

#Entry Level Boss
Alexa Shoen
A career coach lays out a proven 9-step methodology for approaching the job search, landing your dream job, and cutting through the noise of jobsearching in the 21st century.

Big Book of Job-Hunting Hacks
Brenda Bernstein
Detailed advice on every step of the job hunting process from navigating the interview process to creating the perfect resume. This book offers 420 tips for those laid-off, fired, or new to the workplace.

JobNow
JobNow provides online resources for job seekers, including access to trained career experts who provide live, one-to-one interview coaching and resume assistance from 2 PM-11 PM. Patrons also enjoy 24/7 access to a carefully-selected library of job resources. eParachute helps recent high school and college graduates and job-seekers identify their ideal job opportunities.

Next week we will share with you recommendations for resolutions related to Learning a new Skill or Hobby, Healing & Mental Health, and De-cluttering!

List Compiled with Staff Recommendations
by Ethan Galvin, Information and Digital Services Librarian


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Winter Kissed Fantasies: Back in a Spell and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries

4 Jan

Back in a Spell
by Lana Harper
Newly published Back in a Spell, is the third in Lana Harper’s Witches of Thistle Grove series; although it refers back to events and characters from the previous books, it is still possible to enjoy this charming novel on its own. Nineva Blackmoore isn’t just a lawyer whose powerful family owns a medieval theme park and other local businesses, she is also secretly a witch. A year after her fiancé, Sydney, dumps her, her best friend encourages her to go on a date with a nonbinary hottie picked from a dating app. Morty Gutierrez is quirky, laid back, and spontaneous nothing like the usually tightly controlled Nineva, but she thinks that might just be what she needs to get over her ex and bring some excitement into her life. Unfortunately although there is an attraction, their first date doesn’t go as well as planned. But if they aren’t meant to be together than why is Morty suddenly gaining powers, something that typically only happens when a witch is a committed relationship? Then Nineva’s magic begins to surge, which her power hungry mother and grandmother think they can use to gain control. I enjoyed that the story is not simply about Nineva’s unfolding relationship with Morty, but also her struggle to decide whether she will chose the selfish path her family has laid out for her or if she can find the strength to break away. Set during the snowy winter, this would be a great book to curl up with a mug of hot chocolate. Fantasy and romance fans will both be spellbound. You can enjoy another blog post for fans of witchy romances here.

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
by Heather Fawcett
Out next week is another read perfect for capturing winter’s chill, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is about Emily Wilde who is a professor of Dryadology and has gone to a remote Scandinavian island to study “the hidden ones” one of the most elusive groups of fairies for her encyclopedia. Her studies feel midway between a sociologist and a zoologist with the faeries being depicted as mimicking humans in some ways, but in others feeling completely alien in nature with their behaviors and emotions. Emily is one of those academics who feels more comfortable studying in remote locations with her canine companion, Shadow, than trying to awkwardly interact with other humans. When her only friend, Wendell Bambleby, a fellow researcher and academic rival shows up on the island, she is both annoyed and slightly relieved. As Emily’s suspicions about Wendell grow, she also finds herself falling for the insufferable enigmatic charmer. I enjoyed how the study of fairies is depicted in such a serious and thoughtful way as if it were indeed a real area of scholarship. The island is also captured in such detail, you’ll be wanting to up your thermostat as Emily explores its frozen woods. This novel should appeal to fans of Discovery of Witches and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Fawcett is able to build a sense of peril for the main characters, while still having moments of humor. Highly recommended to both Fantasy, Romance, and General Fiction Fans. For those who can’t wait for the next in this, her first adult series, Fawcett has several charming YA and Middle Grade novels to chose from including The School Between Winter and Fairyland.

I received copies of the books for review in advance from NetGalley and the publishers.

Written by:
Aimee Harris

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