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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


HPL’s Best Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2022

7 Dec

Adult Fiction
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother, who dies when he is 11, uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves and crushing losses.

Dreamland
by Nicholas Sparks
A poignant love story about two young people who risk everything for a dream and try to leave the past behind. They will navigate the exhilarating heights and heartbreak of first love.

Lessons
by Ian McEwan
The story of one man’s life across generations and historical upheavals from his childhood in a boarding school to his marriage. As he searches for his vanished wife, he is forced to confront his restless existence.

The Last Chairlift
by John Irving
A young man moves from N.H. to Aspen, Colo., where he was conceived, to learn the truth about his mother, a former slalom skier and ski instructor. He meets some ghosts there involving his past.

Lucy by the Sea
by Elizabeth Strout
As the pandemic forces the world into lockdown, Lucy is uprooted from her life in NYC and whisked away to a small town in Maine by her exhusband. For several months, they relive their complex past together.

Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult
A married woman uproots from her ideal life in Boston to return to her hometown in N.H. to start over. Her teenage son then becomes a suspect in a murder when his new girlfriend is suspiciously killed.

Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
A 12 year-old Asian boy receives a mysterious letter and sets out on a quest to find his mother, a ChineseAmerican poet who left when he was nine. His journey leads him to NYC where a new act of defiance may bring about change.

Marriage Portrait
by Maggie O’Farrell
A compelling story about the young duchess Lucrezia de Medici who is thrust into the limelight upon the death of her older sister. She must adjust to an unfamiliar court where she’s not universally welcomed.

The Night Ship
by Jess Kidd
In 1629, a young orphaned girl is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. She spends the long journey searching for a mythical monster above and below deck.

The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy
After a plane crash in 1980, a salvage diver discovers that the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the 10th passenger are missing. He is drawn into a conspiracy beyond his understanding.

The Rabbit Hutch
by Tess Gunty
An odd assortment of residents are struggling to survive in a low-cost and crumbling housing complex in the postindustrial Midwest. A bizarre act of violence finally changes all of their trapped and lonely lives forever.

The Winners
by Fredrik Backman
Two young Swedish people return to their small forest town and reunite with childhood friends. A new ice rink has been built, which has given folks optimism. However, an act of violence may change the mood.

Adult Nonfiction
Starry Messenger
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tyson brings his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth by shining new light on the crucial fault lines of our times: war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race. His views stimulate a deeper sense of unity for us all.

And There Was Light
by Jon Meacham
This illuminating new portrait of Lincoln and the American struggle shows a very human, yet imperfect man. His moral antislavery commitment was essential to the story of justice in America.

The Queen: Her Life
by Andrew Morton
An in-depth look at Britain’s longest reigning monarch and how she influenced both Britain and the world for much of the last century, This reluctant, but resolute Queen was one of the greatest sovereigns of the modern era.

The Light We Carry
by Michelle Obama
A series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power. She shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt to change and overcome various obstacles.

Year of the Tiger
by Alice Wong
Essays, conversations, graphics, and photos are used as a scrapbook of Wong’s life as an Asian American disabled activist. She traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with each other.

Finding Me
by Viola Davis
An emotional story from a crumbling apartment in R.I. to the stage in NYC and beyond. Awardwinning actress and icon, Davis examines her life journey with honesty & humility.

Invisible Kingdom
by Meghan O’Rourke
A landmark exploration of the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases. These diseases are poorly understood, marginalized, and undiagnosed. A revealing investigation into “invisible” illnesses.

Books are available in print from BCCLS libraries and as ebooks from eBCCLS and/or eLibraryNJ.

Written by:
Ethan Galvin
Information and Digital Services Librarian