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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


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A Book For Every Month Part One:  Timely Reads to get you Through the First Half of 2020

15 Jan

I’ve been waiting for 2020.  Gone are the awkward to mention about Nauhts and 10’s; we are back to the roaring 20’s!  I was talking to one of my colleagues recently how I had just gotten done with several Christmas related novels and that I like reading books synced to the time of the year.  I was thinking some of our readers might enjoy that too, so I went on a hunt for books that we could enjoy for the first half of the year beginning a new decade.

January: The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream
by Gary Younge
The Speech
With Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this month and Black History month in February it is the perfect time to reflect on the speech that had such a defining impact on the civil rights movement.  As we go through a period when protests have sometimes resulted in violence, King’s powerful words are not only an important piece of history, but also an example for our current times.  Check out The Speech at HPL!

February: Chocolate Covered Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery
by Leslie Meier
Chocolate Covered Murder
Whether you have a sweetie, but you feel overwhelmed having to pick out that “perfect” gift or you are single and tired of being bombarded with ads for cards and candy, Valentine’s Day might have you seeing red for reasons other than lacey hearts.  A great murder mystery could be the perfect antidote to the February doldrums.  Check out Chocolate Covered Murder, where Lucy must uncover who murdered a candy store owner during their New England town’s Valentine’s Day celebration.

March: The Love Object: Selected Stories
by Edna O’Brien
Love Object
For March I wanted to find something to celebrate both Women’s History Month and St. Patrick Day and I think I’ve found a true gem.  Booklist Review, describes Edna O’Brien as “an Irish national treasure, having secured a place in the pantheon of top-notch twentieth-century Irish writers of fiction” and Publisher Weekly states, “O’Brien, who introduced an Irish female perspective to the 1960s literary landscape, has produced stories over the last half-century that resonate with charm and acerbity, lyricism and terseness, nostalgia and brute force.”  In The Love Object, O’Brien gifts us with 31 stories written over four decades.  I’d take that over trite green beer any day.

April: Lower Your Taxes — Big Time!
by Sanford Botkin
Lower Your Taxes
You may be taking part in Easter, Passover, or another Spring Celebration this April, but one thing all of us Americans will be stuck preparing for is tax day when we find out if we owe money or will be getting it back from the government.  You might consider checking out Lower Your Taxes — Big Time!: Wealth-Building, Tax Reduction Secrets from an IRS Insider by Sanford Botkin.  We also have here Pogue’s Basics: Money by David Pogue and Gaby Dunn’s Bad with Money for more financial advice.  Of course always talk with your accountant or other financial advisor before making any important changes.

May: The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
by Kao Kalia Yang
Song Poet
In The Song Poet, Kao Kalia Yang recounts the life of her father, Bee Yang, a Hmong song poet who was a refugee who came to Minnesota.  The Hmong are a group living across several countries in South East Asia, it is their tradition that a song poet is someone who keeps and recounts the lives of his people and through him keeps their memories alive.  This is a fitting way to celebrate May, which is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and next month’s Father’s Day.

June: Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
by Nathaniel Frank
Awakening
Until very recently when October became the prime month, the most popular month for weddings in the US was June.  This may date back as far as ancient Rome when couples celebrated Juno and his wife Jupiter (the goddess of marriage).   Today June is also when we celebrate Gay Pride Month.  You can check out Awakening by Nathaniel Frank to learn about the history of the movement that just five years ago finally culminated in a Supreme Court decision allowing same-sex couples to marry.  The book looks back to the 1950s when it was difficult to feel safe simply in coming out and then moving through the decades as the movement took shape for marriage equality.  The library has some great wedding planning books including The Knot Yours Truly: Inspiration and Ideas to Personalize your Wedding by Carley Roney, Style your Perfect Wedding, and Modern Wedding: Creating a Celebration that Looks and Feels Like You by Kelsey McKinnon.

 

 

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