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Now that over 600,000 copies of Quirk’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (9781594743344) have been sold, there are more titles exploding out of the woodwork including:
Sense & Sensibility
and the Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and
Ben H Winters due
October from Quirk
Abraham Lincoln:
Vampire Hunter by Seth
Grahame-Smith
due April 2010
from Hachette
Jane Bites
Back by Michael
Ford due January
2010 from Random
Mr Darcy Vampyre by Amanda George due September
2009 from Sourcebooks
One critical reviewer maintains
that the books are so
successful because they
appeal not only to Classics
fans but also to those
who have had more
than enough of Mr
Darcy and his foppish
friends and are
quite happy to see
Zombies eat their
brains out!
They’ll be ok!
A UK report just released has found that today’s 13-17 year olds are not losing themselves in virtual worlds and eschewing all social skills but are preferring 'face-time' to Facebook. Perhaps it’s simply a case of having grown up with a technology and being able to see its place in their lives rather than being caught in the novelty of it.
Many Public Libraries position themselves as community hubs, and I think this gives them even more reason to continue to do so, without fear that the communities are all moving online. Yes, the online communities won’t go away but there is certainly a need and, as this study shows, a desire for ‘real world’ communities as well. Phew!
You can find information on the report, 'The Realtime Generation – How UK 13-17 year olds are coping in a digital, dangerous and dynamic world' at: www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=9533.
When you’re done, join the Realtime Generation here: www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
35 years old and still a bestseller
Richard Nelson Bolles has provided guidance to individuals and career professionals for over 35 years. His annual bestseller What Color Is Your Parachute? has been translated into 20 languages and is truly a global phenomenon. In 1991 it was placed on the Library of Congress list of 25 books that have shaped reader’s lives, along with The Bible and Don Quixote. In a recent interview Bolles was asked a number of questions including "For the new edition due this September, what updates and revisions can we expect?" Bolles answered that he has added two new chapters (for 2009) on "Job Hunting in Hard Times" and also for those who want to so some thoughtful inventorying of their own life and where they are going, has put in a new process for deciding what the ultimate values are and how to make job choices in light of those values.
The book itself grew out of a practical exercise in which Bolles was asked to travel to college campuses to assist college chaplains who were being made redundant to find new positions or new careers. He travelled 68,000 miles during ’69 and ’70 and self published his findings in late 1970. The title comes from a conversation with a colleague about the chaplains who were going to 'bail out' of their chosen profession and Bolles throwaway line “I wonder what color is their parachute?”
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009
A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers
9781580089302 Due December 2008 ARRP $34.95
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