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Buy What You Love Without Going Broke: Transform Your Spending and Get More of What Money Can’t Buy

Buy What You Love Without Going Broke: Transform Your Spending and Get More of What Money Can’t Buy

Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | SOCIAL SCIENCES,  Dec 01, 2024

An excellent library purchase that’s holistic and empowering. Readers are sure to cherish this title’s authenticity, action steps, and key takeaways.
The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs
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The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs

Richard Smith | SCIENCES,  Nov 08, 2024

Smith’s passion for coral reefs, their inhabitants, and their protection shines through in this gorgeous, fascinating, informative, immersive book. Divers (and readers who would rather appreciate remote underwater habitats from the comfort of home) will cherish this book.
Design Trend: Inside Out | Year in Architecture 2024

Design Trend: Inside Out | Year in Architecture 2024

Rebekkah Smith Aldrich,  Nov 04, 2024

This year’s crop of libraries demonstrates a continued commitment to the well-being of library workers and patrons through biophilic design, a tried-and-true construct to connect people with nature in hopes of improving human health.

Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants Is Good for Our Health
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Good Nature: Why Seeing, Smelling, Hearing, and Touching Plants Is Good for Our Health

Kathy Willis | SCIENCES,  Nov 01, 2024

Readers don’t have to know anything about plants or have a green thumb to enjoy this title about nature therapy and the impact it can have on one’s health. City planners and public health policy makers can benefit from reading this book as well.
Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization
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Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization

Ryan T. Cragun & Jesse M. Smith | RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY,  Oct 18, 2024

For scholars and people curious about why so many people are leaving organized religions.
Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway
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Even After Everything: The Spiritual Practice of Knowing the Risks and Loving Anyway

Stephanie Duncan Smith | RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY,  Oct 18, 2024

This book about loss, fecundity, and God is profoundly personal, interior, and meditative.
Read-Alikes for ‘The Waiting’ by Michael Connelly | LibraryReads

Read-Alikes for ‘The Waiting’ by Michael Connelly | LibraryReads

Jeff Ayers, Jen Funk, Valerie Osborne, and Starr Smith,  Oct 16, 2024

The Waiting by Michael Connelly is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

ALA and Sustainable Libraries Initiative Release National Climate Action Strategy | Sustainability

ALA and Sustainable Libraries Initiative Release National Climate Action Strategy | Sustainability

Rebekkah Smith Aldrich,  Oct 08, 2024

The American Library Association and the Sustainable Libraries Initiative have announced the new National Climate Action Strategy for Libraries and created an implementation guide to help libraries incorporate climate action locally into strategic and facility plans.

The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism
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The Newsmongers: A History of Tabloid Journalism

Terry Kirby | SOCIAL SCIENCES,  Sep 20, 2024

A worthy read for people interested in the role sensationalized news media plays on public life and discourse.
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