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April Adventures Deliver Unique Journeys of Escapism

| By Gale Staff | Great reads can send you to faraway places, transporting you both physically and emotionally. Or, they can make you feel as if a mirror is being held to your life, capturing your state of being. Our April selections have the potential to do both as they explore the lives of …Read more

2020年展望 - 坐落于大读您的目光

| By Gale Staff | Ready to review some great new titles to help readers dive into another year of discovery? This month we’re featuring a poignant story of a shattered Syrian family, a novel cited as both funny and disturbing, and a historical novel that explores the life of a powerful yet overlooked woman. …Read more

We’re Wrapping Up 2019 with Big Reads

| By Gale Staff | With the new year approaching, we’ve got perfect picks to reflect on the past while looking toward the future. Three titles serve up historical perspectives while a fourth considers troubling times ahead. Thank you for another year of allowing us to provide you and your readers with the very best …Read more

Celebrate Banned Books: September 23-29

| By Traci Cothran | I just LOVE Banned Books Week. Don’t get me wrong: I don’t like that we need a Banned Books Week, it’s just that I love thinking about all the books I’ve read that are on various banned lists, as so many of them are near and dear to me. Then …Read more

Gale’s Holiday Book Sale Raises Funds for Reading Is Fundamental

| By Jennifer Stock | This year, I became the new project editor for the Something About the Author series. Featuring emerging and established authors/illustrators in the fields of children’s and young adult literature, this series includes images of the entrants, as well as numerous book covers and interior illustrations. Each of the books that have images …Read more

美国西部邮品订购计划现在发售月刊

We received your feedback and we heard you! Offering you the best in Western and American Historical fiction — subgenres on the rise — Thorndike Press and Wheeler Publishing are proud to announce our Western standing order plans will now release in monthly shipments. Benefits of Monthly vs. Quarterly: Keep patrons coming back with new stories arriving …Read more

Books Bring People Together

| By Lisa Joyce, acquisitions editor, Thorndike Press | “I live with some of the most interesting people, but never know until I read their obituary.” I always remember this comment from a senior patron. As the Outreach Librarian at Portland Public Library (Maine) for nearly 25 years, I spent a great deal of time making deliveries at a senior residence and …Read more

A Look Inside Gale’s Reading Mentor Program

| By Caroline Drexler |

Background

我开始我的职业生涯，在大风在2000年的二金宝搏彩票月库销售顾问，在2016年移动到我现在的客户成功经理的角色在我前两年在大风，我听说了自1998年以来与学生的组织工作，在当地小学所谓的山坡导师计划。在劳里Fundukian正驶向了这个节目的时候，她曾在大风编辑部超过17年。金宝搏彩票

通常，每个落在山坡导师队伍达到了学校确定的起始日期程序，我们征求盖尔人获得志愿者。金宝搏彩票通常情况下，我们得到约30名志愿者，但没有限制因孩子请求帮助的巨量。通常情况下，一名两个学生被分配一个导师，为每周一小时。我们在图书馆或教室的学生见面，而他们吃午饭读给他们，而试图鼓励他们向我们宣读。有些日子，我们玩游戏或谈话，但作为导师，我们的工作就是鼓励他们阅读，以提高他们的技能。

Dylan’s Story

当我参加节目，我被分配一个学生谁不仅是一个可怜的读者，还不得不在家里许多挑战。他的名字是迪伦，在山坡小学一个幼儿园老师，谁是生活与他的祖父母。他从来不看作为一个孩子，查处了失踪的父亲和药物上瘾母亲的巨大奋斗。我可以告诉他是个非常好奇的孩子，却不得不专注于一个特定的任务的问题。

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2017年4月精选

| By Elyse Monahan |

四月编辑精选

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从我们的专业编辑团队精心挑选的标题在这里！在桑代克新闻，我们的编辑有选择下一个伟大的读取诀窍。他们已经这样做了三十几年！这是他们知道您的惠顾将享受四月标题的列表。

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阅读殇

By Mary Kelly

当我第一次开始作为一名学生,我认为my taste should gravitate to the “serious” and “important” works of literature. I kind of wanted to be that person that read Kafka or Joyce on the train or went to a poetry reading. I even wanted to wear a beret. I was hoping that I would be considered a “deep thinker” and an “intellectual” reader. I guess I wanted to be the early 1980s version of Rory Gilmore. No one needed to know that although I read widely on occasion (and sometimes with a gun to my head), I secretly loved books by the likes of Erica Jong, Jacqueline Susanne, and Sydney Sheldon. If it had a wild plot, sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, I was a fan. I could chew these books up like candy. It was my secret shame reading list.

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