Library Love Fest

Nancy Pearl

The wise and wonderful Nancy Pearl has just published another sure-fire bestseller, BOOKLUST TO GO. Travel the world with recommended reading from the woman who has an uncanny ability to remember details from every book she has ever read!

And if that’s not enough, check out this hilarious Nancy Pearl t-shirt that was created by and available from the brilliant minds at www.unshelved.com

Viva el Libro!
- Virginia

Charles Todd

The amazing mother-son writing team known to readers as Charles Todd has another winner on their hands. Check out the GREAT starred review of The Red Door from PW.  I’d love to hear what  you think about this book.  Download Publishers Weekly Monday, December 7, 2009

If you send me an email with your address – and a promise to review the book – I’ll happily send you a free copy. Your review will appear here on Library Love Fest.  Just send your complete mailing address to librarylovefest at harpercollins dot com. 

Mystery lovers, UNITE!
-Virginia

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind on The Daily Show!

We’ve been talking about The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind for months – telling everyone who’d listen how inspiring and downright unbelievable this story is.  A boy from a village in Africa – too poor to attend school - is inspired by a librarian to read.  He picks up a book on windmills and figures out how to build one out of scraps found in a junkheap.  He generates electricity and changes the trajectory of his life and the lives of his community.  From Malawi to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  What a difference a windmill makes.  Here's a link to our previous posts.  Take a look…

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
William Kamkwamba
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview

-Virginia

Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation

Elizabeth Beckwith's Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation is on sale today! To celebrate, we are re-extending our Readers Advisory Book/Review Swap offer.  Want to read the book and review it? We'll send you a free copy.  Just shoot an email to librarylovefest at harpercollins.com for the book Booklist called "saucy" and "laugh-out-loud."

-Kayleigh 

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Librarians, we want to hear from you!  As you can see here, here, and here, we're wild about this book and we hope you will be, too.  Send an email to librarylovefest at harpercollins.com.  We'll send a copy of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind to you with our compliments.  The only thing ask for in return is a review of the book which we would then post on our blog. We know how busy everyone is these days so don't get hung up on the length of the review.  We just want to get the word out to readers about a book that has everyone buzzing in house.  Now we want the buzz to be outside the house! Thanks so much.

Now send us an email! (Please note, this particular offer is for librarians only.) Thanks!

Virginia Stanley
Director
Library Marketing
HarperCollinsPublishers
(212) 207-7592
virginia.stanley at harpercollins.com
www.librarylovefest.com

Readers Advisory Book/Review Swap

We send you a book and you send us your review.  Sometimes this offer will be open to the general readership and other times it will be open to librarians only.  Either way, we’ll keep your name on our list for future reviews! We’d like to kick this off with a book we’re extremely excited about. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba is a terrific book about a young boy in South Africa who discovers a book in the library and learns how to build a windmill and generates electricity.
We hope you enjoy this book as much as we do.  Check out Marketing Director Tavia Kowalchuk's guest blog on the book, as well as our original post.  Let us know if you’d like to review it on our blog by emailing your name, mailing address and library affiliation to [email protected]. Again, this one’s for librarians only. Thanks!

-Virginia