by Matt Swain, PR Manager Handley Regional Library System
The Book Nook is a monthly column courtesy of Handley Regional Library System that shares reading recommendations on business topics, career advice, leadership, and more to help drive your business – and career – forward. The three titles selected here are available as an eBook or audiobook on Hoopla, a free streaming platform for the community, with your library card. Learn more and start reading and listening at www.handleyregional.org/hoopla.
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Reynold Levy Levy will help you think about your future creatively and prepare for it resourcefully. How to network naturally, interview effectively, perform well in your current job and more. He will offer you a recipe for moving up in an appealing organization, or moving out gracefully to a better position elsewhere. Reynold shares his experience as CEO at the 92nd Street Y, the AT&T Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, and Lincoln Center, and as a professor, trustee, consultant, public speaker, and author of five books.
Early Novels and Stories James Baldwin
James Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. He offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and ‘60s. He was the eldest of nine children; his stepfather was a minister. At age 14, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem. In the early 1940s, he transferred his faith from religion to literature.
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