The Book Nook

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.

Start Now 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.

Community Leadership Program

Written by: Top of Virginia Regional Chamber

The 2020-2021 graduates were honored on Friday, June 4, 2021 at West Oaks Farm Market. This may have been one of the most difficult years for the students to access all that the programs offers to upcoming leaders. Indoor spaces alone proved tough to navigate under the restrictions that were in place at the time as was connecting with leaders, professional facilitators, and specialists that were under state mandates themselves. “That really says something about your tenacity, your integrity, and your fidelity, not just to the program, but to each other,” said Astrid Sheil Ph.D, Dean Shenandoah University School of Buisness, to the graduates.

The Community Leadership Program encompasses nine sessions that cover leadership & teamwork, non-profits, community culture & agriculture, government & economic development,

Students from the 2021 Community Leadership Program gather for a picture at West Oaks Farm Market education, health care, public safety, and community problem solving. These topics are designed to encourage CLP participants to develop skills and access the resources needed to enhance the understanding of complex issues facing our region. Educational sessions broaden insights into the structures of the landscape of entities that collaborate to study community concerns. Exposure to these community roles and the people that fill those positions gives exposure to students as they look to the future of tackling these barriers that present.

Now the next level of leadership has a chance to apply for the Community Leadership Program to foster that leadership potential to ensure continued growth and development in our region.