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Pearl, Nancy Linn was born on January 12, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Sidney and Anne Linn.
( Navigate the fascinating world of mainstream fiction! W...)
Navigate the fascinating world of mainstream fiction! With emphasis on award-winning fiction, this companion guide to Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998, features more than 500 novels published between 1990 and 2001. Using the same easy-access organization that made the original so popular, this book includes more than 400 new entries and several features that enable you to discover new reads and read-alikes based on an appeal-characteristics approach to the literature. Never again shy of an answer to Can you recommend a good book? you will find this to be an indispensable resource and tool.
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(The response to Nancy Pearl’s surprise bestseller Book Lu...)
The response to Nancy Pearl’s surprise bestseller Book Lust was astounding: the Seattle librarian even became the model for the now-famous Librarian Action Figure. Readers everywhere welcomed Pearl’s encyclopedic but discerning filter on books worth reading, and her Rule of 50 (give a book 50 pages before deciding whether to continue; but readers over 50 must read the same number of pages as their age) became a standard MO.
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( Recommending books to readers of contemporary mainstrea...)
Recommending books to readers of contemporary mainstream, or literary, fiction is perhaps the most challenging of all endeavors for readers' advisors. Pearl and her co-authors attempt to ease the process with this helpful guide to the most elusive genre. Covering 1,000 novels, many of them award winners, the book organizes titles according to their major appeal characteristics (e.g., language, setting, story, and character) as delineated by Saricks and Brown in their standard text, Readers' Advisory Service in the Public Library, 2d ed., (ALA, 1997). For each book there is a plot summary, indications on the book's suitability for book discussion groups, and recommendations of similar titles. Awards are cited as well, and all titles mentioned are indexed by title, author, and subject. Describing some of the best literature published in the United States and abroad in recent years, this book is an essential guide for readers' advisors, and a helpful collection development tool.
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( The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's ...)
The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current contemporary, mainstream fiction titles according to their primary appeal features-character, setting, language, and story. It also notes award-winning titles and those appropriate for book clubs; and it offers users suggestions for related reads. Focus is on titles published since 2000, and all annotations are new to this volume. This is the standard readers' advisory guide to mainstream fiction, and an essential tool for readers' advisors.
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(What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma....)
What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality. These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit," and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout.
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Pearl, Nancy Linn was born on January 12, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Sidney and Anne Linn.
Graduate, University Michigan, 1965. Master of Library Science, University Michigan, 1967.
Head collection development Tulsa City County Library., Oklahoma. Executive director Washington Center Book Seattle Public library, 1993—2004.
( The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's ...)
( Navigate the fascinating world of mainstream fiction! W...)
(The response to Nancy Pearl’s surprise bestseller Book Lu...)
( Recommending books to readers of contemporary mainstrea...)
(What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma....)
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Married Joseph Harold Pearl. Children: Eily Raman, Katie.