{"id":55173,"date":"2013-12-20T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=55173"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:57:29","slug":"deck-the-shelves-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=55173","title":{"rendered":"Deck the Shelves This Holiday Season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Renee Holden, Head Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=5707\" target=\"_blank\">INALJ Nebraska<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deck the Shelves This Holiday Season!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reneeh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-36794 alignleft\" alt=\"reneeh\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reneeh-300x220.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reneeh-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reneeh.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>I am a collection development librarian in a public library that also specializes in reader\u2019s advisory for my library.\u00a0 Around the holidays, I get a lot of patrons that are looking for some books to get themselves in the holiday spirit.\u00a0 I created this list to let men and women, young and old, starve off that mean old Mr. Grinch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Sleigh Belles <\/b>by Beth Albright (2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With her hair coiffed, nails freshly manicured and a heavy trail of perfume wafting behind her, local reporter, Dallas Dubois is sure she\u2019s about to kick her career and maybe her love life into high gear.\u00a0 The director of the children\u2019s Christmas play has fallen ill, and Dallas is ordered by her station manager to take the reins.\u00a0 Everyone is shocked, especially Cal Hollingsworth, ho still remembers her as the Ice Queen from high school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Duck the Halls <\/b>by Donna Andrews (2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When someone rigs a cage full of skunks in the choir loft of the New Life Baptist Church, Meg Langslow must stop holiday pranksters from destroying the annual pre-Christmas concert, but when murder enters the picture, Meg must save Christmas from a vengeful killer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Dogs of Christmas <\/b>by W. Bruce Cameron (2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While nursing a broken heart, Josh Michaels is outraged when a neighbor abandons his very pregnant dog, Lucy, at Josh\u2019s Colorado home.\u00a0 Soon in over his head, Josh calls the local animal shelter for help and meets Kerri, a beautiful woman with a quick wit and a fierce love for animals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Spirit of Steamboat <\/b>by Craig Johnson (2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d in his office on December 24<sup>th<\/sup> when he\u2019s interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Walt\u2019s predecessor, Lucian Connally.\u00a0 Walt doesn\u2019t recognize the woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally.\u00a0 Walt is at loose ends, and despite the woman\u2019s reticence to reveal her identity, he agrees to help her.\u00a0 She whispers \u201cSteamboat\u201d and begins a story that takes them all back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three young people died in a terrible crash and a young girl had the slimmest chance of survival\u2026back to a record-breaking blizzard, to Walt\u2019s first year as sheriff and to a World War II vet ready to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Starry Night <\/b>by Debbie Macomber (2013)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carrie Slayton, a society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories.\u00a0 So her editor hands her a challenge: she can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author.\u00a0 When she finally finds Finn, she discovers a man both more charismatic and more stubborn than she ever expected.\u00a0 And soon, she is torn between pursuing the story of a lifetime and following her heart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Silent Night <\/b>by Robert B. 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I am a collection development librarian in a public library that also specializes in reader\u2019s advisory for my library.\u00a0 Around the holidays, I get a lot of patrons that are looking for some books to get themselves in the holiday spirit.\u00a0 I&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=55173\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[69,3592,5076,102,3787,3946],"class_list":["post-55173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-article","tag-blog","tag-books","tag-holiday","tag-inalj-nebraska","tag-renee-holden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/reneeh.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-elT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}