The Entrepreneur’s Playbook by Leonard C. Green eBook
Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson eBook
If you are looking for reliable information related to starting a small business in Maryland, taxes, and writing a business plan, check out the Pratt’s Small Business Guide.
Celebrate Halloween early with Kanopy… if you dare! The Horror and Thrillers collection is full of movies that will keep you on the edge of your seat. You can watch up to 10 movies each month with Kanopy. Have a great Halloween!
Trick or Treat, Give me something good to… read? That may not be how the song goes, but Kanopy does offer plenty of e-materials that are sure to make Halloween sweet for kids!
Looking for your next book to read? Check out these book selections from Book Clubs led by some of Hollywood’s brightest stars. You just might find a new favorite book!
Oprah’s Book Club By Oprah Winfrey
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers eBook
Every Saturday morning of my childhood, my mother would pile my two sisters and me into the station wagon to go to the public library, where we were allowed to check out ten books at a time. We had a tough time picking just ten. We’d often finish them all, our own and each other’s, by Wednesday and beg her to take us back after supper.
As a queer teen, the Wheaton Public Library in Wheaton, Illinois was where I indulged my first passion project–the Broadway Musical. I’d bike into town, then sit for hours at a table in by the arts section on the second floor, reading (and re-reading) the standard histories–both gossipy and scholarly–of the form and its most famous practitioners. Then head downstairs to the periodicals department, where I would fill out carbon slips for bound copies of Time, Newsweek, Life, Look, and The New Yorker so I could read the original reviews of all the shows I was learning about. I felt like a scholar. To date, it’s the only research I’ve ever carried out with a full heart and boundless enthusiasm.
I used to declare that I wanted to have my ashes stored in a hollowed-out copy of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and set on a shelf in my personal library, because a roomful of books–whether in Wheaton or Paris or the Pratt–had consistently been the happiest place on earth for me. I now know that my ashes will be laid to rest in Green Mount Cemetery among my husband’s family, but I can’t help but worry over the fate of my books.
Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall by James Magruder Book
Join us for the Pratt’s Writers LIVE! event with James Magruder and Jen Michalski on Tuesday, October 26 at 7pm. Follow the Love Slaves of Helen Hadley Hall Author James Macgruder’s Library Journey.
