Book Display Inspiration Using One Book - The Women by Kristin Hannah
There is one book dominating my library's holds lists, both digital and physical. That book is The Women by Kristin Hannah . This does happen periodically - hundreds and hundreds of holds pop up and it seems impossible to obtain enough copies. Hannah does have a back list but chances are most of those books are checked out with holds. So, what do you do? Create a book display with read alikes, advertising your holds list as well as helping patrons waiting for that hot title find something that they will love to read. The book is about a nursing student who follows her brother to Vietnam by joining the Army Nurse Corps and finds herself unprepared both for the brutality of the war and the unrest and upheaval when she returns to the United States. This offers many ways to find read alikes. You can use: historical fiction Vietnam era fiction Books about nurses Books about siblings Fiction that is centered on women's stories Books about returning home Non-fiction about nursing