Do you own a small business in New Jersey, or are you an aspiring entrepreneur? The New Jersey State Library has organized a FREE breakfast event so you can learn about the many cost-effective resources available to help your business grow and thrive.
From the New Jersey State Library's website:
You are invited to a FREE, 2-hour breakfast event,
which will bring together NJ business partners and a team of business
marketing experts, for a training session on Social Media and Email Marketing.
Join them for a showcase of useful resources for business planning and
research. Representatives from participating agencies will be onsite to
answer your questions, and discuss how these resources and programs can
help you rebuild, improve and grow your business.
Click here to read more of the article and to register for the event at a library location near you.
Genre: Science fiction, Dystopia
If you liked the Hunger Games, you are sure to like this new dystopia trilogy beginning with Book 1, Divergent by Veronica Roth. In a future post-apocalyptic Chicago, you are born into one of five factions, each of which has its own strength and focus: Abnegation (service), Candor (truth), Erudite (intellect), Amity (friendship), or Dauntless (fearlessness). But on your sixteenth birthday, you can choose a new faction if you so desire. That is what happens to Tris, a teenage girl forced to choose between her routinized, selfless family and the adventurous, unrestrained future she longs for. She shocks everyone by exchanging the drab gray robes of Abnegation for the piercing and tattoo stylings of Dauntless. What follows is a contest, where only the top 10 initiates are accepted into the final group. This is another Young Adult novel that is also for Adults. Roth tells a riveting and complex story with well-developed characters. It is an unpredictable journey that will hold you to the very end and leave you wanting to check out the second in the trilogy, which is the book, Insurgent.
I have read both trilogies, Hunger Games and Divergent and thoroughly enjoyed both. These books are filled with suspense and action packed. After reading Divergent, you may even want to speculate as to which faction you would be born into and which faction you would choose.
Submitted by: Cecelia Ruegsegger
