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What’s New with YA Authors Join the Board

Susan Vincent Molinaro,

Children’s &YA Librarian

Have you noticed the new addition in
a corner of the Library lobby? There’s
now a section featuring our latest We’re proud to announce the addition of two new trustees to our Board.
Young Adult High School (YA-HS)
titles. Our collection of books for older Dr. Ella M. Foshay joined the Library in 1998 and has served since 2013 on the
teens (and adults who like to read YA!) New York City Book Awards jury.
continues to grow. Look for the
signature red YA insignia—but also With a PhD in art history, she worked for many years at the New-York Historical
don’t forget to head up to Stack 9 Society as a curator for paintings and sculpture. Her books include Reflections
where there are many more YA reads of Nature: Flowers in American Art and John James Audubon, among others.
to check out. Dr. Foshay served as Chair of the Board of the Chapin School from 2002 to
2009, leading the search for a new Head of School, the launch of a new website,
We have also expanded our YA-HS a strategic planning process, and a historic capital fund drive.
e-book collection in the Cloud Library.
Browse this collection to find a variety Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin has also been a Library member since 1998.
of series, stand-alone titles, and engag- Her books include The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and Happier at
ing nonfiction titles. And while we’ve Home, plus the recent The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality
been busy cultivating the High School Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives
section of the YA collection, we are still Better, Too). She hosts a top-ranked, award-winning podcast, Happier with
carefully tending to the original Middle Gretchen Rubin.
School (YA-MS) branch. You’ll find
it in the Whitridge Room, just off the A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the
Children’s Library, with new additions Yale Law Journal and winner of the Edgar M. Cullen Prize, Ms. Rubin started
on display on the mantelpiece. her career in law. She was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she
realized she really wanted to be a writer. Raised in Kansas City, she lives near

Do tell us what else you’d like to read! the Library with her husband and two daughters.
If you don’t find the title you are seek-
ing in the lobby, our Cloud Library
collection, the Whitridge Room, or
Stack 9, you are welcome to suggest
a purchase.

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