Minding Our P's & Q's



Celebrate National Etiquette Week on May 14 -18, 2014. This week focuses on etiquette and protocol in every area of life - business, social, dining, travel, weddings, and online life. It is a week to celebrate and focus on kindness, civility, manners, gratitude, and respect for each other. Our library offers a plethora of classic and contemporary tomes of propriety that will address everything from table manners to technology.

Emily Post's the Etiquette Advantage in Business, 3rd edition : Personal Skills for Professional Success by Peter Post with Anna Post, Lizzie Post and Daniel Post Senning

Emily Post's Etiquette by Peggy Post

Talk To the Hand : The Utter Bloody Rudeness Of the World Today, Or, Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss

Essential Manners For Men: What To Do, When to Do It, and Why by Peter Post

Letitia Baldrige's More Than Manners! : Raising Today's Kids to Have Kind Manners and Good Hearts by Letitia Baldrige

Miss Manners'® Guide To a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding by Judith Martin, Jacobina Martin

Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility : The Authoritative Manual for Every Civilized Household, However Harried by Judith Martin

Miss Manners Rescues Civilization : From Sexual Harrassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses In Civility by Judith Martin, illustrations by Daniel Mark Duffy

Multicultural Manners : New Rules Of Etiquette For a Changing Society by Norine Dresser

Social Q's : How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries, and Quagmires of Today by Philip Galanes.

An Uncommon History of Common Courtesy : How Manners Shaped the World by Bethanne Patrick

Courtesy

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines courtesy as "polite behavior that shows respect for other people; something that you do because it is polite, kind, etc.". September was National Courtesy Month - did you celebrate? If you did, let us know your random acts of kindness (or just politeness!) in the comments.  If, like us, you missed this monthly observance, have no fear!  The library catalog has several books you can peruse to make sure your manners are up to the modern standard, plus a couple of books detailing the history of etiquette's changing mores.  Here are some courtesy books that will enlighten and hopefully entertain:

An Uncommon History of Common Courtesy: How Manners Shaped the World by Bethanne Patrick

What Would Grace Do?: How to Live Life in Style like the Princess of Hollywood by Gina McKinnon

Miss Manners Minds Your Business by Judith Martin and Nicholas Ivor Martin

What Your Mother Should've Told You and Nobody Else Will by Natalie Reilly [eBook]

Miss Jane Austen's Guide to Modern Life's Dilemmas Answers to Your Most Burning Questions About Life, Love, Happiness (and What toWear) from the Great Jane Austen Herself by Rebecca Smith [eBook]

Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners by Henry Alford

Real Life Downton Abbey: How Life Was Really Lived in Stately Homes a Century Ago by Jacky Hyams [eBook]

The Grumpy Girl's Guide to Good Manners by Rachel Aboukhair [eBook]

Social Q's: How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries, and Quagmires of Today by Philip Galanes

The Art of the Visit: Being the Perfect Host, Becoming the Perfect Guest by Kathy Bertone