Here is a list of select Digital Catalog e-books, audios and a video you might enjoy reading, viewing or listening to over the weekend!
E-Books:
Fiction:
Firefly Summer by Maeve Binchy: It was a summer of warmth…. Kate Ryan and her husband, John, have a rollicking pub in the Irish village of Mountfern… lovely twelve-year-old twins… and such wonderful dreams…. It was a summer of innocence… but all that is about to change this fateful summer of 1962 when American millionaire Patrick O’Neill comes to town with his irresistible charm and a pocketful of money… when love and hate vie for a town’s quiet heart and old traditions begin to crumble away…. It was a summer of love that would never come again…. A time that has been captured forever in Maeve Binchy’s compelling family drama… a novel you will never forget.
Grave Keeper Series by Margaret Marr: All 4 Grave Keeper books together in one chilly volume of paranormal tales! In book one a war vet named Brody Rush, an EMT, and a waitress rush against the clock to find a young woman before the Creepers steal her last breath. In book two, it’s up to Rush to find a young man before the Creepers reach the grave where one of his relatives is buried. In book three, Helena Page is kidnapped, Rush is blind, and Brody is her only hope to save her from a haunted house that’s driving her mad. In book 4, Rush Bizner encounters ghosts, a monk-like entity, and a woman who desperately seeks to fill the gaps in her memory after a terrible accident. In book 5, Hay County’s new waitress is being stalked by her ex-fiancé, who is determined to scare her to death…
Killman by Graeme Kent: Sister Conchita, the young nun with a flair for detection, is immersed in another Solomon Islands investigation when an islander who claims to be a reincarnation of Noah is drowned outside his ark. To make matters worse, Conchita suspects that the murderer might be a Japanese soldier, still prowling the jungle fifteen years after the end of World War II. Once again she enlists the aid of her friend Sergeant Ben Kella of the Solomon Islands Police Force. Together they try and track down the malevolent Killman, a professional assassin who is introducing a reign of terror to the beautiful but dangerous island of Malaita that they both love so much. This time their perilous quest takes them as far as the wild Polynesian island of Tikopia, the almost legendary tiny island of the four kingdoms.
Non-Fiction:
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder: “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight “moderate” clergymen who branded the protests extremist and “untimely.” King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of “Freedom Now” would inspire not just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares. Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the Letter-illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King’s surviving colleagues, and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the Letter and the man who wrote it: an angry prophet who chastised American whites, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, and knew that moral appeal without struggle never brings justice.
Pinterest Marketing: An Hour a Day by Jennifer Evans Cario: Develop and implement a Pinterest marketing strategy with this step-by-step guide
Pinterest is the fastest-growing social media platform, with more than 80 percent of its users women between the ages of 25 and 54. Learn to reach this desirable market by following the advice in this step-by-step, task-based guide! It explains Pinterest’s unique appeal and fundamentals, then shows how to develop a strategic marketing plan, set up an account, curate winning content, find followers, and track and monitor Pinterest traffic. The popular An Hour a Day format uses a detailed how-to approach with case studies, tips, interviews, and more.
Learn how craft, implement, measure, and optimize a successful Pinterest marketing plan
Children’s Books:
Fish for Jimmy by Katie Yamasaki – Based on One Family’s Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp: For two boys in a Japanese American family, everything changed when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States went to war. With the family forced to leave their home and go to an internment camp, Jimmy loses his appetite. Older brother Taro takes matters into his own hands and, night after night, sneaks out of the camp and catches fresh fish for Jimmy to help make him strong again. This affecting tale of courage and love is an adaptation of the author’s true family story.
The Nascenza Conspiracy, The Cassaforte Chronicles, Book 3 by V. Briceland:
Petro Divetri—younger brother of famed sorceress Risa Divetri—just wants to be left alone. His status as one of the seven ruling families in Cassaforte has saddled him with unwanted attention, from bullies as well as from those seeking favors.
So when Petro and his best friend Adrio are sent to far-off Nascenza for the Midsummer High Rites, they swap identities. Their prank goes awry when Adrio, mistaken for Petro, is kidnapped by rebels determined to overthrow the king. With the help of Emilia, a palace guard who wants to prove her worth, Petro must rescue his friend and defeat a political plot that threatens to wipe out all of Cassaforte
Album:
In the Company of Strangers by Robin & Linda Williams
Digital Audio Download Includes:
1. The Hard Country (Robin & Linda Williams)
2. So It Go (Robin & Linda Williams)
3. Rumble (Robin & Linda Williams)
4. Sometime Tomorrow (Robin & Linda Williams)
5. So Long, See You Tomorrow (Robin & Linda Williams)
6. Bar Band In Hillbilly Heaven (Robin & Linda Williams)
7. Allow It (Robin & Linda Williams)
8. This Is the Real Thing (Robin & Linda Williams)
9. The Perfect Country Song (Robin & Linda Williams)
10. Some Peculiar Beast (Robin & Linda Williams)
11. Cold, Cold Heart (Robin & Linda Williams)
12. In the Company of Strangers (Robin & Linda Williams)
Audio Book:
Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails: A Memoir by Anthony Swofford: The publication of Jarhead launched a new career for Anthony Swofford, earning him accolades for its gritty and unexpected portraits of the soldiers who fought in the Gulf War. It spawned a Hollywood movie. It made Swofford famous and wealthy. It also nearly killed him.
Now with the same unremitting intensity he brought to his first memoir, Swofford describes his search for identity, meaning, and a reconciliation with his dying father in the years after he returned from serving as a sniper in the Marines. Adjusting to life after war, he watched his older brother succumb to cancer and his first marriage disintegrate, leading him to pursue a lifestyle in Manhattan that brought him to the brink of collapse. Consumed by drugs, drinking, expensive cars, and women, Swofford lost almost everything and everyone that mattered to him.
When a son is in trouble he hopes to turn to his greatest source of wisdom and support: his father. But Swofford and his father didn’t exactly have that kind of relationship. The key, he realized, was to confront the man-a philandering, once hard-drinking, now terminally ill Vietnam vet he had struggled hard to understand and even harder to love. The two stubborn, strong-willed war vets embarked on a series of RV trips that quickly became a kind of reckoning in which Swofford took his father to task for a lifetime of infidelities and abuse. For many years Swofford had considered combat the decisive test of a man’s greatness. With the understanding that came from these trips and the fateful encounter that took him to a like-minded woman named Christa, Swofford began to understand that becoming a father himself might be the ultimate measure of his life.
Elegantly weaving his family’s past with his own present-nights of excess and sexual conquest, visits with injured war veterans, and a near-fatal car crash-Swofford casts a courageous, insistent eye on both his father and himself in order to make sense of what his military service meant, and to decide, after nearly ending it, what his life can and should become as a man, a veteran, and a father.
Video:
LEARN SLIDE GUITAR WITH 6 GREAT MASTERS!
With a new introduction by Woody Mann
Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen CDs, and is an internationally renowned guitar teacher.
Six great lessons from the masters of slide guitar:
Lesson 1: Arlen Roth-on open E tuning, slide fundamentals, right & left hand damping
Lesson 2: Lee Roy Parnell-demonstrates open E box patterns, acoustic slide technique and playing the blues
Lesson 3: Mick Taylor-the ex-Rolling Stone shows you standard tuning slide, string damping, playing slide with a pick, and more
Lesson 4: Jay Geils-teaches standard tuning slide, vibrato, and Muddy Waters style
Lesson 5: Greg Martin-covers fingerpicking, standard tuning slide and Duane Allman style
Lesson 6: Warren Haynes-learn lead slide licks, tone & open G tuning from the Allman Bros. guitarist
You’ll never miss a note!
-You see the music and the tablature on screen as it’s being played!
-All right- and left-hand techniques are shown in close-up and with helpful split-screen effects to make learning easy
-Slow motion segments with standard pitch sound
-Artist biographies
-Suggested listening
The STLS Digital Catalog may be found on the library’s homepage of SSCLIBRARY.ORG
Or via the following link:
http://stls.lib.overdrive.com/FE5904CF-8A91-4688-A592-7A046C7988D3/10/536/en/Default.htm
And if you have an app device look for the OverDrive Media Console app in your app store – it is the app that will allow you to check out free library e-books and audio books and download them to your tablet or smartphone.
Digital Catalog music and video titles must currently be downloaded to a Windows computer to enjoy.
Have a great weekend!
Linda R.
Tech & Book Talk at SSCL 