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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010The nonprofit, Faith Comes By Hearing, has created the palm-sized “Mini Proclaimer” and a “Bible Stick”, a small dedicated digital player that looks like an iPod Nano. Most of the machines are given away. You can also listen to a streaming bible. The nonprofit is hoping to develop audio Bible applications for smart phones as well. Vist their [...]
Digital Books Catalogs
Friday, May 7th, 2010Digital books available through the Talking Books Plus library are listed in the bi-monthly Talking Book Topics book catalog. The November-December 2009 issue is the first issue to add digital books in the catalog. Order digital books by DB number. This 2009 issue announced the availability of cartridges and the changes to the Talking Book Topics [...]
Great Reads for Children and YA
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Sherman Alexie writes books to make you laugh out loud funny in the Diary of Wimpy Kids books style. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian DB/RC65403
Nic Bishop is a world traveler who has written Digging for Bird Dinosaurs RC50522
Kristen Cashore writes YA books about children born with special talents or graces. Graceling DB/RC67938.
Suzanne [...]
Reading Across RI Related Books
Monday, April 19th, 2010The following Talking Books Plus fictional books are set in Guernsey Island. They come from the Reading Across RI Resource List for the book, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B.Edwards RC17425
A Place of Hiding by Elizabeth George RC56504, BR 14871, DB [...]
Olympic Games Books
Thursday, February 11th, 2010For those wanting to whet their appetite for the 2010 Winter Olympic in Vancouver, Canada, here are some books of general interest about the olympic games and Vancouver.
Olympic Games
The Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey RC62247, DB062247 Downloadable Talking Book
The Game by Ken Dryden RC20824
The Highlights of the Olympics: from ancient times to the present by [...]
Kick Off RARI Conference
Thursday, January 21st, 2010The 2010 Reading Across Rhode Island (RARI) project is being launched at a conference on January 30, 2010 at Bryant University. This conference is designed for readers, book discussion leaders, librarians, and educators from across the state. Conference attendees will meet workshop presenters ready to link the themes of the book to RI-based activities. Presenters [...]
2010 Reading Across RI Selection
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009In the Talking Book Plus collection as RC67526, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows has been selected as the book to read in the 2010 Reading Across Rhode Island program.
Members of Talking Book Plus are invited to join Reading Across RI in learning about the German occupation of the [...]
Darwin's Darkest Hour
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, this great naturalist and his wife were the focus of a docudrama, Darwin’s Darkest Hour, on Channel 36, Monday, November 9th. If you missed the program or want to read and listen to more about the life of Charles Darwin, his contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace and of natural history and [...]
Movie Tie-Ins
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009For movie lovers, Overdrive ContentWire provided a list of ”Movie Tie-Ins”. Ocean State Libraries (OSL), the RI public library consortium, subscribes to Overdrive through E-Zone. Click “Ocean State Libraries E-Zone” under the Talking Books Plus Quicklinks to find titles available through E-Zone. The following Movie Tie-Ins titles are available through Talking Books Plus.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle RC017437
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis RC063689
A [...]
Teen Read Week
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Teen Read Week 2009 will be celebrated Oct. 18-24 in thousands of public and school libraries, classrooms, and bookstores across the country! This year’s theme is Read Beyond Reality @ your library, which encourages teens to read something out of this world, just for the fun of it. This is a national literacy initiative of the [...]
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