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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BookArmy
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Would Talking Books Plus members who use the Internet be willing to check out a website called Book Army? Book Army is a social network site for readers that features user reviews geared toward finding the user a good book to read. There are several webpages covering books, authors, groups to talk about books, and forums to […]
Spooky Reads
Thursday, October 8th, 2009From Associated Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired (ASB) Online Bookstore’s list of Braille books and Overdrive’s ContentWire offering of digital books for October, here are some scary and spooky reads that are available as well from the Talking Books Plus library for free to members. Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked This Way Comes RC50233 Thomas […]
Banned Books Week
Friday, October 2nd, 2009“Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of […]
US Battles and Wars
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009In the September through October 2009 issue of Talking Book Topics are several titles covering the American Revolution and United States wars. The books range from a description of Washington’s attack on French soldiers on a diplomatic mission, a focus on the middle class in post-Civil War America, an examination of World War II inventions, battles and admirals, to notifying families of fallen soldiers. […]
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