Science Fiction Book Discussion June 11
By Alicia Waters | May 19, 2015
On Thursday, June 11 at 9:00 pm the Science Fiction discussion group will be talking about Ventus by Sarah Zettel. Talking Books Plus members may download or reserve a copy to be mailed to them. Visit the Book Nook Room to participate in the discussion. Talking Books Plus members who are not already BARD members may sign up for download service at BARD.
Request DB057168
Below is a description of the book taken from the RI Talking Books Plus Catalog –
Lady Calandria May arrives on Ventus to destroy an entity known as Armiger. She needs the help of young Jordan Mason, who has visions linked to the god-like “Winds” that rule the planet.
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Novel Ideas Book Discussion May 15
By Alicia Waters | May 15, 2015
On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 9 pm the Novel Ideas Discussion Group will be talking about Eve’s Daughters by Lynn Austin. Talking Books Plus members may download or reserve a copy to be mailed to them. Visit the Book Nook Room to participate in the discussion. Talking Books Plus members who are not already BARD members may sign up for download service at BARD.
Request DB077313
Below is a description of the book taken from the RI Talking Books Plus Catalog –
1980. Eighty-year-old Emma reminisces about the lives and choices that she, her mother, and her daughter have made as her granddaughter Suzanne prepares for a divorce. After discovering Emma’s family secret, Suzanne opens her heart to God’s love and reconsiders her marriage. 1999.
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World of Books Book Discussion May 17
By Alicia Waters | May 15, 2015
On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 5 pm the World of Books discussion group will be talking about Dark Tide: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo. Talking Books Plus members may download or reserve a copy to be mailed to them. Visit the Book Nook Room to participate in the discussion. Talking Books Plus members who are not already BARD members may sign up for download service at BARD.
Request DB059335.
Below is a description of the book taken from the RI Talking Books Plus Catalog –
Chronicle of the Boston waterfront’s molasses tank collapse that flooded the city’s North End with a sticky twenty-five-foot-high tidal wave, killing twenty-one people. Explores the tragedy from the tank’s 1915 construction to a civil lawsuit decided in 1925 and touches larger issues of immigration, WWI, Prohibition, and labor. 2003.
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Fiction Old and New Book Discussion June 9
By Alicia Waters | May 13, 2015
On Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 9 pm the Fiction Old and New discussion group will be talking about The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen. Talking Books Plus members may download or reserve a copy to be mailed to them. Visit the Book Nook Room to participate in the discussion. Talking Books Plus members who are not already BARD members may sign up for download service at BARD.
Request DB80053.
Below is a description of the book taken from the RI Talking Books Plus Catalog –
Fictional account of the life of Mary Bowser. Born into slavery in Virginia, she is emancipated and sent to Philadelphia for an education. But she returns to Virginia to care for her father and become a spy in the Confederate White House. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2012.
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KRARI Kick Off Sat May 9
By Alicia Waters | May 8, 2015
The 2015 Kids Reading Across Rhode Island (KRARI) Kick-Off event is Saturday, May 9, 2015 from 2 pm to 4 pm at the State House. Meet Kate DiCamillo, the author of the 2015 KRARI book, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (DB80753). This book is in the Talking Books Plus collection. TBP members may download or loan the book by mail.
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BARD is Download
By Alicia Waters | May 8, 2015
Due to technical difficulties, BARD is download. NLS is hoping to resolve the issue by Noon Friday, May 8th.
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Popular Culture in YA Selections
By Alicia Waters | May 8, 2015
The Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review book catalogs define young adult (YA) literature as centering “on a lead character who is twelve to eighteen years old and undergoes a formative coming-of-age experience.”
YA books are popular with adults as well as young adults. “The genre often explores the adolescent themes of identity, sexuality, rebellion, peer pressure, and experimentation but may also focus on issues of friendship, love, race, money, divorce, and family relationships.”
YA books in the Talking Books Plus catalog are noted as “For junior and senior high” and may add “and older readers.” Look in the Audience Notes of the Full Title Display or the Subject listings of an online Catalog Search of a title for this and other keyword descriptions of what the book is about.
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A Journey Through History June 2
By Alicia Waters | May 7, 2015
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 9 pm A Journey Through History discussion group will be talking about Blackwater: the rise of the world’s most powerful mercenary army by Jeremy Scahill. Talking Books Plus members may download or reserve a copy to be mailed to them. Visit the Book Nook Room to participate in the discussion. Talking Books Plus members who are not already BARD members may sign up for download service at BARD.
Request DB064693.
Below is a description of the book taken from the RI Talking Books Plus Catalog –
Award-winning investigative journalist exposes Blackwater USA, a private military-training camp in North Carolina that he claims supplies mercenaries for the war on terror. Chronicles Blackwater’s expansion under right-wing multimillionaire Erik Prince and asserts its deployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Caspian Sea for intelligence and combat. Some violence. Bestseller. 2007.
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BARD down May 8 morning
By Alicia Waters | May 6, 2015
TO: All BARD users
From: NLS
BARD is in need of more memory, so NLS are going to take down the service on Friday in order to install another disk drive. BARD will not be available from 9:20 AM until 11:20 AM Eastern time, Friday May 8 2015. BARD will return in plenty of time for your weekend reading pleasure.
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New Releases to Audio-Described DVD Collection
By Alicia Waters | May 5, 2015
The Spring 2015 New Releases to the Audio-Described DVD Collection catalog has been published in large print. This publication lists 90 newly acquired DVD titles housed in the Perkins DVD collection that are available to RI Talking Books Plus (TBP) members. The new releases include The Book Thief and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The Spring 2015 DVD catalog is currently only available by email. Eventually this issue of the DVD catalog will be posted online.
The whole DVD collection is online in the TBP Catalog. Search by Query: DVD; Index: Subject; and Sort by: Book Number. There you will find the Catalog of audio described videos DVD collection – 2010 (DBM00010) available in hardcopy and in the SHELF collection as a local download. Below the title for the 2010 DVD Catalog is the list of DVD titles. TBP members may subscribe to the DVD catalog to get future issues but must be registered to receive DVD titles.
For more information about the DVD catalogs, to register for DVD service, to order DVD titles, or request an emailed copy of the Spring 2015 catalog, call Talking Books Plus at 401-574-9310. DVD titles may be ordered directly online by registered users of the DVD service.
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