Tag: Books

Kindle now available on SALON OverDrive

Kindle now available on SALON OverDrive

Here is the process for checking out a library eBook for Kindle: Visit your library’s ‘Virtual Branch’ website SALON. Browse and check out a Kindle book. Click the ‘Get for Kindle’ button. This opens the Amazon.com website. You may be required to sign in with your Amazon.com account if you are not already logged in. Select a Kindle device or Kindle reading app. Click the ‘Get library book’ button and sync your device or app to download the book, or …
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Fireside Stories

Fireside Stories

September 10 ~ “Kindergarten” September 17 ~ “Chickens” September 24 ~ “Autumn” **Themes subject to change
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Pember Book Club

Pember Book Club

The Pember Book Club will be reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a sequel to Tom Sawyer. The story takes place in Missouri in the 1840s. The main characters: Huckleberry Finn (Male), Father is an alcoholic; taken in by Widow Douglas to be taught religion and proper manners; dislikes being civilized; kidnapped by his dad; escapes on a raft on the Mississippi; determined to help a runaway slave Tom Sawyer (Male), Huck’s best friend Jim (Male), African …
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Book Club

Book Club

Note: this has been rescheduled for August 18. The Pember Book Club will be discussing Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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New eAudiobooks and eBooks to Download

New eAudiobooks and eBooks to Download

Information from SALS: Check out our new eAudiobook or eBook titles Having trouble finding something that is in?  Try an advanced search and click the checkbox for “Only show titles with copies available” How do I get started? Learn how to browse, download and check out materials watching a tutorial or head over to our website and look around for yourself. Have a mobile device? Read this quick guide If you have specific title suggestions, and if they are available …
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fireside stories

fireside stories

July 2 ~ Children around the World July 9 ~ no story time ~ Book sale July 16 ~ Food around the World July 23 ~ Folk Tales around the World July 30 ~ Splish Splash
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Book Club

Book Club

from MF Silitch: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is our June book for Thursday, June 16 at 1:00 pm. See you then!
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Find new books to read

Find new books to read

Finding a new book to read isn’t easy. You know you like a particular author or genre and you’d really like something similar. Try one of these sites: http://web.ebscohost.com/novp/search?sid=57e85489-812e-4371-be74-ebfcc95240e7%40sessionmgr115&vid=2&hid=105 http://www.yournextread.com/us/# http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
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Book Club

Book Club

The book club will read J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in  the Rye.”
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Famous Pulitzer losers

Famous Pulitzer losers

Earlier this week, the Pulitzer prize for fiction went to “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf). Back in 2007, One-Minute Book Reviews’ Janice Harayda put up a list of 10 great novels that didn’t win and which books beat them. Among the losers: Main Street, The Great Gatsby and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Other losers and the books that defeated them appears here.
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