New downloads are here!
Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 November 2009 09:34
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It's holiday season - which for many of you means long car trips, hours of endless cooking, early morning Black Friday lines and finding interesting entertainment for families and friends not seen in a while. Luckily for you, your hometown library has some new books and videos available for download.
Below is a small sample of the new and newly acquired OverDrive titles. Whether you want history, fiction, children's classic, pop culture or movie tie-ins your PLS Virtual Library is here for you.
Don't have a device to download to? You can always add an OverDrive compatible device to your holiday wish list.
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Atonement
Bay of the dead, by Mark Morris (ebook)
The living dead walk the streets of Cardiff in the latest novel in the bestselling Torchwood range. When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk... Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Torchwood have to deal with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show.
Precious, by Sapphire (wma)
An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary.
Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (mp3)
Barcelona, 1945—just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face.
Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice, by Trevor Corson (ebook)
Everything you never knew about sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it Trevor Corson takes us behind the scenes at America's first sushi-chef training academy, as eager novices strive to master the elusive art of cooking without cooking. He delves into the biology and natural history of the edible creatures of the sea, and tells the fascinating story of an Indo-Chinese meal reinvented in nineteenth-century Tokyo as a cheap fast food.
The Cat in the Hat and other Dr. Seuss Favorites, by Dr. Seuss (wma)
An all-star cast of readers come together to read nine favorite stories by Dr. Seuss. Featuring: Kelsey Grammer, Dustin Hoffman, Walter Matthau, John Cleese, Ted Danson, John Lithgow, Mercedes McCambridge & Billy Crystal.
The Pleasure of My Company, by Steve Martin (wma)
Daniel Pecan Cambridge is a thirtyish loser whose life is wrecked by a whole slew of neurotic compulsions and tics. The small, irrational fears that plague most of us are the bane of Daniel's life, but he resolves to shed these straitjackets and move into something like normality. One of his aims is a normal relationship with a woman and there are several potential targets in sight: his therapist Clarissa, struggling to relieve him of his demons, Zandy, the beguiling assistant in the chemist's shop, and Elizabeth, selling apartments in his street.
La Odisea, un clásico de Homero
Los viajes y aventuras de Ulises. La anécdota suele regodearse sobre la figura legendaria de Homero, supuesto juglar ciego que iba de pueblo en pueblo cantando sus grandes narraciones épicas. La Ilíada, una narración de la Guerra de Troya, originada en el rapto que hizo París de la mujer más bella del mundo, Helena y La Odisea, la descripción de las aventuras del sabio Ulises u Odiseo en su vuelta a Itaca, su patria, terminada la guerra de Troya, sus aventuras en el camino y su encuentro con la fidelidad de Penélope, su mujer, que había resistido todos esos años el asedio de ambiciosos pretendientes. La verdad parece ser que esos cantos fueron creados a lo largo de varios siglos, con poetas que iban agregando a la historia. Pero sea como fuere, las dos obras son de una fuerza que todavía, después de 25 siglos asombra, y haya existido Homero o no, quien haya sido el autor de estos dos poemas épicos tiene su puesto asegurado entre los grandes autores de la humanidad.
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