It is National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2023! The library has put together a short list of fiction audiobooks to help celebrate. All titles included in this post are available through CloudLibrary. Don’t have CloudLibrary yet? Click here to get started! AudiobookeBook Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, […]
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September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! This month is a time to celebrate your local library and all of the services provided to you with a library card. Whether you use your card to borrow print or digital books, check out free museum passes, attend story time, access library computers […]
Genre: Fiction Read-Alikes:The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. LeeBreasts and Eggs by Mieko KawakamiMika in Real Life by Emiko Jean “Mizuki is the quintessential Japanese housewife with the ideal life. Her husband receives regular promotions, they have two beautiful children, and they live in a comfortable high-rise apartment in the […]
Genre: Science Fiction, Parallel Narratives Read-Alikes:Lost in Time by A. G. RiddleHow High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia NagamatsuCamp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner […]
Welcome to Magazine Mondays! This biweekly blog series highlights the wide variety of magazines available to FTPL patrons. Some titles listed are also available on PressReader, a free reading app that lets you check out digital copies of magazines from home! Here are our selections for the second half of […]
Are you looking for a beach read to listen to this summer? Check out one of these titles on CloudLibrary! This reading app is available to you for free with your FTPL card! To learn more about our reading apps, including how to get started with CloudLibrary, please click here. […]
Genre: MysteryRead-Alikes: Crime Scene by Jonathan KellermanChristine Falls by Benjamin BlackAt Risk by Patricia Cornwell “In the twenty-sixth Kay Scarpetta novel (following Autopsy, 2021), the newly appointed chief medical examiner of the state of Virginia is called to testify in a high-profile murder trial. During the proceedings, the judge’s sister […]
Welcome to Magazine Mondays! This biweekly blog series highlights the wide variety of magazines available to FTPL patrons. This week’s installment features publications that are all about the arts! Some titles listed are also available on PressReader, a free reading app that lets you check out digital copies of magazines […]
Welcome to Magazine Mondays! This biweekly blog series highlights the wide variety of magazines available to FTPL patrons. This week’s installment features big name publications that are some of the widest read in the United States! Some titles listed are also available on PressReader, a free reading app that lets […]
While our monthly online meditation class for last night (Thursday, 6/8) was rescheduled, we have many other great resources available that can help start or maintain your meditation practice. Check out one of these digital audiobooks on meditation and mindfulness today! The audiobooks included in this post are available via […]