TAG: booklists
eBooks for Travel
Posted in Explore and Discover on June 3, 2014 at 6:00 am
by Debra Park Forming travel plans for the summer? Whether visiting Siberia or Disneyland, library eBooks make decisions easier than ever. A range of recommended travel guides, published by Frommer’s, Fodor’s, and Lonely Planet, provide country or regional highlights, maps and recommendations of what to see; some eBooks are filled with interact […]
Tags: booklists, digital library, overdrive, travel
Listen Up: Audiobooks for Learning
Posted in Parents and Teachers on April 30, 2014 at 6:00 am
by Cindy Ulrey I’ve always loved being read to. Some of my best memories are sharing picture books on my grandma’s lap and of my mom in the front seat reading Pippi Longstocking and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to my brother and I in the back while dad drove cross-country. These days families have […]
Tags: booklists, digital library, kids, overdrive, parents, tumblebook jr., tumblebooks, tweens
Interview with Jess Walter, Award-Winning Author of “Beautiful Ruins” & “Citizen Vince”
Posted in Explore and Discover on December 12, 2013 at 6:00 am
By Ellen Peters Local Spokane author Jess Walter is a former National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, as well as the author of six novels and one nonfiction book. Recently, I had the pleasure to interview Mr. Walter about his life and his writing. Ellen Peters: What’s the one […]
