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More New e-Books

A couple of trilogies added this week:

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins. Read it on your e-book reader before the movie comes out! Also, there’s Catching Fire and Mockingjay. Like print books, library e-books are reservable – you will be notified by email when they’re ready for you to collect (you have a couple of days to do so).

Shiver, Linger and Forever by Maggie Stiefvater, which form the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, about a pack of wolves who are in reality humans infected with a virus.

If you want to find out more about library e-books, there’s more information in this post right here.

Hot New e-Books

Huzzah. Here’s a selection of e-book additions to the library collection:

Drink, Slay, Love, Sarah Beth Durst

Guardian of the Dead, Karen Healey

Crossed, Ally Condie

Clockwork Prince, Cassandra Clare

The Red Shoe, Ursula Dubosarsky

Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson

Note that the library e-books are available to borrow for two weeks, and you don’t have to worry about overdues (or losing them, obvs.). If you’re unsure what you need to do to start using the library’s e-book collection, then have a look at this step-by-step help guide (it should have all the answers).

Additionally, we have some new downloadable audiobooks, for example:

The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater

Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson

Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos

Beads, Boys and Bangles, Sophia Bennett

I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend, Cora Harrison

If you’re not sure you want to commit to an audiobook, you can test-drive it by listening to a sample, and if the title you want is not available, you can reserve it – you’ll get a notification by email when it’s ready to collect (note that you only have a couple of days to pick up your reserves).

 

The Forbidden City

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a virtual tour of the Beijing landmark as it was during the Qing dynasty.  For five centuries, The Forbidden City was the palace of the Emperors of China, and is now a World Heritage Site and museum. It was considered ‘forbidden’, as permission to enter and leave had to be granted by the emperor. Now you can download it (it’s free, but a pretty big download) and explore it with your own avatar dressed in Qing era clothing.