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November/December 2022 Edition
We are happy that you are enjoying Books on Demand cartridges. To keep the books coming to you, please make sure to return your cartridges once you have finished listening to them. LBPD reuses the cartridges to fill new book orders for patrons. Happy reading!
Looking for books to read this Thanksgiving? Check out our recommended reading list here: Thanksgiving Reading List.
No matter how you spend December, it’s a great time of year for baking and taste-testing some new cookie recipes. Check out the braille and talking books below to find your new favorite treat.
The Wooden Spoon Cookie Book: Favorite Home-Style Recipes from the Wooden Spoon Kitchen, by Marilyn M. Moore
BR 10292
Includes recipes for drop cookies, bar cookies, shaped cookies, refrigerator cookies, and cutout cookies. Discusses stocking a cookie kitchen, hosting a holiday cookie swap, and involving children in cookie making.
Rosie's Bakery Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book, by Judy Rosenberg
BR 10867
Approximately 150 cookie recipes that don't stint on the good stuff, like butter, nuts, and chocolate. Categories include chewy crunch, crispy chompy, bars, cakey, sandwiched together, and holiday cookies.
Follow a mouse named Mia across the Mediterranean Sea to Africa, where she discovers adventure and new friends.
Adventure Stories
DBC 12567 – Mia: Ripples in the Water, by D. A. Jennings, narrated by Pat Higgins Adelhardt
Adventure may be found in distant lands and among exotic creatures, but risk-taking isn't limited to faraway places. It may be discovered when loneliness finds friendship or when fear gives way to courage. Join Mia on her travels as she encounters Africa's wild animals and birds, and wrestles with the strained relationship between her and her two oldest brothers. Learn about the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of a sister she never knew, and find out what it means to follow the ripples in the water. For grades K-3.
New braille and audio magazines available
NLS recently added three new magazines to its collection, two in audio and one in braille.
- Harvard Women’s Health Watch, available in audio, shares information on new prevention strategies, diagnostic techniques, medications, and treatments.
- Psychology Today, available in audio, is a general-interest psychology magazine representing a variety of perspectives and approaches.
- Guideposts, available in braille, shares inspirational stories.
All three magazines can be downloaded from BARD. To subscribe to them on cartridge or in hard-copy braille, please contact us.
On Saturday, December 10, the Technology User Group will profile 20 websites that you will want to use in 2023. In addition, we will look at the five best new iPhone apps from 2022.
The presentation will be virtual and may be joined by calling 319-527-4994. You do not have to RSVP for this event. The presentation will begin at 10 AM and last about 60 minutes.
Important Message for T-Mobile and Metro PCS users: It has come to our attention that these carriers may charge for connecting to a conference call. If you are getting a message saying that you will incur charges for connecting with our meeting platform, hang up and text the words “call me” to the phone number 319-527-4994. The Free Conference Call system will call you back and you will be able to join the meeting without a charge.
We look forward to meeting with you virtually on Saturday, December 10, and hope that you will join us for other exciting events we have planned for 2023 and beyond.
Guide to Indigenous Maryland is a multi-faceted community engagement initiative of the Maryland State Library Agency and Maryland’s public libraries. Through the development and curation of educational resources, the project aims to teach Marylanders about the history of local Native and Indigenous peoples and how their heritage influences contemporary life in Maryland. Content for the app and website are based on crowdsourced contributions and recommendations from individual Native and Indigenous Marylanders, as well as tribal nations heritage organizations, in collaboration with Maryland’s public libraries and the project curator Dr. Elizabeth Rule, Assistant Professor, American University. Nicholas Alexander Brown is a Honduran-American library executive and musician based in Maryland, where he currently serves as Acting Co-CEO and Chief Operating Officer for Communication and Outreach at the Prince George's County Memorial Library System. Maribel Rodriguez grew up in New York City as the daughter of an immigrant parent from Colombia and of an American parent from Puerto Rico (Taino ancestry). She studied photography as an undergraduate at The Rochester Institute of Technology, then went on to study social enterprise at American University for her master’s.
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