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Hoopla: eBooks, Audiobooks, Comics, Music, TV, and Movies
Hoopla offers nearly one million pieces of media, from ebooks to Acorn TV series, available to borrow at anytime, no waiting!
Teen Book Cloud
Read, watch, listen! Find videos, hi-lo novels, classics, poetry, readalongs, graphic novels, audiobooks, & more, all available at any time.
Pimsleur: Trusted Language Learning Sets
Learn a new language with Pimsleur in both audiobook CD and audiobook download formats.
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Staff Picks & More
Audiobooks: Staff Picks Masonry Block
Let's Read Some Poetry!
Check out these poetry collections, analog or digital, published late 2021 thru mid-2022.
Never Forget: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Explore these resources to further understand the devastating effects of nuclear war and see the necessity for peace.
The Weekly Waitlist: August 7, 2022
While waiting for The Latecomer, The Woman in the Library, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, Tender Is the Flesh, or The Verifiers, try these!
Voices of the game
Learn about the greatest sports announcers of all time. It is inspired by the passing of Vin Scully.
Getting Started with the Libby app by OverDrive
Aug 24th | 8:00am - 9:00am
Online Event
This webinar will show you everything you need to know to get started with Libby or to make the switch from the OverDrive app.
Unforgettable fictional deaths
According to Slate, here are some of the most tearjerking, hilarious, satisfying, and shocking death scenes in 2,500 years of culture.
July 2022 Joel D. Valdez Main Library Staff Picks
Curious about what the staff of Main Library read, watched, or listened to? Here is our list!
Save your Hoopla credits and check out Bonus Borrows!
Hoopla Bonus Borrows are back August 1-31 with new themed collections. You can choose from hundreds of titles!
Himmel Library Staff Picks for July 2022
Another month of Himmel Library Staff Picks from which to chose your next reading, listening, and/or viewing adventure.
The Weekly Waitlist: July 31, 2022
What to read while you wait for Rough Draft, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Why We Did It, Remarkably Bright Creatures, or Becoming Supernatural
Immigrant memoirs and non-fiction
Inspiring stories of immigrants, chronicling their challenges and successes, as well as non-fiction explorations of the immigrant experience
Rainbow Reads Book Chat - July 2022
Every other month, we share book recommendations in a round-robin style book chat. We discussed a LOT of great titles this month!
International Day of Friendship
Saturday, July 30th is International Day of Friendship! Call up some friends and check out one of these must read books about friendship.
Blackout is a book that lives somewhere between an ensemble novel and a short story anthology. The stories are separate, but linked through shared connections…
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The Storyteller
Dave Grohl, the fantastically fabulous founder, and famous, but not full-of-himself, fearless frontman of the Foo Fighters (Dave might have an affinity…
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