First batch of Fall downloadables ready

Last Updated on Thursday, 24 September 2009 13:58

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New downloadable titles have arrived! Now that school is in full swing students of all ages will be looking for books to help with with their studies. The rest of us will be looking for a good book to snuggle up with as the weather turns cooler. Luckily you don't have to leave the comfort of your home or office to find them!  If you are interested in fiction or nonfiction, romance or horror, humor or drama, literary or technical the online downloadable collection will have an audio book, ebook or video of interest to you.

All it takes to access the PLS OverDrive collection is a computer with internet access, you don't even need a portable device (unless you want to take the reading with you). Visit the help page for information on how to get started and if you still need assistance email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Here is just a sample of some the new titles available right now for download:

92 Pacific Boulevard, by Debbie Macomber
Fiction, Romance - WMA format
Book 9 of the popular Cedar Cover Series. Need we say more?

In CHEAP We Trust, by Lauren Weber
Non-Fiction, Business - Ebook format
In this lively treatise on the virtues of being cheap, Weber explores provocative questions about Americans' conflicted relationship with consumption and frugality. Why do we ridicule people who save money? Where's the boundary between thrift and miserliness? Is thrift a virtue or a vice during a recession? And was it common sense or obsessive-compulsive disorder that made her father ration the family's toilet paper? In answering these questions, In Cheap We Trust offers a colorful ride through the history of frugality in the United States. Readers will learn the stories behind Ben Franklin and his famous maxims, Hetty Green (named "the world's greatest miser" by the Guinness Book of Records) and the stereotyping of Jewish and Chinese immigrants as cheap

One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead, by Clare Dudman
Fiction, Historical - MP3 format
Clare Dudman has imaginatively re-created the life of the German scientist Alfred Wegener, whose theory of continental drift—derided by his contemporaries—would eventually revolutionize our perception of the world.

Wegener’s irresistible urge to discover the unknown takes him from the horrors of World War I’s trenches to several lengthy expeditions across the unexplored ice of Greenland, an extraordinary quest that—with the support of a remarkable woman—gives birth to a powerful idea worth fighting for. Distinguished by its evocation of the unforgiving beauty of the Arctic, this stunningly written tale of obsession and courage will thrill readers of scientific history and the best adventure writing.

V for Vendetta, by Steve Moore
Fiction - MP3 format
Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy, a world of the not-too-distant future in which freedom has been surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime which rose to power by exploiting the people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses. This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman saved from death by a masked man calling himself V. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to shed the blanket of tyranny and oppression that they have permitted themselves to be cloaked in. While those in power take steps to neutralize the threat, police pursue the mystery of V, unaware of the terrible truth that awaits them. But it is Evey who, with V as her enigmatic guide, sets out on the painful path of deception and self-discovery, deconstruction and re-creation, vindication and vengeance.

Evolution of God, by George Marsden
Non-Fiction, Religion - WMA format
In this sweeping narrative, which takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today and why science, contrary to conventional wisdom, affirms the validity of the religious quest. And this previously unrecognized evolutionary logic points not toward continued religious extremism but to future harmony.

Born Round, by Frank Bruni
Non-Fiction, Autobiography - Ebook format
A recent guest on the Colbert Report, Bruni's Born Round tells the captivating story of an unpredictable journalistic odyssey and provides an unflinching account of one person’s tumultuous, often painful lifelong struggle with his weight. How does a committed eater embrace food without being undone by it? Born Round will speak to every hungry hedonist who has ever had to rein in an appetite to avoid letting out a waistband, and it will delight anyone interested in matters of family, matters of the heart, and the big role food plays in both.