Year: 2021

Your January Reading Resolution…Famous and Infamous
Reading Challenge

Your February Reading Resolution…And The Winner Is…

February 9, 2021 Reading Challenge

February is awards month. It’s time for the Golden Globes, and the Oscars, and also a great month to read  an award-winning book! In the book world, major awards don’t correspond neatly to one month, but AAPLD’s print and digital collections include winners of all the major literary and genre fiction awards, from 2020 through many previous years. To help […]

Join our TED Talk Series for Black History Month
Digital Resources

Join our Black History Month TED Talk Series

February 1, 2021 Digital Resources

To commemorate Black History Month 2021, AAPLD is proud to offer a series of four thought-provoking TED talks, presented by leading Black authors and historians. The Black History On Your Own Time series runs through the month of February, and there’s no registration required. To watch a talk, simply click the links below, or go to our online program calendar […]

Safe, Convenient and Fun! Discover Digital in 2021
Digital Resources

Safe, Convenient and Fun! Discover Digital in 2021

January 11, 2021 Digital Resources

The year 2020 saw record levels of digital book circulation worldwide, according to OverDrive, one of AAPLDs digital material providers.  Check-outs of ebooks, downloadable audiobooks and digital magazines, from both public libraries and schools, grew by 33% over 2019. The Covid-19 pandemic is the primary reason for the growth, as more patrons discover how to use their Smartphones, computers and […]

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Book Wizards

January 11, 2021 Uncategorized

In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria promises to marry Tristran if he’ll retrieve that star and bring it back for her. It is this promise that sends Tristran through the only gap in the wall, across the meadow, and into the most unforgettable adventure of his life. […]

Your January Reading Resolution…Famous and Infamous
Reading Challenge

Your January Reading Resolution…Famous and Infamous

January 6, 2021 Reading Challenge

The 2021 Reading Resolutions Challenge kicks off with the theme “Famous and Infamous,” which invites you to read a biography, autobiography or memoir. What’s the difference? According to Oxford Languages/Google, a biography is an account of someone’s life written by someone else. An autobiography is an account of someone’s life written by that person. A memoir is similar to an […]