Need some book recommendations but don’t have a lot of time? Your librarians are here to help! Don’t miss the fourth episode of Books in Brief, a new video series featuring four great digital title recommendations in about two minutes.
Collection Management Librarian Kathy Sexton recommends four titles to bring a little comfort to your reading.
Digital titles for comfort reading
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Description: A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts.
Stream & download with: Hoopla (ebook), Media on Demand & Libby (ebook and digital audiobook)
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Description: A former math professor with no short term memory forms a relationship through the languages of math and baseball with the housekeeper and her son who help take care of him.
Stream & download with: Hoopla (digital audiobook), Media on Demand & Libby (ebook)
Textbook by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Description: A memoir that collects insights, memories, and moments that are at once intimate and universal.
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby (ebook)
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Description: Set in 1989 Danvers, Massachusetts, a high school field hockey team discovers that the witchcraft of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season.
Stream & download with: Media on Demand & Libby (ebook)
About Kathy
Kathy is a Collection Management Librarian who loves reading, sharing, and talking about books. Her missions in life are to: create communities of readers, convince folks that her official title should be “Book Pusher,” and refute that “disco” is a dirty word.
