Happy Pi Day!
This year’s Pi Day isn’t just any ol’ holiday that celebrates an irrational and transcendental number, but a once in a lifetime date in which the year lines up with the number as well: 3.1415…. (3-14-15) To help celebrate this very mathematical date, the Collection…
Terry Pratchett, we’ll miss you
As most of you have probably heard, Sir Terry Pratchett (an author whose works I dearly loved) passed away yesterday, March 12th, 2015. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2007, and managed to fight it, while continuing to write best sellers. He called it…
Streaming Video Top Picks: Film Festival Favorites
OverDrive is proud to call Cleveland, Ohio home. To help support our community, Team OverDrive participates in local events like the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF). Along with the Cuyahoga County Public Library and the Cleveland PBS and NPR affiliates, OverDrive is excited to sponsor…
Join in on the March Madness with these basketball reads!
Whether or not you’re a basketball aficionado or a complete Luddite, like myself, there are still books to be had for this fine season of madness and mayhem on and off the court. Here are some basketball flavored recommendations for creating your bracket, watching it…
Reviewing The Fire Sermon, a dystopian thriller
It seems like in the past few years, simply put, “It’s the new Hunger Games!” in a book description, and it will sell. While there is no denying that dystopian fiction is all kinds of hot right now, I find that slapping the Hunger Games…
Reviewing Gail Carriger’s Prudence, a comedic steampunk adventure
Gail Carriger’s newest novel, Prudence, is the first in a new series that is one part steampunk, one part fantasy, and eight parts comedy. It’s easy to see why Carriger cites P.G. Wodehouse as a major influence, as she flawlessly captures his style of charm,…
FREE Webinar – OverDrive Periodicals: Lend popular digital magazines & newspapers
If I don’t have a lot of time to dive into the book I’m currently reading I turn to the latest copy of my favorite magazine. I also like to keep up with what’s going on around the world by reading the newspaper each morning….
Ninja Turtles, SpongeBob and the whole Nickelodeon gang are now available through OverDrive!
OverDrive is excited to announce that we are the first digital content provider live with narrated and fixed layout eBook titles available for libraries and schools in the U.S. to add to their collections! These interactive titles contain popular characters including Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob, iCarly, the Teenage…
Reviewing I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son
Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! wowed me (if you haven’t read it, do it now), so when I found out that her brother penned a collection of essays I had to pick it up. Kent Russell’s I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son is very different from…
By Librarians, For Librarians… and cats.
It’s no secret that OverDrive loves librarians. Librarians are information superheros. To quote Judy Blume, “Librarians save lives…” In celebration of librarians, our own punk-rockbook jockeys banded together to compile a list of titles for librarians (and their cats) to enjoy. Crafting with Cat Hair…
You can now add Disney streaming videos to your digital library!
Team OverDrive is incredibly delighted to announce the addition of streaming videos from The Walt Disney Studios for your OverDrive digital collection. Each of us has fond Disney memories from Tinker Bell flying around Cinderella’s castle to watching intently and trying to find hidden Mickey…
Reviewing Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
My grandfather fought in the European Theater in World War II, and other than a few stories that he told me what I was a child, he was famously close-lipped about the entire experience. I don’t know if it is his connection to the war…