Digital Media discoveries

Even though I was unable to download the program to listen to any of these audiobooks, the selection of new and popular authors was quite extensive. In addition, there were many classic titles available. Since I tend towards historical fiction, some of the neat titles I found were:
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks. The following is the description taken from the digital media website:
DescriptionFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, this is the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding—an insect-wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair—she begins to unlock the book’s mysteries. The listener is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book’s journey from its salvation back to its creation.

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of both sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity and is an ambitious, electrifying work by an acclaimed and beloved author.

If you need a lighter read, you may want to check out Janet Evanovich's novels. One of her later novels, Lean Mean Thirteen, is available online. The description provided is as follows:
DescriptionFrom coast to coast and around the world, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels continue to make bestselling history each summer. Her legions of fans catapult her books to the top of every list, from the New York Times, to USA Today; from the Wall Street Journal, to Entertainment Weekly, and Publishers Weekly. In the thirteenth book in the series, the stakes are raised even higher as Stephanie Plum finds herself in her most dangerous, hilarious and hottest chase yet. With her lovably offbeat family along for the ride (as well as a few new faces), there's no doubt that the Stephanie Plum novels put the "fun" in dysfunctional, and it's clear to see why they're called "Hot Stuff" by the New York Times and why Evanovich herself is called "the master."

Happy reading everyone!