Library’s ebook collection expanding rapidly
Need help downloading free library ebooks to your new Nook, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPad or other device?
Beebe Library will be holding small informal overview sessions in January on downloading library ebooks to various devices using the library’s Overdrive service. If you’d like to attend a session, sign up at the Reference Desk or phone 781-246-6334, x2 to sign up and get more information.
Helpful guides on downloading ebooks via the library’s Overdrive service are available on Beebe Library’s web site. Handouts are also available at the Reference Desk.

Looking for titles for the new ebook reader you received during the holidays? Beebe Library has a growing collection of ebooks to checkout online for free.
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What was the best book published in the past year? Tell us what you think. Go to our Facebook page and post your choice on our wall for Best Book of 2011.
Or if you prefer, you can email your best Book choice to Leane Ellis at the library: ellis@noblenet.org. We will publish the list on our website in January 2012. Please feel free to include why you think the book qualifies for the Best of 2011.

You either love them or hate them — but there is no escaping the Best Books of 2011 lists. Most of these titles do have some things in common — they appear on multiple lists and they are books that force you to slow down and enjoy the author’s ability to put words together in unexpected and intriguing ways. Book Awards and “Best of” lists reflect the particular taste of whoever happens to be judging for that particular award or list, so the discerning reader will bear that in mind while perusing and comparing these ubiquitous and entertaining compilations.
One of the best places to find these lists on the Internet is on the Reader’s Advisory Blog Online compiled by the Readers’ Advisory librarians at Libraries Unlimited. Continue »

Whether you’re a true crime buff yourself or you’re looking for a gift for the true crime reader on your list, here are a few titles that will have you double-checking your locks. Murder knows no geographical bounds, so if you’re going to read about it, New England is as good a place to start as any.
The strange story of serial imposter Clark Rockefeller first came to the public eye when his ex-wife reported to Boston Police that Rockefeller had kidnapped their young daughter during a supervised visit. In The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, Mark Seal tells a gripping true story of deception and murder worthy of Patricia Highsmith’s fictional Tom Ripley.
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The fall of 2011 has been very good to some first-time novelists. Already well-received–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding is about a baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan who launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people. Library Journal hails this title as a “highly enjoyable and intelligent novel [that] offers several coming-of-age tales set against the background of an exciting and convincing baseball drama. Continue »

Here are a few new mysteries that you may not have heard about that you may want to consider for your reading pleasure.

M.L. Longworth’s Death at the Château Bremont is the first novel in a projected series set in Aix-en-Provence. Booklist compares Longworth’s voice to “ a rich concoction of sparkling Dorothy Sayers and grounded Donna Leon.” The novel introduces readers to Antoine Verlaque, the handsome and seductive chief magistrate of Aix, and his on-again, off-again love interest, law professor Marine Bonnet. When local nobleman Etienne de Bremont falls to his death from the family chateau, the town is abuzz with rumors. Verlaque suspects foul play and must turn to Marine for help when he discovers that she had been a close friend of the Bremonts. This is a lively whodunit steeped in the rich, enticing, and romantic atmosphere of southern France. Continue »

Kindle users can now download eBooks free from area libraries. The eBook collection of the libraries of NOBLE, the North of Boston Library Exchange, is now compatible with the Amazon Kindle. Beebe Library patrons can now download popular and classic eBooks to a Kindle or any mobile device running the free Kindle app, such as iPhone, iPad, Android and more.
Kindle users can browse NOBLE’s collection using a PC or Mac, check out titles using their library card, and select “Get for Kindle” to deliver eBooks to their Amazon account for transfer to their Kindle or any device running the free Kindle app. The free library titles are available for two week loans.
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