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The Big Library Read: A Very Typical Family

July 13, 2023 by Cheryl | 0 comments

Screenshot of cover art for A Very Typical Family.

The Big Library Read, hosted by OverDrive, comes but thrice a year. If you’ve been wanting to join in on the fun, you’re in luck! The summer Big Library Read is happening NOW, July 13-27, 2023.

Billed as “the first global ebook club,” the Big Library Read offers one title, free of charge, to OverDrive users around the world. This summer’s selection is A Very Typical Family by Sierra Godfrey.

About the book

Cover photo of A Very Typical Family.

Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn’t spoken to anyone in her family since. Now, on the same day her boyfriend steals her dream job out from under her, Natalie receives a letter from a lawyer saying her estranged mother has died and left the family’s historic Santa Cruz house to her. Sort of. The only way for Natalie and her siblings to inherit is for all three adult children to come back and claim it—together.

Written with delightfully dark humor and characters you can’t help but cheer for, A Very Typical Family is an uplifting family drama that will have you reveling in the power of second chances.

Accessing the book on OverDrive

Ready to read? Just click on these direct links to access A Very Typical Family on OverDrive:

If this is your first time using OverDrive, you’re in for a treat! More than 500 ebooks and 4,700 magazines are available for your reading pleasure. We also have a small (but growing) selection of audiobooks–perfect for making those long commutes a little more bearable.

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For reading on the go, be sure to check out OverDrive’s mobile app, Libby. Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines, then read/listen to them right from the app. You may also manage your loans, even across different OverDrive library collections (such as the Hawaii State Public Library System’s). Click on the graphic below for a video introduction to Libby.

Libby promotional graphic.

A discussion board for A Very Typical Family is available, but beware of spoilers! Happy reading!

New Best Sellers: Jan 19-22

January 19, 2021 by An | 0 comments

Best Sellers Collection

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Tower of Nero Vanishing half : a novel Pull of the stars

Looking for a book that we currently don’t have in our collection? Please suggest a book title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form.

New Best Sellers and OverDrive Reads – December 2020

December 14, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Best Sellers Collection

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A burning: a novel Djinn patrol on the purple line: a novel The dragons, the giant, the women: a memoir Infinity son Mexican Gothic The rise of magicks Untamed Utopia Avenue: a novel

OverDrive Collection 

Click on the book’s image below to access the item’s Primo Search record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive. Note: Long Time Coming is an audiobook read by the author, Michael Eric Dyson.

"Divided We Fall book cover." "Long Time Coming book cover." "From Equity Talk to Equity Walk book cover." "How to See Yourself as You Really Are book cover." "The Big Sort book cover."

Featured OverDrive sub-collection this month: Job and Career Preparation.

Are you new to using OverDrive? We have some tips for you on our OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide.

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We Are Thankful for New Best Sellers and OverDrive Reads

November 20, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Best Sellers Collection [New Window]

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All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto Black girl unlimited : the remarkable story of a teenage wizard The color of air : a novel If it bleeds Magic lessons : the prequel to practical magic Our time is now : power, purpose, and the fight for a fair America The room where it happened: a White House memoir Stamped : racism, antiracism, and you The world that we knew : a novel

OverDrive Collection [New Window]

Click on the book’s image below to access the item’s Primo Search record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive [New Window]. These titles are also featured in the “Race, Civil Rights, Equality…Zeitgeist!” sub-collection [New Window].

"Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man book cover." "Just Us: An American Conversation book cover."

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Inspired by Emmanuel Acho’s YouTube channel [New Window], this is the audiobook format for this 11/10/20 publication.

Just Us: An American Conversation – Watch Claudia Rankine discuss her inventive and timely new book [New Window] for the Chicago Humanities Festival on 9/24/20.

Also available on OverDrive: Shuggie Bain [New Window] by Douglas Stuart, the 2020 winner of The Booker Prize for Fiction.

 

Looking for a book that we currently don’t have in our collection? Please suggest a book title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

New Best Sellers and OverDrive Reads – November 2020

November 2, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Best Sellers Collection [New Window]

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The Black Flamingo A long petal of the sea : a novel My dark Vanessa : a novel The last romantics The ballad of songbirds and snakes House of earth and blood : a Crescent City novel Supernova The mermaid, the witch, and the sea The perfect fraud : a novel Apeirogon : a novel The great Gatsby : the graphic novel Food fix : how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet--one bite at a time Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb Why we're polarized

OverDrive Collection [New Window]

Click on the book’s image below to access the item’s Primo Search record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive [New Window].

"And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again." "Along Together book cover." "YouTube Channels for Dummies."

Featured OverDrive sub-collection this month: For Your Health and Wellness [New Window]

Are you new to using OverDrive? We have some tips for you on our OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window].

Looking for a book that we currently don’t have in our collection? Please suggest a book title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

Best Sellers and OverDrive New Books

October 27, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Best Sellers Collection [New Window]

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Aurora burning Agnes at the end of the world Of blood and bone The binding: a novel The starless sea: a novel The giver of stars: a novel In the dream house: a memoir How we fight for our lives: a memoir Camp By the book

OverDrive Collection [New Window]

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"Zoom for Dummies book cover." "Working From Home for Dummies book cover."

Ready for something spooky, mysterious, or suspenseful this Halloween? Try an Oc-THRILL-ber ebook [New Window].

Are you new to using OverDrive? We have some tips for you on our OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window].

 

Looking for a book that we currently don’t have in our collection? Please suggest a book title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

 

Autumnal Adventures in Reading: New Books Available

October 19, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Best Sellers Collection [New Window]

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Dear girls: intimate tales, untold secrets & advice for living your best life Sex and vanity Minore feelings: an Asian American reckoning The mister The betrothed All your twisted secrets Long bright river: a novel Tomb of ancients The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz The volunteer You're not listening: what you're missing and why it matters

OverDrive Collection [New Window]

Click on the book’s image below to access the item’s Primo Search record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing in OverDrive.

Caste book cover "The Lying Life of Adults book cover." "Shuggie Bain book cover."

Looking for something spooky, mysterious, or suspenseful? Oc-THRILL-ber ebooks [New Window] are back!

Are you new to using OverDrive? We have some tips for you on our OverDrive Collection Basics LibGuide [New Window].

 

Looking for a book that we currently don’t have in our collection? Please suggest a book title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

 

February 2020 New Books: Best Sellers and OverDrive Collections

February 3, 2020 by Jason Yamashita | 0 comments

Best Seller Titles

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous book cover The Moment of Lift book cover All-American Muslim Girl book cover Olive, Again book cover Life Will Be the Death of Me book cover Accused! book cover Who Put This Song On? book cover Searching for Sylvie Lee book cover Between Worlds book cover Ginger Bread book cover Bowlaway In at the deep end, a novel I know who you are, a novel If, then, a novel A map of days The conference of the birds

OverDrive [New Window] E-Book Titles

Click on the book’s image to access the e-book’s Primo record. In the record’s “View Online” section, the provided link will direct you to borrowing from our OverDrive [New Window] collection.

The Screwtape Letters book cover Uncanny Valley book cover Keto Diet for Dummies book cover Before and After the Book Deal book cover No Visible Bruises book cover Loserthink book cover

Looking for a book that we currently don’t have in our collection? Please suggest a book title by filling out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

 

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