App of the Week 11/1/11

Project Guttenberg- ebooks for mobile devices!


For Droid:http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:MobileReader_Devices_How-To#Android


For iphone:  http://www.ibooksforfree.net/2011/08/project-gutenberg-app-iphoneipaditouch.html

YA Novels that aren't dark or explicit

Heard about this blog when I went to the Books By the Banks Festival yesterday.


It has reviews of books that don't contain explicit violence, profanity, or paranormal themes.  How many vampire books do you want to read anyway ;-)


http://libraryofcleanreads.blogspot.com/

App of the Week 10/24/11

Gain access to thousands of eBooks, fiction and non-fiction, directly on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, with Free-eBooks.net's handy new Apple App

Download 5 eBooks for FREE with a Standard (FREE) Membership each and every month.



http://www.free-ebooks.net/appleapps/

Books By the Banks This Weekend!

This fun festival takes place at Cincinnati's Duke Energy Center this Saturday,

October 22, from 10:00 am-4:00 pm 

Hundreds of authors speaking and signing their work as well  as panel discussions, author interviews, K-12 Kid’s Corner, etc.

Check out the event here:

http://booksbythebanks.org/

Daughter of Fortune by by Isabel Allende

Here's a title that I enjoyed reading immensely.  Allende's great historical novel is translated by Hija de Fortuna. 

Eliza Sommers, left alone and pregnant in Chile when her love Joaquin runs off to California during the Gold Rush, decides to follow him only to become entranced with her new life of freedom and independence.

App of the Week 10/17/11

Learn the Periodic table for free on your Droid!


Socratica gives 30 facts about each element for reference. Audio clips to help with pronunciation. Test yourself with quiz mode. Find elements by table, search or index.


http://famigo.com/app/periodic-table/

Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper

Read local author Draper's book set in Cincinnati.

Jericho is thrilled when he's asked to join the Warriors of Distinction, a school club with a fifty-year history and fine reputation for community service. But he soon learns that membership involves a prolonged and demeaning hazing campaign that includes paddling, being led on a leash, and jumping from a second-story window. This well-characterized novel moves with mounting tension to its inevitably tragic conclusion.

App of the Week

App of the Week:


Name: Evernote Cost: Free


Evernote allows you to take school notes, personal notes, archive pictures and share notes with others and across multiple devices. All notes are stored in the cloud so that you can access them anywhere with an internet connection.

http://www.evernote.com/