The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

         This is a fun read-set in Botswana.  Precious sets herself up as her country's first female detective. 


                                                                               

App of the Week

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Hope was Here by Joan Bauer

This has been on my side table in a expanding stack of books to read, especially since it's a Newberry Honor book.

When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.

App of the Week 4-29-13-Free Rice

The popular online vocabulary game Free Rice is available for free in Google Play for use on your Android phone and or Android tablet. Free Rice for Android offers 19 subjects to choose from. Free Rice games are drilling activities that ask players to answer multiple choice questions. For each correct answer Free Rice donates ten grains of rice to the UN World Food Program.

App of the Week

Cool Reader is a free Android app that anyone can use to read a variety of ebook formats including ePub, .mobi, and html. Through the Cool Reader app you can browse for books in public collections like Project Gutenberg or import your own books. The Cool Reader app has some handy features including bookmarking pages, clipping text, searching for text, and skipping to chapters. Cool Reader is an open source project. The app has an average rating of 4.7 from more than 56,000 reviews.

Blink Once by Cylin Busby

Haven't read this yet, but it's on my long list of 

"to reads".

From the Publisher: West is a high school senior who has everything going for him until an accident leaves him paralyzed. Strapped down in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, West is terrified and alone. Until he meets 

Celebrate National Poetry Month!

Check out this free Poetry App where you can discover the works of famous poets such as: Yeats, Byron, and Frost.