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Celebrate Teen Literature Day: Hooray for YA!

April 17th, 2013 4 comments

                         

 

Throughout National Library Week, we’ve honored our beloved library workers, put a spotlight on the Digital Bookmobile

Celebrate National Poetry Month with eBooks

March 26th, 2013 No comments

   

April is National Poetry Month, sponsored annually by the Academy of American Poets. Here at OverDrive, we’re always game for celebrating the written word, and Content Reserve offers a number of classic and contemporary…

Showcase National Book Award Finalists With OverDrive

October 16th, 2012 No comments

 

The National Book Foundation recently announced the finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards, and you’ll find many of these eBooks and audiobooks available in OverDrive’s catalog for libraries and schools. As anticipation builds for the National…

LGBT eBooks & Audiobooks for National Coming Out Day

October 11th, 2012 No comments

It’s “National Coming Out Day”, a day to celebrate homosexuality and the larger LGBT community and encourage openness and pride in sexuality and gender identity. This year’s theme, “Come Out. Vote.” ties in with the upcoming U.S. election in November and…

Arrr! eBooks & Audiobooks for Talk Like a Pirate Day

September 11th, 2012 No comments

Ahoy mateys! We’ll start this one off with a joke: What’s a pirate’s favorite letter? (Find the punchline at the bottom of this post.)

 

September 19 marks the 10-year anniversary of International Talk like a Pirate Day.…

Seeing Double: eBooks About Twins

August 2nd, 2012 No comments

The first weekend in August marks the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. This unique celebration of multiples is the largest worldwide gathering of twins and has become an annual pilgrimage for…

Most Downloaded From the Library—June 2012

July 9th, 2012 No comments

If you’ve been following my Most Downloaded blogs in recent months, you’re probably tired of hearing about Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Fifty Shades. So even though the beloved wizard continues to cast a…

Retro Read: The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories

June 25th, 2012 No comments

For this month’s Retro Read, Jason Sockel pays poetic tribute to the Dr. Seuss collection “The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories.” -Ed.

What a stroke of good luck!
Like the rare finding by a duck named McCluck,

A Tribute to Our Mom: eBooks for Mother’s Day

May 8th, 2012 No comments

Mother’s Day is May 13, and this year, we Sockel brothers want to salute our mother as best we know how—by writing a blog in her honor! This is also a very exciting time for Team OverDrive, as many a…

Harry Potter Surges Atop April’s Most-Downloaded Lists

May 1st, 2012 No comments

As predicted by this guy last month, PotterMORE is right! Harry Potter titles accounted for a startling 64 percent of the top Juvenile Fiction eBook and Audiobook titles downloaded in April, occupying 51 of 80 possible…