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Digital Library: What's New? June 2018 |
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What’s New in eBooks, eAudiobooks, Flipster Magazines and More!
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While she was growing up, Piper's father, Lance "the Silver Eagle" Whitman, became a national hero piloting a plane through an emergency landing. But at home, he was a controlling and overbearing presence in her life. As a result, Piper has poured all of her energy into creating a warm and loving home for her own family, while catering to her son Fred's ever-growing idiosyncrasies. Then Lance has a heart attack, leaving him with a brain injury--and dependent upon Piper for his care--just before tests confirm Piper's suspicions that Fred is on the autism spectrum. A powerful and extraordinary novel, Flying at Night gives voice to Fred, trying to find his place in a world that doesn't quite understand him; to Lance, who's lost what made him the man he was, for better and worse; and to Piper, who, while desperately trying to navigate the shifting landscape around her, watches as her son and father start to connect--in the most miraculous ways.
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Armed with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito net, Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition of railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman, who organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: he converted a steamship into a luxury "floating university," and populated it with some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers. Those aboard the ship encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America's most sublime wilderness and draws a million tourists annually. This is Mark Adams' travel guide to the breathtaking natural history—and colorful human history—of one of America’s most fascinating states.
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Calypso by David SedarisThe latest essay collection by humorist David Sedaris is a meditation on aging. It's a sardonic one that he narrates himself in his quintessential tongue-in-cheek fashion. It's a good thing he does because the listener gets the sense that only Sedaris could balance the witty observations alongside the heartrending sadness of life. Fans of Sedaris, who may well be in the middle of their own lives by now, will listen along, laughing, and perhaps wiping away a few tears. AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine.
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Popular Mechanics is a magazine for people who have a passion to know how things work. It's about how the latest advances in science and technology will impact your home, your car, consumer electronics, computers, even your health. Popular Mechanics - answers for curious minds. This month's issue has a special report on the future of American manufacturing, job saving innovations, robotics in factory work, gold mining using advanced technology and the new American Whiskey.
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Click here to check out this magazine, and discover over 50 more on our Flipster App!
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The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and the Technology Collection and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
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