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Category: EBook Readers

Feb 01 2012

39 New Popular Titles Available on Amazon Kindles in January 2012 @ NCSU Libraries

The following 39 popular titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in January 2012:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat Turn of Mind The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right The Google Resume Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies WAR Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Brave New World The Haunting of Hill House Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) Bossypants The Choice The Sense of an Ending Shantaram: A Novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Shack The Girl Who Played with Fire White Noise The Abbey The Mill River Recluse Veronika Decides to Die The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel The Night Circus The Hunger Games Trilogy A Feast for Crows Snuff Eragon Wizard and Glass Mile 81 The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) The Passage Shiver Clockwork Prince Crescendo Destined Dark Secret Dark Destiny

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Jan 03 2012

36 New Popular Titles Available on Amazon Kindles in December @ NCSU Libraries

The following 36 popular titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in December:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

Steve Jobs Blood Done Sign My Name Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School Cold Mountain: A Novel Atonement As I Lay Dying The Lost Symbol The Hunger Games Hunger A Thousand Splendid Suns American Gods Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings Outliers: The Story of Success Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary The Bait of Satan: Living Free from the Deadly Trap of Offense Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game One Day Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity White Noise The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts Bossypants Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms Student Development in College: Theory, Research, and Practice Star of India. Imperial themes The other face of English literature Modes of representing the Subcontinent The Magicians Eragon The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger A Clash of Kings The Immortal Highlander: 6 Dark Curse Dark Peril Dark Possession Dark Slayer Hells' Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Summary & Study Guide

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Dec 02 2011

25 New Popular Titles Available on Amazon Kindles in November @ NCSU Libraries

The following 25 popular titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in November:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention Steve Jobs The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any Top Tech Company Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Electronics For Dummies Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit To Right These Wrongs The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates A Homemade Life It Happened on the Way to War What It Is Like to Go to War Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Zeitoun Still Alice Cutting for Stone Hush, Hush Kiss of the Highlander The Dark Highlander Dark Celebration: A Carpathian Reunion Dark Demon The Naming: The First Book of Pellinor A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella

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Nov 04 2011

29 New Popular Titles Available on Amazon Kindles in October @ NCSU Libraries

The following 29 popular titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in October:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

The Night Train The Leftovers Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe The Emperor of All Maladies The Road to Serfdom: 2 Shantaram: A Novel Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun Sing you Home The Night Circus 1984 Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Eragon Towers of Midnight The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time) To Tame a Highland Warrior: 2 The Mist Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) Learning (Bailey Flanigan Series) Leaving (Bailey Flanigan Series) Dark Guardian Dark Symphony Magic Bleeds Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) The Diamond Age Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

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Mar 03 2011

23 New Non-Fiction Titles Available on Amazon Kindles in February @ NCSU Libraries

The following 23 nonfiction titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in February:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksSilent SpringWhat Color Is Your Parachute? 2011: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each OtherGetting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done RightElectronics For Dummies The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We ThinkEat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and IndonesiaTraitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano RooseveltBobby and Jackie Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking How To Win Friends and Influence PeopleAnalysis for Marketing PlanningThe Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate Diffusion of Innovations, 5th EditionNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaWomen, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies, Second Edition Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, Revised EditionLonely Planet USA (Country Guide)Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black ArtThe Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed
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Mar 02 2011

63 New Fiction Titles Available on Amazon Kindles in February @ NCSU Libraries

The following 63 fiction titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in February:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

The Heart Is a Lonely HunterMadame BovarySense and Sensibility FrankensteinRoom: A NovelMoonlight MileThe Blind Assassin: A NovelContagious The City & The CityAnd Another Thing...The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last TimeThe Confession: A Novel The Windup Girl Kisses and LiesUnlocked: A Love StoryOne DayEnder's Shadow Shadow of the HegemonBad Blood: a Virgil Flowers novelStorm PreyMy Blood ApprovesFlutter (My Blood Approves, Book 3)Wisdom (My Blood Approves, #4)Inevitable, a Paranormal Romance (The Inevitable Trilogy #1)HollowlandSwitched (Trylle Trilogy, Book 1) Torn (Trylle Trilogy, Book 2) Ascend (Trylle Trilogy, #3)The Namesake: A NovelTwilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)The Twilight Saga Collection The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse NovellaCross FireTick TockClockwork AngelSoullessShadowfeverTender MorselsThe TalismanThe King of AttoliaThe Queen of AttoliaA Conspiracy of KingsThe Thief UnwindAlone'Salem's Lot Rose MadderThe Drawing of the Three: (The Dark Tower #2)Skeleton CrewThe StandThe Eyes of the Dragon The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time' The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time' The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time' A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time' The Path of Daggers: Book Eight of 'The Wheel of Time' (Book 8)Winter's Heart: Book Nine of 'The Wheel of Time'Crossroads of Twilight: Book Ten of 'The Wheel of Time' Knife of DreamsThe Gathering Storm Towers of Midnight

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Feb 02 2011

NCSU Libraries eBook Readers February 2011 Update Part 2

The following 35 fiction titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in January:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

Moonlight MileRoom: A NovelThe Girl with the Dragon TattooStork Raving Mad: A Meg Langslow MysteryThe Brief and Frightening Reign of PhilThe ChoiceA Bend in the RoadNights in RodantheSide Jobs: Stories From the Dresden FilesAtonement: A NovelThe Hunger GamesCatching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) The Underland Chronicles: Gregor and the Code of ClawThe Underland Chronicles: Gregor and the Marks of SecretThe Underland Chronicles: Gregor and the Curse of the WarmbloodsThe Underland Chronicles: Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane The Underland Chronicles: Gregor the Overlander Full Dark, No StarsThe Gunslinger: (The Dark Tower #1)The Drawing of the Three: (The Dark Tower #2)The Waste Lands: (The Dark Tower #3)Dark Tower V, The Dark Tower VII, The (v. 7)The Magician's Nephew: The Chronicles of NarniaThe Laughing CorpseThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A NovelThe Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'Treasure IslandThe Legend of Sleepy HollowThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesSeptimus Heap, Book One: Magyk Free with Bonus MaterialCassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument SeriesWhere Memories LieThe Gathering Storm

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Feb 01 2011

NCSU Libraries eBook Readers February 2011 Update Part 1

In January the NCSU Libraries now have had 48 eBook Readers for loan through the D. H. Hill Library’s Technology Lending program. 47 Amazon Kindles (5 Kindle DXs, 30 original Kindles) have a user-developed collection of 466 popular titles.

Kindle 36 is a 4 hour loan Newsreader with TIME, Newsweek, The News & Observer, The New York Times, & Wall Street Journal updated daily. Currently, this device is broken and awaiting replacement.

Two Sony eBook Readers each have 100 volume Classics Libraries (Sherwood Anderson to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henrik Ibsen to Emile Zola).

The following 23 nonfiction titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in January:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School Eating AnimalsOrganic ChemistryThe Fast Forward MBA in Project Management Microsoft Project 2010 Step by StepAlone TogetherThe Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It Electronics For DummiesElectronics Projects For DummiesAutobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinAssholes Finish First I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (Movie Tie-in)Sliding Into Home Chelsea Chelsea Bang BangTalking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler HaircutA Quest for More : Living for Something Bigger Than YouSpiritual Relationships That Last, What the Bible Says About Dating and MarriageA Million Little PiecesEgypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient MediterraneanStudent Development in College: Theory, Research, and PracticeThe Student Leadership Challenge: Five Practices for Exemplary LeadersOver My Head: A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out

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Jan 08 2011

NCSU Libraries eBook Reader January 2011 Update

In December the NCSU Libraries added 12 new 3rd generation Kindles and now have had 50 eBook Readers for loan through the D. H. Hill Library’s Technology Lending program. 47 Amazon Kindles (5 Kindle DXs, 30 original Kindles) have a user-developed collection of 466 popular titles. Two Sony eBook Readers each have 100 volume Classics Libraries (Sherwood Anderson to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henrik Ibsen to Emile Zola). All of these 49 devices can be checked out for a week.

Kindle 36 is a 4 hour loan Newsreader with TIME, Newsweek, The News & Observer, The New York Times, & Wall Street Journal updated daily. Currently, this device is broken and awaiting replacement.

The following 37 titles (including the NC State 2011 Common Reading Selection, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot) were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in November:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksIllustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart GuideWater for ElephantsThe HelpThe Female BrainAtlas Shrugged: (Centennial Edition) The Art of War by Sun TzuThe Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two FatesThe Intention ExperimentC.S. Lewis's Mere ChristianityThe Reluctant FundamentalistEnder's GameEnder in ExileSpeaker for the DeadXenocide: Volume Three of the Ender QuartetEnder's ShadowShadow of the HegemonA War of Gifts: An Ender StoryDead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel Dead in the Family: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel URFull Dark, No StarsMiseryThe Dark Half Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday MachineHer Daughter's DreamTake TwoBleak HouseThe MoonstoneHow to Stop Worrying and Start LivingHow To Win Friends and Influence PeopleBeyond BeliefThe Hunger GamesHow Big Is Your God?: The Freedom to Experience the DivineChange Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness

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Dec 03 2010

NCSU Libraries eBook Reader December 2010 Update

In November the NCSU Libraries had 38 eBook Readers for loan through the D. H. Hill Library’s Technology Lending program. 35 Amazon Kindles (5 Kindle DXs, 30 original Kindles) have a user-developed collection of 454 popular titles. Two Sony eBook Readers each have 100 volume Classics Libraries (Sherwood Anderson to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henrik Ibsen to Emile Zola). All of these 37 devices can be checked out for a week.

Kindle 36 is a 4 hour loan Newsreader with TIME, Newsweek, The News & Observer, The New York Times, & Wall Street Journal updated daily. Pick up the Newsreader Kindle at the D.H. Hill Library Circulation Desk.

In December six new Kindle 3s will be available for loan, bringing the total number of Kindles in the user-developed collection project to 43.

The following 36 titles were added to the NCSU Libraries Kindles by library users in November:
(Move your mouse over a book cover to see the title; click on a cover for more information)

Christmas Eve at Friday HarborThe Lucky OneA Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter from the One Hundred Parable SutraSiddhartha - An Indian TaleBrave New WorldCrazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless GodA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's PurposeInvisible ManThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's NestAutobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler HaircutNever Let Me GoThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismLuthien's GambleThe Gathering StormWench: A NovelBed of RosesVision In WhiteSavor the MomentHappy Ever AfterNineteen Eighty-Four (1984)While We're Far ApartThe Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives RuleDefianceOut of the DarkStarship: Mutiny (Starship, Book 1)Halo: Ghosts of OnyxTravels with Charley in Search of AmericaThe Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last TimeThe Reluctant FundamentalistGetting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done RightC.S. Lewis's Mere ChristianityUnveiling Islam: An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and BeliefsSong of MyselfBeyond BeliefSoftware Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
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