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Talking Book ISSN 0039-1983 Topics March–April 2020 Like us on www.loc.gov/nls Need help? Your local cooperating library is always the place to start. For general information and to order books, call 1-888-NLS-READ (1-888-657-7323) to be connected to your local cooperating library. To find your library, turn to the email and phone numbers on the final pages of this publication, or visit www.loc.gov/nls and select “Find Your Library.” To change your Talking Book Topics subscription, complete the form on the inside back cover and mail it to your local cooperating library. Get books fast from BARD About Talking Book Topics Most books and magazines listed in Talking Book Topics, published in audio, Talking Book Topics are available to large print, and online, is distributed free eligible readers for download on the to people unable to read regular print and NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download is available in an abridged form in braille. (BARD) site. 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Biography ..................................32 Talking Blindness and Physical Disabilities .................................34 Business and Economics ............35 Book Career and Job Training .............35 Computers ..................................35 Topics Cooking ......................................35 Crime .........................................36 Family ........................................37 March–April 2020 Gardening...................................37 Volume 86, Number 2 General .......................................38 Contents Government and Politics ............38 Home Management ....................41 Journalism and the Media ..........41 In Brief ........................................... iii Language ....................................41 Books for Adults ..............................1 Medicine and Health ..................41 Adult Fiction...................................1 Music .........................................42 Adventure.....................................1 Nature and the Environment ......43 Classics ........................................2 Philosophy .................................44 Family ..........................................2 Poetry .........................................44 Fantasy .........................................3 Psychology and Self-Help .........44 General .........................................4 Religion ......................................45 Historical Fiction .........................6 Science and Technology ............47 Human Relationships ...................8 Social Sciences ..........................47 Humor ........................................10 Sports and Recreation ................48 Literature ....................................10 Stage and Screen ........................49 Mystery and Detective ...............11 Travel .........................................51 Occult and Horror ......................15 U.S. History ...............................51 Political Themes ........................16 War .............................................52 Psychological Themes ...............16 World History ............................52 Religious Themes ......................16 Books for Children ........................53 Romance ....................................17 Children’s Fiction .........................53 Science Fiction ...........................21 Adventure...................................53 Short Stories ...............................24 Animals and Wildlife .................53 Spies and Espionage ..................25 Family ........................................54 Suspense ....................................26 Fantasy .......................................54 War Stories .................................30 Friendship ..................................55 Westerns .....................................31 Historical Fiction .......................56 Adult Nonfiction ...........................32 Humor ........................................56 Animals and Wildlife .................32 Mystery and Detective ...............56 Arts ............................................32 Continued on the next page i Scary Stories ..............................57 School ........................................58 Science Fiction ...........................58 Sports Stories .............................58 Children’s Nonfiction ...................59 Animals and Wildlife .................59 Arts ............................................59 Astronomy .................................59 Biography ..................................59 Blindness and Physical Disabilities .................................60 Career and Job Training .............60 Computers ..................................61 Cooking ......................................61 Folktales .....................................61 General .......................................61 Government and Politics ............61 Jokes, Riddles, and Rhymes ......61 Language ....................................61 Nature and the Environment ......62 Poetry .........................................62 Science and Technology ............62 Sports and Recreation ................62 U.S. History ...............................62 Foreign Language .........................63 Español .........................................63 Audio Magazines ...........................67 Order Forms: Books for Adults ...........................69 Books for Children .......................75 Foreign Language Books..............77 Library Phone List ........................79 Note: See Library Phone List for the telephone number and email address of your regional cooperating library. To cancel your subscription to Talking Book Topics, contact your local cooperating library ii In Brief Your census form matters! its website at https://go.usa.gov/xdBbf. The Census results play a crucial part in deter- latest addition, “Rosa Parks (1913–2005),” mining how government entities allocate highlights books on the pioneering civil rights hundreds of billions of dollars each year for activist and was released in conjunction with services on which communities rely. Make a Library of Congress exhibit showcasing your voice matter by responding to the Parks’s personal papers. Other minibibliog- census via phone, mail, or online. For more raphies cover subjects from baseball and gar- information, visit www.census.gov or call dening to financial planning and decluttering, 1-800-923-8282 or 1-800-877-8339 (TTY). and all provide direct links for downloading every listed title from BARD. NLS to pilot braille eReader New Yorker now available in For the past four years, NLS had been steadily working toward providing braille audio eReaders to its patrons. Historically the only The New Yorker, a weekly magazine options for patrons who wanted to read books that mixes journalism and essays with in braille have been to receive the books in fiction and poetry, will return to the list of hardcopy through the mail, or to purchase magazines available in audio from NLS in a third-party braille display for reading February 2020. Patrons interested in reading electronic braille files downloaded from it can download it from BARD or contact BARD—an expense many could not afford. their local cooperating network library Soon, there will be a third option. This to subscribe. summer NLS will launch the pilot of the NLS Braille eReader. This is a 20-cell Magazines of the Month braille display, which will be provided to Whether you’re interested in sports, current participating NLS patrons to read BRF events, cooking, computers, parenting, files. Other features of the eReader include or even cats, the NLS magazine program Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capability, a USB has you covered. But if the regular NLS port, and SD-card storage access. Patrons magazine offerings (found in the back will have the option to either download of this publication) aren’t catching your books from BARD to the device or order interest, consider contacting your coop- BRF books on USB cartridge from their erating network library to subscribe to network library. The pilot will start with Magazine of the Month, a sampler that four libraries and will solicit feedback sends you issues of twelve different audio on all aspects of the pilot devices from magazines throughout the year.