Talking Book Topics July–August 2018 Volume 84, Number 4 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, visit www.loc.gov/nls and select “Find Your Library.” To change your Talking Book Topics subscription, contact your local cooperating library. Get books fast from BARD Most books and magazines listed in Talking Book Topics are available to eligible readers for download on the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site. To use BARD, contact your local cooperating library or visit nlsbard.loc.gov for more information. The free BARD Mobile app is available from the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon’s Appstore. About Talking Book Topics Talking Book Topics, published in audio, large print, and online, is distributed free to people unable to read regular print and is available in an abridged form in braille. Talking Book Topics lists titles recently added to the NLS collection. The entire collection, with hundreds of thousands of titles, is available at www.loc.gov/nls. Select “Catalog Search” to view the collection. Talking Book Topics is also online at www.loc.gov/nls/tbt and in downloadable audio files from BARD. Overseas Service American citizens living abroad may enroll and request delivery to foreign addresses by contacting the NLS Overseas Librarian by phone at (202) 707-9261 or by email at [email protected]. Page 1 of 88 Music scores and instructional materials NLS music patrons can receive braille and large-print music scores and instructional recordings through the NLS Music Section. 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Library of Congress, Washington 2018 Catalog Card Number 60-46157 ISSN 0039-9183 Contents Talking Book Topics July–August 2018 Contents In Brief Books for Adults Adult Fiction Adventure Family Fantasy General Historical Fiction Holidays Human Relationships Literature Mystery and Detective Occult and Horror Page 2 of 88 Political Themes Psychological Themes Religious Themes Romance Science Fiction Short Stories Spies and Espionage Suspense Westerns Adult Nonfiction Adventure Arts Astronomy Biography Blindness and Physical Disabilities Business and Economics Career and Job Training Consumerism Cooking Crime Diet and Nutrition General Government and Politics Journalism and the Media Literature Medicine and Health Music Nature and the Environment Philosophy Poetry Page 3 of 88 Psychology and Self-Help Religion Science and Technology Social Sciences Sports and Recreation Stage and Screen Travel U.S. History Women's Concerns World History Books for Children Children’s Fiction Adventure Animals and Wildlife Folk and Fairy Tales Friendship Growing Up Historical Fiction Humor Mystery and Detective School Children's Nonfiction Animals and Wildlife Arts Biography Music Foreign Language Books Español Audio Magazines Page 4 of 88 In Brief Avoid the wait, read TBT online! Talking Book Topics (TBT) is available online in multiple formats up to a full month before the large-print and cartridge copies of TBT are distributed. For instance, the July–August issue of TBT will be posted online during the first weeks of July, while the large-print and cartridge editions of TBT will be mailed out during the first weeks of August. Accessible HTML and accessible PDF versions of the magazine are available at www.loc.gov/nls/tbt. The PDF format can be read by screen readers and allows you to easily navigate among adult, children’s, and foreign-language books; fiction and nonfiction; subject categories; and titles and authors. You can download the PDF magazine to your computer or electronic device to read at your leisure. The audio version of TBT is also made available for download from the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) site at nlsbard.loc.gov at the same time that the cartridge edition is mailed. NLS on the Move: The latest on our new initiatives In July 2017, NLS launched a newsletter called NLS on the Move to keep the staff in our national network of cooperating libraries updated on the progress of pilot projects and other new initiatives. Selections from this newsletter that may be of interest to NLS patrons are reprinted in Talking Book Topics and Braille Book Review. From NLS On the Move, originally published March 22, 2018 Our TV and radio campaign is off to a strong start Page 5 of 88 The first three-week “flight” of our new TV and radio commercials ended Sunday, and we couldn’t be happier with the results. On average, close to 190 calls per day were transferred to network libraries from potential patrons who saw or heard the commercials and dialed the special toll-free phone numbers—almost three times as many as we expected! We also had a big increase in visits to our outreach website, www.loc.gov/thatallmayread, and completions of the information request form. And the feedback has been great! We even heard from Dana Ferguson, the New York City-based actor who plays the mom, who told us her real-life father saw the spot while watching an old western movie on the Grit network. (“He’s so proud,” she said.) The commercials will run in cycles of three weeks on, three weeks off, through the summer of 2019. The digital side of the campaign, which promotes NLS on Facebook and online search engines, also continues through the summer of 2019. From NLS On the Move, originally published April 26, 2018 Updates on MOCA, the outreach campaign, and more The second three-week flight of TV and radio commercials began March 26 and ended April 15. Between February 26 (when the commercials began to air) and April 23, more than 10,000 calls came in to network libraries . By the way, the TV and radio public service announcements (PSAs) that we launched in June 2016 continue to air in some markets, even though we stopped tracking the results after six months. In fact, our TV PSA“ ,Our Stories: That All May Read ”,was rated in the top 10 percent of TV PSAs in 2017 as reported by Nielsen Media Research! (Unlike the TV and radio commercials, PSAs are aired for free when stations have time to fill.) The Regional and Subregional Libraries of the Year will be honored at a luncheon in the historic Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress on May 17. The Colorado Talking Book Library (CTBL) in Denver received the Regional Library of the Year Award, while Braille and Talking Books at Taylor Community Library (BTBTCL) in Taylor, Michigan, received the Sub-regional Library/Advisory and Outreach Center of the Year Award. Page 6 of 88 Newsstand The following announcements may be of interest to readers. The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped reserves the right to publish announcements selectively, as space permits. The items mentioned, however, are not part of the NLS program, and their listings do not imply endorsement or support. Prices and details about listed items were correct at the time of compilation but are susceptible to change. New Hadley course on guide dogs Patrons considering getting a guide dog may find a new course from Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired helpful in thinking through this significant decision. Free of charge, this course describes the benefits and challenges of guide dogs and is available in braille and large-print formats, online, or as a digital talking-book (DTB) cartridge. Call Hadley at toll-free at 1-855-830- 5355 to enroll. Page 7 of 88 Books for Adults Books listed in this issue of Talking Book Topics were recently sent to cooperating libraries. The complete collection contains a wide range of fiction and nonfiction books, including biographies, classics, westerns, mysteries, romances, and others. Registered users may also immediately download all titles and magazines from the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) service at https://nlsbard.loc.gov. The free BARD Mobile app is available from the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon’s Appstore for reading talking books on your personal smart phone or tablet. To learn more about the collection or to sign up for BARD, contact your local cooperating library. Regional library telephone numbers and email addresses are listed on the last pages of this magazine. Books within the headings Adult Fiction and Adult Nonfiction are listed alphabetically by subject category, author last name, and title. For example the title War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy would be listed in Adult Fiction under the Classics subject category and by the last name Tolstoy. Note: A notice may appear immediately following the book description to indicate occurrences of violence, strong language, or descriptions of sex. The word “some” before any of these terms indicates an occasional or infrequent occurrence, as in “some strong language.” Commercial audiobooks for which NLS does not have access to the print book may display the notice “unrated,” which means that the book may or may not contain violence, strong language, or descriptions of sex. Adult Fiction Adventure Nightwalker: Batman DB89980 8 hours 41 minutes by Marie Lu read by Will Damron The Nightwalkers are terrorizing Gotham City, and a teenage Bruce Wayne is on their hit list. One by one, the city's elites are being executed as their mansions' Page 8 of 88 security systems turn against them, and Bruce plans to stop the attacks.