Just a reminder that OverDrive’s new e-reading app, Libby, is available for download in all app stores! We recommend that you give Libby a try — we’ve found it to be really easy to use.
If you have any questions about Libby or OverDrive, you can contact us at the Multimedia desk by either phone or email.
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It’s Week Nine of SYNC’s YA audiobook giveaway!
SYNC is providing two YA audiobook downloads per week until August 16th. The current titles are available until June 28th, and while the title availability is time-limited, your listening time is not. Once you have downloaded the MP3 files, the audiobook is yours to listen to at your leisure.
Download this week’s pairing of free YA audiobooks!
The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories
by Terry Pratchett
Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt
Published by Harper Audio
Summary: Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards? An exciting journey in an airship or down in a submarine? Would you like to meet the fastest truncheon in the Wild West?
The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner is the second fabulously funny short-story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Terry Pratchett. A follow-up to Dragons at Crumbling Castle, this second batch of storytelling gems features stories written when Sir Terry was just seventeen years old and working as a junior reporter. In these pages, new Pratchett fans will find wonder, mayhem, sorcery, and delight—and loyal readers will recognize the seeds of ideas that went on to influence his most beloved tales later in life.
The Witches: Salem, 1692
by Stacy Schiff
Read by Eliza Foss
Published by Hachette Audio
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra analyzes the Salem Witch Trials to offer key insights into the role of women in its events while explaining how its tragedies became possible.
Downloading Tips:
The OverDrive Media Console will deliver SYNC summer audiobooks to you via Overdrive Media Software installed on your computer (compatible with Windows and Mac) or through the Overdrive or Libby app on your mobile device (compatible with iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 8, Kindle, Nook, and MP3 players).
Visit our OverDrive website to download the apps or software.
All summaries are from http://www.audiobooksync.com/ and http://catalog.ccls.org.
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With a sterling resume as an independent Hollywood producer (The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Queen Christina, Algiers, Stagecoach, Foreign Correspondent, Canyon Passage, and in 1963, Cleopatra), Walter Wanger opted to use his talents to expose prison injustice in the 1954 film Riot in Cell Block 11. The immediate prompt was his 1952 incarceration at the Wayside Honor Farm for putting a slug into the groin of agent Jennings Lang, believed to be having an affair with Wanger’s wife, actress Joan Bennett. 
The resulting spare film (80 minutes) is an attack on a society—wardens, guards, politicians and the public at large—that could care less about rehabilitation or the tendency to dump psychopaths into the general prison population. Aptly, the director was Don Siegel, cutting his teeth on B-movies generally more interesting and in retrospect more important than most big-budget studio films. Soon Siegel would helm Wanger’s seminal science fiction movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and later achieve greater fame directing Clint Eastwood in such films as Coogan’s Bluff, The Beguiled and Dirty Harry. Riot bears his occasional semi-documentary approach, beginning with newsreel film of actual U.S. prison riots.
Filmed at Folsom State Prison in California, Riot in Cell Block 11 is unique in that all of the stars are character actors: the riot’s fomenter Dunn (highly decorated WW II soldier Neville Brand in a sympathetic role), his brutish enforcer (Leo “The Scariest Guy in Hollywood” Gordon), the frustrated warden (Emile Meyer, fresh off his role as cattle baron Ryker in Shane), the by-the-book commissioner (Frank Faylen, an It’s a Wonderful Life alumnus soon to play Dwayne Hickman’s dad on TV’s The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis), Snader (Whit Bissell, once disparaged as an American everyman, here a despicable guard whereas in 1947’s Brute Force he’d been a con—and in 1957 would play mad scientists in I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein), “The Colonel” (Robert Osterloh, veteran then and later of innumerable TV and film roles) here playing an intelligent war vet incarcerated for a lapse in judgment that led to a manslaughter conviction), hepped-up Mickey (William Phipps, a nuclear holocaust survivor in Five as the most unhinged of the prisoners), victimized guard Monroe (Paul Frees, the ubiquitous narrator and voice actor, e.g., Boris Badenov on TV’s Rocky and His Friends), news reporter (William Schallert, the father on The Patty Duke Show in the 1960s), the con who initiates the riot (Dabbs Greer, veteran by the end of his life of over 300 roles), “Gator” (Alvy Moore of the future TV series Green Acres in a long-billed cap that must be seen to be believed). Pay attention or you’ll miss James Anderson, who will be playing Scout’s brutish nemesis in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and a chain gang captain in Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run (1969).
In summary, Riot in Cell Block 11 may be the only major Hollywood film whose performers were all members of the unsung but necessary and often compelling caste: the character actor.
By Kim
References
Holston, Kim. Susan Hayward: Her Films and Life. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2002. Trace producer Wanger’s trial and incarceration in at least 12 New York Times 1952 articles.
Kaminsky, Stuart M. Don Siegel, Director. New York: Curtis Books, 1974. See “Chapter VI: 700 Prisoners and a Handful of Actors.” Siegel said San Quentin ex-con, now actor, Leo Gordon, was not originally welcomed by the warden, who made him enter a separate gate and searched. Siegel and producer Wanger knew Gordon’s worth. “Had he not been in the picture it would surely have suffered,” said the director.
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Movies 
Get Out
Life
Everybody Loves Somebody
Wilson
Music
Melodrama by Lorde
True to Self by Bryson Tiller
Fake Sugar by Beth Ditto
Chuck by Chuck Berry
The Nashville Sound by The 400 Unit & Jason Isbell
Tomorrow Forever by Matthew Sweet
How Did We Get So Dark? by Royal Blood
The Mission by Styx
Fingerprints by Eli Young Band
Woodstock by Portugal. the Man
More Fast Songs About the Apocalypse by Moby & The Void Pacific Choir
Ready to Get ‘Rowdy’ by Gretchen Wilson
You Should Be Happy by The Goo Goo Dolls
Audiobooks
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani
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Summer Reading has officially begun! You can find more information on how to sign up and collect your raffle tickets on chescolibraries.org. This year we’re playing bingo. On the Bingo Card, there are are various genres and activities to complete until the end of summer. Download the Bingo Card!
I put together a list of recommendations based on some of the bingo squares!
#1 Read an Award Winning Book
The Sellout by Paul Beatty (won the Man Booker Prize in 2016)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016 & the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates (won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2015)
#2 Read a Book Considered a Classic
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
#3 Read a Book You Can Finish in a Day
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (the audiobook is 5 discs and roughly 5 hours long; the book is 192 pages long)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (the audiobook is 5 discs and roughly 6 hours long; the book is 180 pages long)
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (the audiobook is 4 discs and roughly 4 hours long; the book is 224 pages long)
#5 Watch a Movie Based on a Book
Lion (based on the memoir A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley)
The Martian (based on the novel The Martian by Andy Weir)
Hidden Figures (based on the memoir Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly)
#6 Read a Book Suggested by a Librarian
Check out our Staff Recommendations here and here to find a book (or audiobook) recommended by a librarian!
#7 Read or Listen to an e-Book or e-Audiobook using OverDrive
Find more information about how to access OverDrive here or visit chester.overdrive.com!
#9 Read a Memoir, Biography, or Autobiography
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
#13 Read a Young Adult Book
Once and For All by Sarah Dessen
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
#20 Read a Book Published in the Last Year
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Read a Magazine on Flipster
Access Flipster on your computer or device!
Visit a Museum or Public Garden
You can borrow FREE admission tickets to various museums, zoos, and gardens in the local area through the Museum Pass Program at Chester County Library and Henrietta Hankin Branch Library. Check out what museums you can visit!
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We are excited to announce that OverDrive has released a new and improved app for ebook and audiobook lending called Libby. Libby simplifies the setup and lending process for ebooks and audiobooks, and was designed based on user and library feedback. Libby is available now for download in all app stores.
If you prefer to use the OverDrive app, it will continue to be fully functioning for the foreseeable future. We recommend that you download Libby and give “her” a try, though! The staff here at CCL has found Libby to be extremely easy to set up and use. Let us know what you think!
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It’s Week Eight of SYNC’s YA audiobook giveaway!
SYNC is providing two YA audiobook downloads per week until August 16th. The current titles are available until June 21st, and while the title availability is time-limited, your listening time is not. Once you have downloaded the MP3 files, the audiobook is yours to listen to at your leisure.
Download this week’s pairing of free YA audiobooks!
The Red Umbrella
by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Read by Kyla Garcia
Published by Ideal Audiobooks
Summary: In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
The Souls of Black Folk
by W.E.B. Du Bois
Read by Rodney Gardiner
Published by Dreamscape Media
Summary: A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as laying the groundwork for the field of sociology. Some of the essays in the novel were even previously published by the Atlantic Monthly magazine. When writing, Du Bois drew from his personal experiences as an African-American in America to highlight the issues of prejudice that were still going on into the 20th century.
Downloading Tips:
The OverDrive Media Console will deliver SYNC summer audiobooks to you via Overdrive Media Software installed on your computer (compatible with Windows and Mac) or through an Overdrive App on your mobile device (compatible with iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 8, Kindle, Nook, and MP3 players).
Visit our OverDrive website to download the App or Software.
All summaries are from http://www.audiobooksync.com/ and http://catalog.ccls.org.
Filed under Audiobooks, E-audiobooks, OverDrive
Movies 
John Wick: Chapter 2
The Lego Batman Movie
Table 19
Un Padre No Tan Padre
Growing Up Smith
Mine
Bitter Harvest
Suntan
3 Generations
Frantz
Tomcat
American Epic
Great Escapes
T.V. Series
The Vampire Diaries, Season 8
Bones, Season 12
Shooter, Season 1
Grimm, Season 6
South Park, Season 20
Music
Feed the Machine by Nickleback
Heart/Break by Lady Antebellum
Wolves by Rise Against 
Ti Amo by Phoenix
Wonder by Hillsong United
Witness by Katy Perry
You & I by ALA.NI
You Don’t Own Me Anymore by The Secret Sisters
Binary by Ani Difranco
Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie by Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie
Folk Songs by The Kronos Quartet
Adios by Glen Campbell
Revolution Come — Revolution Go by Gov’t Mule
Now That’s What I Call Country, Volume 10
Cinco by Jim Gaffigan
Audiobooks
The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand
Matchup by Lee Child
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
Filed under Audiobooks, Movies, Music, New Releases, TV
June typically marks the beginning of summer music festival season. The Firefly Festival, in Dover, Delaware, and The Vans Warped Tour (which will come to Camden, New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania) are the two largest concert series in this area. I put together a playlist of some featured artists, which we have in our collection! You can visit the websites for Firefly Festival and The Vans Warped Tour to take a look at their complete lineup.
Artists featured on this playlist:
Kaleo | O.A.R. | Twenty One Pilots | Weezer | Franz Ferdinand | OK Go | The Weeknd | Muse | The Shins | 30 Seconds the Mars | AFI | The Strumbellas | Judah and the Lion | Chance the Rapper | Naked and Famous | MisterWives | Never Shout Never | Falling in Reverse | Plain White T’s
It’s Week Seven of SYNC’s YA audiobook giveaway!
SYNC is providing two YA audiobook downloads per week until August 16th. The current titles are available until June 14th, and while the title availability is time-limited, your listening time is not. Once you have downloaded the MP3 files, the audiobook is yours to listen to at your leisure.
Download this week’s pairing of free YA audiobooks!
Plus One
by Elizabeth Fama
Read by Julia Whelan
Published by Elizabeth Fama
Summary: In an alternate United States where Day and Night populations are forced to lead separate–but not equal–lives, a desperate Night girl falls for a seemingly privileged Day boy and places them both in danger as she gets caught up in the beginnings of a resistance movement.
If I Run
by Terri Blackstock
Read by Nan Gurley
Published by Zondervan
Summary: Casey Cox’s DNA is all over the crime scene. There’s no use talking to police; they’ve failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she’s arrested . . . or worse. The truth doesn’t matter anymore. But what is the truth? That’s the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has marked him damaged goods, but bringing Casey back can redeem him. Though the crime scene seems to tell the whole story, details of the murder aren’t adding up. Casey Cox doesn’t fit the profile of a killer. But are Dylan’s skewed perceptions keeping him from being objective? If she isn’t guilty, why did she run? Unraveling her past and the evidence that condemns her will take more time than he has, but as Dylan’s damaged soul intersects with hers, he is faced with two choices: the girl who occupies his every thought is a psychopathic killer . . . or a selfless hero. And the truth could be the most deadly weapon yet.
Downloading Tips:
The OverDrive Media Console will deliver SYNC summer audiobooks to you via Overdrive Media Software installed on your computer (compatible with Windows and Mac) or through an Overdrive App on your mobile device (compatible with iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 8, Kindle, Nook, and MP3 players).
Visit our OverDrive website to download the App or Software.
All summaries are from http://www.audiobooksync.com/ and http://catalog.ccls.org.
Filed under Audiobooks, E-audiobooks, OverDrive
