We have just added some brand new titles to cloudLibrary – as well as popular older titles. CloudLibrary allows you to read ebooks or listen to audio books on your own device — Android or Apple phones or tablets. Here is the link to information on our website, if you are new to cloudLibrary.
Once you have installed the app, follow the prompts to choose your country, state, and library, and then enter your library bar code number. After your library card has been authenticated, you are ready to search and borrow!
Ebooks
The Feminist and the Cowboy: An Unlikely Love Story by Alisa Valdes (2013)
The bestselling author of The Dirty Girls Social Club returns with an engrossing memoir about how falling in love with a sexy cowboy turned her feminist beliefs upside down. Feminism was a religion in Alisa Valdes’s childhood home. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took the place of Barbies and left Valdes impressed with a feminist ideology that guided a prolific writing career—at twenty-two Valdes was named one of the top feminist writers under thirty by the editor of Ms Magazine.
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (2005)
A story of a young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted–and still wants–to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017)
When an aging and reclusive Hollywood icon selects an unknown magazine reporter to write her life story, the baffled journalist forges deep ties with the actress during a complicated interview process that exposes their tragic common history.
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager (2018)
An artist who witnessed the disappearance of her bunkmates at summer camp as a young girl accepts an opportunity to return to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor and tries to discover what really happened to her friends.
Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin (2020)
The caretaker at a cemetery in a small French town in Bourgogne must revisit her difficult past when the local police chief insists on scattering the ashes of his recently departed mother on the grave of a complete stranger.
Horse by Geraldine Brooks (2022)
A scientist from Australia and a Nigerian-American art historian become connected by their shared interest in a 19th century race horse, one studying its remains, the other uncovering the history of the Black horsemen who were critical to its success.
Fox Creek by William Kent Krueger, Cork O’Connor mystery #19 (2022)
Cork O’Conner tries to find his wife who had accompanied a mysterious stranger on a visit the ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux before a group of mercenaries can in the latest novel of the series following Desolation Mountain.
Fairy Tale by Stephen King (2022)
A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world in the new novel by the extremely prolific and popular best-selling author of It.
Audio Books
The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer (1950)
When Lady Ombersley agrees to take in her young niece, no one expects Sophy, who sweeps in and immediately takes the ton by storm. Sophy discovers that her aunt’s family is in desperate need of her talent for setting everything right: Cecila is in love with a poet, Charles has tyrannical tendencies that are being aggravated by his grim fiancee, her uncle is of no use at all, and the younger children are in desperate need of some fun and freedom. By the time she’s done, Sophy has commandeered Charles’s horses, his household, and finally, his heart.
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (2020)
A deeply personal account of history in the making–from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Parable Book #1 (1993)
In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others’ pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
Truman by David McCullough (1992)
A monumental biography of an extraordinary president, Harry Truman–the man who brought the country solidly into the 20th century. Drawing from archival materials and extensive interviews, McCullough chronicles Truman’s life, but it is Truman’s emergence as a decisive and confident president that forms the heart of this book.
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (2022)
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor–including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother–and how she retook control of her life.
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazi Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre (2022)
During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape. Its population represented a society in miniature, full of heroes and traitors, class conflicts and secret alliances, and the full range of human joy and despair.
Ebook and Audio
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (2022)
A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de’ Medici. When her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the duke, Lucrezia is is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage and her father just as quick to accept on her behalf. Having barely left girlhood behind, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed.
Did you know you can suggest ebooks and audio for purchase? When you are searching on cloudLibrary, turn on the Suggestions for Library feature. We look at those suggestions and try to purchase those items.
