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Audiobooks now available!
 Now you can check out audiobooks from your library at your home or office!  As part of the WILBOR consortium, the Urbandale Public Library is offering audiobooks for its patrons to download and listen.

Your library card is the "key" to downloading the audiobooks, from any computer that is connected to the Internet, at any hour of the day.  From a website you can browse or search for a title you'd like to listen to, log in with your library card number, and download the title to your computer.  You can then listen to the book on your computer, or transfer to an mp3 player to listen.

WILBOR's collection has fiction and nonfiction titles, as well as books for children and teens.  Bestsellers and classics, history and humor, business and self help--you'll find them all in WILBOR.  Books will check out for 1 week and the file will "expire" on your computer after 1 week, but when the books are transferred to an mp3 player you can take your time listening to them.  Some titles can even be burned to CDs for your own, personal use.

For more information and to start downloading and listening, click here.

AUTHOR VISIT - MARY KAY SHANLEY
Sunday, August 3rd at 1:30pm in Meeting Room B.  Get ready for the Iowa State Fair with “Our State Fair is a Great State Fair, But Then You Already Knew That!” presented by author, Mary Kay Shanley. She will share stories from her book, Our State Fair – Iowa’s Blue Ribbon Story which chronicles 150 years of Iowa State Fair traditions, adventures, and personal experiences. This free program is brought to you by Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities. If you are a person with a disability who requires special assistance, please call 278-3945 in advance.

AUTHOR VISIT - CAROL BODENSTEINER
Sunday, August 24th at 1:30pm in Meeting Room A. Join local author, Carol Bodensteiner as she discusses her book Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl. In this memoir, Carol takes us to another place and another time, rural Iowa during the 1950’s. Carol’s stories will either having you reminiscing about your own childhood or make you feel like you were there on that Iowa dairy farm with Carol and her family. A book signing and sale will be held at the end of the program.

 

On the Same Page
On the Same Page, the evening book discussion group, meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. in the library Conference Room.  The next meeting will be on Wednesday, August 20th at 7:30 p.m.  The group will discuss Eat, Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.  Pick up a copy at the library Circulation Desk while supplies last.  For more information contact Carmen Epstein, at 331-6764 or email cepstein@urbandale.org.   

Brown Bag Book Club
The Brown Bag Book Club meets at lunch time on the last Thursday of the month from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Meeting Room A of the library. The next meeting will be on Thursday, August 28th at 12 noon. The group will discuss The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Call Susan Nass at 515-278-3945 option 3 or email snass@urbandale.org for more information.

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