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NEW BOOKS: Best Sellers and OverDrive Collections – September 2019

September 9, 2019 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

RELAX with a Best Seller!

The Best Sellers Collection [New Window] is on the library’s main level and features a rotating selection of bestselling fiction and non-fiction print books from popular authors on a three-week borrowing period.

New Best Seller Titles

Click on the book’s image to place a hold on it in our Voyager catalog. For instructions on placing a hold on a library item, click here [New Window].

The Poet X book cover The Lost Girls of Paris The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls book cover The Silence of the Girls book cover Time's Convert book cover Lost Children Archive book cover Unsheltered book cover The Ruin of Kings book cover My Sister, the Serial Killer book cover Evvie Drake Starts Over book cover

Your mobile ADVENTURE begins on OverDrive!

The OverDrive Collection [New Window] contains digital general interest non-fiction and fiction titles along with titles supporting Leeward classes. Use the “New Additions” sub-collection [New Window] to review all titles available.  These e-books have a two-week loan period.

New OverDrive Titles

Click on the book’s image to access the e-book’s Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive.

The Testaments book cover The Uninhabitable Earth book cover Finding Meaning: Kaona and Contemporary Hawaiian Literature book cover Hoʻi Hou Ka Mauli Ola book cover Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story book cover Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance book cover Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion book cover Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat book cover 21 Lessons for the 21st Century book cover Undo It! book cover Ducks, Newburyport book cover When - The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing book cover One of Us is Lying book cover Shortest Way Home Digital Minimalism book cover The Yellow House book cover Boys Will Be Boys book cover An American Summer book cover

Is there a book you’d like us to get?

We welcome your suggestions…Please fill out our Best Sellers & OverDrive Suggestion Form [New Window].

 

Let the Fall E-Book Reading Begin!

August 25, 2019 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

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New electronic book titles have been added to the OverDrive database [New Window].

Just a few reasons to try an e-book on OverDrive:

  • Downloadable ebooks for viewing on tablets, smartphones, e-readers, and desktops
  • Online and offline viewing modes
  • Supported formats include Kindle Books, OverDrive Read, and EPUB eBook
  • Two-week loan period. No late returns, no overdue fines, ever!

If you are interested in a title below, click on the book cover image to access the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

Three Women book cover Ironopolis book cover The Five book cover
The Source of Self-Regard book cover Thirteen Reasons Why book cover Nā Wāhine Koa book cover
Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre book cover Kokoro book cover The Stranger book cover

 

New OverDrive Reads – May 2019

April 30, 2019 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

These electronic book titles have been added to the OverDrive database [New Window].

If you are interested in a title below, click on the book cover image to access the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

Where the Crawdads Sing book cover Women Talking book cover Dig book cover
Shark Dialogues book cover Tu book cover The Tattoo book cover

 

New OverDrive Reads – March 2019

March 24, 2019 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

These electronic book titles have been added to the OverDrive database [New Window].

If you are interested in any of these titles below, click on the book cover image to access the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

We Are Displaced book cover Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls book cover I've Been Meaning to Tell You book cover
All You Can Ever Know book cover Tell Me How It Ends book cover Humble Leadership book cover

 

New OverDrive Course Reserve Titles – Spring 2019

January 11, 2019 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

These electronic book titles have been added to the Course Reserves LibGuide [New Window] and the OverDrive database [New Window].

If you are interested in any of these titles below, click on the book cover image to access the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

 

The New Food Lovers ComapnionThe RoadWarm Bodies

A History of the World in 6 GlassesThe Nobility of FailurePlanet of Slums

New OverDrive Reads – December 2018

December 31, 2018 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

These electronic book titles have been added to the OverDrive database [New Window].

If you are interested in any of these titles below, click on the book cover image to access the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

Small Fry book cover

 

NONFICTION – MEMOIR

Book Description and Reviews

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel book cover

 

NONFICTION – ESSAYS

Book Description and Reviews

 

 

 

Friday Black book cover

 

FICTION – SHORT STORIES

Book Description and Reviews

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle book cover

 

FICTION – MYSTERY

Book Description and Reviews

 

 

 

Insurrecto book cover

 

FICTION – ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Book Description and Reviews

Freshwater book cover

 

FICTION – WORLD LITERATURE

Book Description and Reviews

 

 

Frightful Fiction on OverDrive

October 30, 2018 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

Tree at Night

 

F a l l   F i c t i o n   F e v e r !

Mystery  •  Suspense  •  Thriller  •  Horror

Consider reading an electronic book title from our OverDrive collection [New Window].

Sharp Objects book cover  Dark Places book cover  The Grownup book cover  The Girl on the Train book cover  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo book cover  The Girl Who Played with Fire book cover  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest book cover  Shutter Island book cover  World War Z book cover  The All Souls Trilogy book cover  The World of All Souls book cover  Real World book cover  Piercing ebook cover  The Case for Satan ebook cover

If you are interested in any of these titles above, click on the book cover image to access the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

 

New OverDrive Reads – October 2018

October 22, 2018 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

These electronic book titles have been added to the OverDrive database [New Window].

If you are interested in any of these new titles below, click on the book cover image to access the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy book cover

 

You’ve seen the movie, now enjoy Kevin Kwan’s lavish and hilarious novel. This is an additional OverDrive copy of Crazy Rich Asians that includes the full trilogy.

 

New in FICTION

An American Marriage book cover The End We Start From book cover

New in NONFICTION

Heart Berries book cover White Fragility book cover The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook book cover
2018/2019 ASVAB for Dummies book cover Virtual and Augmented Reality for Dummies book cover Public Speaking Skills for Dummies book cover
Gender Diversity and Non-Binary Inclusion in the Workplace book cover

Banned Books Week Continues on OverDrive

October 1, 2018 by Wayde Oshiro | 0 comments

Last week was the national Banned Books Week [New Window]. There’s still time to FREE a banned book from our library displays of books featuring titles that have been challenged for withdrawal in libraries across the country. Or, for your convenience, below are challenged titles available as e-books through the OverDrive database [New Window].

Book cover of 1984 Book cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Book cover of Annie on My Mind Cover of The Color Purple Book cover of The Handmaid's Tale Book cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Book cover of The Lord of the Rings Book cover of The Namesake Book cover of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Book cover of An Abundance of Katherines Book cover of Paper Towns

Please note: Clicking on an image above will take you to the e-book’s Hawaiʻi Voyager catalog record. In the record’s “Holdings Information,” the provided link will direct you to borrowing the e-book in OverDrive [New Window].

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