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The Iowa City Public Library is offering four Kindle eReaders for checkout starting Friday. The eReaders come preloaded with eBooks to read. This will allow patrons to have a hassle-free eReading experience. There are two eReaders loaded with popular Adult titles and two eReaders loaded with popular Children’s titles. Just search “Kindle” or “eReader” in our catalog at http://catalog.icpl.org/ to see if one is available for check out.
ICPL Kindle eReaders Now Available:
• 3 week loan period
• $1.00 a day overdue fine
• Patrons may place holds
• Available for checkout to residents of Iowa City and areas covered by contracts for service (Hills, University Heights, and rural Johnson County).
• The eBooks on this device are limited to the titles preloaded on it. Other titles cannot be downloaded through OverDrive or Amazon.
• Some of the eReader’s functions, such as web browsing, have been disabled.
To check out a Kindle, visit the HELP Desk on the Library’s first floor.
For more information, contact: Brian Visser, Community Services Assistant, Iowa City Public Library, 319-887-6025.
Titles on Adult Kindles:
Fifty shades trilogy bundle (Fifty shades of Grey ; Fifty shades darker ; Fifty shades freed) / E. L. James — Gone girl / Gillian Flynn — Mad River / John Sandford — Winter of the world / Ken Follett — This is how you lose her / Junot Diaz — The round house / Louise Erdrich — Flight behavior / Barbara Kingsolver — The racketeer / John Grisham — Live by night / Dennie Lehane — The bone bed / Patricia Daniels Cornwell — A wanted man / Lee Child — A dance with dragons / George R. R. Martin — The perfect hope / Nora Roberts — The Inn at Rose Harbor / Debbie Macomber — Sleep no more / Iris Johansen — The hunger games trilogy (The hunger games ; Catching fire ; Mockingjay) / Suzanne Collins — The fault in our stars / John Green — Divergent / Veronica Roth — Reached / Ally Condie — Uglies / Scott Westerfeld — No easy day / Mark Owen — Killing Kennedy / Bill O’Reilly — Who I am / Pete Townshend — The end of your life book club / Will Schwalbe — Wild / Cheryl Strayed — Quiet / Susan Cain — In the garden of beasts / Erik Larson — Thinking fast and slow / Daniel Kahneman — Let’s pretend this never happened / Jenny Lawson — When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson
Titles on Juvenile Kindles:
Cam Jansen: the mystery of the stolen diamonds / David Adler — The candy shop war / The case of the lost boy / Dori Hillestad Butler — Charlie and the chocolate factory / Roald Dahl — Coraline / Neil Gaiman — Curse of the thirteenth Fey / Jane Yolen — The Everything kids’ giant book of jokes, riddles, and brain teasers / Michael Dahl — The Everything kids’ science experiments book / Tom Robinson — Football genius / Tim Green — The giver / Lois Lowry — The hero’s guide to saving your kingdom / Christopher Healy — The Hobbit / J.R.R. Tolkien — The sinking of the Titanic / Lauren Tarshis — In a glass Grimmly / Adam Gidwitz — Ivy + Bean bundle set (Ivy + Bean ; Ivy + Bean and the ghost that had to go ; Ivy + Bean break the fossil record) / Annie Barrows — King George, what was his problem? / Steve Sheinkin — The magic thief / Sarah Prineas — Marty McGuire digs worms / Kate Messner — The maze of bones / Rick Riordan — Mutiny in time / James Dashner — My father’s dragon / Ruth Stiles Gannett — The one and only Ivan / Katherine Applegate — Out of the dust / Karen Hesse — The outcasts / John Flanagan — The phantom tollbooth / Norton Juster — Ramona the pest / Beverly Cleary — The ruins of Gorlan / John Flanagan — Tale of Despereaux / Kate DiCamillo– Tuck everlasting / Natalie Babbitt — Into the wild / Erin Hunter — Who was Abraham Lincoln? / Janet Pascal — Wildwood / Colin Meloy — Wonder / R.J. Palacio — The world according to Humphrey / Betty G. Birney — Judy Moody double-rare collection (Judy Moody predicts the future ; Judy Moody, M.D : the doctor is in ; Judy Moody declares independence) / Megan McDonald.
April Jo Harder
Public Relations Specialist
Iowa City Public Library
319-887-6216
publicrelations@icpl.org
