Book Lovers Day is August 9. To celebrate, we offer you a list of the top five most downloaded braille and audio books on BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) from June 2024. We hope you can select one or several to read this summer.
Digital Braille Titles:
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking through science, BR 24288, by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
In The Food Lab, Kenji focuses on the science behind beloved American dishes, delving into the interactions between heat, energy, and molecules that create great food. Kenji shows that often, conventional methods don't work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using new but simple techniques. In hundreds of easy-to-make recipes with over 1,000 full-color images, you will find out how to make foolproof Hollandaise sauce in just two minutes, how to transform one simple tomato sauce into a half dozen dishes, how to make the crispiest, creamiest potato casserole ever conceived, and much more. Some strong language. 2024.
Adventures of Marshmallow and Peter, BR25025, by Peter James Heath
Meet Peter Heath, a seven-year-old, who loves soccer, LEGOs, karate, and the outdoors. He's a typical second grader, except for one thing: Peter is completely blind. After being diagnosed with Batten disease, a rare genetic disorder, Peter lost his vision in the spring of 2022. But this did not stop him from writing his own book, "The Adventures of Marshmallow and Peter," a short children's book written from the point of view of his cane, Marshmallow. PRINT/BRAILLE. For Preschool-grade 2. 2021.
The Book of Imaginary Beings, BR 16549, by Luis Jorge Borges, Margarita Guerrero, and Andrew Hurley
A compendium of descriptions for 116 fantastical creatures that cites their origins from world mythology and literature. Describes the familiar elves, gnomes, and unicorns and the lesser-known Lamia, T'ao-T'ieh, and Ouroboros. A 2005 translation of Borges's Spanish version. 1967.
Daily Reflections, BR08872, by Helen Steiner Rice
Bible scriptures are combined with inspirational poetry and brief prayers in this collection of meditations. Chapter themes include, "Prayer," "Faith," "Peace," and "New Beginnings." Each section contains a brief prayer by Virginia J. Ruehlmann. 1990.
The Christmas Train, BR14463, by David Baldacci
Journalist Tom Langdon takes a cross-country train from the East Coast to Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his girlfriend. On the trip, he meets many zany characters, including one who is his former lover. Sparks fly until Tom's girlfriend shows up in Chicago. Bestseller. 2002.
Audio Book Titles:
A calamity of souls, DB 120798, by David Baldacci
Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Over a decade in the writing, A Calamity of Souls breathes richly imagined and detailed life into a bygone era, taking the reader through a world that will seem both foreign and familiar. Commercial audiobook. 2024.
Murder Inn: From the Author of the Summer House, DB120802, by James Patterson
The doors of the Inn at Gloucester are always open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life. Its owner, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson, welcomes them with no questions asked. Until two strangers arrive for a temporary stay and a longtime resident starts looking over his shoulders. There is another newcomer in town who puts the Inn under surveillance. When the surveillance turns into a series of attacks. Robinson launches an all-out fight to defend his town, his chosen family, and his home. Commercial audiobook. 2024.
The #1 Lawyer, DB120049, by James Patterson
Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer, and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That's when Penney makes a bold decision. He stops trading on his power-lawyer identity and creates a new one: lawyer lifeguard. Moonlighting at the beach, showing up to court in flip-flops, mentoring a law student, the new Penney is at first unrecognizable. It is said that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. But when Penney is accused of murder, the #1 Lawyer will find a way to triumph. Commercial audiobook. 2024.
The Locked Door, DB119313, by Freida McFadden
Some doors are locked for a reason . . . While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims. Somebody knows who Nora is. Somebody wants her to take the fall for this unthinkable crime. But she is not a killer like her father. The police cannot pin anything on her. As long as they don't look in her basement. Commercial audiobook. 2024.
Toxic Prey, DB120267, by John Sandford
When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon. Commercial audiobook. 2024.
Learn more about how to use the Zoomax eReader, the latest device for braille readers offered by TBBL, the Talking Book and Braille Library, in conjunction with the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS).
The topic for the next That All May eRead online program on Tuesday, August 27, will be using your NLS Braille eReader to read BARD Mobile books. This is the first of a two-part program for August and September. The second program will be on using your eReader to read commercial braille books on your mobile phone.
The program will begin at 7 PM eastern time with a brief demonstration. The rest of the hour will be spent answering patron questions about any aspect of the Zoomax or HumanWare Braille eReaders. The meeting is also recorded for later viewing.
For more information about the program please visit: Patron Services and Events - National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS)