New Playaways Hit the Ritz!

Everybody's favorite audio players are back at the Ritz.  With over 50 new titles, Playaways are a big hit. Portable and easy to use, these pocket size devices make listening fun!  From history to comedy, there's something for everyone.  If you've been thinking about learning a language, here's your chance to listen with Berlitz language programs. 

Here are the latest titles purchased:

1775

1984

101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers

77 Love Sonnets

A Hustler's Wife

Adventures of Sam Spade Detective, The - Volume One

Affirmations for Change, Confidence and Success

Ah-Choo!

All Joy and No Fun

Art Forger

Astoria

Bark

Berlitz French Guaranteed

Berlitz German Guaranteed

Berlitz Italian Guaranteed

Berlitz Spanish Guaranteed

Black Lotus

Blogging for Business

Brilliant Blunders

Cancer Is Not a Disease

Celtic Poets

Change Your Words, Change Your Life

Chilling Ghost Stories

Crucial Conversations

Dave Barry's Money Secrets

Destroyer Angel

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

From Missouri

Grain Brain

Great Poets, The - William Wordsworth

Guided Mindfulness Meditation

How to Become a Rainmaker

Keep Quiet

Louis L'Amour's Desert Tales

New Yorkers: Short Stories

Seven Classic Plays, Vol. 1

Short Stories Volume I

The 10 Commandments of Money

The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked

The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown

The Astronaut Wives Club

The Collector

The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Funny Thing Is...

The Man Who Would be King & Other Stories

The Neil Simon Collection

The Power of Now

The Target

Tips For The Savvy Traveler

Twelve Angry Men

Voices of Poetry - Volume 1

Yoga Stretch for Fitness

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Stop in the Ritz Library today and pick up a title to listen to on your ride home!

Enjoy a New Playaway Audiobook!

New at the library are 22 Playaway titles, including all three titles of The Hunger Games Trilogy: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.  Playaways are portable audio books, smaller than most iPods.  They also plug into most car dashboards that have an audio jack. You can check out a wire from the Ritz Library if you would like to listen to one in your car.

If you need a good laugh, why not pick up Seriously... I'm Kidding by Ellen Degeneres or The Onion Book of Known Knowledge?  Enjoy classical works? There's Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham. Working on a homework assignment? Perhaps, The Greatest Speeches of All Time or The Great Poets: Emily Dickinson would be useful.  Some business titles that may be edifying are:
Primal Leadership by Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee and The 80/20 Principle by Richard Knoch.

Other titles that have just come in are:

Why Men Fake It by Abraham Morgentaler, M.D.
Zombiestan by Mainak Dhar
Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Self-Hypnosis by Edgar Cayce
Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers are More Unhappy than Ever by David Kusnet
Sex Changes by Christine Benvenuto
The Art of Procrastination by John Perry
Trap of Gold and the Trail to Pie Town by Louis L'Amour
The Watch that Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
NPR Driveway Moments : Dog Tales

The Playaway collection has grown so much that it's now been relocated.  It is now located in the stacks directly behind the Reference Desk, 3 stacks back, next to the Graphic Novel collection.  If you have trouble finding them, please ask a librarian for assistance!

Latest, Greatest Playaways!

This summer 26 new Playways have been added to the Ritz Library's growing audio book collection. Easy, portable and simple to use, Playaways are about the size of an old-fashioned audio cassette, but instead of having to insert 10 cassettes while listening to a book on tape, the entire book is contained on one device.  Run on batteries, Playaways weigh next to nothing and fit easily in a back pocket. Any standard headphones fit the jack.  Besides the devices themselves, the Ritz Library provides you with batteries, headphones and even an audio cable for your car if you do not have one.  


This year's Playaway selections are:


Hour Game by David Baldacci
The Sentinel by Jeremy Bishop
Sex on the Brain by Dr. Daniel Amen
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
A Dog's Journey by W. Bruce Cameron
The Dab of Dickens, The Touch of Twain, The Shade of Shakespeare by Professor Elliot Engel
The Great Poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
The Zen of Social Media Marketing by Shama H. Kabani
InSideOut Coaching by Joe Ehrmann
There's Nothing in This Book that I Meant to Say by Paula Poundstone
The E Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
Disciplined Dreaming by Josh Linkner
Lucky or Smart? Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life by Bo Peabody
Why People Don't Heal and How They Can by Caroline Myss
Leadership is an Art by Max Depree
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
I'd Rather Be in Charge by Caroline Beers
The Onion : Our Dumb World


Stop by the library to see our full collection of Playaways and take one out today!

New Playaways are in!

Planning a vacation? Drive long distances each day? Enjoy reading but your eyes bother you? Have down time that you want to enjoy a book in? Feel like multi-tasking? For whatever reason, you may be interested in Playaways, portable audio devices that are simple to use. The Ritz Library has recently acquired 25 new Playaways, covering popular titles like Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich to classics such as William Shakespeare's Henry V and King Lear to comedic titles such as Tina Fey's Bossypants.  Each playaway is about the size of a small cell phone, is easily slipped into a pocket and may be played using a headset or with an audio cable attachment for your car or other speaker system.    

If you are interested, come view the audio collection located next to the Reference desk.  To take out a book, bring your DCC id card up and your selection to the circulation desk and they will be happy to check your items out. 

• Wasdin, Howard E. SEAL Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper 
• Connelly, Michael, 1956- Fifth Witness 
• Auel, Jean M. Land of Painted Caves 
• Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Autobiography of Mark Twain. Volume 1 
• Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993. Berlin Diary the Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941  
• Brashares, Ann. Sisterhood Everlasting : a novel  
• Evanovich, Janet. Smokin' Seventeen 
• Logue, Mark. King's Speech : How One Man Saved the British monarchy  
• Brooks, Geraldine. Caleb's Crossing : a novel  
• Santiago, Esmeralda. Conquistadora  : a novel 
• Lustbader, Eric. Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Dominion A New Jason Bourne novel
• Bakewell, Sarah. How to live--or--a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer  
• McMillan, Terry. Getting to Happy 
• Marlantes, Karl. Matterhorn : a novel of the Vietnam War  
• Junger, Sebastian. War 
• Franklin, Tom. Crooked letter, crooked letter : a novel 
• Horowitz, Alexandra. Inside of a Dog : What Dogs See, Smell, and Know  
• Bachman, Richard. Running Man 
• Fey, Tina, 1970- Bossypants
• Dyer, Wayne W. 10 secrets for Success and Inner Peace  

Our Shakespeare offerings for this year are: King Richard II, Much Ado about Nothing, Henry V and King Lear.
 

New Playaways Make the Library

Going on vacation? Never have a chance to read? Prefer audiobooks? Check out the Ritz library's collection of Playaways, portable audio devices that are simple and easy to use. They are self-contained units (headphones included or use your own) that fit in a pocket or can be plugged into a car audio cable, speakers or a tape deck adapter.
Stop on by and check out the new titles that have been added to the Playaway collection:

• Olive Kittridge by Elizabeth Strout
• 25 Things to Say to the Interviewer to Get the Job You Want by Dexter Hawk
• Leadership is an Art by Max DePree
• Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Art of War by Sunzi
• Worst Case by James Patterson
• Living Oprah: My One Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk by Robyn Okrant
• 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Committment to Your Mate by Gary D. CHapman
• Last Song by Nicholas Spark

Other titles that the Ritz holds are in the Thursday, October 19th blog entry.
The Ritz Library does have audio cables for loan.

Historical Newspapers on HRVH

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! or so the headline goes on the brochure to check out HRVH Historical Newspapers online. Ok, to be more specific, what is available is a 10 year span of The Kingston Daily Freeman from the years 1903 - 1913 (and 1895 also) - 2974 complete issues available for your perusal. The intention is to spearhead an effort in the Hudson Valley to digitize local historical newspapers with the Daily Freeman being the test sample. Full pages as well as individual articles are searchable and viewable. Take note, The Kingston Daily Freeman is an excellent place to look for primary sources when doing reseach about the Hudson Valley.

HRVH is a collaborative initiative sponsored by Southeastern NY Library Resources Council and local libraries, historical societies, archives, museums across 7 counties in NYS: Greene, Columbia, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange and Putnam.

While you are at it, another project which may be of interest to scholars/researchers or casual lookers is the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley. Sound and Story has digitized pieces of oral history collections and posted them online for your listening pleasure. According to their web pages, "Our stories come from many places. Some are in library and museum oral history collections. Some come from recordings we have made. Some have been found by people like you in shoe boxes in the backs of closets. And some have yet to be told."

Some of the information found in this entry comes from promotional material distributed by SENYLRC.