Read (& listen) for free with OverDrive

Read (& listen) for free with OverDrive

Why pay to download eBooks and Audiobooks when you can get them for free? Through the Homewood Library you have access to thousands of titles, available 24/7 on OverDrive. OverDrive is a great resource for fiction and nonfiction titles, especially for those whose busy schedules or physical limitations don’t allow for library browsing. Whether you’re…

Books on: iPad

Explore what you can do on the iPad.  Learn the basics with the titles highlighted below: The ultimate iPad : your digital life at your fingertips / James Floyd Kelly. Use Your iPad to Simplify, De-Clutter, Improve, and De-Stress Your Life! Your iPad. You already know it s fun. But did you know it can save…

Forgotten Alabama

Forgotten Alabama

-I think a lot while on the road. For the most part, I have little human contact but, this being Alabama and all, I’m never really alone. –Glenn Willis Author/photographer Glenn Wills spent over 30 years and half a million miles travelling for TV news and spinning his wheels through the state of Alabama.  He…

In support of balanced education and citizenship: An article series. No. 2.

In support of balanced education and citizenship: An article series. No. 2.

  (Article No. 2) Remarks on the influence of materialism.     by Edward Eggleston “No farmer is more slave to his plow, than a gentleman following the clock of fashion”.     — W.H. Auden, “The Rake’s Progress” … And so we express our “freedom”: by an increasing economic servitude. A few prefatory comments…