Talking Times, Spring 2025 - Section 3

DA2 Player Machines

This summer, new audiobook Players with new features will be  available to TBL patrons. The new DA2 player replaces the first- generation version of this player, introduced in 2009. The new  player has Wi-fi and Bluetooth connectivity and 28 GB of internal  storage. That means DA2 users can connect to BARD, the Braille and Audio Reading Download website, to download audiobooks  and magazines, store them on the player, and listen to them over  Bluetooth-enabled speakers or headphones. If you have access  to Wi-Fi connectivity in your residence and would benefit from using the new DA2 player, you may call the Talking Books Library at (401)574-9310 to add your name to the list. Get details on the DA2 from the NLS website.

Summertime Reading

The Fourth Quarter of Your Life by Allen Hunt DB 122475 
Whether you are in the fourth quarter of life or not, this book will change the way you live the rest of your life. Intentionality is the  key to successful fourth quarter living. People don’t accidentally  age gracefully. People don’t accidentally die peacefully. And  people don’t accidentally leave behind legacies of hope, love, and  encouragement. These all require the intentionality this book will  help you develop. Psychology. 2023.

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah DB 102287
Texas, 1921. Elsa Wolcott has few prospects before her as she's considered too old to marry. Then she meets Rafe Martinelli.  Thirteen years later, everything on the Martinelli farm is dying-- including their marriage. Elsa must decide to fight for the land of  her heart or head to California. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.  Bestseller. Historical Fiction. 2021.

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise 2025
by Paul Dans DB 123744
Published by the Heritage Foundation, this regularly published  guide pulls from hundreds of political appointees, policy scholars,  and conservative leaders to offer proposals for addressing  national issues and restructuring federal agencies. In this most  recent edition, often referenced as "Project 2025," topics  addressed include immigration law, border security, parental  rights in education, student loan forgiveness, and more." Politics  and Government. Political Science. 2023.

The Seaside Sisters by Pamela Kelley DB 122112
Brooklyn-based Hannah is a bestselling author struggling to write her second book after personal losses. Her older sister, Sara, still lives in Chatham, Cape Cod, where they grew up, and is married with four children. Once a dedicated librarian, Sara dreams of reviving her love affair with literature, but instead, she is stuck with too many family responsibilities and a fizzling marriage.  When Hannah gets the chance to retreat to her aunt's oceanfront house in Chatham for the summer, it seems like just the thing to  get her creative juices flowing. Romance. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2024.

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout DB 124184
With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The  Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and  silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the  town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters as  they deal with a shocking crime in their midst; fall in love and yet  choose to be apart; and grapple with the question, as Lucy  Barton puts it: What does anyone's life mean? Unrated.  Commercial audiobook. Psychological Fiction. 2024.

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score DB 106641
Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he  takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound,  Waylon. Knox doesn't tolerate drama, even when it comes in the  form of a stranded runaway bride. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin  hasn't changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi's car and  cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece  Naomi didn't know she had. Now she's stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Commercial audiobook. Spanish language. 2022.

The Talking Books Library staff wishes you and yours a safe and enjoyable summer.

This publication is supported by the 

Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act administered by the 
Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services.