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Tek Talk welcomes Janet Dickelman, National Convention Coordinator, American Council of the Blind, to discuss the 2024 ACB Convention. 06/03/2024

Want to know about the 2024 ACB National Convention? Join Janet Dickelman, ACB convention coordinator, Saint Paul, MN to find out. Learn about the General Sessions, the Affiliate presentations, the exhibit hall, and the tours. If you can not be there in person, learn how you can listen as a part of The ACB Media […]

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Worlds of Books to discuss Me before you DB76161 by Jojo Moyes. 06/18/2024

The NLS annotation follows: Me before you DB76161 Moyes, Jojo Reading time: 12 hours, 58 minutes. Jill Fox A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress. Disability Bestsellers Romance Working-class English girl Louisa “Lou” Clark is hired as an aide to wealthy Will Traynor, a former mogul

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Novel Ideas to discuss Boardwalk Summer DBC 27756 by Meredith jaeger. 06/21/2024

Marisol Cruz can’t understand what happened to her life, and more importantly, her dreams. She is a single mother living with her parents in Santa Cruz, barely making a living by selling raffle tickets on the Boardwalk. But when she stumbles across the obituary of Violet Harcourt, a young beauty queen from the area who

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Tek Talk welcomes Don Olson and Zhi Huang of NLS to discuss the new BARD website. 06/17/2024

The BARD website has recently been updated to offer NLS patrons expanded functionality and will serve as a gateway to expanded services in the future. NLS patrons are able to search for and discover BARD books and magazines better than ever before. Some of the features of the new website include: • A reorganization of

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Tek Talk welcomes Humanware’s Peter Tucic, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Mathieu Paquette, Product Manager, to discuss the StellarTrek, the AI-powered GPS device. 06/10/2024

Peter Tucic and Mathieu Paquette from HumanWare join us today to talk about the StellarTrek, the AI-powered GPS device from HumanWare. Since its launch in August 2022, the StellarTrek has seen many additions to its lineup of features, including a barcode reader, color detection, and most recently, crosswalk detection. Come hear about why the StellarTrek

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Banquet of Books Hosted by Joanie Leonard. 06/09/2024

Please join us as Joanie Leonard hosts Banquet of Books Sunday June 9 at 5pm Eastern. This informal discussion of whatever book you’re reading or have recently finished is most enjoyable and a great way to get new reading ideas. You can contribute your opinions and everyone is welcome.  

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The Fiction Old and New book group to discuss “The Frozen River”” by Ariel Lawhon, DB117781. 06/07/2024

The frozen river: a novel DB 117781 Lawhon, Ariel. Reading time 15 hours, 8 minutes. Read by Ariel Lawhon Jane Oppenheimer. A production of National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress. Subjects: Suspense Fiction; Historical Fiction; Mystery and Detective Stories Description: “Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is

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Journey through History to discuss Mercury rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the new battleground of the Cold War DB110864 by Jeff Shesol. 06/04/2024

NLS Annotation Mercury rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the new battleground of the Cold War DB110864 Shesol, Jeff Reading time: 11 hours, 40 minutes. James Frangione Biography History, Juvenile “A riveting history of the epic orbital flight that put America back into the space race. If the United States couldn’t catch up to the

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Tek Talk welcomes Dave Wilkinson to discuss Race Across America and the technology and other wizardry used for it. 05/20/2024

Next month, Dave and his tandem pilot Jim Trout will become the first tandem solo team to complete Race Across America (RAAM) with a blind rider on the tandem. RAAM is a 3,000-mile bike race from coast to coast across the US. The race has 31 miles of vertical climbing and must be completed in

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Mystery Book Discussion Group to discuss The raging storm DB116366 by Ann Cleeves. 05/26/2024

The NLS annotation follows:   The raging storm DB116366 Cleeves, Ann Reading time: 9 hours, 50 minutes. Jack Holden   Suspense Fiction LGBTQ+ Mystery and Detective Stories   “When Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer, and legend—blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in

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Novel Ideas to discuss Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. DB 116555. 05/17/2024

Novel Ideas will be discussing Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. DB 116555 The synopsis from Bookshare is below. In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she

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