New Digital Titles: Wednesday, January 14

Do you prefer to read books on your Kindle, iPad or other tablet, or even on your smartphone? If so, you should know about the OWWL Digital Library. This service offers a digital library of more than 19,000 ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines, including best-sellers, children’s books, business, and romance. This free service requires only a library card! You can find out more information and directions at the Library’s OWWL Digital Library page.

Looking for some suggestions for good digital books to read? Here are a few that were recently added to the collection:

Good Vibes Baking: Bakes to Make Your Soul Shine and Your Taste Buds Sing

Sandro Farmhouse is on a mission to share his love of baking in this indulgent and uplifting book of baked goods. A firm believer in the positive, delectable, and therapeutic effects of home baking, his debut cookbook encourages you to loosen up and pick up the whisk and bake again. You’ll find recipes for some of his most famous awe-inspiring baked goods. These recipes are carefully curated, mood-boosting antidotes to every mood or occasion. Whether you’re feeling ready to romance, celebrate, commiserate, or simply indulge, there are over 100 recipes to elevate your baking skills and lift your spirits, too.

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913

The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard—the youngest member of Scott’s team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious winter journey—draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scott’s legendary expedition. Cherry-Garrard himself would be among the search party that discovered the corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from starvation and brutal cold. It is through his insightful narrative and keen descriptions that Scott and the other members of the expedition are memorialized.

Rebecca

About to exchange vows with her fiancé, Rebecca North is stunned when a towering, raven-haired stranger interrupts the ceremony. Five years earlier, at the height of the American Revolution, fourteen-year-old Rebecca rushed to the aid of a wounded English soldier she discovered hiding out in her barn. When he begged her to fulfill his final wish before he rode off to battle, she made a secret vow. Now he has returned to claim his bride. After swearing never to give her heart to Nicholas Wythe, Rebecca reluctantly leaves Connecticut for England. But at legendary Foxbridge Cloister, his sprawling estate on the wild north coast, the new Lady Foxbridge realizes some resent the Yankee in their midst. While a vengeful enemy plots to destroy her, Rebecca makes startling discoveries about her husband.