New Digital Titles: Monday, January 26

The library is closed today due to the snowy weather, but that doesn’t mean you can’t scope out some new books. Consider checking out 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:

Th Mushroom Hunter’s Kitchen: A Culinary Homage to Wild and Cultivated Mushrooms With 120 Recipes

Whether you get your mushrooms from the supermarket or straight from the forest floor, The Mushroom Hunter’s Kitchen will help you make the most of your haul. Because the right cooking method can transform a mushroom from meh to mouthwatering, professional chef and mushroom foraging expert Chad Hyatt starts by sharing the best techniques to use for dozens of varieties, from the humble button mushroom to the revered morel, the common oyster mushroom to the elusive huitlacoche. Includes recipes for breakfasat, salads, soups, pastas, entrees, and much more.

Cold Blood

When DCI Liam Bennet receives an unexpected message from Lorraine, his ex-partner, he hopes that she wants to reconnect with Joe, their ten-year-old son. But all she wants is his help. She’s part of a small film crew investigating a cold case in her home village of Lampton, and she wants Bennet to access police files. He wants no part of it. But then she disappears. Bennet takes time off work for what he thinks will be a quick trip to a tiny Peak District village. In Lampton, the locals think he’s investigating the missing girl cold case and want him gone. It looks like the film crew also hit the same wall of silence. But why is there no evidence they ever left the village? Did something happen to the film crew? Is it connected to a missing young girl? And just how many of the locals know more than they’re saying?

Blackout (Cyberpunk 2077 series)

In a city that operates on technology, a power outage brings catastrophe, but in darkness comes opportunity. Night City hurts. The suffering runs deep and the deeper one falls, the longer the self-prescribed dreams play. Fortune, hope, love—all made possible by DMS technology. A braindance repairman’s daily encounters with his clients reveal the deterioration of the human mind and the desperation that drives some to surrender to illusion. But not everyone desires a happy ending. Riddled with doubt, self-hatred, and guilt, he soon discovers the answer to pain . . . comes in a blackout. Created in close collaboration with CD Projekt Red, embrace humanity and dare to break the cycle of a corrupt city that offers an escape for the price of your dependence. In Night City, you get what you pay for and . . . you get what you give.