We’re halfway through the week, and that means it’s time to plan your weekend reading. This week, we shine a spotlight on our digital titles—ebooks and audiobooks that are easy to check out online and can be read on a smartphone or tablet. To place a book on hold online, visit https://owwl.org and sign in to your account using your library card number. Pick up your book from the shelves near the circulation desk when you have time.
Here are a few of the new digital titles we’ve gotten in recently:
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea (audiobook)
In this sharp and entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson―whose renditions of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation’s imagination―explores the complicated terrain of reading and writing about the ancient past. Wilson explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures of finding new solutions to old problems, and the inevitable frustrations of never fully capturing what is in the original work. Across chapters that range from the politics of Helen of Troy to the obscenities of Aristophanes, from Roman imitation of Greek models to contemporary debates over “foreignizing” and “domesticizing” styles, Wilson examines how modern norms of gender, sexuality, violence, humor, and power complicate our readings of ancient works, and how translation always risks denaturing what is unique and strange about the ancient world.
Star Trek Library Collection, Volume I (ebook)
The Star Trek Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every comic series published by IDW. Starting with the Kelvin Timeline and the prequel that led into the 2009 Star Trek movie, Countdown details the origin of the mysterious Nero, the Romulan that ultimately threatened the survival of the entire universe. Then, in Nero, find out what he did in those cold, dark, lonely years spent waiting for his nemesis to arrive. In Spock: Reflections, the follow-up to Countdown, discover what could drive a man to abandon all he knows and go live with the Federation’s sworn enemy, his real motivations, and what brought him to this place in his life. A Vulcan on Romulus? Absurd! Or is it?
All My Sisters and Me (audiobook)
After almost a decade of marriage, Giselle is still childless, with the pangs of jealousy and feelings of inadequacy mounting each day. Kamryn loves her husband’s family, but she and Giselle have never gotten along, and she’s tired of always trying to keep the peace. Newly married Chanel is ecstatic to finally have the family she’s craved all her life, but the ongoing feud between her two sisters-in-law threatens that harmony. Meanwhile, Taylor is still trying to find her place in the family after a tragic and unexpected turn in her relationship. As everything comes to a head during a weeklong anniversary celebration, the truth could tear them apart forever…or bring them together as the sisters they were meant to be.