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The Upper Arlington Public Library offers electronic content available for download by using a valid library card.  
There are thousands of book titles available in audio, EPUB and Kindle formats on our Digital Download site.  In addition a limited number of music and movie titles are also available through this site.  

UAPL also offers free music for download through Freegal. Freegal provides access to the complete catalog of Sony music and our patrons can download two songs per week with their library card.

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Grab Your Guitar: or Sheet Music as eBook

If you are a musician, you've discovered that finding sheet music on the Internet is a mixed bag. It's convenient, but the quality of the music can range from excellent to repellent. Thanks to a new addition to our eBook collection, that is about to change. You can now checkout music scores from the Hal Leonard company and view them on your computer, tablet or smartphone (if you can read really tiny notes).

Visit our eBook collection to see the full list of titles

Musical score for the group NirvanaPhoto of a UkulelePhoto of two people dancing under a starry skyCartoon drawing of a young woman and man on a boat

 

Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo Cover ImageAcclaimed short story author, George Saunders, released his first full-length novel last month. Entitled Lincoln in the Bardo, it's one you won't forget.  Saunders imagines a completely new and strange universe for this story, which centers around the death of young Willie Lincoln at the height of the Civil War.  Other characters include President Lincoln and a graveyard full of ghosts who believe they are recovering in their "sick-boxes."

Saunders described transitioning from writing short stories to writing his first novel by saying, “It’s like if you were building custom yurts and then somebody commissioned a mansion…”  Lincoln in the Bardo has all of the humor, compassion, weirdness, and poignancy we have come to expect from Saunders’ stories with a bit of history, real and imagined, to boot.

The audiobook for Lincoln in the Bardo is equally impressive and offers a completely different experience.  Saunders was able to recruit 166 people to lend their voices to each individual character in the book.  The audiobook features a who’s who cast of famous actors, authors, and musicians including Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Lena Dunham, Jeff Tweedy, and Saunders himself.  

You can request the e-book and e-audiobook of Lincoln in the Bardo through OverDrive today.

It's Pie Time!

It's almost Spring and you can get a jump start on the warmer weather by cooking up some pie. Even if you don't feel ready to fire up your oven just yet, you can still read some mouth watering recipes right now. Starting today, you can checkout Art of the Pie from our eBook collection. This title is OverDrive's most recent Big Library Read, and will be available to all patrons until March 30th, so you've got plenty of time find recipes to try out on friends and family.

Visit our eBook collection to check out a copy, or read a few pages below.

Happy Reading!

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