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Audiobook choices from famous voices

Summer often means a lot of time spent in the car, whether you’re venturing on a cross-country road trip or just stuck in construction on your daily commute. Instead of pounding your fist on the dashboard, take the opportunity to listen to an audiobook! These audiobooks are all narrated by recognizable celebrities, each offering a familiar voice to soothe you during the stop-and-go traffic on I-90 West. (With length included, so you can prepare your road trips accordingly.) 

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Library Renovation

Fast Forward to the Future with Augmented Reality

NOTE11/23/20:  THIS AR TOUR WAS CREATED WITH AN AR APP, AURASMA,THAT IN NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

As we’ve been sharing here in our blog and on our social media channels, there are exciting changes coming for DPPL!  We’ve shared some of the architect’s renderings of the new spaces that are part of our coming renovation, but admittedly it can sometimes be hard to fully visualize what a new space will be like from just a drawing.

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Help Yourself with these 8 Classic Self-Help Books

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by Joanne
07.28.15

Self-help books have been around for a long time. Readers of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will remember Mr. Collins reading aloud from Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women. It was a late 18th and early 19th century book that advises women on how to conduct their lives.

Since then the self-help book industry has grown exponentially. When someone asks me to recommend a self-help book, I try to consider what they are really looking for? Inspiration, healing, self-improvement or general guidance of personal conduct? Here is the way I think about self-help books. First, by the background of the author and second by the focus of the book.

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