{"id":136969,"date":"2015-05-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=136969"},"modified":"2015-05-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:00:00","slug":"patron-recommendation-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=136969","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation: Audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An audiobook-loving patron recently recommended the following two titles, both of which, she noted, have good narrators:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/boy-who-harnessed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-136973\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/boy-who-harnessed.jpg?w=198\" alt=\"boy.who.harnessed\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>First up, a work of &#8220;inspiring&#8221; non-fiction: <strong>The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind<\/strong> by William Kamkwamba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this memoir adapted for young readers, William Kamkwamba describes the drought that struck his tiny village in Malawi, his subsequent interest in science, and his idea to build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William&#8217;s windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This title is available as an e-audiobook through OverDrive. If you prefer CDs, put a request through our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/?page_id=783\">ILL form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/rosie-project.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-136975\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/rosie-project.jpg?w=196\" alt=\"rosie.project\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>This patron also enjoyed <strong>The Rosie Project<\/strong>, which she called &#8220;delightful and funny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don is a brilliant, yet socially inept professor of genetics, who&#8217;s decided it&#8217;s time he found a wife. So, in his scientific manner he designs the Wife Project. Rosie fits his qualifications and is also beguiling, fiery, and intelligent. Although Don disqualifies her as a potential wife, he is suited for Rosie&#8217;s project: finding her biological father. As they collaborate, a relationship forms, and Don is forced to confront the realization that, when it comes to love, science does not apply.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3614405?locg=1\">Check the NOBLE catalog for the availability of this title on audiobook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An audiobook-loving patron recently recommended the following two titles, both of which, she noted, have good narrators: First up, a work of &#8220;inspiring&#8221; non-fiction: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. &#8220;In this memoir adapted for young readers, William Kamkwamba describes the drought that struck his tiny village in Malawi, his subsequent interest&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":136973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-zDb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}