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Keep Your Favorite Magazines at Your Fingertips; Author Kea Wilson and Horror Titles Stir Up Intrigue

Did you know you can download many of your favorite magazines from the library with your library card? Everything from Allrecipes and American Girl, and Entrepreneur to Martha Stewart Living – 186 in all – are yours. Browse the collection at thelibrary.org/rbdigital, or create a free account with your card and check them out. You never have to worry about holds, checkout periods or limits to the number of magazines you can download. Just think of the money you can save.

And RBdigital just added a new, convenient service: Automatic checkouts of some titles as soon as they’re available. That means you won’t have to remember to go in and look for/check out the most recent issue of your favorite magazines. You can ask to be notified via email of the availability of future issues, and have those automatically checked out and ready for reading. You’ll always have the latest issues of your favorite magazines waiting for you in your RBdigital account.

And don’t forget – RBdigital includes audiobooks, too.
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Author Kea Wilson closes out the Oh, The Horror! series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Library Center auditorium with Cannibals and Drug Cartels. It’s based on her novel, “We Eat Our Own.” A film crew journeys into the Amazon in search of cannibals for a shoot when it runs into real threats – violent Marxist revolutionaries and drug cartels. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
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Speaking of intrigue, here are some recent staff picks for the season. Reserve your copy at thelibrary.org/catalog

Cross Her Heart” by Sarah Pinborough, is an adult psychological thriller about a single mom and her friends, the secrets they hide, and the pasts they can’t escape.

November Road” by Lou Berney is a poignant crime novel featuring a cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America in the wake of the Kennedy assassination.

And a new one coming soon: “In the House in the Dark of the Woods” by Laird Hunt  is an eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations – witchcraft in colonial America –in a novel of psychological suspense.

Vickie Hicks is community relations director for the Springfield-Greene County Library District. She can be reached at vickieh@thelibrary.org.

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