If you’re looking for a good mystery to cozy up with during this time of social distancing, look no further than the 2020 Edgar Award winners. The Edgar Awards are given annually to the year’s best mystery and crime novels by the Mystery Writer’s of America. This year’s winners include the young adult novel Catfishing
SYNC Audiobooks for Teens, a yearly summer audiobook program for teens 13 years old and up, is back in its 11th season to offer free audiobooks weekly beginning April 30 until July 29. Beginning today, anyone interested can sign up to get 2 free audio downloads per week. Once you’ve downloaded the book, it’s yours to
Just because the physical doors to the public libraries are closed, that doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of their many online digital resources. You can do this even if you don’t currently have a public library card! If you don’t have a public library card, you can apply for a temporary online library at
The New York Times has announced its 6th annual video vocabulary challenge. You have until Feb. 18 at 7 a.m. Eastern time to enter. All the rules and regulations, as well as some inspiration from past winners, are linked below. Use your imagination. You can act the word out, animate it, use puppets, draw, sing a
The New York Times fourth annual student editorial contest in underway. Now’s your chance to show off your art skills and your perceptive, sharp, and satiric sense of humor. If you have something to say about climate change, artificial intelligence, gun control, the NFL, immigration, college admissions or anything else The Times covers, try making
Do you love the NBC series “The Good Place”? Are you anxiously anticipating the release of Rockstar’s “Red Dead Redemption 2”? Perhaps you’re a fan of Post Malone or Cardi B. Or maybe you have a favorite restaurant that you can’t say enough about. Now’s your chance to write a review for the New York
Whether or not you’re a fan of John Green’s books or his Crash Course videos, you may very well appreciate this compelling 60 Minute interview in which he speaks of his career as well as his struggles with anxiety and OCD. “The truth is that lots of people have chronic mental health problems and still
Forest Hills teenagers, The New York Times has invited anyone aged 13 to 19 to take photographs that depict some aspect of teenage life that you think may be misunderstood, ignored or largely unknown, and, in a short artist’s statement, tell them why. For contest details check out their recent post attached below. The contest
For many of us, when we hear the term “classics,” we run for the hills. We envision old, stodgy, dust-covered books that we’re forced to read because for some reason or another, they’re good for us. However, old doesn’t necessarily mean boring. In fact, here are 12 classic novels available for free on our Overdrive page via Project