Can't get enough super-heroes? A great way to bridge the gaps while you're waiting for the next volume of your favorite series is checking out a audiobook featuring some of your favorite costumed characters on Hoopla! Take a look at just a sampling of the great audio adaptions featuring various Marvel characters:
Captain America: The Death of Captain America by Larry Hama, read by Richard Rohan
Let a Train Take You Somewhere New
Memorial Day this year is May 31. It signals the beginning of summer. (Yay for warm weather after this cold winter!) Its origin goes back to post-Civil War 1866 in Waterloo, New York. At that time, the commemorative day was called "Decoration Day". Businesses closed and people visited cemeteries to decorate with flowers and mementos the graves of fallen soldiers in their honor. In 1971 the day became a federal holiday observing all soldiers who have died in active military service.
Movies for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month all month with these titles and more from the Hoopla collection. Write-ups are from Hoopla.
To Be Takei (2014)
Jewish American Heritage Month is observed in May and I've selected some of my favorites to showcase, though Jewish American heritage is intrinsically linked with the history of comics stretching back to the Golden Age of Comics and the creation of Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster and the Silver Age of comics and the rise of Marvel by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, among countless other examples.
Leaving Hoopla in May
These titles are Leaving Hoopla in May. Check them out while you can. Write-ups courtesy Hoopla.
Endings, Beginnings (2020)
With the decline in physical media and the rise of the digital format, so goes how we consume our books. Thankfully, the library provides digital resources for both our entertainment and educational literary needs. Overdrive, funded by the Huntsville Library Foundation, serves as an online library where you can check out digital copies of library books for a set amount of time. Currently, patrons check out up to 10 eBooks or audiobooks at a time and place up to 10 holds on items not currently available. A newer addition to our library, Hoopla Digital allows library users to check out not just ebooks, but audiobooks, movies, tv episodes, and music without having to wait on an available copy! Users can check out up to 5 titles total per month. What's so great about using these digital sites is that you can download the titles to your computer, phone, or Ipad using the apps.
In honor of Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month I've put together a few of my favorite titles spotlight characters and creators of Asian and Pacific Islander descent- I even tried to select a good mix of fiction and non-fiction offerings. It's a great opportunity to branch and and try something new and learn about different cultures, mythologies and ways of life and broaden your mind and your own experiences!
New on Hoopla
The following twenty titles were added to the Hoopla collection in April 2021. (This list of recently added titles includes 185 titles new to Hoopla.) Searching each title on JustWatch, a site that lists every streaming platform a film is available on, the films selected for this list are all new releases and are only available to stream for free only on Hoopla. (The synopsis for each film is courtesy Hoopla.)
Nevermind May the Fourth, It's All About Revenge of the Fifth
