Prairie Trails Memorandum
South Dakota State Library
Braille and Talking Book Library
Spring 2005, Volume 1, Issue 2
Editor: Danelle Youngbluth
Notes from the Director, Dan Boyd
Library Happenings

Did You Ever Wonder?

Did you ever wonder if "Free Matter for the Blind" was really free and how much is the budget for this program nationally?

Congress appropriates money to the United States Post Office's Budget every year to cover the cost of delivering materials such as books and cassette players. For fiscal year 2004 that was approximately $50,401.00.

All books, magazines, catalogs, and machines are sent to a reader through the US Postal Service as "Free Matter for the Blind" and may be returned the same way. Materials sent by your library come with a removable address card that, when turned over and reinstated, will show the library's name and address for return mailing.

Some patrons have trouble returning machines. If your mail carrier will not pick up your machine, please call your library for assistance.

The NLS program is funded annually by Congress. The fiscal year 2004 appropriation is $115,500.00. NLS estimates that their inventory contribution to the SD Braille & Talking Book Library is approximately $1,950,000 based on our current holdings, playback equipment inventory and catalogs.


The South Dakota State Library Staff Presents the Best Reads Book List From National Library Week 2005!

The Staff at the South Dakota State Library select their favorite reads for 2005 and here they are:

  • Dan Boyd - Director, Braille & Talking Book Library
    • RC 58683: "Inside the Asylum: Why the U.N. and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think" by Jed Babbin.
      Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under President George H.W. Bush asserts an anti-American United Nations agenda even as the United States pays billions in annual dues. Investigates the agency's possible link with terrorists including the oil-for-food scandal and Europe's dislike for America. Offers recommendations for change.

    • RC 58686: "The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea" by John Pina Craven.
      Firsthand recollections of submarine-based espionage and nuclear deterrence from former chief civilian scientist of the U.S. Navy's Special Projects Office. Author recounts clandestine operations including Polaris missile activities and pursuit of the rogue Soviet sub that inspired Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October."

  • Annie Brunskill - State Library Reference/Government Docs
    • RC 51305: "The Contract Surgeon" by Dan O'Brien.
      Excellent reading for South Dakota history buffs. Historical fiction novel based on the life of Valentine McGillycuddy, the first agent of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It is the story of his friendship with the Sioux war chief Crazy Horse while McGillycuddy was a civilian contact surgeon. Some violence and some strong language.

    • RC 59500: "Little Earthquakes: A novel" by Jennifer Weiner.
      Little Earthquakes centers around the lives of four women, three of them pregnant and one of them desperately missing the baby she lost. This is a heartwarming, sad, often funny story of four women who are going through the timeless problems of marriage and family. Some explicit descriptions of sex, and some strong language.

  • Patsy Kringel - State Library Reference
    • RC 52486: "Sullivan's Island: a Low Country Tale" by Dorothea Benton Frank.
      This is the story of Susan Hayes, a very nice woman with a teenage daughter, a good job she's not crazy about and in the very first chapter, she catches the husband she adores in bed with another woman. Suddenly her life is turned entirely upside down and we go on journey with Susan as she puts her life back together.

    • RC 56900: "Isle of Palms" by Dorothea Benton Frank.
      Anna Lutz Abbot considers South Carolina's Isle of Palms her home, despite heartaches suffered there. She later returns to the island to make a place for herself and her daughter, Emily. She does so with spunk, heartbreak, and hilarious events as she gathers friends around. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language.

  • Dorothy Liegl - State Librarian
    • RC 58314: "Leaving Protection" by Will Hobbs.
      When sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels left Port Protection, Alaska, to seek work during the king salmon season, he had no idea that his summer would include back breaking work, a potentially crazy employer, historic metal plaques buried by early Russian explorers laying claim to Alaska, a violent storm at sea, and more peril than he ever imagined.

  • Jannette Norum-Sanchez - State Library Administration
    • RC 45004: "A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive" by David Pelzer.
      A man recounts the years of torture and starvation that he experienced as a child at the hands of his alcoholic mother. Chronicles the incidents of maltreatment, his ultimate rescue from the abusive home, and his recovery. Violence.

    • RC 54698: "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold.
      Susie Salmon, a fourteen-year-old girl murdered by a neighbor, watches over her family and friends from heaven. While adjusting to a new habitat, she reaches out to them as she observes their struggle to survive their grief. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language.

  • Nancy Pedersen - Braille & Talking Book
    • RC 57385: "Samurai William: The Englishman who opened Japan" by Giles Milton.
      The adventures of English mariner William Adams, who was marooned in Japan in 1600. Adams is taken under the tutelage of the shogun, learns the language and customs, and opens trade between the two civilizations.

  • Brian Pendergast - Braille & Talking Book
    • RC 55735: "Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
      Professor Robert Langdon from Angels and Demons (RC 51799) investigates the crime scene of the Louvre's murdered curator. Joining him is French cryptologist Sophie Neveu. The clues left behind pit two Catholic societies against each other in search of the Holy Grail. Some violence and some strong language.

  • Jeannie Peterson - State Library Acquisitions
    • RC 58477: "Double Helix" by Nancy Werlin.
      Aware that his father is unhappy with him taking the job with Dr. Wyatt at Wyatt Transgenics, Eli takes on his new work with enthusiasm until he begins to uncover the Connection between his employer, his family, and his mother's Huntington's disease.

  • LaVera Rose - State Library Digitization
    • RC 28216: "Waterlily" by Ella Cara Deloria (Yankton)
      An historical novel about the Dakota people when their lives were beginning to be disrupted by non-Indians in the 1800s. Told from a woman's viewpoint, it emphasizes the traditional network of obligations and relationships that formed cultural unity.

    • RC 54361: "Rain is Not My Indian Name" by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muskogee)
      Written in the first person, this contemporary young adult novel is about a mixed blood 14-year-old coming to terms with her mother's sudden death, and more recently with the sudden death of her best friend, her might-have-been boyfriend.

  • Jenny Rystrom - State Library Circulation
    • RC 58832: "Echoes" by Danielle Steel.
      A new book about a Jewish family and their ordeal during the Holocaust. It is a story about love, commitment, and family. It is not the usual love story, but is about family love.

    • RC 30182: "Rules of Prey" by John Sandford.
      The 'Prey' books are a series of books about a wealthy detective solving mysteries in Minneapolis and the surrounding area. Lucas Davenport risks his life in each adventure and usually ends up killing someone. Violence, Strong language, & Descriptions of sex. Followed by "Shadow Prey".

  • Avany Severyn - State Library Reference
    • RC 39154: "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II" by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
      After the devastation of the 1930's, America was completely unprepared for the war that was to come. This is the story of how Eleanor and Franklin dealt with a country that was sunk in depression, and transformed it into the preeminent military and economic nation in the world.

    • RC 55864: "The Guardian" by Nicholas Sparks.
      When Julie Barenson's husband died, he vowed to watch over her and left her a puppy she named Singer. Ready to love again four years later, Julie has a choice between a newcomer or a longtime friend. The jealousy of one turns deadly, and Singer becomes the guardian her husband promised. Some violence.

  • Mary Sjerven - Braille & Talking Book
    • RC 49785: "This Calder Pride" by Janet Dailey.
      The romance of a determined young rancher and the beautiful, but practical, bride who rides besides him to the Montana range. Old grudges and debts follow the settlers into the new land.

    • RC 52887: "Suzanne's Diary to Nicholas" by James Patterson.
      Katie Wilkinson, a book editor in New York, believes she has found the perfect man when she meets poet Matt Harrison. They are having a wonderful time together. Then without warning he gives her a diary his wife had written for their son and disappears.

  • Danelle Youngbluth - Braille & Talking Book Library
    • RC 57603: "Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder" by Joanne Fluke.
      Bakery owner Hannah Swensen of Lake Eden, Minnesota, discovers the boy of the local dairy delivery man in her alley. Although her brother-in-law, Bill Todd is a deputy sheriff, Hannah does some sleuthing of her own. Then another murder occurs. Includes cookie recipes.

    • RC 58826: "Sam's Letters to Jennifer" by James Patterson.
      When grieving widow Jennifer returns to Lake Geneva, the resort town where her grandmother Samantha, "Sam," is in a coma, Jennifer finds letters addressed to her from Sam detailing the love of Sam's life, someone not her husband. Jennifer also rekindles a romance with a childhood friend.



Patron Spotlight: John L. Warman

I was born in Washington, D.C. in 1946. From 1968 to 1970, I was in the Army. In 1972, I married the Love of my Life and we have two children. We lived in Virginia off and on until 1994, when we moved to Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Quite a culture shock!

I love to read. My favorite authors are Greg Baer, Gene Rodenbury, Ben Bova, Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, Earle Stanley Gardner, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Science Fiction and Mysteries are high on my list.

I would recommend Sherlock Holmes and Perry Mason mysteries; Tom Clancy's Power Plays (RC 45253); Cutting Edge (RC 55331); The Ship Errant by Jody Lynn Nye (RC 54498); "The Ship Avenged by S.M. Stirling (RC 54499); and "The Case of the Cautious Coquette" by Earle Stanley Gardner (RC 55200).

The Braille and Talking Book Library has helped me keep my love of reading alive. I would recommend it to all who need it!


On the Road Again

Want to take your cassette player on a road trip? The rechargeable battery is good for several hours. But then what? Most auto parts stores and some discount stores sell for about $25 a converter that plugs into a car's cigarette lighter. Your cassette player or any other electrical device can then be plugged into the converter.


Envision, Inc. is seeking individuals that are blind/legally blind and that want a rewarding career in administration, retail sales, printing or manufacturing.

Envision Background Summary:
Envision is a Kansas based private not-for-profit company that provides jobs, job training, and rehabilitation services for people who are blind or with low vision. Good stable jobs in air conditioned and clean Envision manufacturing facilities, in Wichita, Pittsburg, or Kansas City, Kansas, or in one of our 15 military base service stores across the Midwest and western U.S. may be available right now.

Envision Mission:
To enhance the personal independence of individuals whose blindness or low vision, often accompanied by other disabilities, impacts their opportunities for employment, success, and integration into community life.

Basic Requirements:
Applicants must have documentation completed by an Ophthalmologist stating they are legally blind. A letter from the Ophthalmologist or a form provided by Envision must state the applicant's vision is 20/200 or less, best corrected or a field vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees and that the applicant is legally blind.

More information about envision:
For the most current listings of job opportunities with job descriptions and their locations, or for more information about Envision and how to apply, click to the Envision website envisionus.com here. You may email your resume to Envision at: goodjobs@envisionus.com.


Book Narrators

The Library of Congress, National Library Service (NLS), has created a website where readers can learn more about their favorite narrators of nationally recorded books. These books have book numbers beginning with RC. Thus far, narrators who record at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) and the NLS studios have provided information.

Library patrons may also send comments, criticism, fan mail, and letters of appreciation to national narrators in the following wars:

Mail: Name of narrator
C/O Margie Goergen-Rood
Recording Studio Director
NLS/Library Congress
1291 Taylor St. NW
Washington, DC 20542
Fax: 202-707-0711
Email: mgoe@loc.gov
NLS will forward all letters and comments to the narrator's recording studio.


South Dakota Collection

The following titles have recently been added to the South Dakota collection. If you would like to order any of these books call your Reader Advisor and list the SD (South Dakota) number assigned to the title.
  • SD003727 -"Ten Turtles to Tucumcari: A Personal History" by Garret Klink.
    From it's founding in 1929, Railway Express Agency dominated the transportation industry until the 1960's. REA handled carloads of cattle, race horses such as Sea biscuit, and a hungry nation's fruits and vegetables. The history of REA coincides with the career of Klink Garrett, who began as a temporary employee in Rapid City, South Dakota in 1934 and stayed with REA until 1973. South Dakota author.

  • SD003728 -"Improbably Cause" by Judith A. Jance.
    When a dentist is killed, Detective J.P. Beaumont discovers that he has plenty of suspects, all of them with a motive to get rid of the victim. Some sex, strong language, and violence.

  • SD003738 -"The Music Box" by T. Davis Bunn.
    Angie Packard had returned to her hometown with a passion for teaching. Watching the thrill of discovery light up a young face was a joy so powerful she often needed to turn away toward the blackboard until she could regain her composure. But Angie had also come home as a young widow whose sorrow ran dry.

  • SD003739 -"A Sinister Silence" by Jane Part.
    A deaf heiress in London searches for the connection between her family and her abduction.

  • SD003740 -"Tomorrow's Dream" by Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn.
    Kyle Adams could not help but pause and gaze at her reflection. The hall mirror was at the bottom of the stairs and she needed to stop and catch her breath. Being pregnant, she thought it silly to stop and catch her breath. Their own child. Hers and Kenneth's. Something so beautiful to share. Her gaze fell on the bible, still open and the table; she spoke aloud the words from Psalm 100.

  • SD003741 -"The Sacred Shore" by Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn.
    In The Meeting Place (RC 49353), eighteenth-century friends Catherine and Louise switched babies so Louise's French daughter could receive medical care--an action with far-reaching consequences when the French were suddenly expelled from Acadia. 2000.

  • SD003746 -"Until Proven Guilty" by J.A. Jance.
    The little girl was only five, much too young to die a lost treasure that should have been cherished, not murdered. She could have been J.P. Beaumont's kid; he won't rest until her killer pays dearly. But the hunt is leading Beaumont into a murky world of religious fanaticism, and toward a beautiful, perilous obsession all his own.

  • SD003747 -"Shoot- Don't Shoot" by J.A. Jance.
    An assassin's bullet shattered Joanna Brady's world, leaving her husband to die in the Arizona desert. The young widow fought back by bringing the killers to justice and winning herself a job as Sheriff. Determined to learn her trade, she enlists at a Phoenix-based police academy for training. But when a vicious serial killer murders Joanna's female classmate, she becomes embroiled in the hunt to find him.

  • SD003748 -"A More Perfect Union" by J.A. Jance.
    On a routine investigation, J.P. Beaumont turns up a hard-as-nails ironworkers union corrupted by kickbacks, bribes, and the promise of easy money. Beaumont is determined to make the union pay its dues, but the hard hats want Beaumont to take a hike-- off a high rise!

  • SD003751 -"The Louisiana Purchase" by Thomas Fleming.
    Like many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity... Looking westward, the orators of the 1840's who preached the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to preside from sea to shining sea based their oratorical logic on the Louisiana Purchase.

  • SD003780 -"Blue Stars: A Selection of Stories from South Dakota's World War II Veterans" by Greg Latza.
    South Dakota Veteran's of World War II give their personal accounts of their experiences of the war. South Dakota author.

  • SD003781 -"Grass Heart" by M.M.B. Walsh.
    In 1837 a smallpox epidemic devastated the Madison Indians of the Great Plains. This remarkable novel shows the horrifying reality not only of the epidemic but also of Sioux slavery, cultural plundering by anthropologists, and exile. South Dakota author.

  • SD003782 -"Buttermilk Bottoms" by Ken Roberts.
    This novel is by turns funny and bitter, playful and graphic, and sometimes all of these at the same time, as in the great pig hunt sequence or the brilliantly orchestrated ambush of the kangaroo rats. South Dakota author.

  • SD003784 -"The Fourth of July Wake" by Harold Adams.
    When and old friend invited Kyle Champion to attend a wake, he quickly realized that it's not going to be a typical affair. P.J. Krueger, the family patriarch, died three months ago, and now his young widow, Sarah, wants to throw a "discreet wingding" in his honor over the long 4th of July weekend. South Dakota author.

  • SD003785 -"The Last Wolf" by Gary Enright.
    This is more than a typical animal story. It is a metaphor that makes a provocative statement about the human conditions. The story tells the adventures and plights of the wolf who cannot take the invading ranchers to court for their attacks against him. South Dakota author.

  • SD003804 -"Showdown at the Little Big Horn" by Dee Brown.
    A fictional account of the Battle of Little Big Horn beginning June 28,1876 and concluding April,10, 1878.

  • SD003806 -"The Education of Little Tree" by Forrest Carter.
    Little Tree was five and an orphan, when he went to live in his Cherokee grandparents' Tennessee log cabin with the mountain at its back and the clear water of the spring branch in front. This autobiographical story of Forrest Carter's boyhood illustrates the almost mystical communication between the Indian and his land.

  • SD003807- "Hope of Living" by J.H. Hyatt Downing.
    Thirty-five years ago that large stretch of country lying just east and as far west of the Missouri River as the Black Hills in South Dakota, was still spoken of as "cattle land." Buffalo grass ran away under the blazing sun toward the horizon. South Dakota author.

  • SD003809- "The Black Bridge" by Charlotte McNabb Foster.
    This is the story of two widows, one self-made, and her friend who becomes an unwilling investigator. When Vivian's husband loses the nomination for governor of South Dakota, they argue violently and she pushes him off an abandoned rail road bridge. Her friend Eleanor is sent out to investigate Max's death. She comforts Vivian while she tries to discover what happened to Max. South Dakota author.

  • SD003811-"Boy Almighty" by Feike Feikema.
    The story begins with a bulky ambulance-driver pushed a pillow beneath Eric's head and covered his body with a sheet. Together the two men lifted the stretcher. As Eric passed through the door, he turns to look at his book and manuscript for the last time. South Dakota author.

  • SD003813-"A Prayer for Tomorrow" by J. Hyatt Downing.
    Set in the region of Blunt and Pierre, the author writes of his early childhood years. The book is filled with the heroism of the late wave of prairie busters who strove to convert the cattle country into a new agricultural Eden. How they came, how they expanded under the richness of the first great crop. Through shifting scenes, observant and fine, strides Lynn McVeigh. South Dakota Author.

  • SD003814 -"The Work of Wolves" by Kent Meyers.
    In this unforgettable story of horses, love, and life, a violent chain of events unsettles the inhabitants of a quiet reservation town in South Dakota, illuminating the strong bonds that connect people to one another-- and to the land on which they live. 2005 One Book South Dakota award winner. South Dakota author.

  • SD003415 -"The Art of Mending" By Elizabeth Berg.
    It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets, that have shaped the personalities and fates of three siblings. In this moving novel the author unearthed truths force one seemingly ordinary family to reexamine their desperate lives: Is it too late to mend the hurts of the past? 2004 One Book South Dakota award winner. South Dakota author.

  • SD003851 -"Immigrant Girl" by Sigrid Ohrt Eidsness.
    Sigrid Ohrt Eidsness tells the story of her life, beginning in 1891 on a farm on the North Sea, near Bergen, Norway. Her family moved to the United States when she was young, homesteaded in North Dakota, and lived in a variety of settings. Sigrid married and started raising a family in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Her story is one of adventure, striving, and family.

  • For the western reader:
  • SD003805 -"Scorpion A Good Bad Horse" by Will James.
    A fine-looking chestnut bronco receives the name Scorpion when he explodes unexpectedly after several days of unusually good behavior. One day Tim, an outlaw on the run trades his tired horse for Scorpion and they forge a relationship of destiny. South Dakota author.

  • SD003808-"Brendan Prairie" by Dan O'Brien.
    He tells the story of Bill Malone, widower, father, lover and hot-tempered man, whose world is unraveling around him. Malone's young wife died mysteriously years ago. Once a great falconer and environmentalist, Malone is a broken man, devoid of passion and his youth. South Dakota author.

  • SD003891 -"King of the Ranger" by Zane Grey Romer.
    A western based on characters created by Zane Grey.

  • SD003892 -"Western Union" by Zane Grey.
    A western based on characters created by Zane Grey.

  • SD003893 -"West of the Pecos" by Zane Grey.
    A western based on characters created by Zane Grey.

  • SD003894 -"Majesty's Rancho" by Zane Grey.
    After rescuing beautiful Madge Stewart, Lance becomes an outlaw and escapes to Arizona. Later, Madge is kidnapped by cattle rustlers, and needs rescuing again.

  • SD003895 -"Maverick Queen" by Zane Grey.
    Linc Bradway finds himself smack in the middle of a fierce range war as he heads for Wyoming to clear up the mystery of the death of his partner. He falls for Kit Brandon, the Maverick Queen, whose love has been the kiss of death for more than one man out in the Sweetwater country.

  • SD003896 -"Dude Ranger" by Zane Grey.
    When Ernest Selby inherited a ranch in Arizona, he decided to take an assumed name and hire on as a cowboy. This gave him a chance to find out why a prosperous ranch would lose 14,000 head of cattle in just a few years.

  • SD003897 -"Arizona Ames" by Zane Grey.
    When Ernest Selby inherited a ranch in Arizona, he decided to take an assumed name and hire on as a cowboy. This gave him a chance to find out why a prosperous ranch would lose 14,000 head of cattle in just a few years.

  • SD003898 -"Zane Grey's Greatest Western Stories" by Zane Grey.
    Stories of adventure whose settings range from Arizona and Utah to the jungles of Peru.

  • SD003899 -"Savage Kingdom" by Zane Grey.
    This book contains stories of adventure, with the settings that range from Arizona and Utah to the jungles of Peru.

  • SD003900 -"Under the Tonto Rim" by Zane Grey.
    Watson left home to escape the disgrace of being a saloonkeeper's daughter and runs away to Arizona to start a new life.

  • SD003901 -"Desert Gold" by Zane Grey.
    The bandit Rojas followed Mercedes Casteneda into the desert, but Texas Ranger Thorne was sworn to protect her. In the desert near the Mexican border, a woman finds the grave of her father, as well as the gold mine which he had discovered.

  • SD003902 -"Captive of the Desert" by Zane Grey.
    John Curry swears to protect Mary Newton from her shiftless drunken husband who is plotting treachery on the Navajo reservation.

  • SD003903 -"Mysterious Rider" by Zane Grey.
    Columbine feels she must obey the wishes of the dying rancher who raised her and marry his ne'er-do-well son, even though her heart lies with another Colorado cowboy.

  • SD003904 -"Desert of Wheat" by Zane Grey.
    Kurt Dorn, half German, half American, is confronted at the beginning of World War I with a problem. He loves America and hates the German blood that is in him. Owner of a wheat ranch, he glories in the grain he can send to nourish American soldiers until a newly formed labor union ruins his harvest.

  • SD003905 - "Code of the West" by Zane Grey.
    When Georgiana comes to the Tonto Basin from the East, she knows nothing of chivalry or loyalty. As trouble starts she soon learns that every man, including her husband, is bound by the code of the West.

  • SD003906 -"Shepard's of Guadeloupe" by Zane Grey.
    Cliff Forrest returned from World War I with wounds that gave him only a few months to live. He found his family ruined financially and forced from their ranch. Then he discovered that the girl who came to his assistance on his journey home was the daughter of the man who ruined his family!"

  • SD003907 -"Stranger From the Tonto" by Zane Grey.
    Young cowboy Kent Wingfield rides into the scorching desert with an old prospector, looking for gold. But for the old man this will be his last trip, and on his deathbed he tells Kent that he was once an outlaw and asks Kent to settle an old score for him.

  • SD003908 -"Heritage of the Desert" by Zane Grey.
    Young cowboy Kent Wingfield rides into the scorching desert with an old prospector, looking for gold. But for the old man this will be his last trip, and on his deathbed he tells Kent that he was once an outlaw and asks Kent to settle an old score for him.

  • SD003909 -"Lost Wagon Train" by Zane Grey.
    In the days following the Civil War, a train of 160 wagons heads west and disappears. Twenty years later, the sole survivor of the massacre is reunited with her father who joins an Indian tribe in raids against his own people.

  • SD003910 -"Robbers Roost" by Zane Grey.
    In the 1870's, a battle takes place between rival outlaw gangs at Robbers' Roost, a perfect hideout in a canyon in no-man's-land. Only one man, a beautiful girl, and a fortune in hard cash survive the shootout.

  • SD003916 -"The Dawn of Fury" by Ralph Compton.
    Nathan Stone returns to his Confederate home in Virginia to find it destroyed and his father and sisters slain. He heads West in search of the seven renegades responsible.

  • SD003919 -"The Autumn of the Gun" by Ralph Compton.
    The adventures of the gunfighter, Nathan Stone, continue as he tests his rawhide nerve and lightning draw. He's headed for a fateful rendezvous with a teenaged kid who kills like a man: his own son.

  • SD003920 -"The Border Empire" by Ralph Compton.
    Gunfighter Nathan Stone lay dead in the dust of an El Paso street. Stone's son, Wes, takes his dad's horse, Winchester, and Colts, and pursues the outlaw army against impossible odds.

  • SD003922 -"Six-guns and Double Eagle" by Ralph Compton.
    Wes Stone and his fellow young gunslinger, El Lobo, are trying to penetrate a band of criminals that is replacing freshly minted gold with counterfeit coins.

  • SD003923 -"Train to Durango" by Ralph Compton.
    Wes Stone has pursued his father's murderers, the Sandlin Gang. But in his quest for revenge, he has now uncovered their nefarious plan to loot four United States mints.


NTN: Narrative Television Network

NTN, has been a leader in making television programming and movies accessible for our nation's 13 million blind and visually impaired people. NTN unobtrusively adds the voice of a narrator to the existing programming sound track without interfering with any of the original audio or video. NTN also makes live theatre and other special events accessible, via a wireless receiver. NTN has over a decade of experience in narrating programming for broadcast, cable, and satellite. It has narrated thousands of hours of programming, including shows such a Matlock, Bonanza, and The Streets of San Francisco.

Here's what you'll need: Get the free RealPlayer at Real.com, and at least a 28.8 k connection. NTN provides more information about its service, as well as feature-length movies on-demand, free of charge, 24 hours-a-day, on its website.


Oprah's Classical Book Club

Oprah Winfrey has started a Classical Book Club here are some of the books, she has chosen to start with:
  • RC 49676: "East of Eden", by John Steinbeck.
  • RC 57559: "Cry, the Beloved Country", by Alan Paton.
  • RC 25181: "100 Years of Solitude", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
  • RC 58532: "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", by Carsor McCullers.
  • RC 49499: "Anna Karenina", by Leo Tolstoy.
  • RC 37294: "The Good Earth", by Pearl S. Buck.



Survey
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Book Club
The South Dakota Braille and Talking Book Library are looking at starting a Book Club. Please call your Reader Advisor to let them know you are interested. More information will be sent out to you. We would like to start a Book Club Cookbook. Please send your favorite recipe to us, to add into our Cookbook.

Holiday Closings The Braille & Talking Book Library will be closed on the following holidays. Please place your book orders in advance so that you will have a plenty on hand.

Labor Day, September 5, 2005
Columbus Day, October 10, 2005
Veteran's Day, November 11, 2005
Thanksgiving, November 24 & 25, 2005


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The more that you read
The more things you will learn.
The more that you learn,
The more places you'll go."
~Dr. Seuss~