The St. Tammany Parish Library is joining public libraries across the country in offering access to the same eBook for a two-week period through the Libraries Transform Book Pick. The eBook selection is Lauren Francis-Sharma’s epic saga “Book of the Little Axe."
During the lending period, Sept. 14 through 28, eBook copies of “Book of the Little Axe” will be instantly available without waitlists or holds through OverDrive. Readers only need a library card and the Libby app to borrow and read the eBook.
Ambitious and masterfully wrought, “Book of the Little Axe” is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial powers and westward expansion. In a starred review, Booklist said Francis-Sharma “offers fascinating characters across the broad sweep of the American continent at a time of great tumult, warring colonial powers, the spread of slavery, and expansion west” and described the story as a “compelling saga of family bonds, ambitions, and desires, all subject to the vagaries of powerful historical forces.”
Programs like the Libraries Transform Book Pick help highlight how libraries like the St. Tammany Parish Library are continuing to serve their communities during challenging times by providing digital content and virtual services people need now more than ever. Over the last several months, St. Tammany Parish Library has been offering programming virtually, and will continue to do so for the remainder of the year.
For more information about the Libraries Transform Book Pick, please visit ilovelibraries.org/libraries-transform-book-pick. You can also follow the Libraries Transform Book Pick on ALA’s Facebook and Twitter and join the discussion on social media using the hashtag #LTBookPick.
