hoopla Holiday 2019 Look Book

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Happy Holidays!

We are thankful for the great work done by public libraries all year long, but we are especially touched by your impact during this special time of year.

As gathering places during the holidays, public libraries help communities flourish: children come in for holiday story time and craft making, and patrons exchange season’s greetings with neighbors, waving “hello” to familiar faces they’ve seen all year–even if they don’t know their names.

We want patrons to think of these touching experiences when they borrow something from your hoopla digital collection, so we’ve created this Holiday Look Book with that in mind. In addition to these collections, our online resource center has been prepped for the season with support materials you can use to increase visibility and engagement with your digital library space.

The following pages overflow with seasonal content across multiple formats—eBooks, audiobooks, movies, music, comics, television—and with over 800,000 titles (and growing!), we have something everyone will enjoy.

Now and always, we remain dedicated to serving you and your community as we move forward into the New Year together. Thank you for your continued support.

Wishing you a holiday that’s Merry and Bright, Jeff and the team at hoopla

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Table of Contents Christmas & Hanukkah for kids

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Holiday Music

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Holiday entertaining

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Holiday romance

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lifetime movies

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HOliday Mystery

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comics

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New Year’s resolutions

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Disney’s Frozen 2

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Resource center

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Christmas & Hanukkah for Kids

Oh what Fun! hoopla has your holidays covered with holly jolly music, eBooks, audiobooks, comics, TV, and movies, all in one app the whole family can enjoy!

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Christmas & Hanukkah for Kids The magic of the season comes to life with Read-Along Ereaders!

Picture books come to life with hoopla’s Read-Along eReader; a fun, easy-to-use feature that helps little ones learn to read.

Immersive Read-Along eReader technology allows graphics to appear as they would in a physical book. Read-Alongs on hoopla include audio tracks synchronized with the book; text will highlight in red as the narrative audio plays.

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Laugh, play, and jingle all the way Join Grover for a Hanukkah party, set sail with The Gingerbread Pirates, and share a Feliz Navidad with Elena of Avalor! Make holiday memories and reading habits that last all year with eBooks for kids.

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Christmas & Hanukkah for Kids

Now Kids Mode is easier than ever! Just select the KIDS button on the homepage or the My hoopla page on the app, and you’re in Kids Mode – select again to exit Kids Mode.

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Christmas & Hanukkah for Kids

Comics

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Kids can’t resist holiday-themed comics on hoopla A sure way to engage them with reading all year long!

holiday Music

classics

A holiday state of mind..

Let your heart be light with the best music of the season on hoopla. Create your own playlist for holiday inspiration anywhere you go!

Spiritual Mix it up with our shuffle feature!

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new releases

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Holiday entertaining Making spirits bright Eat, drink, and be merry with tips and tricks from the best titles for holiday entertaining on hoopla.

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Holiday Romance

Put a little love in your heart Tis the season for romance, and hoopla has eBooks and audiobooks from your favorite bestselling authors.

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And to all a good night…

Listening to holiday audiobooks while drifting off to sleep is a guilty pleasure! Don’t forget to set our custom timer so you can pick up where you left off.

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Dreaming by the fire? No need to lose your spot, just say, “Alexa – ask hoopla to list my audiobooks.” hoopla is the only all-in-one app that utilizes Alexa for the best possible digital experience.

Cuddle up with movies that will melt your heart on hoopla!

HOLIDAY ROMANCE

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lifetime movies

LOVE IS IN THE AIR

Snow days are for binge watching your favorite holiday romance movies from Lifetime - now on hoopla!

Holiday movies premier November 26! Look for additional releases every week through holiday season!!

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hoopla has your holiday whodunit!

HOLIDAY mystery

Unwrap a cozy mystery on hoopla, with eBooks, audiobooks, and movies fans of the genre will love.

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eBooks Accessing great content on hoopla has never been easier. Patrons can enjoy their favorite hoopla movies and TV shows on the big screen with Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, and Android TV.

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Our hoopla Book Club titles are always available in both eBook and audiobook with no holds or waits!

Current Spotlight Selection The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri In her first work of nonfiction, Dina Nayeri defies stereotypes and raises surprising questions about the immigrant experience. Here are the real human stories of what it is like to journey across borders in the hope of starting afresh.

“Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”

—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees

“A unique, deeply thought-out refugee saga perfect for our moment.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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hoopla is a great all-in-one resource for book clubs, or as a supplement to existing book club programs! Check out our exclusive Book Club resources for readers and book clubs that complement our Spotlight titles. Currently available to view, download, and share on our Book Club Hub at theclub.hoopladigital.com, these helpful, thoughtfully curated pieces add dimension to your book club experience whether in-person or online.

theclub.hoopladigital.com Five essential resources we provide each quarter on hoopla Book Club Hub: A “Why We Love” letter to readers about the selection of our Spotlight hoopla Exclusive Author Q&A Discussion Guide Book Club Companion Meeting Planner Recommended Next Reads (suggested follow-up reads based on the Spotlight)

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Dear Reader, To describe why we love a book that has at times made us furiou learning to do is a challe s, made us cry, made nge. But, in my opinio us realize we have a n, that’s precisely what The Ungrateful Refuge lot more the very best books e. do, and, because of that, I love A starred review from Kirkus calls this book “perfect for our mome in the world, enoug nt,” and it’s true—there h to populate an entire are more than 25 million —and sizeable—co of our national conve untry, and immigration refugees rsation. People in count and asylum have becom ries all over the world basic sense, provide e a big part are being asked to welco the grace of hospitality. me refugees in—to But that simple act when to grant asylum , in a very writ large involves perple —about what makes xing questions about someone worthy of worth fleeing—and how and entrance, about what in the fear and confu dangers are considered sion of all that, we often justifiably forget the human exper ience.

With diligent care and insight, Dina Nayeri uses the true storie questions but also, s she’s gathered to importantly, to consid help us not only exami er that human exper that focus on the huma ne those various ience: what it mean n perspective rather s and how it feels to than divisive politic being a refugee, as be a refugee. And s gives us the chanc different as it may first e to recognize that seem, is not so incom we’ve likely faced the the experience of prehensible. Even if discomfort that comes our own experience with displacement. needed others to be isn’t directly similar, Just like the refugees patient with us as we’ve in these stories, we complained—without, school or new partne may even have ultimately, being ungra r or new job or new house will someday teful—and hoped that feel like home. our new For me, the best book club meetings are ones in which we feel safe Refugee asks us to do to ask ourselves hard just that. So head to questions, and The your meeting resolv questions, knowing Ungrateful ed to give everyone that no one will get grace while they ask and everything right, knowi knowing that comp answer tough ng that we aren’t alway assion can begin at s going to be easily book club and then understood, and move outward. nt, event, or a particular mome Happy reading. on this book? Was there world? point that led you to work and insights with the stories these hoopla What was the tipping share to made it the right time t for me. digital: catalyst that in 2016, was a huge catalys most g the world suddenly change luckies ay t,William s of the world’s-Linds in late 2015, then watchin s, hoopla digital Dina Becoming a mother and the Trump election, I became aware of how the attitude It was so different from vote outcasts, the suffering.

Nayeri: With the Brexithad changed. They had forgotten their duty to the American duty and pride. Even our asylum secure people us the sense of was around that all all felt we seemed it when ly Sudden when I had arrived in 1989, e itarian nature of their job. human welcom the my that lized interna feeling ion, a cold officers seemed to have was a moment of realizat I thought I ed slowly, but for me it an old familiar fear that gone—of course it happen but for me there was also the state of so much shock in the air, to say something about was tainted. There was And I decided it was time worry for my daughter.

Dina Nayeri was born had put away. I began to Which stories in the fiction. in Iran during the revolu veil of book stood out most the United States when tion and arrived in things as me, without the to you? Why? she was ten years old. of the UNESCO City She is the winner How do we form our greater of Literature Paul Engle Prize and ling the assembEndow ment opinions and image about a Nation go for you the al did Arts literature grant, how s of what a refugee as well as a finalist for those perceptions ing these stories, and the Rome Prize and collect is? How can we, as reade for s proces your to a a Granta New Voices space of openness rs, shift away from hd: What was and listening? pick. Nayeri is the author of two novels—Refuge and —all the small narrative around them?

A Teaspoon of Earth knew its secrets Sea—and hertions and I had lived this story and has been translated What did you learn humilia workand so organically because from this book that into fourteen langu and published in The us. There are so many small for bitterly so ages DN: The larger narrative formed you sting didn’t know before the asylum process? own story but by New York Times, The Guardian, nothing to others but —perhaps about anoth just using myStreet not The Journa things moments that seem like Wall these l, Granta er culture, or about show I visited one since , The Best American Short Stories calculation. I wanted to camps: I hadn’t Henry Prize Stories , The O. indignities—so much private felt ready to return to the also , and many other publications d, to other people. I also (which was difficul Refugete and . The Ungrateful Everything in is her wasbook turning my focus outwar a camps in mainland Greece this book holds such of nonfiction. A gradu Europe. Itfirst and across ago. So I traveled to two an Harva ate London imme in of rd, Prince nse nities and powe ton, the commu lived in one thirty years r. From something (seem and Iowa help about the best desse I reached out to refugee ced to this person or that, Writers’ Workshop, she lives in Londo rt in America being ingly) minute—like n. Kamb incredibly moving for me). a blue slushie—to such the story people and ask to be introdu sit and back in. I would write to iz’s journey, there is a massive tragedy as of settled refugees, I would nothing without impac the conclusion of slow process, being allowed a the camps or in the homes t. Discuss Dina’s writin difficult, but it was also of their communities. In to craft a book so poten g style and what it might ng process was at times slowly I’d become a part listen t. theclub.hoopladig and hours. The story gatheri have taken any plan, the way friends t hours for withou listen and listened tea just I . have ital.com the I didn’t have creative worries who would ultimately shape peaceful and moving time.

As Dina expresses, witness and as the person officials in each count nice to forget my role as ry have different expec to private stories. It was later, when I was alone. these varying persp tations, concerns, and narrative challenges until ectives in mind, talk sympathies. With story. I didn’t worry about about the complexity of crafting the refuge e narrative. in time have on you? points and , What stories , did you make of Dina’s ual people mother’s conversion were exceptionally returning to these individ that es did passag impact or nal e and the risk it put on captur hd: What emotio believe so passionately her family? Is there particularly difficult to were that that you would ctions anything you risk your own life for Were there recolle loved ones? it, considering the dange r it might pose to your satisfying to complete? lly) were written almost “camp” chapter especia DN: Some of the passages (in the my voice recorder, breathlessly, angrily, tearfully.

Did the book chang e your thoughts on into what would constitute exactly as you read them but sometimes I read a changed your viewp the necessity of flight lous as I edited the stories, oint on the refugee to another land? Has Of course, I was meticu experience in any way? it sentence has remained passage and see that a it was spoken into my In the book, the autho perfectly intact, the way r talks about her favori why the chapter on te day as an voice memo. I think that’s cerem American being the ony. What about that day of the jubilant citizen are events from day do you think was my return feels so raw. There ship so powerful, elevat confounding dicho ing it above many other never forget, and I tomy? Think about my camp visits that I will days full of your own life—what country of residence? trying to capture the has been your own Was there any time favorite day in your wrote and rewrote them, you didn’t feel so proud current e fear, the worry, of your country? mix of emotions that I felt—th There is the regret. and sorry the , despair the Does the West still deserv this family I had e its reputation as the moment in the book when land of opportunity Why or why not? ? their child and I had to come to like offered me the child sitting just find a way to explain with began dancing and women the Talk when about or your experience with there… refugees in your own feeling a hundred others, grandm the with community (or of being I sat refugee in a particular a city). Do you feel your moments have worked area welcomes refuge years old. Some of these arms? If not, after readin es with open places of my psyche. g the book (or from their way into the deep your own experience) would you like to see? what changes

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“Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refuge — Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitze e experience.” r Prize–winning author of The Ungrateful Refugee The Sympathizer and The Refuge explores the refugee exper es ience from flight to resett other asylum seekers from lement and everything around the globe, Dina in between. Weaving her Nayer conversation often lacks. i paints a portrait of immig own story around those Here, we've explored unifyi ration with of a nuanced humanity that ng themes running throug the overarching nation hout her book, View the full collection al and selected additional here: https://www.hoop recommendations aroun ladigital.com/collection/7 d each.

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In the West, while we are familiar with a few Middle Eastern write having fiction publi rs, there continues shed from that area to be a vast gap betw and the number of Alharthi’s Celestial Bodie titles that make it into een the talent s* became the first the mainstream. Just book by an Arabic autho book by a female Oma this year, Jokha r to win the Man Book ni author to be trans lated into English. As er International Prize the tide toward a wave we anticipate developm , and of Middle Eastern fictio ents like Alharthi’s succe the first catalog right now–with n making its way West ss turning , let’s take a peek at no holds or waits! great titles available in hoopla’s

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CELESTIAL BODIES

“...ambitious, intense...ex amines the radical chang over the past centu es in Oman ry. With exhilarating results, the reader into the midst of a tangled family Alharthi throws drama in which unrequited love, murd er, suicide, and adulte ry seem the rule rather than the excep tion...The novel rewar ds readers willing to assemble the piece s of Alharthi’s puzzl e into a whole, and the more satisfying is all for the complexity of its tale.”–Publishers (starred review) Weekly *Celestial Bodies will be

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Shortlisted for the Internat ional Prize for Arabic Fiction #1 Bestseller in Iraq, Dubai, and UAE Baghdad

on October 15th, 2019.

“Shahad Al Rawi bring s us into the city of Baghdad in the midd the Gulf War, where le of people continue to go about their lives the war that is erodi despite ng their homes. The story centers on two an air raid shelter and girls in the friendship that blosso stories they tell each ms around the other in this book filled with resilience and — World Literature Today life.”

THE BOOK OF FATE

A bestselling novel in Iran, despite being banned twice by the government, The Book of Fate follows a teena ge girl in pre-revolutionary Iran through five turbulent the 1979 revolution, decades, from befor e through the Islamic Republic, and up to present in this powe the rful story of friendship, passion, and hope.

TO KEEP THE SUN ALIVE

"More than the Irania n revolution, it’s a medit ation on the nature of stories–the way they shape our lives and the power they have to not only enrich, but sustain us."

–Rachel León, Chica go Review of Books “In her lush and atmo spheric debut, autho r Rabeah Ghaffari sketches a complex portrait of a country on the brink of revolu and explores the poign tion ant ways political unres families apart.” –Kirku t can bind or tear s Reviews

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had their trust trust of people who have and an honor to gain the they were willing to It must have been a hurdle their trust enough that again. How did you earn broken time and time ? stories share their d at first. I thought it stories so freely, I was surprise r. But I didn’t have to a hurdle. They shared their It was an honor, but not have left and I was a strange their stories are all they e of the book and would be a challenge, since ns. They heard the premis privacy from ing them of my good intentio and so there was some Farsi, in spend any time convinc them to it was because I spoke story, they craved to had nothing left but their immediately agreed. Maybe s. Or maybe because they be recorded. Others didn’t, the Greek and English worker e them. Many agreed to the in the Western way, to preserv I realized that I would have days, few a After have them dramatized sity.

I such openness and genero choices among the stories. but told their stories with to guard my time, to make e I had anticipated. I had a hundred ways, becaus opposite problem to what their stories for hours, in the nce that refugees can tell with myself and think of brutal be to had know from personal experie I all those stories. At some point told their stories, it was their primary job is telling the first few hours as they ing to tell when to stop. For a moment when everyth larger project. It was easy then there would come wouldn’t let it. urgency of the telling. But physical detail and the g to conclude, but the teller be would slow down, wantin and the new details would ing, lament to b would slow down, the story succum I or the floor cloth would hard to extricate myself.

Everyone around the table I had to go, but it was so and kisses. “Tell n. In those moments, I knew goodbye, with many hugs fewer and farther betwee s at the end for a long Iranian funny that in their abject was It ” soul. their usually saved fifteen minute about ans. ” they kept saying, “to think than most of our politici ts though order these rich governments, highers were thinking smarter, the book. I kept moments, these refugee e Tlaib wrote to us about ” and here was one of ng when Representativ (That’s why it was so gratifyi “tell these rich governments… s and fathers who had said remembering the mother she can help us.) where place a in own, our

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deeply, or if they are culture and history more other want to explore Iranian from elsewhere), what If readers or listeners e journey (from Iran or more about the refuge interested in learning t? sugges you from the books would Nick Thorpe’s journalism ondent Corresp BBC r, Lost in Translation.

Me Weeps. Anton Gill's Eva Hoffman’s iconic memoi Balkans), The Road Before Europe (through the West rs of the Holocaust. primary migrant route into oral testimonies from survivo a powerful collection of of Jasmin Darznik (for The Journey Back from Hell, tion, I recommend the novels after the revolution writers of my own genera and From among the Iranian ail into Iranian culture before s

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