Downloadable Audio Books

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The High Point Public Library is a charter member of the North Carolina Digital Library, a web-based, digital media service that allows you to download popular digital audio books, eBooks, and digital music through the library's web site. Download best selling audio books and print books 24/7 to your PC at home, in the office or from anywhere in the world. The North Carolina Digital Library never closes! Click here to enter the North Carolina Digital Library.

Nonprint Media

The library has a variety of DVDs available for checkout.  These include new releases, television series and mini-series, how-to and documentaries as well as foreign and travel.  Additionally, there is a large number of fiction and non-fiction books on CD and MP3 as well as music CDs.  For more information, stop by the nonprint media area on the third floor or call 883-3638.

Nonprint media materials are available any time the library is open.

Want a complete list of DVDs available at the library?  Click here.

Learn about the MPAA rating system here.

 

Newest Additions       

8/26/2010              

DVDs       

  • Back-Up Plan       
  • City Island       
  • Me and Orson Welles              

Non-Fiction DVDs       

  • Enron:  The Smartest Guys in the Room (Docu. 658.4 ENR)       
  • First Fruits:  In Celebration of 250 Years of Protestant Missions (266 FIR)       
  • Microsoft Office 2010 for Dummies (005.5 MIC)       
  • New York (917.471 NEW)       
  • With These Hands:  The Story of an American Furniture Factory (DOCU. 684.1 WIT)       
  • World War II:  Behind Closed Doors (DOCU. 940.5347 WWII)          

MP3       

  • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton       
  • Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo       
  • Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde       
  • Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving       
  • Search by Nora Roberts              

Playaways       

  • Brisingr by Christopher Paolini              

Music CDs       

  • Court Yard Hounds by Court Yard Hounds       
  • Sex and the City 2:  Original Motion Picture Soundtrack       
  • To the Sea by Jack Johnson             

Books on CD       

  • Angelina:  An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton (BIO Jolie A Morton)      
  • Beguiled by Dee Anne Gist       
  • Birth of Plenty:  How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created by William Bernstein (339.2 Bernstein)       
  • Blacklands by Belinda Bauer       
  • Brand Warfare:  10 Rules for Building the Killer Brand by David F. D’Alessandro (658.8 Dalessandro)       
  • Death’s Excellent Vacation edited by Charlaine Harris (813.708 Harris)       
  • Divine Appointments by Charlene Ann Baumbich       
  • Dog Who Came In from the Cold by Alexander McCall Smith       
  • Her Mother’s Hope by Francine Rivers       
  • Horns by Joe Hill       
  • How to Get Started in Real Estate Investing by Robert Irwin (333.33 Irwin)       
  • Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende       
  • Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (822.33 Shakespeare)       
  • Leadership Lessons of the Navy Seals by Jeff and Jon Cannon (658.402 Cannon)       
  • Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith       
  • Marine Corps Way:  Using Maneuver Warfare to Lead a Winning Organization by Jason A. Santamaria (658.4 Santamaria)       
  • More than a Pink Cadillac:  Mary Kay Inc.’s 9 Leadership Keys to Success by Jim Underwood (658.4092 Underwood)       
  • Morning’s Refrain by Tracie Peterson       
  • No Distance Too Far by Lauraine Snelling       
  • Packing for Mars:  The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach (571.0919 Roach)       
  • Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card       
  • Red Queen by Philippa Gregory       
  • Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan       
  • Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes by Robin Jones Gunn       
  • Six Sigma Way by Peter S. Pande (658.562 Pande)       
  • Snow Angels by James Thompson       
  • Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles       
  • Time to Dance by Karen Kingsbury       
  • Too Big to Fail:  The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis—and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin (330 Sorkin)       
  • Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith       
  • Under the Dome by Stephen King       
  • Understanding Wall Street by Jeffrey B. Little (332.678 Little)       
  • What the Best CEOs Know by Jeffrey A. Krames (658.4 Krames)       
  • Winning the Loser’s Game:  Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing by Charles Ellis (332.6 Ellis)