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Talking Book Service
Talking books are complete books on cassette.
Who can borrow talking books?
Adults and children who cannot read or hold print books because of their physical or visual disability.
How do I register for this service?
Contact the Library for information and an eligibility form. Then simply fill in and return the eligibility form to the Library.
The Home Services clerk will help you decide what is the best way for you to choose and pick up your talking books.
You may:
- pick up your selections at the Library.
- receive your talking books by home delivery, if you are eligible for this service.
Home Delivery Service
Who is eligible for the Home Delivery Service?
Home service is available to anyone who, due to illness, injury or permanent disability, is unable to come to the library on their own.
All the resources of the library are available to you and we will deliver to your home any books, music, videos or magazines that you request.
Of specific interest to the vision impaired are the Large Print books and the Talking Books. People who are legally blind or physically unable to read a normal book also have access to an extra collection of talking books, supplied to us by the Library Services Branch in Victoria.
Listing of talking books in daisy-format (available to library patrons with vision loss)
To receive Home Service or if you need more information on any of these services, please call the Library at 250-627-1345 during library hours or e-mail us via our Contact Page.
| Daisy-format talking books - [List created May 26, 2008] | ||
| Title | Author | Item Number |
| Honorable men | Auchinloss, Louis | DC06148 |
| Every man for himself | Bainbridge, Beryl | DC17575 |
| In the heat of the night | Ball, John Dudley | DC00004 |
| Straight no chaser: a Crang mystery | Batten, Jack | DC08869 |
| Samuel MacLure, architect | Bingham, Janet | DC22636 |
| Spinsters abroad: Victorian lady explorers | Birkett, Dea | DC12905 |
| A gentleman adventurer: the Arctic diaries of R.H.G. Bonnycastle | Bonnycastle, R.H.G. | DC04907 |
| Kaddish in Dublin | Brady, John | DC15066 |
| The cat who could read backwards | Braun, Lilian Jackson | DC11275 |
| Singled out | Brett, Simon | DC19974 |
| Storming heaven | Brown, Dale | DC13863 |
| Before and after | Brown, Rosellen | DC19971 |
| Voyage of the iceberg | Brown, Richard | DC04041 |
| The witness | Brown, Sandra | DC13702 |
| Purple cane road: a novel | Burke, James Lee | DC24094 |
| Poultry in the pulpit | Cameron, Alexander | DC10067 |
| Schooner : Bluenose and Bluenose II | Cameron, Donald | DC05006 |
| Papa La-bas | Carr, John Dickson | DC01639 |
| The house at Satan's Elbow | Carr, John Dickson | DC02203 |
| The golden years caper | Carson, Robert | DC04325 |
| An hour before daylight: memories of a rural boyhood | Carter, Jimmy | DC23813 |
| A man on the moon: the voyages of the Apollo astronauts | Chaikin, Andrew | DC14323 |
| Dream of a falling eagle | Chesbro, George C. | DC19965 |
| George Grant: a biography | Christian, William | DC12122 |
| Passenger to Frankfurt: an extravaganza | Christie, Agatha | DC01477 |
| The Canadians at Cambrai and the Canal du Nord, September-October 1918: a social and battlefield tour | Christie, N.M. | DC15224 |
| Typhoon and other stories | Conrad, Joseph | DC15141 |
| Where is the withered man? | Creasey, John | DC12117 |
| Catering to nobody | Davidson, Diane Mott | DC19758 |
| Dying for chocolate | Davidson, Diane Mott | DC12133 |
| Tough cookie | Davidson, Diane Mott | DC23767 |
| One river: explorations and discoveries in the Amazon rain forest | Davis, Wade | DC15828 |
| The Manx murders: a Professor Niccolo Benedetti mystery | DeAndrea, William L. | DC17136 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel | DC31266 |
| Citizens Irving: K.C. Irving and his legacy | DeMont, John | DC13116 |
| A brilliant madness: living with manic depressive illness | Duke, Patty | DC12100 |
| Murder sees the light | Engel, Howard | DC05438 |
| Come to grief | Francis, Dick | DC15116 |
| A million little pieces | Frey, James | DC28149 |
| Pay dirt: and other Whispering sands stories of Gold fever and the Western desert | Gardner, Erle Stanley | DC04176 |
| The case of the perjured parrot | Gardner, Erle Stanley | DC02275 |
| The case of the reluctant model | Gardner, Erle Stanley | DC02422 |
| Deception on his mind | George, Elizabeth | DC30167 |
| Missing Joseph | George, Elizabeth | DC13370 |
| Shutterbug | Gough, Laurence | DC20876 |
| Beyond the veil: the adventures of an American doctor in Saudi Arabia | Gray, Seymour Jerome | DC05759 |
| The assassin | Griffin, W.E.B. | DC13251 |
| The runaway jury | Grisham, John | DC15185 |
| The president's daughter | Higgins, Jack | DC16971 |
| Passage by night | Higgins, Jack | DC13553 |
| Last witness | Hoffman, Jilliane | DC33603 |
| A mind to murder | James, P.D. | DC30171 |
| Unnatural causes | James, P.D. | DC01796 |
| Devices and desires | James, P.D. | DC08968 |
| Shroud for a nightingale | James, P.D. | DC15169 |
| Survival of the fittest | Kellerman, Jonathan | DC17381 |
| The web | Kellerman, Jonathan | DC15104 |
| Beyond the reef | Kent, Alexander | DC13693 |
| The tailor of Panama | Le Carre, John | DC15907 |
| Single & single: a novel | Le Carre, John | DC21028 |
| Guilt | Lescroart, John T. | DC20549 |
| Prime witness | Martini, Steve | DC12799 |
| The jury | Martini, Steve | DC24428 |
| The attorney | Martini, Steve | DC22851 |
| Mary, Mary | McBain, Ed | DC12721 |
| Kiss: a novel of the 87th Precinct | McBain, Ed | DC29818 |
| Bread: an 87th Precinct mystery | McBain, Ed | DC29206 |
| Killer's payoff: an 87th Precinct mystery | McBain, Ed | DC29820 |
| Mischief: a novel of the 87th precinct | McBain, Ed | DC12119 |
| The papers of Tony Veitch | McIvanney, William | DC29888 |
| Iberia: Spanish travels and reflections | Michener, James A. | DC09488 |
| The drifters: a novel | Michener, James A. | DC06523 |
| Rumpole for the defence | Mortimer, John Clifford | DC05296 |
| Rumpole and the reign of terror | Mortimer, John Clifford | DC31359 |
| A voyage round my father ; The dock brief ; What shall we tell Caroline? | Mortimer, John Clifford | DC05341 |
| Bay of spirits: a love story | Mowat, Farley | DC29553 |
| The serpent's coil | Mowat, Farley | DC30427 |
| The last hostage | Nance, John J. | DC21419 |
| London bridges | Patterson, James | DC28329 |
| Jack and Jill: a novel | Patterson, James | DC15164 |
| Hide & seek: a novel | Patterson, James | DC27615 |
| 2nd chance: a novel | Patterson, James | DC25662 |
| 4th of July | Patterson, James | DC29760 |
| The lake house: a novel | Patterson, James | DC28392 |
| 3rd degree: a novel | Patterson, James | DC28391 |
| The Hyde Park headsman | Perry, Anne | DC16738 |
| A sudden, fearful death | Perry, Anne | DC12379 |
| Traitor's gate | Perry, Anne | DC16829 |
| Strip Jack | Rankin, Ian | DC19557 |
| Grave secrets | Reichs, Kathy | DC24553 |
| Angels fall | Roberts, Nora | DC29336 |
| Diefenbaker's world: a populist in foreign affairs | Robinson, H. Basil | DC07661 |
| Gallows view: an Inspector Banks mystery | Robinson, Peter | DC06136 |
| The hanging valley: an Inspector Banks mystery | Robinson, Peter | DC13285 |
| Oregon legacy | Ross, Dana Fuller | DC09352 |
| McNally's luck | Sanders, Lawrence | DC11601 |
| Rough justice | Scottoline, Lisa | DC20121 |
| Moment of truth | Scottoline, Lisa | DC22624 |
| AIDS activist: Michael Lynch and the politics of community | Silversides, Ann | DC25308 |
| Blackout | Solomon, Annie | DC31371 |
| In the shadow of death | Southin, Gwendolyn | DC33625 |
| Ordinary heroes | Turow, Scott | DC30266 |
| One L | Turow, Scott | DC12585 |
| Masterson | Wheeler, Richard S. | DC22810 |
| The rise and fall of the House of Windsor | Wilson, A.N. | DC13292 |
| Dead in the water: a novel | Woods, Stuart | DC16960 |
| Hands like clouds | Zuehlke, Mark | DC33620 |
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