TBBS Audio Magazine Catalog

In the spirit of homesteading, Countryside & Small Stock Journal emphasizes home food production and gardening, small-scale livestock, cooking, recycling, frugality, and traditional farming skills. Features articles that convey personal experiences of its readers who value old-style country living. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

Nebraska crop reports, articles on farm life, and new agricultural methods and technology. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

Similar to “Your Dog” Magazine and from the same publisher, Catnip is a monthly nationally-circulated newsletter for caring cat owners presenting feline medical and behavioral information. All published articles are reviewed by board members who are affiliated with Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University and its hospitals. (Massachusetts Regional Library)

From the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. This is a resource for those who are serious about their dogs. Articles are usually scientifically-researched and include health, training, and behavior issues. Some reviews of dog-friendly products. (Massachusetts Regional Library)

Filled with America's best memories, written by those who lived them, this magazine contains nostalgic articles, letters, poems, songs, and reminiscences. (Iowa Regional Library)

A 2012 Parents' Choice Approved Award Winner, Humpty Dumpty is ideal for kids ages 5-7 who are learning to read independently. Stories, poems, cartoons, puzzles, games, recipes and crafts are designed with an emergent reader in mind, reinforcing healthy lifestyle messages and promoting core values. Appropriate for children age 4-8. (Florida Regional Library)

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Jack and Jill is an award-winning magazine that promotes the education and creative growth of children through interactive activities and articles. Appropriate for children age 6-12.

Muse magazine is the science and arts magazine for kids that’s spot on with the facts, but off-kilter with the jokes. Muse magazine has articles about just about anything your child could want to know about the world. If your child likes to learn about physics, math, or earth sciences, there are full-page articles about scientists, mathematicians, problem solving, and the way the planet works, so they will be more educated than ever. Explore the world in a fun way with Muse! Appropriate for children age 9-14.

This is a 2 in 1 subscription, each issue will contain both National Geographic Kids and Cricket magazines. 1) You can expect the same kind of subjects to be included in National Geographic Kids magazine that you get in the adult version-animals, science, archaeology, and geography-but with technology and pop culture added to the mix too. As you might expect, there is also a strong emphasis on magnificent wildlife photography. Frequent appearances of animal posters can be found within the pages, as well as high-quality photographs sprinkled throughout the magazine. The addition of games and jokes, alongside other activities such as puzzles and competitions, keeps the subjects light, while still getting across the important facts. Appropriate for children age 6 and older. 2) Each issue of Cricket magazine has forty-eight pages of literature and puzzles. Stories and poems cover a wide range of genres from mainstream to fantasy and are illustrated by the best children's artists available. The puzzles range from simple crossword puzzles and word finds to more creative and challenging word puzzles like acrostics. Natural science, grammar, history, and social studies are also given a place in Cricket with articles ranging from how-to pieces to simple science experiments that children can do at home. Appropriate for children age 9-14.

Spider weaves a web of wonder with stories, poems, articles, and illustrations from around the world for kids who are excited about reading on their own. Appropriate for children age 6-9.

Sports Illustrated Kids magazine is an exciting publication widely read by more than seven million young sports fans. Recognized by Parent's Choice and the Educational Press for excellence in publishing, the topics and themes include nutrition tips, information about up-and-coming young athletes, amazing artwork, and feature articles. Kids will experience the joy of reading while they are learning about their favorite sports and athletes. Sports Illustrated Kids teaches character to young sports enthusiasts through articles focusing on the positive character attributes of athletes. Perseverance in skills practice, setting goals, and keeping a positive attitude are some of the life lessons young people can learn from this magazine. Healthy food choices and exercise are also emphasized in each issue of the magazine, encouraging children to make better choices to improve their health. Each issue also includes performance tips from athletes and journalists who want to help young athletes improve their skills. Appropriate for children age 8-14.

Published by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Trail Tales is a Nebraska-specific educational magazine produced for outdoors and nature lovers. Across the state, 4th grade students receive four issues each school year – fall, winter, spring, and summer. Each issue of Trail Tales focuses on Nebraska’s wildlife species, science concepts (food webs, animal adaptations, habitats and ecosystems, etc.) and outdoor sports. In addition, each issue has puzzles and games. Appropriate for Nebraska's 4th grade classrooms. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

The Wired mission is to tell the world something they've never heard before in a way they've never seen before. It's about turning new ideas into everyday reality. It's about seeding our community of influencers with the ideas that will shape and transform our collective future. Wired readers want to know how technology is changing the world, and they're interested in big, relevant ideas, even if those ideas challenge their assumptions—or blow their minds; they're generally familiar with computers and the Internet, but this is definitely not a computer magazine—Wired won't teach you how to upgrade your RAM. Instead, it's a magazine about science, art, adventure, online culture, business, philosophy... and bright shiny beautiful gadgets.

Founded in 1857, The Atlantic is one of America's great thought leader magazines. It features ground-breaking articles on politics, social trends, education, literature and arts. Famous for its excellent writing and artistic quality, The Atlantic has won more National Magazine Awards than any other monthly magazine. The Atlantic stories change minds through their fair, unbiased approach and respect for facts. The Atlantic presents the smartest, bravest thinking on the biggest, most important ideas of our time, entertaining readers while stimulating their minds and their civic spirits. Subscribers to The Atlantic magazine keep up to speed on the latest in political developments, foreign policy, and economics.

Boston Magazine identifies the people, trends and events that impact the life of the region. It contains a mix of investigative reporting and insightful profiles of local personalities, with service and lifestyle pieces that enhance the experience of living in or visiting one of the nations most diverse and exciting areas. (Massachusetts Regional Library)

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of international affairs. Experts from across the political spectrum offer timely and incisive analysis on the most crucial issues affecting foreign policy and the global economy.

Founded in 1865, The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine, the flagship of the Left, and now the country's most widely read journal of opinion. Published to inform the national debate on critical issues of the day, The Nation seeks to enlighten and empower a community of concerned citizens and influential readers. The Nation has long served as an early-warning system, exposing prejudice, discrimination, and abuse of power through investigative reporting, analysis, commentary, and cultural reviews. Proudly independent of political parties and corporate interests, The Nation exposes, in print and online, issues often ignored by the mainstream media. Championing civil liberties, human rights, economic justice, and peace, The Nation challenges the status quo, encourages dissent, and presents ideas from a variety of voices, always seeking a more tolerant and just future.

National Review is America's leading conservative magazine, founded by William F. Buckley, Jr. The Biweekly offers reporting, editorials, and analysis on domestic and international politics, cultural, religious and economic trends, and reviews books, movies, music and TV. George Will says National Review "is the most consequential journal of opinion ever".

The New Yorker is a national weekly magazine that offers a signature mix of reporting and commentary on politics, foreign affairs, business, technology, popular culture, and the arts, along with humor, fiction, poetry, and cartoons. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker publishes the best writers of its time and has received more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine, for its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration.

People is a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Time Inc. People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming the "World's Most Beautiful People", "Best and Worst Dressed" and "Sexiest Man Alive".

Texas Monthly has been covering Texas news, politics, food, history, crime, music, and everything in between for more than forty years. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

Designed for the way today's busy executives and thought leaders live, The Week curates over a thousand media sources from around the world to offer a true global and balanced perspective on the issues today-all in a concise, readable package. Inspired by the daily briefing created for the U.S. President, The Week distills the best in domestic and international commentary, and the latest developments in business, health, science, technology, the arts, culture, consumer products and travel.

The Unicameral Update year-in-review issue is produced by the Clerk of the Legislature’s Unicameral Information Office. The Update covers legislative activity, including floor action and committee hearings. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

Essence is a monthly lifestyle magazine written for Black women covering fashion, beauty, entertainment, and culture.

For over 65 years, Analog has provided an unbeatable combination of stimulating fiction stories, provocative editorials, and fascinating science-fact articles, all solidly rooted in science fact. Explore the boundaries of the imagination beginning at the frontiers of actual scientific research.

The most celebrated authors in the field of science fiction share their visions with stories that launch you into the fantastic worlds of tomorrow. Join the vanguard of science fiction with a subscription to Asimov's Science Fiction magazine.

Published since 1941, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is America's oldest and most celebrated crime-fiction publication. Featured in its pages are short stories by the world’s leading writers of suspense. The full range of the genre is covered, from the cozy to the hardboiled, the historical to the contemporary—including police procedurals, P.I. stories, psychological suspense, locked-room and impossible-crime tales, classical whodunits, and urban noir. EQMM stories include scores of winners of the Edgar, Agatha, Shamus, Anthony, Derringer, Macavity, Barry, Arthur Ellis, and Robert L. Fish awards.

Consumer Reports brings you the best products, the best brands, the best services and the best prices, compares features, sorts through the choices, analyzes the options and reports back to you. You benefit from the clear advice, useful recommendations, wise insights and easy-to-understand information. Utilizes more than 100 car experts, engineers, chemists, statisticians, nutritionists, money advisors and safety gurus to bring you information you can count on! Consumer Reports tells you the truth, in plain English, straight from the experts at the world's largest consumer product testing center.

The Economist is the premier source for the analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion on international news, world politics, business, finance, science and technology, as well as overviews of cultural trends and regular Special reports on industries and countries. Established in 1843 to campaign against the protectionist corn laws, The Economist remains, in the second half of its second century, true to the liberal principles of its founder. James Wilson, a hat maker from the small Scottish town of Hawick, believed in free trade, internationalism and minimum interference by government, especially in the affairs of the market. The Economist also takes a fiercely independent stance on social issues, from gay marriage to the legalization of drugs, but its main service to its readers is as a global newspaper: To uncover new ideas from all around the world.

Kiplinger's Retirement Report provides authoritative help to plan and enjoy a worry-free retirement. Every month you'll find dozens of practical strategies to help grow your retirement savings, make your money last in retirement, find the best mutual and bond funds, get the best rates on U.S. Treasuries, CDs and money-market funds, maximize Social Security and Medicare benefits, create a comprehensive estate plan, reduce health care and insurance costs, minimize taxes, find the best travel deals, discover great second career opportunities, and much more.

Also available from NLS.

Bon Appétit focuses on what's "now" in the world of food, drink, and entertaining, while still giving readers valuable cooking tools, tips, and most of all, recipes. The only food lifestyle publication on the market, Bon Appétit looks at life through the lens of food—cooking in, dining out, travel, entertainment, shopping and design.

This down-home cooking magazine offers satisfying, easy-to-prepare dishes that come from the readers themselves. You'll find recipes in every category, from main dishes to desserts and snacks, made using standard utensils and ingredients that you are likely to have on hand. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

The Magazine of the Month subscription is a special NLS program designed to provide a limited substitute for newsstand browsing; readers are sent a different sample magazine each month.

Winner of the 2009 National Magazine Award for General Excellence, Reader's Digest reinvented itself with imaginative and timely stories and an engaging contemporary voice, say the judges for the American Society of Magazine Editors. Articles about ordinary people overcoming extraordinary obstacles, useful and accessible service pieces on health and personal finance, and delightful humor columns make Reader's Digest not only a good companion but also a great escape. (American Printing House for the Blind)

Diabetes Forecast is the premier lifestyle magazine for people with diabetes, helping them and their families live healthy and fulfilling lives. It provides comprehensive, accurate, and timely information and support on all aspects of diabetes, including diet, fitness, self-care, and research breakthroughs.

Disability Issues covers initiatives, concerns, and resources for individuals with disabilities and their family members. (Massachusetts Regional Library)

Harvard Women's Health Watch offers timely information in the new age of women’s health and medicine. Includes new prevention strategies, new diagnostic techniques, new medications, and treatments.

Psychology Today is an American general-interest psychology magazine. A variety of psychological perspectives and approaches are represented in the magazine’s analyses.

This is a 2 in 1 subscription, each issue will contain both AARP and AARP Bulletin magazines. 1) Published by the American Association of Retired Persons, AARP The Magazine is a bimonthly that features short articles of interest to persons over 50. Topics include travel, cooking, economics, second careers, and health. (Arizona Regional Library); 2) AARP Bulletin features the latest daily news information and articles on health, Social Security, Medicare, politics, scam alerts and more. (District of Columbia Regional Library)

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Health and Nutrition Newsletters is a NLS-compiled sampler of selections on medical conditions of special interest to older adults, nutritional information, and ways to maintain good health. Sources include the Johns Hopkins Medical Letter: Health After 50, Mayo Clinic Health Letter, and Nutrition Action Healthletter.

This magazine from the Lincoln Area Agency on Aging features general topics, programs, issues, and activities concerning the older population, their families, and community organizations. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

The Saturday Evening Post is a general-interest magazine that contains humor, fiction, and health-related and other non-fiction articles. Throughout its history, it has chronicled the events and cultural shifts that have shaped America. (Arizona Regional Library)

American History presents the history of America to a broad spectrum of general-interest readers in an authoritative, informative, thought-provoking and entertaining style. Lively narratives take readers on an adventure with history, complemented by rare photographs, paintings, illustrations and maps.

Cowboys & Indians features articles on western lore and Native Americans. It also includes a listing of rodeos and other events across the United States. (Oklahoma Regional Library)

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Journal published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. Short articles focus on Nebraska history, and includes a calendar of events. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

Journal published by the Nebraska State Historical Society. Articles on the history and people of Nebraska and the Midwest. (Nebraska Talking Book & Braille Service)

Wide variety of articles about science, natural history, art, archaeology, history, and ecology. Also covers events at the Smithsonian Institution. (Florida Regional Library)

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True West captures the spirit of the American West with authenticity, personality and humor by linking our history to our present. Whether you call it the Wild West, the Old West or the Far West, America's frontier history comes to life in True West, the world's oldest, continuously published Western Americana magazine. Western movie fans, re-enactors, history buffs and road warriors, we got your history covered: outlaw, cowboy, Indian, lawman, gunfighter, fur trapper, miner, prospector, gambler, soldier, entertainer and pioneer. Check out these True Westerners now!

Vital Speeches of the Day is a monthly collection of the best speeches and addresses in the world presented in full. From Franklin Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, from Mahatma Gandhi to Lady Gaga, they’ve published every thoughtful, useful, inspiring or provocative speech they’ve gotten their hands on for more than three quarters of a century, because Vital Speeches of the Day staff still believe in founder Thomas Daly’s belief that “it is only in the unedited and unexpurgated speech that the view of the speaker is truly communicated to the reader,” which is why we print all speeches in full. And we continue to follow the mission to “represent the best thoughts of the best minds on current national and international issues.” Covers education, government, current events, history, economics, business and commerce, social progress, and politics. (Massachusetts Regional Library)

Also available from NLS.