Collection: OverDrive eBooks

Ruby on Rails is the super-productive new way to develop full-featured web applications. With Ruby on Rails, powerful web applications that once took weeks or months to develop can now be produced in a matter of days. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn't. If you're like a lot of web develo...

Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you may find that you can't remember the correct syntax for a conditional or the name of a method. This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby's core components, from operators to reserved words to data ...

The Ruby Programming Language is the authoritative guide to Ruby and provides comprehensive coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It was written (and illustrated!) by an all-star team: -- David Flanagan, bestselling author of programming language "bibles" (including JavaScript: The ...

As Victoria and Jasper were enjoying their new sunflower, Jasper gets pollen on his nose. A bee soon arrives which sends the characters running. As they run through a baseball game screaming, Run, it's a Bee, all the players start to follow them, as they run through the school auditorium screamin...

Can a California transplant survive Montana's deep snows? New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Melody Anne breaks the ice between a sexy fireman and a brand-new teacher in this steamy holiday tale—originally published in the sizzling anthology Baby, It's Cold Outside—which launched her...

The Science of Breath points out the way to physical health along the lines of what Western scientists have termed "deep breathing," etc., but also goes into the less known phases of the subject, and shows how the Hindu Yogi controls his body, increasing his mental capacity, and develops the spir...

All aboard the train to Nod! Join Bear and his friends on the cozy Sleepy Train as it sets off on a magical nighttime journey. Read along to this charming bedtime tale as the train to Nod travels around the world. Parragon is the largest illustrated non-fiction publisher in the world and a global...

No one knows better than Snoopy how important it is to get regular exercise—from the doghouse to the dinner bowl and back!

Order in the court! With a great big nose for justice, this legal beagle is here to protect, defend, serve—and take a quick nap.

Staten Island's first railroad began in 1860 as a passenger line connecting towns along the island's eastern shore, with ferry service from Vanderbilt's Landing to Manhattan. The Staten Island Rapid Transit was a second line, built in 1885. During the 19th century, major eastern trunk railroads c...