No Library? No problem. Library Resources Available Remotely

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

By:

Eric Wolf

As previously announced, the Library will be closed April 7-April 11, 2025 due to major construction work associated with our renovation. However, your membership gives you access to thousands of e-books, hundreds of magazines, and millions of journal articles, and numerous electronic resources that you can use from home, the park, or anywhere you have internet access.

Note: to use electronic resources you must be logged into your account on our website (to login use the "member login" button at the upper righthand corner of the webpage).

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Join us for our Teatime Thursday:

Thursday, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Connect, collaborate, and enjoy from the comfort of your home. We look forward to seeing you online!

E-books and Audiobooks

If you need a new book to read, consider one of our thousands of e-books, or listen to an audiobook via our subscription to CloudLibrary. Titles range from popular contemporary fiction and nonfiction to beloved classics. Here is a brief sampling of offerings:

Fiction:

Table for Two: Fictions, by Amor Towles (available as audio and ebook)
James: a Novel, by Percival Everett (available as ebook)
Long Island: a Novel, by Colm Tóibín (available as ebook)
The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray (available as ebook)
The Women, by Kristin Hannah (available as ebook)

Nonfiction:

An Unfinished Love Story: a Personal History of the 1960s, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (available as ebook)
The Demon of Unrest: a Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, by Erik Larson (available as audio and ebook)
Oath and Honor: a Memoir and a Warning, by Liz Cheney (available as ebook)
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, by Mary Beard (available as ebook)
Chasing Beauty: the Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Natalie Dykstra (available as ebook)

Mysteries and Thrillers:

Shanghai: a Novel, by Joseph Kanon (available as ebook)
A Refiner's Fire, by Donna Leon (available as ebook)
The Hunter, by Tana French (available as ebook)
The Comfort of Ghosts, by Jacqueline Winspear (available as ebook)
Hero, by Thomas Perry (available as ebook)

Classics:

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes (available as audio and ebook)
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevski (available as audio and ebook)
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (available as as audio and ebook)
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin (available as audio and ebook)
Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust (available as audio and ebook)
Beloved, by Toni Morrison (available as ebook)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino (available as ebook)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy (available as audio and ebook)
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (available as audio and ebook)
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens (available as audio and ebook)

And if you are looking for classical Greek and Latin titles, don't forget that your membership gives you full access to The Loeb Classical Library.

Digital Magazines

If you are missing perusing magazines in the Members' Room, you can explore our over 4,000 digital subscriptions via OverDrive. Read magazines of both general and specialized interests, including such titles as: