Books and Authors - a database to help you decide what to read next. Search by character, topic, setting, time period, genre, title, author, and series. Includes over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner, and librarian's favorites lists. Titles include both fiction and non-fiction.

Available via mel.org to Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.

Great Websites for Readers
 
Love to read?  Looking for your next great book?  Click HERE to see our Reader's Resources Pathfinder!  

eBooks and eAudiobooks
 

Free digital eBbooks and digital eAudiobooks are available to download from this website!
 
 
 
 


We've joined a consortium of 17 southwest Michigan libraries to offer digital content from the Southwest Michigan Digital Library. You can "check out" and download e-books, audiobooks, music and video to your home computer. You can also transfer it from your computer to an e-book reader, mp3 player, and similar audio/video device
eBOOKS

 
To check out and read or transfer e-books to a Kindle, you'll need an Amazon account.  To check out and read or transfer e-books to a Nook or other e-reader, you'll need to download and install Adobe's free Digital Editions software on your computer.

For more sources of free e-books, see the e-books section of our Readers Resources pathfinder.
 
eAUDIOBOOKS

To check out and read or transfer audiobooks, music, and video, you'll need to download and install OverDrive's free Media Console software on your computer. We'll also have one computer in the library you can use to download and transfer OverDrive audiobooks and music onto your portable audio device.

NEED MORE HELP?  See our E-Books and E-Audiobooks help page.

You might wonder why a particular popular title isn’t available in ebook format.   The answer is that while all publishers will sell print books to libraries, not all of them will sell eBook copies.  

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Random House have made all their eBook titles available to public libraries.  

Harper Collins eBook titles are available to public libraries but are limited to 26 uses.  After 26 uses, the library must purchase the title again to continue access.

Hatchette has made its backlist of eBook titles available to public libraries, but not its frontlist of newer titles.

Macmillan, Penguin, Scholastic, and Simon & Schuster do not make any of their eBook titles available to public libraries.

Obviously, this limits the number of eBooks libraries can purchase for their patrons' use, and many popular new titles are simply not available.  However, eBook lending through public libraries is still evolving, and we hope that better access will be negotiated.  We will purchase all the popular titles available to us that our budget allows, and even if we don’t have the title in ebook format, we will have it in print.


Booksales for 2012:
 
Saturday, March 3, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
(Early Bird Sale 9-10 am, $1.00 admission)

Saturday, July 14, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
(Early Bird Sale 9-10 am, $1.00 admission)

Saturday, October 20, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
(Early Bird Sale 9-10 am, $1.00 admission)
 
We also have a selection of used books for sale EVERY DAY in our Friends of the Library shelves near the Circulation Desk!
 
Proceeds from the Friends of the Library booksales are used to support the library's collection and programs.
Do you love booksales?  Check out the Booksale Finder website!