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Curbside Pickup available Fridays from 4 to 4:45pm by appointment only.
Digital resources are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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What's Hot
2024 Adult February Display: Explore the Library — 136 titles |
2024 April: Adventures in Space Adult — 74 titles |
2024 April: Adventures in Space Kids Ages 0-5 — 41 titles |
2024 April: Adventures in Space Kids Ages 6+ — 40 titles |
2024 April: Adventures in Space Teens — 33 titles |
2024 February- Explore the Library Kids — 56 titles |
2024 February- Explore Your Library Teens — 50 titles |
2024 Juvenile January Display: New Year, New Adventures — 38 titles |
2024 March- Explore the National Parks Kids and Teens — 108 titles |
2024 March: Explore the National Parks — 120 titles |
2024 YA January Display: New Year, New Adventures — 40 titles |
Alden B. Dow Home & Studio Collection — 1339 titles |
Awards - Caldecott Award Winners — 106 titles |
Awards - Michigan Notable Books / Read Michigan — 294 titles |
Awards - Newbery Award Winners — 88 titles |
Battle of the Books 2024 — 13 titles |
Beginning Graphic Novels — 23 titles |
Best Fiction of 2023 — 238 titles |
Best Nonfiction of 2023 — 54 titles |
Black History Month — 64 titles |
Board Games — 143 titles |
Book Club in a Bag - Adult — 101 titles |
Book Club in a Bag - Teen — 20 titles |
Book Club in a Bag - Tween — 14 titles |
Book Express — 145 titles |
Books Like Us - Middle Grades — 45 titles |
Decodable Books and Books with Dyslexia Friendly Fonts — 37 titles |
Diverse Titles for Young Readers — 86 titles |
Fiction: Beach Reads — 91 titles |
Fiction: Cozy Mysteries — 50 titles |
Fiction: Dark Academia — 30 titles |
Fiction: Gentle Reads for Adults — 25 titles |
Fiction: Horror & Gothic Fiction — 26 titles |
Fiction: Humor — 32 titles |
Fiction: If You Like ... Colleen Hoover — 35 titles |
Fiction: If You Like ... Fourth Wing — 31 titles |
Fiction: If You Like ... Kristin Hannah — 46 titles |
Fiction: LGBTQIA+ Reads — 25 titles |
Fiction: Michigan Authors — 33 titles |
Fiction: Spine Tingling Tales — 33 titles |
Fiction: Staff Picks — 47 titles |
Fiction: Tearjerkers — 40 titles |
Fiction: Vampires & Werewolves — 27 titles |
Fiction: Women Facing Away — 54 titles |
Historical Fiction: Based on a True Story — 29 titles |
If you like ... The Hunger Games (YA) — 28 titles |
If you like ... Where the Crawdads Sing — 32 titles |
J Bio- Who is...? — 52 titles |
J Bio- Who was...? — 153 titles |
J Fic- 2nd-3rd Grade Beginning Chapter Books — 38 titles |
J Fic- 4th Grade Suggestions — 22 titles |
J Fic- 5th Grade Suggestions — 23 titles |
Kits - Spark A Memory — 10 titles |
Library of Michigan Workforce Development Collection — 37 titles |
Library of Things Events — 18 titles |
Library of Things Plus — 35 titles |
Middle School Battle of the Books 2024 — 9 titles |
Multiple Copies in Storage — 93 titles |
Oprah's Book Club — 108 titles |
Picture Books - Classics — 57 titles |
Picture Books - Counting — 54 titles |
Picture Books - Rhyming — 39 titles |
Read with Jenna Book CLub — 75 titles |
Recreation — 27 titles |
Reese Witherspoon's Addicting Book Club Picks — 67 titles |
Subject Guide: Friendship and Happiness — 58 titles |
Subject Guide: Bird Watching — 28 titles |
Subject Guide: Cookbooks — 41 titles |
Subject Guide: Gardening — 47 titles |
Subject Guide: Hunting & Fishing — 34 titles |
Subject Guide: Mental Illness — 24 titles |
Subject Guide: Michigan Travel & Recreation — 29 titles |
Subject Guide: Parenting — 58 titles |
Subject Guide: Poetry — 52 titles |
Subject Guide: Spiritual Life — 40 titles |
Subject Guide: Trees & Shrubs — 36 titles |
Subject Guide: Vegan Diet — 50 titles |
Subject Guide: Wellness — 24 titles |
Talking Books — 632 titles |
YA - Books Like Us - Teen — 41 titles |
YA Awards - Alex Award (Adult Books for Teen Readers) — 42 titles |
YA Awards - Printz Award winners — 17 titles |
YA Fairy Tale Retelling — 38 titles |
YA Fantasy — 28 titles |
YA Fiction with a Christian Theme — 13 titles |
YA Horror — 14 titles |
YA Humor — 16 titles |
YA LGBT Fiction — 19 titles |
YA Mystery — 16 titles |
YA Realistic Fiction Grades 6-8 — 25 titles |
YA Realistic Fiction Grades 9-12 — 18 titles |
YA Romance — 22 titles |
YA Science Fiction — 17 titles |
YA Sports Stories — 15 titles |
YA Supernatural Paranormal — 13 titles |
Z Reading Road Trip - Michigan — 40 titles |
Electronic Resources
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Ancestry.com Library Edition Login Needed In-Library Use Only (In-Library use only) Explore family history research resources. |
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American Ancestors — New England Historic Genealogical Society Login Needed In-Library Use Only Access to more than 200 million records for New England, New York, and beyond. |
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Consumer Reports Login Needed In-Library Use Only Research current product information. |
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CreativeBug Login Needed In-Library Use Only Experience the joy of making with over 1,000 award-winning video classes taught by top designers and artists. |
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CultureGrams Login Needed In-Library Use Only Cultural information for countries and territories. Includes maps, statistics and recipes. |
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Hoopla Login Needed In-Library Use Only Borrow always available Audiobooks, Comics, eBooks, Music and Video. |
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Kanopy Login Needed In-Library Use Only Access streaming videos. |
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Libby Login Needed In-Library Use Only Access the library’s digital collection of eBooks, downloadable audiobooks, and magazines through OverDrive or Libby. |
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LinkedIn Learning Login Needed In-Library Use Only Watch video tutorials to improve your software, technology, creative, and business skills. |
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Midland Daily News Collection Login Needed In-Library Use Only Search and view the Midland Daily Newspaper. See text of the articles beginning in 2002 and view the full paper from 2018. |
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Michigan eLibrary Login Needed In-Library Use Only Access a variety of research databases. |
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Newspapers.com — Michigan Collection Login Needed In-Library Use Only Newspaper archives for Michigan |
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TumbleBooks Login Needed In-Library Use Only TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading. |
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TumbleMath Login Needed In-Library Use Only Math picture books, lesson plans, and quizzes. |
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Value Line Login Needed In-Library Use Only Research for investors. Analyzes performance of stocks, mutual funds, options, and other securities. |