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Grace A. Dow Memorial Library hours
Monday to Thursday: 9 am to 7:30 pm | Friday and Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm
Curbside Pick Up available Friday: 4 to 4:45 pm by appointment only
Digital resources are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
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What's Hot
| 1 Adult Popular Book Recommendations — 130 titles |
| Alden B. Dow Home & Studio Collection — 1345 titles |
| Awards - Caldecott Award Winners — 109 titles |
| Awards - Michigan Notable Books / Read Michigan — 306 titles |
| Awards - Michigan Notable Books 2022 — 19 titles |
| Awards - Newbery Award Winners — 104 titles |
| Banned & Challenged Books Week 2022 — 97 titles |
| Battle of the Books 2022-23 — 10 titles |
| Beginning Graphic Novels — 23 titles |
| Best of 2022 - Fiction — 203 titles |
| Best of 2022 - Nonfiction — 35 titles |
| Binge Boxes — 11 titles |
| Black History Month — 65 titles |
| Board Games — 120 titles |
| Book Club in a Bag - Adult — 103 titles |
| Book Club in a Bag - Teen — 20 titles |
| Book Club in a Bag - Tween — 14 titles |
| Book Express — 121 titles |
| Books Like Us - Adults — 17 titles |
| Books Like Us - Middle Grades — 47 titles |
| Classroom Sets — 80 titles |
| Decodable Books and Books with Dyslexia Friendly Fonts — 20 titles |
| Diverse Titles for Young Readers — 87 titles |
| Fiction: Beach Reads — 51 titles |
| Fiction: Cozy Fantasy — 6 titles |
| Fiction: Cozy Mysteries Series Starters — 32 titles |
| Fiction: Gentle Reads for Adults — 26 titles |
| Fiction: Horror & Gothic Fiction — 30 titles |
| Fiction: If You Like... Colleen Hoover — 36 titles |
| Fiction: Moody Books for Fall — 47 titles |
| Fiction: Psychological Thrillers — 36 titles |
| Fiction: Spine Tingling Tales — 35 titles |
| Fiction: Tearjerkers — 40 titles |
| Fiction: Time Travel Novels — 18 titles |
| Fiction: Vampires & Werewolves — 30 titles |
| Global Read Aloud - 2022 — 8 titles |
| Historical Fiction: Based on a True Story — 29 titles |
| Human Rights Month — 194 titles |
| If you like ... Stranger Things — 17 titles |
| If you like ... Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair — 9 titles |
| If you like ... Where the Crawdads Sing — 33 titles |
| J Bio- Who is...? — 37 titles |
| J Bio- Who was...? — 132 titles |
| J Fic- 2nd-3rd Grade Beginning Chapter Books — 39 titles |
| J Fic- 4th Grade Suggestions — 22 titles |
| J Fic- 5th Grade Suggestions — 24 titles |
| Kits - Spark A Memory — 10 titles |
| Library of Michigan Workforce Development Collection — 37 titles |
| Middle School Battle of the Books 2022 — 12 titles |
| Middle School Battle of the Books 2023 — 5 titles |
| Oprah's Book Club — 111 titles |
| Picture Books - Classics — 57 titles |
| Picture Books - Counting — 58 titles |
| Picture Books - Rhyming — 39 titles |
| Reese Witherspoon's Addicting Book Club Picks — 55 titles |
| Subject Guide: Bird Watching — 29 titles |
| Subject Guide: Cookbooks — 43 titles |
| Subject Guide: Gardening — 47 titles |
| Subject Guide: Hunting & Fishing — 34 titles |
| Subject Guide: Landscaping — 32 titles |
| Subject Guide: Mental Illness — 24 titles |
| Subject Guide: Michigan Travel & Recreation — 30 titles |
| Subject Guide: Parenting — 59 titles |
| Subject Guide: Personal Finance — 53 titles |
| Subject Guide: Spiritual Life — 40 titles |
| Subject Guide: Trees & Shrubs — 36 titles |
| Subject Guide: Vegan Diet — 52 titles |
| Subject Guide: Wellness — 26 titles |
| Talking Books — 555 titles |
| YA - Books Like Us - Teen — 41 titles |
| YA Awards - Alex Award (Adult Books for Teen Readers) — 44 titles |
| YA Awards - Printz Award winners — 19 titles |
| YA Fairy Tale Retelling — 38 titles |
| YA Fantasy — 28 titles |
| YA Fiction with a Christian Theme — 13 titles |
| YA Horror — 15 titles |
| YA Humor — 16 titles |
| YA LGBT Fiction — 20 titles |
| YA Mystery — 17 titles |
| YA Realistic Fiction Grades 6-8 — 26 titles |
| YA Realistic Fiction Grades 9-12 — 18 titles |
| YA Romance — 23 titles |
| YA Science Fiction — 17 titles |
| YA Sports Stories — 15 titles |
| YA Supernatural Paranormal — 14 titles |
| Yard Games — 15 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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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 paper as it is in print starting from 2018 to now. |
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Michigan eLibrary Login Needed In-Library Use Only Access a variety of research databases. |
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Morningstar Login Needed In-Library Use Only View mutual funds and stock information. |
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Newspapers.com — Michigan Collection Login Needed In-Library Use Only Newspaper archives for Michigan |
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OverDrive - Grace Dow Login Needed In-Library Use Only Borrow popular eBooks and eAudiobooks. |
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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. |