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What's Hot
| Adult Literacy Collection — 29 titles |
| Alden B. Dow Home & Studio Collection — 1339 titles |
| Awards - Caldecott Award Winners — 77 titles |
| Awards - Michigan Notable Books / Read Michigan — 207 titles |
| Awards - Newbery Award Winners — 59 titles |
| Battle of the Books 2026 — 13 titles |
| Beginning Graphic Novels — 30 titles |
| Best Books of the 21st Century - New York Times List — 71 titles |
| Best Fiction of 2020s — 582 titles |
| Best Fiction of 2024 — 241 titles |
| Best Nonfiction of 2020s — 158 titles |
| Best Nonfiction of 2024 — 80 titles |
| Black History Month — 51 titles |
| Board Games — 185 titles |
| Book Club in a Bag - Adult — 99 titles |
| Book Club in a Bag - Teen — 20 titles |
| Book Club in a Bag - Tween — 20 titles |
| Book Club: Oprah's Book Club — 88 titles |
| Book Club: Read with Jenna — 77 titles |
| Book Club: Reese Witherspoon's Addicting Book Club Picks — 66 titles |
| Book Express — 19 titles |
| Books Like Us - Middle Grades — 45 titles |
| Diverse Titles for Young Readers — 75 titles |
| Dyslexia Friendly Fonts and Decodable Books — 109 titles |
| Fiction: Art and Artists — 13 titles |
| Fiction: Beach Reads — 88 titles |
| Fiction: Biographical Fiction — 33 titles |
| Fiction: Cozy Fantasy — 18 titles |
| Fiction: Cozy Mysteries — 58 titles |
| Fiction: Dystopian — 83 titles |
| Fiction: Fantasy — 47 titles |
| Fiction: Feel Good Reads — 55 titles |
| Fiction: Gentle Reads for Adults — 23 titles |
| Fiction: Historical Fiction — 67 titles |
| Fiction: Historical Mysteries — 12 titles |
| Fiction: Horror & Gothic Fiction — 45 titles |
| Fiction: Humor — 50 titles |
| Fiction: If You Like ... Colleen Hoover — 25 titles |
| Fiction: If You Like ... Fourth Wing — 29 titles |
| Fiction: If you like ... Freida McFadden — 61 titles |
| Fiction: If You Like ... Kristin Hannah — 29 titles |
| Fiction: LGBTQIA+ Reads — 48 titles |
| Fiction: Michigan Inspired & Authors — 43 titles |
| Fiction: Murder Mysteries — 52 titles |
| Fiction: Romance — 49 titles |
| Fiction: Romantasy — 25 titles |
| Fiction: Spicy Reads — 21 titles |
| Fiction: Spine Tingling Tales — 24 titles |
| Fiction: Staff Picks — 39 titles |
| Fiction: Tearjerkers — 50 titles |
| Fiction: Vampires & Werewolves — 20 titles |
| Floodplain Management Collection — 22 titles |
| J Bio- Who is...? — 68 titles |
| J Bio- Who was...? — 147 titles |
| J Fic- 2nd-3rd Grade Beginning Chapter Books — 29 titles |
| J Fic- 4th Grade Suggestions — 16 titles |
| J Fic- 5th Grade Suggestions — 20 titles |
| J Fic- Kindness — 17 titles |
| Kits - Spark A Memory — 11 titles |
| LGBTQIA+ Juvenile — 40 titles |
| LGBTQIA+ Picture Books — 39 titles |
| LGBTQIA+ Teen — 95 titles |
| Library of Michigan Workforce Development Collection — 35 titles |
| Library of Things Events — 19 titles |
| Library of Things Plus — 45 titles |
| Library of Things Recreation — 28 titles |
| Middle School Battle of the Books 2024 — 7 titles |
| Middle School Battle of the Books 2025 — 13 titles |
| Picture Books - Classics — 45 titles |
| Picture Books - Counting — 29 titles |
| Picture Books - Rhyming — 33 titles |
| Picture Books: Kindness — 68 titles |
| Puzzles — 225 titles |
| Seasonal - If you like ... Hallmark Christmas movies — 19 titles |
| Subject Guide: Cookbooks — 38 titles |
| Subject Guide: Hunting & Fishing — 26 titles |
| Subject Guide: LGBTQIA+ Adult — 65 titles |
| Subject Guide: Mental Illness — 19 titles |
| Subject Guide: Michigan Travel & Recreation — 18 titles |
| Subject Guide: Nonfiction That Reads Like Fiction — 66 titles |
| Subject Guide: Parenting — 55 titles |
| Subject Guide: Parties — 19 titles |
| Subject Guide: Poetry — 34 titles |
| Subject Guide: Spiritual Life — 30 titles |
| Subject Guide: Trees & Shrubs — 30 titles |
| Subject Guide: Vegan Diet — 42 titles |
| Subject Guide: Wellness — 23 titles |
| Talking Books — 673 titles |
| Teen Battle of the Books 2025 — 3 titles |
| YA - Books Like Us - Teen — 36 titles |
| YA Awards - Alex Award (Adult Books for Teen Readers) — 38 titles |
| YA Awards - Printz Award winners — 13 titles |
| YA Fairy Tale Retelling — 31 titles |
| YA Fantasy — 21 titles |
| YA Fiction with a Christian Theme — 13 titles |
| YA Horror — 13 titles |
| YA Humor — 13 titles |
| YA If you like ... The Hunger Games — 22 titles |
| YA LGBT Fiction — 16 titles |
| YA Mystery — 11 titles |
| YA Realistic Fiction Grades 6-8 — 19 titles |
| YA Realistic Fiction Grades 9-12 — 16 titles |
| YA Romance — 17 titles |
| YA Science Fiction — 16 titles |
| YA Sports Stories — 11 titles |
| YA Supernatural Paranormal — 8 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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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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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. |