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JULY LIBRARY NEWS Want to spend this summer reading some tales and enjoying fun activities that will give you the chance to win a prize? Join the Adult Summer Reading challenge today! Earn Badges reading and reviewing the books as well as participating in fun activities you can do at any time! The more badges you earn, the more raffle tickets you will have to be eligible for a prize! Any questions? Please contact The Adult Services Librarian Rachael Meneades at rmeneades@manchesterpl.org or 978-526-2017 Read some books! Have some fun! And win some prizes! Updated Summer Library Browsing Hours The Library will be closed on Saturdays starting in July through Labor Day. At this time, current library hours are Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 11 AM to 5 PM, and Thursdays from 11 AM to 7 PM. Using a computer does still require a reservation. Please call 978-526-7711. We ask that if you cannot make your appointed time to please call to cancel so others will have a chance to enjoy this service. We also ask that patrons continue to wear a mask, sanitize their hands and be aware of remaining socially distant while inside the building.
The Manchester Library is excited to announce that Rocket Languages is the newest addition to the digital collection! This online language-learning course offers practical and powerful downloadable lessons, games and more that will encourage learning any new languages at your own pace! This resource is sponsored by the Friends of the Manchester Library.
James Beard Award winner Michael W. Twitty's online presentation on his journey to trace his family history through the story of Southern and American food is now available to watch for free! The Manchester Library partnered with the Groton Public library and 23 other public libraries to host Michael W. Twitty for an engaging evening moderated by Chef Bill, a Massachusetts-based chef and author. You can follow Michael Twitty on his popular blog, Afroculinara. Outdoor Wi-Fi Access Updated The Library is now closed on weekends, but the Wi-Fi is always open! You can easily search the internet from the comfort of a shady or sunny spot on the Library's front lawn! Just settle in on one of the comfortable outdoor chairs or by the teak table generously sponsored by The Friends of the Library and can enjoy the library’s updated and extended Wi-Fi signal! This wireless access is now available to reach every spot of the front and side of the library. No password necessary! LIBRARY EVENTS
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We are always open online where you can check out our free to use digital collection! There you can find a great selection of eBooks, Audiobooks, and movies and TV shows to stream and enjoy along with many other digital resources by using your Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library card. Check out some of the popular options below! To see more free resources visit our Virtual Library page.
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Ancestry Library is a version of Ancestry.com that is now temporarily available for free at home. This resource contains a variety of collections that can help in educational or genealogical research. These historical records include a network of resources you can search, such as census, church, court, and immigration records. Ancestry Library will guide your research from the beginning and provide downloadable forms that can help organize the content you collect.
A Boston Public Library eCard is a virtual library card that allows Massachusetts residents to instantly use all of Boston Public Library's online resources. You can read magazine and journal articles from online databases, download eBooks, Audio, Video and downloadable media. Don't have an eCard? Register for one online.
A nonprofit organization, Consumer Reports provides an easy to use guide for unbiased ratings on thousands of products and services used in everyday life. Included in the subscription are helpful tools for cars and televisions, satisfaction scores from nearly a million consumers, and expert tips on topics including health, food, tech and money. When accessing Consumer Reports from home you will need your library card’s barcode numbers. If you do not have access to your library card, please see a librarian at the Manchester Library.
Creativebug is a go-to digital resource that offers over a 1,000 high-quality online videos in arts and crafts instructional workshops and techniques. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, make jewelry and more! No matter what level maker you are, you can find a crafting medium that fuels your creative side! When accessing Creativebug from home you will need your library card’s barcode numbers. If you do not have access to your library card, please contact a librarian at the Manchester Library at 978-526-7711. Freegal is a downloadable music service from your library. All you need is your Manchester Library card number and your PIN. With access to the Sony Music Entertainment catalog, it offers hundreds of thousands of songs, over 100 genres of music, and more than 50 record labels, all without having to download software or have any digital rights management (DRM) issues to deal with. Access to Freegal is limited to patrons of the Manchester Public Library.
Hoopla, the Library’s newest downloading service, will offer you a ton of fun and new content to enjoy! Using a web browser, smart phone or tablet, hoopla is an online streaming service that offers a great selection of feature films, television shows, documentaries, music albums and audiobooks you can enjoy at home or on the go. The content is always available so you don’t have to worry about ending up on any wait-lists and you get up to 10 checkouts per month!
Check out Hoopla’s newest addition: Bonus Borrows! In order to provide relief to Libraries and to provide more content to Patrons during this difficult time of sheltering at home, we are proud to announce the hoopla Bonus Borrows Collection with more than 1,000 top titles and hoopla favorites. Each borrow from our free borrows collection is completely FREE to Libraries. Each patron will be debited zero borrows from their monthly hoopla borrows when they borrow something from the collection.
Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides instant access to thousands of critically acclaimed movies, documentaries and Kids favorites. We partner with studios like A24, The Criterion Collection, PBS and more to bring your library access to thoughtful entertainment. How can I watch Kanopy? You can stream Kanopy on any of your favorite devices! Kanopy is accessible via mobile and tablet apps for iPhone and Android. You can also access Kanopy on your Desktop, and SmartTV apps like Roku, Apple TV, and Fire Stick.
Lynda.com has now been upgraded to LinkedinLearning! All of the same great content you know from Lynda.com such as learning how to create a website, updating your knowledge of Microsoft Office, and developing business and creative skills that will increase your ability to achieve personal and professional goals will now be available to enjoy on the updated LinkedIn Learning platform. You will continue to be able to watch all the same content, bookmarked courses, and obtain certificates of completion that you had in Lynda.com will appear on your new account as a part of the upgrade. Check out their FAQ Page for more information about the upgrade!
The Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library is happy to provide access to The Manchester Cricket’s Digital Archive up to 2009. The digitization of the Cricket was funded by an equal collaboration between the Friends of the Manchester Public Library and current owners of The Manchester Cricket Newspaper. Up-to-date physical copies of the 2019 Manchester Cricket papers are also available at the Manchester Library. The Manchester Cricket is an independent, family-owned weekly newspaper that has served the communities of Manchester and Essex since 1888.
A collection of technology based eBooks and videos that provides access to computer programming, software development, management, test prep eBooks and more! To access the resources, you will need your library card number and PIN (four-digit number). If you have forgotten your PIN, please contact the Library at 978-526-7711 for assistance.
Overdrive is used for downloading eBooks, Audio Books, Streaming Video and Magazines. To sign in, choose your library system from the dropdown menu — Massachusetts-by-the-Sea library cardholders are considered Merrimack Valley Library patrons (MVLC); use your library card number to login. Download or stream across multiple devices using the Overdrive or Libby app. Rocket Languages is an online language-learning course offers practical and powerful downloadable lessons, games and more that will encourage learning any new language at your own pace! This resource is sponsored by the Friends of the Manchester Library.
The Manchester Public Library now offers online access to The Wall Street Journal! Get the latest national news, business and economy information and even access to WSJ Magazine, all from the comfort of your own home! You will need your library card to login. After creating an account, you will be able to start reading articles immediately. Your access will be available for the next 3 days. After 3 days, simply come back and click the above link again and login as an existing user with the same username and password you originally create. You will never run out of free articles to read!
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New Additions to the Library's Collection!
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| | The Plague Court Murders: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery
By Carr, John Dickson
Introduction by Dirda, Michael
2021-02 - American Mystery Classics
9781613161968 Check Our Catalog Plague Court is old and crumbling, long neglected after its lord, hangman's assistant Louis Playge, fell victim to the black death hundreds of years before. Famously haunted by Playge's ghost, the property finally has a new owner and banishing the spirit is the first order of business. And when the medium employed with this task is found stabbed to death in a locked stone hut on the grounds, …More
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| | Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
By Rushdie, Salman
2021-05 - Random House
9780593133170 Check Our Catalog Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century--including many texts never previously in print--by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in …More
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| | The Maidens
By Michaelides, Alex
2021-06 - Celadon Books
9781250304452 Check Our Catalog Alex Michaelides's long-awaited next novel, 'The Maidens, ' is finally here...the premise is enticing and the elements irresistible.
--The New York Times A deliciously dark, elegant, utterly compulsive read--with a twist that blew my mind. I loved this even more than I loved The Silent Patient and that's saying something!
--Lucy …More
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| | The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
By Rubinstein, Julian
2021-05 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374168919 Check Our Catalog An award-winning journalist's dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future On the last evening of summer in 2013, five shots rang out in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the area had become an "invisible city" within a …More
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| | Against the Law: A Joe the Bouncer Novel
By Gordon, David
2021-05 - Mysterious Press
9781613162262 Check Our Catalog Joe is an ex-Special Forces operative with a bad case of PTSD and some substance abuse issues, trying to rebuild a simple life as a strip club bouncer living with his grandmother in Queens. But this simple life is constantly complicated by the fact that, at the invitation of a childhood friend, now a Mafia boss, Joe also moonlights as a fixer for the most powerful crime families in …More
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| | Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters
By McKeown, Greg
2021-04 - Currency
9780593135648 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of the million-copy-selling Essentialism comes an empowering guide to achieving your goals. It all starts with a simple principle: Not everything has to be so hard.
"In a world beset by burnout, Greg McKeown's work is essential."--Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human …More
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| | One Two Three
By Frankel, Laurie
2021-06 - Henry Holt & Company
9781250236777 Check Our Catalog From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is, a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Pick, comes One Two Three, a timely, topical novel about love and family that will make you laugh and cry...and laugh again. In a town where nothing ever changes, suddenly everything does... Everyone knows everyone in the …More
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| | Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By Hall, Rebecca
Illustrator Martínez, Hugo
2021-06 - Simon & Schuster
9781982115180 Check Our Catalog Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the Middle Passage. They fought their …More
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| | Golden Girl
By Hilderbrand, Elin
2021-06 - Little Brown and Company
9780316420082 Check Our Catalog In this satisfying page-turner from "the queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine), a Nantucket novelist has one final summer to protect her secrets while her loved ones on earth learn to live without their golden girl. On a perfect June day, Vivian Howe, author of thirteen beach novels and mother of three nearly grown children, is killed in a hit-and-run car accident while …More
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| | Untitled Johnnyswim Book
By Johnnyswim
2021-06 - Convergent Books
9780593160206 Check Our Catalog The hugely popular singer/songwriter duo Johnnyswim share their story like never before, showing readers how to find home wherever they are in this visually stunning debut. Foreword by Chip and Joanna Gaines Work and life partners Amanda Sudano Ramirez and Abner Ramirez are known for translating the memories and milestones of their journey, as well as the honest realities of …More
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| | Seven Days in June
By Williams, Tia
2021-06 - Grand Central Publishing
9781538719107 Check Our Catalog A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK! "Tia Williams' book is a smart, sexy testament to Black joy, to the well of strength from which women draw, and to tragic romances that mature into second chances. I absolutely loved it."-- Jodi Picoult, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to …More
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| | Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
By Sebba, Anne
2021-06 - St. Martin's Press
9781250198631 Check Our Catalog New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted …More
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| | Our Woman in Moscow
By Williams, Beatriz
2021-06 - William Morrow & Company
9780063020788 Check Our Catalog MOST ANTICIPATED NOVEL OF SUMMER 2021 ACCORDING TO BUSTLE, BUZZFEED, AND SHEREADS! The New York Times bestselling author of Her Last Flight returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband …More
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| | Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur
By Pearce, Sheldon
2021-06 - Simon & Schuster
9781982170462 Check Our Catalog A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur's single "Changes" became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the murder of George Floyd. The song became so popular, in fact, it was vaulted back onto the iTunes …More
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| | Lizzie & Dante
By Bly, Mary
2021-06 - Dial Press
9780593134825 Check Our Catalog The insightful, audacious, and deeply romantic story of a woman whose life turns upside down after she meets an enigmatic chef on vacation in Italy "Prepare to be swept away on an Italian holiday, one that sizzles with romance, intrigue, and mouthwatering cuisine."--Lori Nelson Spielman, author of One Italian Summer What if falling in love means breaking someone's …More
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| | Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
By MacLean, John N.
2021-06 - Custom House
9780062944597 Check Our Catalog In this poetic and captivating (Publishers Weekly) memoir about the power of place to shape generations, John N. Maclean chronicles his family's storied bond with Montana's legendary Blackfoot River, which his father, Norman Maclean, made famous in A River Runs through It A New York Times New & Notable Selection A …More
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| | The Bombay Prince
By Massey, Sujata
2021-06 - Soho Crime
9781641291057 Check Our Catalog 3rd book in 1920's India series Bombay's first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay's streets erupt in riots to protest British colonial rule. Sujata Massey is back with this third installment to the Agatha and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning series set in 1920s Bombay. November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler …More
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| | Rice: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook
By Twitty, Michael W.
2021-03 - University of North Carolina Press
9781469660240 Check Our Catalog Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables--and on tables around the world--rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W. Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice may be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; as main dish, side dish, and snack; in dishes savory and sweet. Filling and delicious, rice comes in numerous botanical varieties and offers a vast …More
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| | Sunrise by the Sea: A Little Beach Street Bakery Novel
By Colgan, Jenny
2021-06 - William Morrow & Company
9780062911391 Check Our Catalog 1st book in Little Beach Street bakery series New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach Street Bakery series for a timely and heartfelt novel set in a Cornish seaside village. Marisa Rosso can't understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses …More
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| | Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
By Brammer, John Paul
2021-06 - Simon & Schuster
9781982141493 Check Our Catalog From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer comes a hilarious, heartwarming memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation. "I loved Hola Papi!" --Shea Serrano *"An invigorating and vital read." --R. Eric Thomas * …More
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