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OCTOBER LIBRARY NEWS Updated Fall Library Browsing Hours Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays from 10 AM - 5 PM Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10 AM - 7 PM Saturdays from 10 AM - 4 PM Sundays Starting October 17th from 1 PM - 4 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. Several museums in Boston and the North Shore are reopening to the public and offering timed ticket reservations for discounted library passes. Below are three museums now available to visit that are sponsored by the Friends of the Manchester Library To see the full list of the Manchester Library’s discounted museum pass and to make a reservation, click HERE. Just click on the museum you are interested in visiting and there you will see instructions on how to reserve your timed ticket for the library and the museum. If you have any questions, please call the library at 978-526-7711. Harvard Art Museum Discounted Library Pass The Harvard Art Museums is open Tuesday - Sunday from 10 AM - 5 PM and entries are timed at 10 a.m., noon, or 2 p.m. To make a timed reservation please go to the museum’s website at harvardartmuseums.org/visit, and to reserve the discounted library pass please go to the Manchester library’s website. The pass is valid for 2 free adult admissions. Youth under 18 are free. JFK Library & Museum Discounted Library Pass The JFK library and museum is open Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with final entry at 12:45 p.m. until further notice. To make a timed reservation please go to the museum’s website at jfklibrary.org, and to reserve the discounted library pass please go to the Manchester library’s website. Each pass is valid for up to eight adults, seniors or college students or youths with a $3.00 co-pay per person. Children 12 and under are admitted free. The USS Constitution Discounted Library Pass The USS Constitution Museum now offers timed discount library passes sponsored by the Friends of the Manchester Library. To make a timed reservation please go to the museum’s website at ussconstitutionmuseum.org, and to reserve the discounted library pass please go to the Manchester library’s website. This pass allows free admission for up to nine people to the USS Constitution Museum only, not the USS Constitution Ship. UPCOMING 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 Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
By Easterbrook, Gregg
2021-09 - PublicAffairs
9781541742543 Check Our Catalog The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age. For decades, the Navy has stood sentinel over crucial waterways, ensuring safe passage of goods from nearly all nations. The result is the longest phase of peace on the waters since the Phoenicians, with rising living standards, …More
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| | Enemy at the Gates
By Flynn, Vince
Author Mills, Kyle
2021-09 - Atria Books
9781982164881 Check Our Catalog 20th book in Mitch Rapp series Picking up where the "tour de force" (The Providence Journal) Total Power left off, the next thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA's top operative as he searches for a high-level mole with the power to rewrite the world order. Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any …More
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| | The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By Srinivasan, Amia
2021-09 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
9780374248529 Check Our Catalog "Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense."
--Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women "Amia Srinivasan is an unparalleled and extraordinary writer--no one X-rays an argument, a desire, a contradiction, a defense mechanism quite like her. In stripping the new politics of sex and power down to its fundamental and …More
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| | The Heroine with 1,001 Faces
By Tatar, Maria
2021-09 - Liveright Publishing Corporation
9781631498817 Check Our Catalog The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. …More
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| | Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
By Bell, Alice
2021-09 - Counterpoint LLC
9781640094338 Check Our Catalog Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defining story of our age: the climate crisis. Our understanding of the Earth's fluctuating environment is an extraordinary story of human perception and scientific endeavor. It also …More
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| | Bewilderment
By Powers, Richard
2021-09 - W. W. Norton & Company
9780393881141 Check Our Catalog The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep …More
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| | The Commanders: The Generals Who Fought America's Longest War
By Loyn, David
2021-09 - St. Martin's Press
9781250128423 Check Our Catalog Just as U. S. soldiers and diplomats pulled out of Afghanistan, supposedly concluding their role and responsibility in the two-decade conflict, the country fell to the Taliban. In The Long War, award-winning BBC foreign correspondent David Loyn uncovers the political and military strategies--and failures--that prolonged America's longest war.
Three American …More
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| | Tender Is the Bite
By Quinn, Spencer
2021-07 - Forge
9781250770240 Check Our Catalog 11th book in Chet and Bernie series THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Spencer Quinn's Tender Is the Bite is a brand new adventure in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available. Chet and Bernie are contacted by a terribly scared young woman who seems to want their help. Before she …More
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| | The Night She Disappeared
By Jewell, Lisa
2021-09 - Atria Books
9781982137366 Check Our Catalog INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Utterly gripping with richly drawn, hugely compelling characters, this is a first-class thriller with heart." --Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author "Insane suspense." --Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author "Her best thriller yet." --Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling …More
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| | The 22 Murders of Madison May
By Barry, Max
2021-07 - G.P. Putnam's Sons
9780593085202 Check Our Catalog From the critically acclaimed author of Jennifer Government and Lexicon comes mind-bending speculative psychological suspense about a serial killer pursuing his victim across time and space, and the woman who is determined to stop him, even if it upends her own reality. I love you. In every world. Young real estate agent Madison May is shocked when a client at …More
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| | App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream
By Sayman, Michael
2021-09 - Knopf Publishing Group
9780525656197 Check Our Catalog An inspiring and deeply personal coming of age memoir from one of Silicon Valley's youngest entrepreneurs--a second-generation Latino immigrant who taught himself how to code as a thirteen-year-old and went on to claim his share of the American dream. As his parents watched their restaurant business collapse in the wake of the Great Recession, Michael Sayman was googling "how to code." …More
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| | Riccardino
By Camilleri, Andrea
Translator Sartarelli, Stephen
2021-09 - Penguin Books
9780143136798 Check Our Catalog The long-awaited last novel in the transporting and beloved New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano series At eighty, I foresaw Montalbano's departure from the scene, I got the idea and I didn't let it slip away. So I found myself writing this novel which is the final chapter; the last book in the series. And I sent it to my publisher saying to keep it in a drawer and to …More
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| | Who Says I Can't: The Astonishing Story of a Fearless Life
By Mendez, Rob
2021-09 - Harper Horizon
9780785239406 Check Our Catalog On paper, Coach Rob Mendez sounds like any other football coach on any other field across America: passionate, authoritative, knowledgeable. But he's unlike any other coach you know--in fact, he's probably unlike any other person you know.Born with an extraordinarily rare condition called tetra-Amelia syndrome, Rob has no arms or legs. He moves with the assistance of a custom-made, motorized …More
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| | Her Perfect Life
By Ryan, Hank Phillippi
2021-09 - Forge
9781250258885 Check Our Catalog The next thrilling standalone novel by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan. Everyone knows Lily Atwood--and that may be her biggest problem. The beloved television reporter has it all--fame, fortune, Emmys, an adorable seven-year-old daughter, and the hashtag her loving fans created: #PerfectLily. To keep it, all she has to do is protect one life-changing secret. …More
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| | The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
By Mezrich, Ben
2021-09 - Grand Central Publishing
9781538707555 Check Our Catalog From one of our most innovative and celebrated authors, the definitive take on the wildest story of the year-- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever. Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and internet …More
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| | Rizzio: A Novella
By Mina, Denise
2021-09 - Pegasus Crime
9781643138459 Check Our Catalog From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history--the bloody assassination of David Rizzo private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen's chambers in Holyrood Palace. On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. …More
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| | The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--And Unmaking--Of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
By Kuper, Simon
2021-08 - Penguin Press
9780593297711 Check Our Catalog With rare and unrivaled access, bestselling coauthor of Soccernomics and longtime Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper tells the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful club in the world--and how that era is now ending FC Barcelona is not just the world's highest grossing sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organizations on the …More
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| | The Christmas Wedding Guest
By Mallery, Susan
2021-09 - Hqn
9781335529046 Check Our Catalog "This two-in-one romance starts a new series that Mallery's many fans will devour like a Christmas cookie."--Booklist
Susan Mallery, author of the Fool's Gold romances, cheerfully invites you to Wishing Tree, where Christmas comes to life...
The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they've lost faith it will happen for …More
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| | Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York
By Oller, John
2021-09 - Dutton Books
9781524745653 Check Our Catalog From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful and captivating history of crime and punishment in the bustling streets of Old New York.
Rogues' Gallery is a sweeping, epic tale of two revolutions, one feeding off the other, that played out on the streets of New York City during an era known as the …More
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| | The Show Girl
By Harrison, Nicola
2021-08 - St. Martin's Press
9781250200150 Check Our Catalog Nicola Harrison's The Show Girl gives a glimpse of the glamorous world of the Ziegfeld Follies, through the eyes of a young midwestern woman who comes to New York City to find her destiny as a Ziegfeld Follies star.
Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls will drink this up. --Booklist It's 1927 when Olive McCormick moves from …More
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| | The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna's Double Helix
By Markel, Howard
2021-09 - W. W. Norton & Company
9781324002239 Check Our Catalog James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it--and why were they the ones who succeeded? In truth, the discovery of DNA's structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit of the advancement of science, …More
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