EBOOKS
J R R Tolkien The Silmarillion
Chris Santella Fifty places to travel solo : travel experts share the world's greatest solo destinations
Kerri K Greenidge Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an american family.
Joy Harjo...
EBOOKS
J R R Tolkien The Silmarillion
Chris Santella Fifty places to travel solo : travel experts share the world's greatest solo destinations
Kerri K Greenidge Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an american family.
Joy Harjo...
E-AUDIOBOOKS
Margaret Maron Christmas mourning
Peter Matthiessen Bone by bone
Peter Matthiessen Lost man's river
CJ Sansom Winter in madrid
Nassim Nicholas Taleb...
The Mechanics Institute already has numerous different English translations of Dante Alighieri's 3-part set of narrative poems -- The Divine Comedy. Although we already have the award-winning blank verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum, we recently acquired another edition of his translation, this one with an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale as well as notes by Peter Armour, professor of Italian at...
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Did you know the Mechanics’ Institute Library offers a generous Purchase Suggestion program? This is a fantastic opportunity to directly influence our collection and ensure the library has materials that interest you and other members.
Our librarians are passionate about acquiring resources that reflect our membership’s interests and information needs, and they’re highly receptive to purchase requests. In general, the library prioritizes ordering recently published...
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Well, two places.
First, at the beginning of 2024, we moved the travel section on the 2nd floor to another location on the 2nd floor—to the aisle where we previously housed the Children's section. We now have all our new fiction books in the corner "nook" facing Post Street on the 2nd floor.
Second, while reviewing our travel collection, we found many changes in the travel book industry during the pandemic. Two publishers no longer pub...
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FICTION
Adam Oyebanji A quiet teacher Fic Oyebanji
Yuri Herrera Season of the swamp : a novel Fic Herrera
Mirinae Lee 8 lives of a century-old trickster : a novel Fic Lee
Bruna Dantas Lobato ...
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Non-Fiction
Applied Sciences
Niobe Way Rebels with a cause : reimagining boys, ourselves, and our culture 649.132 W357
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
Tamara de Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka 709 L545
William Blake...
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As you may know, the Mechanics' Institute Library has the second-largest collection of chess materials in the United States. While a great resource, the sheer size of the collection can sometimes make it difficult for players to find exactly what they want. To help our chess-playing patrons, the library rec...
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In partnership with the Chess Room staff, we have started a pilot project to have chess eBooks available through Libby.
Libby is a mobile app and website that provides Mechanics Institute members with access to thousands of eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines.
After holding an informal poll, Christian Brickhouse, our new Scholastic Program Coordinator, let us know that the chess players...
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E-AUDIOBOOKS
Octavia E Butler Parable of the talents
Colson Whitehead The intuitionist
Umberto Eco Baudolino
Octavia E Butler Parable of the sower
Daniel Handler...