Readers' Nook

PRINT BOOKS

NON-FICTION

Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Jean Strouse Family romance : John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers 759.13 S925
Gayle Boss Everything but gray : the life of Audley Dean Nicols 758.1 N652
Ken Lum 779.092 L957
Robert Sullivan Double exposure : resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's most mysterious war photographer 778.93 O85
Patrick Grant Less : Stop buying so much rubbish : How having fewer, better things can make us happier 746.92 G761

Biography & Genealogy

Lili Anolik Didion & Babitz 813 A615
Robert Hilburn A few words in defense of our country : the biography of Randy Newman 780.92 N551
André Aciman Roman year : a memoir 813 A181
Vera Brittain Testament of youth : an autobiographical study of the years 1900-1925 828.912 B859
Cher Cher : the memoir. Part one 780.92 C521

Business & Economics

Paulina Bren She-wolves : the untold story of women on Wall Street 332.642 B837
Christine Benz How to retire : 20 lessons for a happy, successful, and wealthy retirement 332.024 B479
Michael Hudson Super imperialism : the economic strategy of American empire 337.73 H886
Sunil Amrith The burning earth : a history 333.7 A527

Chess

Alessandro Bossi The duel : the parallel chess lives of A. Alekhine and J.R. Capablanca 794.15 B745
James A. Magner Chess juggler : balancing career, family and chess in the modern world 794.1092 M196

Food & Drink
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Bite by bite : nourishments & jamborees 641.3 N575
Bebe Black Carminito The curated board : inspired platters & spreads for any occasion 641.812 B627

History

Ilan Pappé A very short history of the Israel-Palestine conflict 956.94 P218v
Michael Rapport City of light, city of shadows : Paris in the Belle Époque 944.36 R221

Languages & Linguistics

Susie Dent Interesting stories about curious words : from stealing thunder to red herrings 422 D414

Law

Amanda Frost You are not American : citizenship stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers 342.7308 F939

Literature & Writing

Joy Harjo An American sunrise : poems 811 H282

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Katherine Rundell Vanishing treasures : a bestiary of extraordinary endangered creatures 591.68 R941

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

E. Ernst More harm than good? : the moral maze of complementary and alternative medicine 174.2 E714

Social Sciences & Current Events

Adam Kuper The museum of other people : from colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions 305.8 K967
David Jay Relationality : how moving from transactional to transformational relationships can transform our lonely world 302 J421

Travel & Geography

John Hanson. Mitchell Following the sun : a bicycle pilgrimage from Andalusia to the Hebrides 914.04 M681
Marc Di Duca Top 10 Munich 914.33 E975t
Panama 917.287 L847
Wendy Yanagihara Ecuador & the Gàlpagos Islands 918.66 L847
Bethany Pitts Moon Ecuador & the Galápagos Islands 918.66 M818
The rough guide to Berlin. 914.315 R856
Andrew Collins Fodor's Utah 917.92 F653

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 Fooled by randomness : The hidden role of chance in life and in the markets
Clare Carlisle Philosopher of the heart : the restless life of Søren Kierkegaard
Colin Odell Studio Ghibli : The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata
Gina Swire PS I Love Me 12 Steps for a Self-Love Transformation.
Tim Robey Box office poison : Hollywood's story in a century of flops
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Bite by bite : nourishments and jamborees
Sam J Miller Blackfish city : a novel
Cody Keenan Grace : President Obama and ten days in the battle for America
Jeff Pearlman The last folk hero : the life and myth of Bo Jackson
Diane Cook The new wilderness : a novel
Kevin Wilson Now is not the time to panic : a novel
Zora Neale Hurston Their eyes were watching God : a novel
Anthony Horowitz The twist of a knife : a novel
Joy Harjo An American sunrise : poems
Ilan Author Pappe A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Andrew Krivak The bear
Diane Wilson The seed keeper : a novel
Carmine Gallo The Bezos blueprint : communication secrets of the world's greatest salesman
Matthew Perry Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir
Sophie Burnham Sargassa
Craig Johnson Tooth and claw
Kerri K Greenidge The Grimkes : the legacy of slavery in an American family.
Patricia Highsmith Carol Patricia Highsmith.
Patricia Highsmith Strangers on a train
Anthony Horowitz Close to death
Eliza Clark Penance : a novel
Maggie Thrash Rainbow black : a novel
Cat Sebastian We could be so good
Cat Sebastian You Should Be So Lucky : A Novel.
Kate Clayborn The Other Side of Disappearing Kate Clayborn.
Edwin Author Hill Who to Believe
Marie-Helene Bertino Beautyland
Joy Williams Concerning the future of souls
Richard Powers Playground : a novel
Laura Van den Berg State of paradise : a novel
Alafair Burke All day and a night : a novel of suspense
C J Box Back of beyond
C J Box Badlands : a novel
Alafair Burke The ex : A novel
Brianna Wiest The mountain is you : transforming self-sabotage into self-mastery
Freida McFadden Never lie
Dennis Mahoney Our winter monster
Gad Saad The Saad truth about happiness : 8 secrets for leading the good life
Erika Krouse Tell me everything : the story of a private investigation
Alafair Burke The wife : a novel of psychological suspense
William S Burroughs And the hippos were boiled in their tanks
William S Burroughs Queer
Sacha Naspini The Bishop's Villa
Roberto Bolaño 2666
Peter Matthiessen At play in the fields of the lord
Amanda Peters The berry pickers
The best American short stories 2019
The best American short stories 2020
The best American short stories 2021
The best American short stories 2022
James Carlos Blake The bones of wolfe : a border noir
Peter Høeg Borderliners : a novel
Roberto Bolaño By night in chile
Peter Matthiessen The cloud forest : a chronicle of the South American wilderness
Jack Gantos Dead end in norvelt
C J Sansom Dissolution
Thomas McGuane Driving on the rim
Richard Powers The echo maker
Peter Høeg The elephant keepers' children : A novel
Janet Evanovich Eleven on top
Janet Evanovich Fearless fourteen
Janet Evanovich Finger lickin' fifteen
Alice Munro Friend of my youth
Jack Gantos From Norvelt to nowhere
Jefferson Morley The ghost : the secret life of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton
Mark Harmon Ghosts of Honolulu a Japanese spy, a Japanese American spy hunter, and the untold story of Pearl Harbor
Alice Munro Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage : stories
C J Sansom Heartstone
Liz Moore Heft
James Carlos Blake The house of Wolfe : a border noir
Dennis Cooper I wished : a novel
Nora Roberts Identity
Peter Matthiessen In the spirit of Crazy Horse : the story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's war on the American Indian movement
Daniel Suarez Influx
Nora Roberts Inheritance Nora Roberts.
Elizabeth Graver Kantika : a novel
Janet Evanovich Lean mean thirteen
Helen DeWitt Lightning rods
Roberto Bolaño A little lumpen novelita
Richard Price Lush life : A novel
Michael Chabon Moonglow
Roberto Bolaño Nazi literature in the Americas
Jennifer Rosner Once we were home : a novel
Janet Evanovich Plum spooky
Peter Høeg The quiet girl : A novel
Paula Byrne The real Jane Austen : a life in small things
CJ Sansom Revelation
James Carlos Blake The rules of Wolfe : a border noir
Alice Munro Runaway : Stories
Roberto Bolaño The savage detectives : a novel
Jack London The sea wolf
Peter Matthiessen Shadow country : a new rendering of the Watson legend
Martin Wolf The shifts and the shocks : what we've learned--and have still to learn--from the financial crisis
Janet Evanovich Sizzling sixteen
Peter Høeg Smilla's sense of snow
C J Sansom Sovereign : a Matthew Shardlake mystery
Roberto Bolaño The Third Reich : a novel
Peter Matthiessen Tigers in the snow
Peter Matthiessen The tree where man was born
Janet Evanovich Twelve sharp
Liz Moore The unseen world : a novel
James Carlos Blake The ways of wolfe
Peter Høeg The woman and the ape
Michael Chabon The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel
Olivier Guez The disappearance of Josef Mengele : A novel
Mariame Kaba No more police : A case for abolition
Jim Collins Great by choice : uncertainty, chaos, and luck : why some thrive despite them all]
Michael W Covel The little book of trading : Trend following strategy for big winnings
Peter L Bernstein A primer on money, banking, and gold
Jenny Brown Growing yourself up : how to bring your best to all of life's relationships
Anthony Scaramucci The little book of bitcoin : What you need to know that wall street has already figured out
Tiana Laurence Blockchain for dummies
Lori Ostlund After the parade : a novel
The anti-Chomsky reader
Parker J Palmer The courage to teach : Exploring the inner landscape of a teachers life
Lily King Euphoria : a novel
Lily King Five Tuesdays in Winter
Rebecca Yarros Fourth wing
Noam Chomsky Global discontents : conversations on the rising threats to democracy
Noam Chomsky Hegemony or survival : America's quest for global dominance
Deborah Levy Hot milk
Parker J Palmer Let your life speak : listening for the voice of vocation
Deborah Levy The man who saw everything
Deborah Levy The position of spoons : and other intimacies
David Horowitz Radical son : a generational odyssey
Viet Thanh Nguyen To save and destroy : Writing as an other
Noam Chomsky What kind of creatures are we?
Noam Chomsky The withdrawal : Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the fragility of U.S. power
Lily King Writers & lovers A novel

PRINT BOOKS

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 Blue light hours : a novel Fic DantasLo
Freida McFadden The boyfriend Fic McFadden
Danzy Senna Colored television Fic Senna
Derek B. Miller The curse of Pietro Houdini : a novel Fic Miller
Leo Vardiashvili Hard by a great forest Fic Vardiash
Carolyn Jess-Cooke A haunting in the arctic Fic JessCook
Andrew Joseph White Hell followed with us Fic White
Kevin Jared Hosein Hungry ghosts : a novel Fic Hosein
Rufaro Faith Mazarura Let the games begin Fic Mazarura
Louise Erdrich The mighty red : a novel Fic Erdrich
C. E. McGill Our hideous progeny : a novel Fic McGill
Wole Talabi Shigidi and the brass head of Obalufon Fic Talabi
Richard Osman We solve murders Fic Osman
Rachel Seiffert A boy in winter Fic Seiffert
Janice Hallett The appeal Fic Hallett
Alia Trabucco Zerán Clean : a novel Fic Trabucco
Michael Crichton Eruption Fic Crichton
Joseph Andras Faraway the southern sky : a novel Fic Andras
Sally Rooney Intermezzo : a novel Fic Rooney
Richard Price Lazarus man Fic Price
Nnedi Okorafor Noor Fic Okorafor
Sam Sax Yr dead Fic Sax
Sarah Manguso Liars : a novel Fic Manguso
Peter Swanson The Christmas guest : a novella Fic Swanson
Tony Tulathimutte Private citizens Fic Tulathim
Sarai Johnson Grown women : a novel Fic Johnson
Chukwuebuka Ibeh Blessings Fic Ibeh
Nathan Newman How to leave the house : a novel Fic Newman
Celine Saintclare Sugar, baby : a novel Fic Saintclare
Jason Mott Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, wholly bona fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-made mad kid Fic Mott
Julie Myerson Nonfiction : a novel Fic Myerson
Jon Fosse Morning and evening : a novel Fic Fosse
László Krasznahorkai Satantango Fic Krasznaho
Ana Yudin The curse in their veins Fic Yudin
Michel Houellebecq Annihilation : a novel Fic Houellebecq
Ross Macdonald Three novels of the early 1960s Fic Macdonald
Jente Posthuma What I'd rather not think about Fic Posthuma

Historical Fiction

Nicola Lagioia The city of the living Fic Lagioia
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Paradises lost : a novel Fic Schmitt

Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers, Espionage & Intrigue

Norman Woolworth The Lafitte affair Fic Woolworth
David Baldacci To die for Fic Baldacci
Ruby Todd Bright objects : a novel Fic Todd
Emmeline Duncan Chaos at the Lazy Bones Bookshop Fic Duncan
Martin Walker A grave in the woods Fic Walker

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

Vanessa Maclaren-Wray All That Was Asked Fic Maclaren
Kathe Koja Catherine the ghost Fic Koja
Adrian Tchaikovsky Alien clay Fic Tchaikov

Short Stories

McSweeney's 75. First fiction : stories from 10 new writers SS M175
Mariana Enriquez The dangers of smoking in bed : stories Fic Enriquez
Honor Levy My first book Fic Levy
The best American mystery stories 2020 SS B563 2020

Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Comic Strips

Robert Mailer Anderson My fairy godfather 741.5 A545 Comics

Universal (Children's)

Kyla Zhao May the best player win U Zhao
Karen author. Faciane The sun and the moon's big idea : an illuminating fable U Faciane
Karen Faciane Stink stank stunk : a nosy mystery U Faciane
Odile Weulersse Nasreddine U Weulersse
Linda Coombs Colonization and the indigenous American story U 974 C775

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 surveyed would like books covering chess exercises and especially endgame studies. Respondents had a wide range of ratings; therefore, we selected chess eBooks across difficulty levels. Following that feedback, we have selected the following 11 titles for our pilot project:

100 Difficult Chess Puzzles in One Move by Charles Morphy

180 Checkmates in Two Moves, Solutions in Diagrams Part 1 by Charles Morphy

180 Checkmates in Two Moves, Solutions in Diagrams Part 2 by Charles Morphy

180 Checkmates in Two Moves, Solutions in Diagrams Part 3 by Charles Morphy

180 Checkmates Chess Puzzles in Two Moves, Part 1 by Andon Rangelov

Chess for the Gifted and Busy: A Short But Comprehensive Course From Beginner to Expert by Lev Alburt, Al Lawrence

Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions (Third Revised Edition) (Comprehensive Chess Course Series) by Lev Alburt

Chess Training Pocket Book II: 320 Key Positions for players of all Levels by Lev Alburt, Al Lawrence

100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded by Jesus de la Villa

The 100 Endgames You Must Know Workbook: Practical Endgame Exercises for Every Chess Player by Jesus de la Villa

1001 Chess Exercises for Club Players: The Tactics Workbook that Also Explains All Key Concepts by Frank Erwich

In addition to these eBooks, we have recently found that Libby has added the British Chess Magazine to its eMagazine offerings. You can find the last 18 issues on Libby now. (Keep in mind this is a "rolling" 18-month license. In other words, in November of 2024, you can read the April issue of 2023. But in December 2024 the oldest issue you can access will be May 2023).