Read books in your email!
Every day, Monday through Friday, you will receive in your email a five-minute selection from a chapter of a book. By the end of the week, you'll have read two or three chapters. Every Monday we start new books. You have a choice of subjects and genres, such as nonfiction, business, romance, and science fiction. Sign up and start reading.
Monthly newsletters with book recommendations
View newsletters online, or sign up to receive them by email. Each newsletter offers four to eight book titles with summaries, and focuses on a different subject or genre, such as fiction, nonfiction, mystery, romance, home and garden, science and nature, audiobooks, children’s books, and teen books.
Lists of Staff Picks
Each list focuses on a different theme in either fiction or nonfiction. Learn about the history of Belmont. . . feast on new cookbooks or the latest culinary mysteries . . . get tips for sustainable living . . . or sample fiction about vampires or werewolves . . . it’s all right here.
New Items Lists
Find out all the books, audiobooks, DVDs, music CDs, CD-ROMs and games, and Playaways added to the collection during the previous month. A Playaway is an MP3 player loaded with a single audiobook.
Online Reader Resources
Dazzle your book group with tidbits about the author and reviews from The New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly. Generate lists of books in your favorite genre using Novelist or the Fiction Connection. Use our collection of electronic resources to do your research on literary topics. These resources are also good for the BHS senior thesis and other literature-related homework. But don’t let students have all the fun!
Related Library Programs
Whether you want to participate in a lively discussion of recent fiction or sit back and listen to an author read from his or her latest book, we have a program for you.