A Resource Guide for Staying Home and Staying Sane: eBooks, Audiobooks, and More!
Use this guide to find great resources, websites, links, and videos for beating boredom, staying sane, and riding out isolation and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
Hoopla Digital
- Hoopla
Instantly borrow digital movies, music, eBooks and more, 24/7 with your library card.
Romance Book Cloud
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Unlimited and unrestricted access to a curated collection of romance eBooks: contemporary, historical, time travel, paranormal or inspirational, you will love to read about love at RomanceBookCloud. With a core collection of 1800 titles, including award winners and best sellers, plus new books added all the time, you will never run out of romance to read.
Audio Book Cloud
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An online audiobook library collection of streaming audio books.
NYPL/WNYC Virtual Book Club
- Join NYPL's Virtual Book Club!
NYPL and WNYC are partnering on a virtual book club. The June title for the club—presented as part of “Get Lit,” the monthly book club from WNYC’s weekday arts and culture show All of It— is The Glass Hotel, a novel by Emily St. John Mandel.
Find Your Next Great Book
- NoveList Plus - Pearl River
Allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate other authors and titles. 3 powerful search techniques to look for books by subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title records. Includes non-fiction.
Funded by the RCLS Central Library (Newburgh Free Library).
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Audible Stories
- Audible Stories
For as long as schools are closed, we're open. Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.
Read BookPage at Home
While the library is closed, you can read BookPage online.
Virtual Author Events
- #BooksConnectUsTune into online author events with your favorite authors at #BooksConnectUs Live
National Emergency Library
- National Emergency LibraryA collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed. From Internet Archive.