Category: From the Collection
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Kanopy Switches to Ticket System: Get the Details!
Do you use Kanopy with your MCPL card? Hopefully you already use Kanopy to stream films anytime, anywhere on your preferred devices. It’s free for you, with your MCPL card. Kanopy users will now use Tickets to play videos on Kanopy, instead of plays. Each month, you receive 30 tickets from MCPL. Your tickets reset…
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Borrow Demon Copperhead on Hoopla! Plus other hot ebooks and audiobooks this summer
The wait is long to borrow Barbara Kingsolver’s newest hit book, but it’s possible to read it right now, with your MCPL card. Borrow Demon Copperhead on Hoopla, along with all of the other great titles available on the app this summer!
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Oceans of Possibilities for Shark Appreciation Week
Get your fins on, because MCPL’s Shark Appreciation Week 2022 is slicing through the summer! From July 24 to 30, you can celebrate all things shark at Montgomery County Public Libraries. Shark Appreciation Week Events! In addition to the usual books, e-books, e-audio books, e-comics, streaming movies, music, and other electronic resources to learn about…
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What If? Three Books About Big Decisions.
By Lisa Navidi, Davis Library Three women make life changing decisions. Was it worth it? The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab Addie LaRue, born in a village in France, was 23 years old in 1714 and was determined to live a free life. But her parents were more determined to marry her to…
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Celebrate MoComCon 2021 with Graphic Novel Book Talks
MoComCONline, Montgomery County Public Libraries’ first all-virtual MoComCon, happens this Saturday, January 16. To celebrate, our librarians present a series of Book Talks, discussing the graphic novels they love. Enjoy talks from Librarians Beth Chandler, Camille Robinson and David Zelonka. Some of these graphic novels are “old school,” and others are newer releases. Watch each…
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Read 2020 Award-Winners on Hoopla!
Looking for something new to read? Check out some “best of” and award-winning titles on Hoopla–available with NO holds, NO waits, with your MCPL card! Learn more at mcpl.link/hoopla. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart: 2020 Booker Prize Winner. Writers & Lovers by Lily King: Washington Post’s Best Books of 2020 Black Sunday by Tola Rotimi Abraham:…
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Free Ebooks, Streaming Movies, Music and More – Hoopla Has It All!
Looking for ebooks, movies, music, and other entertainment online? MCPL has a new service, Hoopla, that offers all this and more. And it’s free with your MCPL library card. Hoopla offers six different types of content: audiobooks, comics, ebooks, movies, music, and television series. All items in Hoopla are available immediately. There are no waiting…
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Find Free Graphic Novels and Comics Online!
Wondering how to find graphic novels when your library is closed? Yes, we have some in e-book format, as well as a couple in e-audio format. Cloud Library doesn’t have a lot of graphic novels but their collection does have the graphic-novel versions of favorites such as The Baby-Sitters Club series and Rick Riordan’s Kane…