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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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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...
-Michael Loebs - Library Intern
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...
EBOOKS
Eric Gansworth Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures
Umberto Eco Baudolino
Scott Carney The Enlightenment Trap : Obsession, Madness, and Death on Diamond Mountain
Umberto Eco Foucault's pendulum...
From the Archives: Mechanics' Institute Member, John McLaren (1846-1943)
- Archives and Special Collections volunteer Adrienne Parker Meyers
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Mechanics’ Institute Library has re-instituted our maximum item limit and members can now have more items checked out at once! The Library allows up to 25 items to be on a member's account at any one time. This can be any combination of materials: books, DVDs, magazines, etc. (e-materials do not count towards this number), but there are limits for specific item types like travel guides and new books. In addition, while most items have a 4-week loan period, print...
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Did you know Mechanics’ Institute is home to a collection of art, including oil paintings, photography, a stunning mural, and sculpture by significant and historically significant artists?
In this installment, we’ll discuss the statue of Dante, the renowned Italian poet and philosopher, by Giovanni Dupré, which lives on the 2nd Floor of our Library. This gentle and proud depiction of Dante was sculpted in...
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FICTION
Gabino Iglesias House of bone and rain : a barrio noir Fic Iglesias
Vi Khi Nao The Italy letters Fic Nao
Adèle Rosenfeld Jellyfish have no ears : a novel Fic Rosenfeld
Elizabeth Graver...
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NON-FICTION
Arts, Architecture & Crafts
China artbook 709.51 C53
R. Tripp Evans The importance of being furnished : four bachelors at home 747.092 E924
Mariko Mori Mariko Mori 709.2 M854
Thomas Heatherwick...