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Looking for your next great read? Browse our staff picks, a ward winners and b estsellers. Or, get some reading advice from seasoned professionals with a customized recommendation from My Librarian. Learn more about our book groups or start your own.

Explore your favorite genre: biography/memoir, classics, comics/graphic novels, cooking, historical fiction, history, horror, humor, LGBT, literary, mystery, nonfiction, northwest, romance, science, science fiction/fantasy, thriller/suspense, travel or urban fiction.

That's How We Roll: Celebrate Bike Month

The world looks different from the saddle. Check out these books and resources for kids, teens and adults and then get on your bike and ride!

Together We Ride

Bolling, Valerie

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Duck on A Bike

Shannon, David

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Wild Blue

Slater, Dashka

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The Young Cyclist's...

Drinkell, Pete

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The Fastest Bicycle Rider in...

Taylor, Major

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Yowamushi Pedal

Watanabe, Wataru

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Two Wheels Good

Rosen, Jody

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Wadjda

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Life Is A Wheel

Weber, Bruce

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How Cycling Can Save the World

Walker, Peter

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Two Wheels North

Gibb, Evelyn McDaniel

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Bicycle Diaries

Byrne, David

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Epic Bike Rides of the...

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Bikenomics

Blue, Elly

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Building the Cycling City

Bruntlett, Melissa

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eLibrary

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Through eLibrary, you can find images, video, e-books, and 100% full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals.

Gale Literature Resource Center

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Information about authors and their writings.

Hoopla

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Hoopla is a collection of streaming videos, comics, and music available instantly, with automatic returns and no late fees.

Kanopy

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Kanopy is a collection of streaming videos with a focus on classic, documentary, and independent film available instantly, with automatic returns and no late fees.

New York Times (1980-present)

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News and current events from the New York Times newspaper from 1980 to the present date.

NoveList Plus

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Get book recommendations based on your favorite authors, titles and book series.

Oregon Journal (1902-1982)

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A digital archive of the Oregon Journal, 1902-1982.

Oxford Music Online

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A comprehensive online music encyclopedia, featuring the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

The Historical Oregonian (1861-1987)

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Search and view The Oregonian daily newspapers from 1861 to 1987.

Art Full Text

Find journal articles for the fields of visual arts, including film. Search for images, information about artists, news and commentary, exhibition reviews, contemporary art, and art history on a global scale.

Book Review Digest Plus

Excerpts and full-text reviews on a wide range of topics from a variety sources. Review sources include newspapers, popular magazines and academic journals as far back as 1983.

Books in Print

Search for books, video and audio materials in print, forthcoming and out of print.

Children's Core Collection

Children's Core Collection is the online version of a print reference resource.

Digital Public Library of America (Website)

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) works with partners to offer millions of images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

EBook Central from ProQuest

More than 150,000 streaming, adult e-books, mostly nonfiction titles. Highlight, take notes, print pages and more.

Essay And General Literature Index

This database cites essays and articles to nearly 45,000 English-language essays in 3,500 collections and anthologies in the humanities. Many of these essays do not appear in other databases. This resource provides citations only, and not full-text articles.

Fiction Core Collection

Get more than 19,000 librarian-recommended titles for a general adult audience - including mystery, science fiction, fantasy, Western and romance.

Gale Literature Criticism

Search for authors, poetry and literary criticism resources to help you with your term paper.

Graphic Novels Core Collection

This resource provides evaluative information about recommended graphic novels. Useful for readers' advisory.

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library (Website)

IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project, a wiki-based source for public domain music scores, recordings, and information about musical works. View and print pdfs of scores and parts.

Music and Dance Online

Music Online is a resource for streaming audio and video of music and dance collections.

New York Times Historical

This resource includes full-text and full-images of every page of the New York Times, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF format. It includes articles on national and international affairs, businesses, sports, New York regional news, regular columns, biographical stories and reports on science, medicine, the arts and more. It includes supplements such as the Book Review and Magazine. It also includes the complete text of all Presidential press conferences and other important speeches.

OverDrive

A collection of e-books, audiobooks, and magazines. Read online or download to a device.

The Gallery (Website)

The Gallery features photographs, documents, audio and video about Multnomah County’s rich and vibrant cultural heritage.

Blog Posts

Read with PRIDE: LGBTQIA2S+ voices and authors

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that...

Talking to Kids about Pride Month

Kids may have questions about Pride Month and what it means to be LGBTQ+. We recommend books and resources to support open and honest conversations.

Take Learning Outside

“I routinely prescribe nature to children and families. Nature has the power to heal." -Dr. Nooshin Razani, pediatrician, presenter of the TED Talk "Presribing Nature for Health" Research suggests...

Book clubs, book groups and book discussion: A guide to finding places to discuss great reads

Thinking about starting or joining a book club? Here are some tips and resources.

Supporting Young Dual Language Learners

Multnomah County is home to an increasing number of young dual language learners, most of whom will grow up to become bilingual or multilingual members of our community. Whether they are learning a...

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Library news

Mohsin Hamid selected for Everybody Reads 2018

Wed, 09/13/2017 - 11:59am

Next February, Multnomah County Library will launch Everybody Reads 2018, the library’s 16th annual community reading project, with Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.

Multnomah County Library offers Hoopla, a Netflix-like streaming music, video service

Tue, 01/07/2014 - 1:26pm

Multnomah County Library has made a new streaming media service available to patrons. Through the Hoopla platform, library cardholders can access 125,000 music albums, movies and television shows.

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