Healthy Start to a New Year

Use Consumer Health Complete, accessible with your Library Card, for articles on health, fitness and nutrition. 

Sources you know, information you can trust.  

Ask your Librarian for assistance. 

 

In the Year 2017

Publishers Weekly looks into the future and predicts what will be popular in 2017!

 

 Ask your Librarian to help find your item or place a hold.

New Year's Resolutions

From the American Psychological Association, tips to keeping your New Year's Resolutions.  

Ask your Librarian for health-related resources!

Holiday Music

Use Freegal to download up to 5 free songs per week with your Library Card.

 

Get access to favorite artists, a variety of genres and even music for the Holiday Season!
Ask us how!

Looking Back

Take a look at the New Yorker's  
Books We Loved in 2016 list.

See if you feel the same!

Ask your Librarian if you cannot find an item.

Holiday Preparation eBooks

Getting ready for the Holidays?

Check out an ebook from OverDrive!

Or try a good old-fashioned print book! 

 

Movies, Music, E-books and More

hoopla is one of our e-resources that allows you to borrow audiobooks, movies, comics, music and more!  Enjoy on your computer, tablet, and phone.  

Ask your Librarian today about hoopla!

Connect @ Your Library

Visit the ACLA website and discover the wonderful ideas and events happening in Libraries in Allegheny County!



Notable in 2016

The NY Times has just released their 100 Notable in 2016 list. 

 Ask your librarian if you cannot find your item. 

 

New Mobile-Friendly Catalog Design

Coming Soon - A newly designed Library Catalog that functions better on mobile devices!

Take a look!

 

Holiday Events in Pittsburgh

Looking for ways to celebrate the holidays? Check out these festive events taking place this year!

e-Cooking

The Library has many cookbooks for this holiday season, but we also offer many electronic resources as well:

cooking ebooks via OverDrive

cooking e-magazines via Zinio

cooking lessons online via Universal Class

Ask your Librarian how to access all these and more for free!



Happy Thanksgiving

Learn more about Thanksgiving this year!

Check out a book today!

Ask us about e-books!



What's Cooking?

Get ready for the Holidays

with the Library's cookbooks!

Ask your Librarian about free online cooking classes with Universal Class!

Can't get enough Politics?

Need more?!

Check out something from our fiction or non-fiction collection.



New E-Resource!

The Bethel Park Public Library just subscribed to

COMICSPLUS!

Get access to thousands of graphic novels and comics with your Library Card - ask your Librarian today!



Happy Halloween!

Celebrate with books on ghosts 

and a good horror flick!

Nobel Prize in Literature

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature-

Check out some of his work! 

Design and Create

Check out these books on 3D Printing!

Take a free class and learn how to design and create using the Library's 3D printer. 

 

Ask your Librarian to register - 412.835.2207! 

Must Reads

From the Today Show,

12 must-reads for the Fall!

Ask your librarian for assistance if you cannot find your item.


2016 National Book Awards

Keep up to date with the finalists and winners of the 2016 National Book Awards.

Awards are given to one book in the fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young people's literature categories.

100 Best Non-Fiction of All Time

From the Electric Typewriter,

the 100 best non-fiction books ever!

Web Guides

Who better to be your guide through the tangled world wide web than The Library of Congress!

Take a look at their Bibliographies, Research Guides, and Finding Aids site!



Banned Books Week

Stand up for your right to read!

Banned Books Week is Sept. 25th - Oct. 1, 2016.

Stop in the Library and check one out today!

Reading Preview

 
USA Today recently released their Fall Book Preview.

Get a jump on popular mysteries, fiction, biographies and more.

Ask your Librarian if you cannot find your item!



Streaming Video - OverDrive

Not only does OverDrive offer e-books,
it has videos as well!

Categories include documentary, instructional, comedy, horror, children's and much more!

Fall Predictions

As Summer comes to an end, check out Publishers Weekly's list of Fall adult books that they predict will be big hits!

Hamilton Soundtrack!

Hoopla, your library's free database of ebooks, music, movies and more, has Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) available to check-out!

Ask your Librarian for more information.

NY Times Best Seller Lists

Check out the NY Times Best Seller Lists!

Find what fiction, non-fiction, e-books, and graphic novels are selling every week.

Upcoming Author Talks

WHAT HAS WRITING TO DO WITH SPIRITUALITY AND ART?

Presented by Madhu Bazaz Wangu

Saturday, Sept. 24^th at 11 a.m.

As an author and scholar of eastern religions and art, Dr. Wangu finds similarities between art, literature and spirituality fascinating. In this presentation she will talk about why art and religion provide aesthetic pleasure and spiritual bliss, and how the two subjects satisfy us emotionally and intellectually.  At the end of the talk, Dr. Wangu will lead a fifteen-minute mindful meditation session.  Mindful Meditation unblocks creative flow, reduces stress and increases energy.  

BIRTH OF A NOVEL

Presented by Author Lois Lamanna

Thursday, Oct. 6^th at 7 p.m.

Lois Lamanna talks about the struggles of writing her first book and the joy of publication. The evening will include a brief reading from her own book, Matrimony and Murder. She encourages everyone to write.

Please register at the front desk or call the Library at 412.835.2207.