The Reference Department offers a vast collection of nonfiction and research materials, covering subject-specific topics from science to business to medicine. Our Reference department also includes a collection of memoirs and biographies. We also offer an ever-expanding collection of world languages including Ukranian, Polish and Spanish. Our Quiet Reading Room features a wide array of magazines and newspapers.
Online, you can use your library card to access more than 60 databases to help with your research project. We also provide access to digital magazine and newspaper subscriptions. View a complete list of publications you can read through our website, and where to find them, here.
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New Nonfiction Titles
If you are interested in any of these new titles, call the Reference desk at 847-720-3230. We’d be happy to help!
Booster shots : the urgent lessons of measles a...
Ratner, Adam author.
Chair pilates and yoga : seated exercises to im...
Angell, Harri, author.
Eternal flame : the authorized biography of the...
Bickerdike, Jennifer Otter...
How to be super creative : the artist's guide t...
Hart, Christopher, 1957- a...
A Jane Austen year
Reynolds, Sophie, author.
Lost loot : cursed treasures and blood money
Willis, Jim, 1946 April 1-...
Magic in the air : the myth, the mystery, and t...
Sielski, Mike, 1975- autho...
Mostly meatless : green up your plate without t...
Notorious : portraits of stars from Hollywood, ...
Dowd, Maureen, author.
Pseudoscience : an amusing history of crackpot ...
Kang, Lydia, author.
The rebel empresses : Elisabeth of Austria and ...
Goldstone, Nancy, 1957- au...
The rom-com ultimate trivia book : test your su...
Fischer, Neal E., author.
Self-sabotage : and other ways I've spent my time
Self, Jeffery, author.
A short history of Black craft in ten objects
Awake, Robell, author.
Sweet farm! : cookies, cakes, salads (!), and o...
Yeh, Molly, author.
When the Earth was green : plants, animals, and...
Black, Riley, author.