Summer Reading
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Welcome to the Marin County Free Library’s annual Summer Reading Program for your entire family! Reading over the summer helps children maintain and increase their reading skills, and reading for fun broadens their horizons and...
This year's summer reading theme is "Reading is So Delicious," and one of the best new graphic novels to enjoy about food is Lucy Knisley's Relish. Knisley was born and raised around every kind of good, delatable food as the...
Summer is a great time for reading and picnics. The library has some fun recipes for picnics and barbecues. Try them and delight your family and friends.You can share your favorite summer reads at those events and online with your fellow...
Books
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"Books are the greatest device for transporting you into another person's mind. ...books can take you deeper into people's thoughts and feelings than any other media. Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity." Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon
"Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators." Stephen Fry
Explore the world of books at the library by browsing our Books page--find suggestions for great books to read, see new titles, popular titles and best-sellers, award-winners, and what library staff members are reading.
Downloads
Visit the Downloads Page
"The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story." Kate DiCamillo
"Something very important and very weird is happening to the book right now: It’s shedding its papery corpus and transmigrating into a bodiless digital form, right before our eyes." Lev Grossman
Download free books and audiobooks from the library on your Kindle, iPad, NOOK, and most other eReaders. Find out what the eBook buzz is all about on our Downloads page!
Movies
Visit the Movies Page
"The secret to film is that it's an illusion." George Lucas
"A film is a petrified fountain of thought." Jean Cocteau
Find movies, documentaries, TV shows, concerts and more in the library's DVD collection. Check out the Movies page for tips on finding films in the catalog, sources for digital video streaming, including educational sites, resources for film fans, film festivals, and the history of movies in Marin.
Music
Visit the Music Page
"You are the music while the music lasts." T.S. Eliot
"Music is the universal language of mankind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
See what music the library has to offer by browsing the Music page. You'll find shortcuts to searching for music by genre, like world music, or wedding music, tips for searching in the library catalog, resources for local music and musicians, and links to musician bios and music sites.
