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Libby provides more digital versions of more than 3,000 popular magazine titles. You can borrow titles, including magazines, eBooks, and audiobooks, through the Libby app

LOTE4Kids offers a collection of over 4,500 digital children's books in 70+ languages with English translations. Kids can enjoy the magic of books in LOTE (Languages Other Than English) or watch each book translated and narrated in English to help with their reading and literacy development. You can access LOTE4Kids on your computer or install the app on the App Store or Google Play. Recommended for ages 3-8.

Mango Languages provides basic and in-depth lessons for over 70 world language courses expertly designed to adapt to a diverse range of learning styles. It also includes ELL instruction for nineteen languages. To track your progress, create a profile when you log in with your Northbrook Library card. Mango Languages also has an app available for Apple and ​Android devices.

From 1888 to1994. Includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable!

Tutorials to help become more comfortable using eBooks apps, language learning tools, streaming movies, and research databases as well as social media tutorials for Facebook, Linked-In, Goodreads, Twitter, etc.

Get information on authors, books, and series for fiction and non-fiction. Find readalikes, award-winning books, and books that were made into movies.

Access important primary documents related to U.S. history including speeches, letters, memoirs, and editorials.

Find full-text articles in scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, blogs, and websites.

The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and world language titles, read-alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), eBooks and audio books which may be viewed online or downloaded for 90 days, and Tumble Puzzles & Games. Watch a brief video on how to use TumbleBooks.