our collection

Our staff takes great pride in the quality of our movie and book collections and the way that they are displayed. It’s easy to look for an item in person and just as easy to search for something in our library catalog. You can reserve or renew many items on-line from your own account. It’s easy to get what you are looking for with your Westbury Library card.

Downloadable e-books and audiobooks

Free e-Books, and Audiobooks are a click away.

The Westbury Library is a member of Nassau Digital Doorway. All you need is a valid Westbury library card, Internet access, and a computer or device that meets the system requirements for the type of digital materials you wish to check out.

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Borrow a pre-loaded e-reader

We are now loaning out Nook e-Readers! They are pre-loaded with the hottest titles and can be kept for 14 days. Ask for details at the Circulation or Information desk. Here is a listing of titles currently pre-loaded, with newest titles listed first:

Inferno, by Dan Brown
And the Mountains Echoed, by Khaled Hosseini
The Dinner, by Herman Koch
A Week in Winter, by Meave Binchy

Killing Kennedy, by Bill O'Reilly
Thomas Jefferson, by Jon Meacham
Proof of Heaven, by Eben Alexander
Notorious Ninteen, by Janet Evanovich
The Forgotten, by David Baldacci
Threat Vector, by Tom Clancy
Shiver, by Karen Robards
Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin
Twelve tribes of Hattie, by Ayana Mathis
The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
Bared to You, by Sylvia Day
Reflected in You (Book #2), by Sylvia Day
Where We Belong, by Emily Giffin
Winter of the World, by Ken Follett
No Easy Day, by Mark Owen
The Island, by Elin Hilderbrand
The Marriage Bargain, by Jennifer Probst
Wild, by Cheryl Strayed
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Amateur, by Edward Klein
Calico Joe, by John Grisham
All Summer Long, by Susan Mallery
I, Michael Bennett, by James Patterson
The Storm, by Clive Cussler
Bring Up the Bodies, by Hillary Mantel
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
Fifty Shades Darker, by E.L. James
Fifty Shades Freed, by E.L. James
Defending Jacob, by William Landay
The Hunger Games, by Susan Collins
The Shoemaker's Wife, by Adriana Trigiani
Killing Lincoln, by Bill O’Reilly
Game of Thrones Series, by George R.R. Martin
Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand

Free Sources of downloadable e-books

As the demand for e-Book lending increases, the Long Island Library Resource Council (LILRC) has announced a number of web-based resources which provide free access to downloadable books:

Project Gutenberg
Download over 33,000 free E-books.
Free-e-books.net
“The internet’s #1 online source for free ebook downloads.”
Get Free Books.com
A site that brings both authors and readers into the world of free E-books.
Many Books.net
More than 29,000 E-books available.
University of Pennsylvania
Over 1,000,000 free books on the web.
SmashWords
E-books from independent authors and publishers.
Kobo Books
More than 1,000,000 free E-books.
Internet Archive Text Archive
Contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books.
Google Books
Nearly 3,000,000 free e-books and hundreds of thousands of titles for purchase.