Ereaders at RFPL
The River Forest Public Library circulates Sony Reader and Kindle ereaders, for River Forest resident patrons 18 and up. All of our ereaders can be checked out for 3 weeks. They cannot be renewed, and have overdue fines of $1.00/day. If you would like to place a hold on an ereader, or have questions about Library ereaders, please ask staff or place a hold in the SWAN catalog.
Sony Readers
The library owns 2 of the Sony Reader PRS-300 Pocket Edition ereaders.
The River Forest Public Library Sony Readers will come pre-loaded with selected digital books.
The following titles are available on the library Sony Readers:
Fiction:
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Brava, Valentine by Adriana Trigiani
The Confession by John Grisham
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The First Rule by Robert Crais
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Innocent by Harlan Coben
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
One Day by David Nicholls
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Postcard Killers by James Patterson
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Room by Emma Donoghue
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Star Island by Carl Hiassen
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Non-Fiction:
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Operation Family Secrets by Frank Calabrese Jr.
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
To request a Sony Reader:
Place a hold on a Sony Reader
Library staff will contact you when the Reader is ready for pick-up.
Kindles
The Library owns 3 of the 2nd Generation Kindle ereaders.
The River Forest Public Library Kindles will come pre-loaded with selected digital books.
The following titles are currently available on our Kindles:
Fiction:
The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Divine Justice by David Baldacci
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Phantom Prey by John Sandford
The Private Patient by P.D. James
Room by Emma Donoghue
Sail by James Patterson
Sarah’s Key
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Third Degree by James Patterson
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Winter Study by Nevada Barr
Non-Fiction:
The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
American Lion by Jon Meacham
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Churchill by Paul Johnson
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson
Dewey by Vicky Myron
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
Hunting Eichmann by Neal Bascomb
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
On Becoming a Leader by Warren G Bennis
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Owning Up by Ram Charan
The Power of Nice by Linda Kaplan Thaler
Self-Leadership and the One-Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard
Servant by James C Hunter
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
The Social Animal by David Brooks
The Speed of Trust by Steven Covey
Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush
Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
SuperFreakonomics by Steven Levitt
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Tribal Leadership by David Logan
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
What Happened by Scott McClelland
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
A Whole New Mind by Daniel H Pink
Wisdom of our Fathers by Tim Russert
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
To request a Library Kindle:
Place a hold on a Kindle
Library staff will contact you when the Reader is ready for pick-up.
