Gale eBooks | Los Angeles Public Library

Gale eBooks offers you a collection of premier non-fiction e-books that you can view and search online. A wide assortment of subjects include:

Arts
Biography
Business
Environment
History
Information & Publishing
Law
Literature

With Gale eBooks you can:

Download portions of these e-books onto eReader devices
Share bookmarked links, even with non-users
Translate content into more than 30 languages

Gale eBooks is free and easy to access from home with your library card and PIN.

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