Virtual Library
Virtual Library
Welcome to the Austin Public Library's Virtual Library!
You can access everything from eBooks to newspapers for free with your Austin Public Library card. The Virtual Library is available to you 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. You can read newspapers and magazines; search for journal articles; find and download eBooks to your eReader, tablet, or computer; and locate authoritative information for your next research paper, business venture, job search, personal project, or just about anything else.
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- Introduction and Guides
- Databases
- Information Guides
- APL Recommends
- Austin History Center Digital Collection
- Online Books (not downloadable)
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APL Recommends
By by Ashley Spires.
A loveable and delusional house cat named Binky, who, while in hot pursuit of an alien wanderer (a bug), falls out of the space station porthole (the bathroom window), and finds himself in outer space (outside the house).


