LibGuides: Stamper Family Library: Reading (Ebooks)

Confidential - Remote Access Usernames and Passwords

You can use any of our databases from off campus if you have the correct user name and password for access. We may not post these publicly, so they reside on a Google Site page that requires your JBS email login for access.

Click HERE to see a clickable list of databases along with their user names and passwords.

Who to Contact for Recommendations

Mrs. Grantham for Realistic Fiction recommendations.

Mrs. Pass for Classics, Realistic Fiction, or Historical Fiction recommendations.

Mrs. Sherman for Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Mystery recommendations.

Contact library@jburroughs.org for any other recommendations, including Nonfiction, Sports, Adventure, Poetry, Graphic Fiction and Nonfiction, and Short Story recommendations!

New Ebooks!

Our Digital Collections

Sora by Overdrive
A website and app with most of our online eBook collection as well as several audio titles. Students can sign in using their JBS storecard number; faculty and staff can sign in using their JBS email addresses. If you have any trouble logging in, email the librarians at library@jburroughs.org.

Other JBS-Subscribed Reading Platforms

Ebook Central
Access to the School Collection, a growing database of e-books for high school curricula. Allows simultaneous access to titles. Students should use their JBS store card numbers to sign-in. Faculty must email library@jburroughs.org to request a log-in.
Ebsco Ebook Collection
This general reference collection features fiction and non-fiction titles. Use our super secret remote access username and password (found with the confidential stamp on the left) to access these titles from home.
Ebsco Nonfiction for HighSchool
More than 2,440 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more. Use our super secret remote access username and password (found with the confidential stamp on the left) to access these titles from home.
Humanities Ebook Project
Collection of over 9000 full text books. Use the confidential stamp on the left-hand side of this page to get the username and password to access this collection from home.
New Oxford Shakespeare
The New Oxford Shakespeare presents an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited from first principles from the base-texts themselves, and drawing on the latest textual and theatrical scholarship. You must use our remote access username and password to access from home, see the confidential stamp on the left.