A reading room provides free access, for the public, to books, periodicals, and tapes, published by the Christian Science Publishing Society . They can be read, borrowed,or purchased. It is more than a bookstore, a library, or study room.
Visitors also have the guidance of local church members who staff the reading room.
The Christian Science Monitor has won many awards and is noted for its fair and accurate reporting and its lack of sensationalism. Never before has a biography of Mary Baker Eddy focused so completely on her work as a Christian healer. It was central to everything she did, providing the foundation for all she accomplished as author of the definitive book on spiritual healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,and as founder of a worldwide Christian denomination. Illustrated with photographs, some published for the first time, this biography also includes several facsimiles of letters in Mrs. Eddy's own hand.