Book Purchase and Course Access

Thank you for enrolling in a course or program through Community Education.

Unless your book is covered by the tuition, you will need to purchase your book separately. Certain Community Education (CE) courses require book purchase from the college bookstore while other courses require you to purchase the book elsewhere. The information on this page shows you courses that requires a book purchase and how to obtain them, as well as courses that do not require a book purchase.

Community Education courses requiring a book purchase from the college bookstore

The courses below require a book purchase from the college bookstore at the Charlestown campus. Buying the book from the college bookstore ensures that you have the right book for your course. You may buy the book online or in person. Find your book from the online college bookstore.

• BSN-124E “SHRM Learning System S/CP Certification”
• BSN-124AE “SHRM Essentials of Human Resource Management” (License Purchase, not a book)
• TRG-101E “TEAS Reading and Grammar”
• TSG-101E “TEAS Science and Math”
• GED-104AE “HiSet Exam Prep”
• TFL-101E “TOEFL Preparation”
• BSN-126E “PMP Exam Preparation”
• WCE-473E “Pre-License Real Estate Sales”

Instructions to find and purchase your book from the college bookstore

Order Your Book Online

Visit https://bhcc.bncollege.com/

Once on the BHCC Barnes & Noble site, follow these steps:

1. Under “Course Materials & Textbooks,” select "Find Course Materials."
2. Under TERM, select the current semester from the drop-down menu.
3. Under Department, find and select your course. For example, if you registered for the TEAS Reading and Grammar course, choose TRG.
4. Under Course #, select the appropriate course number.
5. Under Section, choose the section you registered for.

Don’t remember either the course number or section?
Refer to your enrollment notification email that was sent to you when you had registered for the course. You will find you course number and section there. After making your Department, Course #, and Section selections, click “Retrieve Materials”. Choose Use or New and then click “Add to Cart”. Then Click, Proceed to Cart. View Your Order Summary, and if it is right, click “Proceed To Checkout”.

For questions, you may reach out to the bookstore team at sm8542@bncollege.com

Buy the Book In-Person

The bookstore is located at E-120, (first floor of the E-building, Charlestown campus, located at 250 New Rutherford Avenue in Charlestown, MA. Before going to the bookstore, visit their store operating hours.

Questions? Please contact the bookstore via email at sm8542@bncollege.com.

Once you purchase the book, do not break the packaging until after the class has started. If the course is canceled, the college bookstore will only accept book returns if it is still wrapped in its original packaging.

Language Institute Students

• Intensive English Students: Purchase your book at the college bookstore.
• BELL students: All BELL levels (Basic through Level 4) can purchase their required textbook at the college bookstore. If you are a Somerville grant funded student, please reach out directly to Sonia Sharma, Administrative Assistant, at ssha4746@bhcc.edu to pick up your textbook.

If you have any questions about book purchasing, please contact bellenglish@bhcc.edu for BELL or intensiveenglish@bhcc.edu for Intensive English.

Course textbooks to be purchased outside of the college bookstore

• NON-864E "Personal Trainer Certification Program"

Title: Fitness Professional's Handbook 8th Edition With HKPropel Access
ISBN: 9781718217829
Arthur: Barbara Bushman
Publisher: Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL
List price for Physical Copy with Online Resource: $109.00
List price for Ebook with Online Resource: $82.50

You may order a physical book or the Ebook. Shipping costs apply to the cost of ordering the physical copy. If you purchase the Ebook, you will receive on the same day of purchase. Use one of the links below to purchase your book.

Paperback Version Or Ebook

Community Education courses that do not require a textbook purchase.

Community Education courses that do not require a textbook purchase

If you have registered for one or more of the healthcare courses listed below, you receive your course start up instructions and Zoom link (if nine or more students) within two days of the course start date from Learner Support at support@edu2.com. The e-book is embedded into the course start up instructions. Please check your Spam Folder to check if the email got diverted there.

• NON-855E "Hybrid Phlebotomy Technician"
• NON-856E "Hybrid EKG Technician"
• NON-900E "Hybrid Dental Assisting"
• NON-901E "Hybrid Veterinary Assistant"

For the courses below, the instructor will be providing her own materials.

• LNG-400E "Beginning Spanish 1"
• LNG-400AE "Beginning Spanish 2"