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Book Discussion Groups - Meeting times, contact
information.
Read Books Online -
Links to netLibrary's eBooks, Chapter-A-Day, and Project
Gutenberg.
Recommended Reading
Award Winners - Books
honored with the National Book Award, Pulitzer Awards,
Newberry, Caldecott, Agatha and more.
Best Seller Lists
- Find out what books are flying off the shelves in
record numbers.
Book Reviews - Read
the latest New York Review of Books, New York Times
Book Review, Publishers Weekly and more.
Young Readers - Resources
such as Sunshine State Reading, and Children's Literature
Web Guide.
Book-Related Databases & References
Baen Free
Library - Provides free science fiction books
to be read online or downloaded in various formats.
Almost 40 authors are represented, including Andre
Norton, Mercedes Lackey, David Weber, and John Ringo.
Find available books by author, title, or series.
They really are free.
Contemporary Authors
- A database with biographical information on 90,000
writers, with awards received,
brief excerpts from reviews, lists of books by and
about.
General
Reference Center Gold - A database including thousands
of book reviews.
Literature
Resource Center - biographies, bibliographies,
and critical analyses of more than 120,000 novelists,
poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers,
with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied
authors.
FirstSearch
(OCLC) WorldCat - A large database including over
41 MILLION books and manuscripts dating back
to the 12th century. Many of the books indexed here
can be requested through our Interlibrary Loan program.
Websites for Readers
and Writers - Links to sites of interest to book
enthusiasts and writers.
What
Do I Read Next? - Includes over 100,000 recommended
titles, more than 56,000 plot summaries, and information
from 561 awards, all to help users uncover new reading
adventures, find long- remembered favorites, and discover
award-winning titles.
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