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Updated March 2007

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Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for more than 3,460 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Allreaders.com
7 separate databases allow booklovers to find new titles. Offers plot summaries and insight into the nature of the book, i.e. bad language, violence, overall tone and the types of characters. This site offers much more than mere genre searching.
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The Atlantic Online
Access book reviews and author interviews from the print and online versions of Atlantic Monthly magazine.
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Book Browser
Sponsored by Barnes & Nobel, this is extensive website offers reading lists by genre with each title containing published and customer reviews. From the Book Club tab on the toolbar one can access discussion questions.
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Booklist
Published by the American Library Association, this website is the online version of Booklist magazine. Booklist offers a collection of brief reviews as well as author interviews.
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Book Page
Includes book reviews and interviews with authors. Click on Archives to search their database of reviews.
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The Denver Post
Offers reviews published in their newspaper and in some cases one is able to read the first chapter of a book. Use the links Read Older Fiction Reviews or Read Older Non-fiction Reviews to access title lists.
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Infotrac General Reference Gold
Access full-text articles in hundreds of magazines, journals and newspapers. This is an excellent source for author interviews and book reviews.
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Librarian's Index to the Internet - Literature & Books
Created by librarians, this website offers links to quality websites on all topics of literature. Good links to try are authors, book reviews, fiction by genre, literature by country, and study guides.
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New York Times Book Review
The New York Times does not charge to access their book reviews, but you will be required to create a member ID and password to enter the site. Their database dates back to 1996.
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Novelist
The database offers suggestions for student and adult readers, author biographies, discussion questions, reviews and summaries of contemporary fiction as well as links to author websites.
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Oprah's Book Club
Link to Oprah' Book Club Archive. Discover titles by year, read summaries, reviews, author biographies and view the online discussion. You may need to join the Oprah Book Club, at no cost, to view all titles.
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Overbooked
Provides hundred of links to websites which features authors, publishers, reviews, suggested fiction by genre, and themed booklists.
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Publishers Weekly
Discover the bestsellers and access reviews for both children's and adult fiction and non-fiction.
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Salon.com
This website is an online magazine which does daily book reviews and some author interviews.
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