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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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SITE
The
Atlantic Online
Access book reviews and author interviews from the print
and online versions of Atlantic Monthly magazine.
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SITE
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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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.
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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.
WEB SITE
Literary Reference Center
A comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. It has been specifically designed for public libraries, secondary schools, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. Literary Reference Center is a full text database that combines information from major respected reference works, books, literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO.
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New
York Times Book Review
Find book reviews that date back to 1981.
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Novelist Plus
A readers' advisory service, provides access to 155,000 fiction and non-fiction titles and offers a wide range of feature content that will expand your staff's ability to serve fiction and non-fiction readers of all ages and increase the reach of your library's program including author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more.
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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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