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LIBRARY CATALOG Books for Adults A year of reading : a month-by-month guide to classics and crowd-pleasers for you and your book group by Ellington, H. Elisabeth Themed books for you and your group to enjoy!   Books for Older Children Dear author : students write about the books that changed their lives by Read Magazine A collection of letters from students to an assortment of authors both past and present about the impact of their work on the lives of their readers.   More books for: Adults Older Children   FOR MORE LIBRARY RESOURCES TRY: Best Books Book clubs Books and reading Fiction -- Appreciation Group Reading

RESEARCH DATABASES  Books In Print (Patron) Use Fiction Connection to find books by topic, genre, setting, characters, location or timeframe. Children can explore by series, picture books, recurring characters or award winners. Enter any date from the past century to read about what happened that year, and to see which books were bestsellers. Create and manage your saved list and saved searches.  eBooks At Greenwood Press Access a variety of eBooks from Greenwood Press by subjects.  Fiction Connection Discover titles similar to books you already enjoy or explore books by topic, genre, setting, character, location or timeframe.  Gale Virtual Reference Library A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.  Literature Collection (GVRL) Information and criticism about authors and their works.  Literature Criticism Online Contemporary Literary Criticism is THE resource to use when you need literary criticism. Now, you can find CLC, PLUS poetry criticism, drama criticism, and much, much more, online, without visiting the library!  Literature Resource Center Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.  Litfinder Provides access to sources of over 600,000 indexed poems and to 50,000 full-text poems.  Read The Books Recommended reading for preschool through eighth grade. Check out the Time Gate and Your School's Reading List.  What Do I Read Next? Information about books your friends have told you about!  Wilson Web Public Library Core Collection A collection development database for schools and public libraries. Information on fiction and nonfiction titles including biography, poetry, criticism and reference works in all fields. With bibliographic data, price, annotation, notes about related works, and review quotations when available. RESOURCES IN YOUR LIBRARY  Book Discussion Groups If you are interested in forming a book discussion group, please contact your neighborhood library.  Book Discussion Guides by BookLetters Doing a book discussion? This resource provides books to use and sample questions for your group.  Book Letters Book Letters is a free service that lets you sign up for high-quality e-newsletters. You can get information on thousands of authors and millions of books.  Read Me Vegas Online Book Discussion Group - Join the staff at the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District as they discuss a new and interesting book each month! DIGITAL BOOKS  FeedBooks Feedbooks is a universal e-reading platform compatible with all mobile devices where you can download thousands of free e-books, publish and share your own content, and create customized newspapers from RSS feeds and widgets.  Online Books Page Contains public domain works from a variety of languages.  Online Texts Contains public domain works from a variety of languages.  Project Gutenberg Contains public domain works from a variety of languages.  Project Gutenberg eAudio Books Copyright free audio books in a wid variety of languages. Some read by humans and others by computer.  Universal Digital Library Online library offers 1.5 million works and counting. The online library offers full text downloads of works that are in the public domain, or for which the copyright holder has been given permission to make available. The collection goes far beyond the widely available classics, though those are there, too. WEB SITES  African-American Literature Club A great source for African-American fiction.  Book Browser From Barnes and Noble. Enjoyed a book? Find something similar to read next!  Book Club Reader All the resources your book club needs! Information, guides, sample fliers, and more!  Book Discussion Group Resources From the King County Library system, great information for Book Discussion Groups  Book Group List An online book discussion group, sponsored by Yahoo Groups.  BookPage America’s Book Review BookPage is an on-line service providing book reviews, visits with authors, recommended audio books, seasonal features and answers to burning questions about your favorite books and authors.  BookWeb This site is maintained by the American Booksellers Association. It has a selection of the major book awards including the Pulitzer, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and many more.  BookWire From Bowker, links to helpful sites about the publishing industry.  Buzz Girl Want to get your book news even earlier? Check out Buzz Girl, the blog from BookPage that gives you the lowdown on publishers' biggest books months before they hit the shelves.  DearReader Join our free On-Line Book Club and receive chapters from popular books in your daily e-mail. Each day, Monday through Friday, we'll send you a portion of a chapter that takes only five minutes to read. After you've read 2 or 3 complete chapters from a book, we'll start sending you a new one.  eBook Reader Comparsion Looking to buy an ebook reader? This site offers a side-by-side comparsion of ebook readers available. Be sure to consult it before purchasing.  GenreFluent From the author of the GenreFlecting series, find books in genres, that you'll enjoy!  Gnooks Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors.  GuruLib Catalog your books, DVDs, music CDs, games and software online using a book shelf metaphor.  LibraryThing Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.  Looking for a Mystery? Love mysteries? Need more? Use this site to find more mysteries like the ones you enjoy most!  Masterpiece Theater Bookclub Watching the show? Read the book as well!  Oprah's Book Club What's Oprah reading now? Find the lists, find the discussions, and join the club!  Publishers Weekly A listing of all the Publishers Weekly best seller lists.  Reader's Circle A different type of book group. Reader's Circle is an online directory for book clubs and reading groups. Anyone may use it to find or start a local book club. But now to introduce a new kind of book discussion group: a reader's circle. A reader's circle is a book club where people attend with whatever they're reading.  Reading Group Choices Reading Group Choices is an opinionated guide of great books to read and discuss that have been published by independent presses as well as major publishers.  Reading Group Gold (St. Martins Press) Book discussion guides, author interviews, meeting ideas, and more!  Reading Group Guides Find reading group guides online, for books from all publishers!  Reading Group Guides (Beacon Press) From Beacon Press, a selection of reading group guides perfect for book groups and community discussions. Titles are organized by fiction/nonfiction and alphabetized by author's last name within those categories.  Reading Group Guides (Hachette Books) Reading group guides, by title, author and category.  Reading Group Guides (Henry Holt) Reading group guides by title.  Reading Group Guides (Random House) Find a book discussion guide by title, author, or subject area!  Reading Groups (Harper Collins) How to's, book discussion guides, author info, and more!  Reading Women A place for readers and book discussion groups looking beyond the bestseller lists for their reading selections.  Shelfari Create and share lists of your favorite books. Users may write reviews and provide their own “tags” or folksonomy.  The Mystery Reader An excellent source for mystery titles---everything from police procedurals to thrillers.  The Romance Reader The very latest news and views about romance novels.  Today Show Books Books that the Today show recommends, on a variety of topics.  What to do when there's no guide Help for those "guideless" titles! Create your own guide!