Books and Literature
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- Amazon.com
- A good place to start when you're not sure where else to
turn to find information about titles, authors and years of publication.
- Barnes
and Noble
- A good alternative to Amazon.com for finding out
information on books, videos, and other items.
- LitFinder
- Full-text and primary content vital to literature and
language study. Access poems, plays, speeches, short stories and more
at
any time.
- Quotations Book
- Quotations Book has 40,000 + Quotes by 7,000 + People with hundreds being added each daily.
- Kirkus
Online
- founded in 1933, published 24 times annually and reviews,
three to four months pre-publication, approximately 5,000 titles per
year: fiction, mysteries, sci-fi, translations, nonfiction, and
children's books. The reviews are reliable and authoritative, written
by specialists selected for their knowledge and expertise in a
particular field.
- Literature
Resource Center
- Designed to meet the research needs of undergraduate and
high school students, the Literature Resource Center provides access to
biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every
age and literary discipline.
- NoveList
- NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject
heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000
fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction
readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book
Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.
- Contemporary
Authors
- Access to current biographical and bibliographical data on
more than 120,000 modern authors.
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