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Full-text coverage for more than 2000 popular magazines and journals, including Booklist, Library Journal, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, and Publisher's Weekly.

Online resources

Download audiobooks & eBooks and listen to audiobooks on your PC or portable media player.

Full-text and summaries of nonfiction books covering social studies, science and other research topics.

Biographical and critical articles on current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television.

Full text of poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches. To learn more, check out the LitFinder tutorial.

Index and abstracts to almost 3000 magazines covering a broad range of topics. Many are available in full-text, dating as far back as 1990. Includes an image database, the American Heritage Dictionary, access to full-text of Essential Documents of American History and Essential Historical Speeches, as well as full-text articles from Magill Book Reviews, covering classic literature and best sellers.

Find over 8000 titles to research or read. Individual pages from the books can be printed. NetLibrary ebooks are fully searchable. To learn more, check out the NetLibrary tutorial.

NextReads

Get great book suggestions via email! NextReads are monthly e-newsletters on different topics -- Armchair Travel, Fiction A to Z, Popular Culture, Romance, and many more!

NEW! Check out the Author Read-alikes! If you've read everything by your favorite author, subscribe to these newsletters for more suggestions.

Tool to help readers of all ages find new books based on books they’ve read or topics that interest them. To learn more about NoveList, check out the NoveList tutorial.

NoveList for kids.

Definitions and translations from over 100 full-text dictionaries on foreign languages, art, history, literature, science, and more. To learn more about Oxford Reference Online, check out the Oxford Reference Online tutorial.

Websites

Information about authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults.

Devoted to the big names in fiction, this website offers interviews, biographies, bibliographies, and points to the websites of best-selling authors.

The heart of BookBrowswer is its tools for readers, including reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, hot titles, and author’s pseudonyms.

This all-encompassing site includes book reviews, awards, criticisms, and genre listings. BookSpot also offers children’s book resources.

An email book club. Each day, you’ll get a five-minute sample from a book. But the end of the week, you’ll have read two or three chapters. If it’s a book you want to finish, visit the library!

Access over 2000 bibliographies of the best science fiction, fantasy and horror authors. Searchable by author or title.

A comprehensive site, ranging from classical and Biblical literature through twentieth century literature, theatre and drama, literary theory, women's literature and feminism, ethnicities, and nationalities, and other national literatures.

Search for awards and award winners for fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, children's literature, poetry, science fiction, horror, drama, mystery, fantasy and more.

Annotated guide to scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet, and includes categories such as, Works, Life and Times, and Criticism.

Weekly reviews, bestseller lists, and yearly “best of” lists.

Graphic novel reviews for teens.

This site provides access to the many book lists associated with Oprah’s television show, magazine, book club and personal bookshelf.

Fiction, biography, nonfiction, drama and poetry lists compiled by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association.

Started in 1994, this is a massive collection of book-related information. The core of the site is the coverage of starred reviews – lists of titles that have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, or Kirkus.

This website offers mystery readers links to author websites, mystery awards, new and bestseller title lists, as well as a wide variety of book reviews.

Access to hundreds of reviews of a wide range of new romance titles. Author profiles, biographies, and photos are also featured.

A British site designed to help you match your mood to the perfect book.

Webrary

A treasure-trove of fiction resources from the Morton Grove (Ill.) Public Library.

This British site uses user favorites to make recommendations. When items are entered into the same favorites list, they become associated with each other. The more often particular items appear on different lists, the stronger that association becomes.