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Novelist Plus - With information on over 250,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles included, plus feature content including lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Recommended Reads and more, NoveList Plus is a complete readers' resource. Paid, in part, by the Friends of the Library. You need your library card number to log in.

Novelist Plus K-8 - an online database with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students including BookTalks, Recommended Reads book lists, annotations, first chapter excerpts, as well as tools like Lexile scores and popularity ratings. Paid, in part, by the Friends of the Library. You need your library card number to log in.

Reader's Assistance

Author Yellow Pages - links to author and publisher sites. Browsable by author or genre.
Based on the Book - movies based on books, short stories and plays
BookSpot
Book Care and Repair Resources
Bookwire - Book industry news, info, events, features, etc.
The National Book Awards
Reading Group Choices - find book club discussion guides for hundreds of books back to 1996.
Setting Based Book List - find books by location of setting
USA Today's Book Shelf - See book reviews, first chapters, best sellers, etc.
WorldCat - find books in libraries all over, results let you see nearby libraries who have what your looking for!

Full Text Online and E-Books

CourseSmart - buy college textbooks as ebooks or online resource up to 50% off the price of a hardback.
Get Free Books - a free ebooks site where you can download totally free, collected from all over the net
Free Ebooks - Free downladable Ebooks in html, pdf and txt formats. ePub and Mobi formats require a VIP membership.
NOLO Books Online - free consumer legal books online to help you with legal issues such as renter's rights, foreclosure, small claims, tickets, probate, etc.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.
Bartleby.com - a supurb collection of searchable full text books ranging from Gray's Anatomy to poetry collections.
Bibliomania - Short stories, books and poetry
Bullfinch's Mythology
Internet Sacred Text Archive - the largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
Classic Reader Short Stories - this site spotlights some of the world's greatest short stories, full text of other works: drama, fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Some author portraits and biographies are available. (heavy advertising on the pages)
Directory of Open Access Journals - This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages.
EServer Fiction - This site offers works of and about fiction collected from members, contributing authors worldwide, and texts in the public domain.
The Internet Public Library Online Texts Collection -- Read fiction, non-fiction, poetry, etc. online
ManyBooks.Net - download out-of-copyright books to a smart device or e-reader
Public Library of Science - a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.
Project Gutenberg - THE place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.
Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Complete Works of Charles Dickens - devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens
The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Poetry
- American Verse Project - 85 volumes of pre-1920 verse, ranging from Emerson and Jones Very to Sandburg and H.D. Searches include single word, phrase, proximity and boolean.
- Internet Poetry Archive
- PoemHunter.com - poetry search engine with access to thousands of poems and poets with many downloadable e-books
- The Poet's Corner - one of the largest text resources on the web, user friendly site promotes browsing and exploring
- Walt Whitman Archive - includes works, biography, images and criticism

Online Bookstores

AddAll - for used, rare and out of print titles.
Amazon.com - The Online Bookstore
Barnes and Noble Online Bookstore
Bookfinder4U - Get the best deal, this site compares prices at 55 online bookstores!
Books Price - check the price on multiple books silmultaneously.
Chambal - like the above site, this site queries multiple online booksellers and reports the prices for any given title. It's worth checking both sites as the results are surprisingly variable!
Half.com - a part of eBay, these seem to be the cheapest prices of all!
Borders Books and Music

Used and Rare Books

Abebooks - Used and rare books
Alibris - Out of Print Books
Antiquarian Booksellers of America - A good site for finding rare books
Bookfinder - searches a number of sites for rare and used books
Bibliofind- Used, old and rare books for sale online

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