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    Books/Literature

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    bullet A Simple Book Repair Manual - - from Dartmouth College

    bullet Amazon Bookstore - - the "earth's biggest bookstore"

    bullet Amazon Bookstore - - text only version

    bullet American Booksellers Association - - information on independent bookstores in the U.S.

    bullet Baker and Taylor Homepage -

    bullet Barnes and Noble Booksellers -

    bullet Bartelby's - - classics of literature, non-fiction, poetry on the Internet

    bullet Best Book Buys - - includes used textbooks

    bullet Best Sellers - - from 1900 to 1990s - both fiction and nonfiction (from 1912)

    bullet bibliomania - - text of 2000 classics, author biographies, book notes and much more...

    bullet Book Spot -

    bullet Booklist Homepage - - Includes reviews and best book lists

    bullet BookMuse - - provides book group members and readers materials regarding reading and discussion of books

    bullet Booknotes - - information on C-Span featured authors/books

    bullet BookWire - - book information

    bullet Charles Dickens Page - - by David Perdue

    bullet Children's Literature Web Guide -

    bullet Copyright Office - - search for copyright information on books, music recordings, movies, software, etc.

    bullet Dear Reader - - email book club

    bullet Free Book Notes - - summaries and analysis for over 250 literary classics

    bullet Google Books - - search digital images of full-text or previews of books on a variety of topics.

    bullet isbn.nu - - search for books and compare prices

    bullet Lambda Literary Foundation - - lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender literature

    bullet Lexile - - Widely adopted reading measure, a lexile denotes both reading ability and text difficulty on the same scale

    bullet Literary Criticism -

    bullet Minnesota - Top 150 books - - Ongoing creation of a list of the top 150 books about MN or written by Minnesotans

    bullet Minnesota Authors Biography Project - -

    bullet Minnesota Book Awards - -

    bullet Minnesota Readers - - social web site about books and reading - from Minnesota Public Radio

    bullet National Public Radio Books Page - -

    bullet New York Times - Books section -

    bullet OAIster - - search portal for digital collections of electronic books, online journals, audio and image files and movies provided by the research library community - 1.26 million records from 185+ institutions

    bullet Online Books Page - -

    bullet On-Line Literary Resources -

    bullet Oprah's Book Club -

    bullet Project Gutenberg -

    bullet Radio Talking Book - - from Minnesota State Services for the Blind

    bullet Rochester Reads - - reading program for the city of Rochester

    bullet Search Ebooks - - search the full text of thousands of online books

    bullet Spark Notes - - similar to Cliffs Notes

    bullet Talking Volumes - - Star Tribune's book club

    bullet Your Old Books - - information on rare/old books


    *These links have been selected by RPL staff based on reviews or their usefulness to staff and library patrons. For additional sites in this subject area, try one of these SEARCH TOOLS

    Last updated: 12/3/07