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Mar. 14, 2014
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LitFinder
Description
LitFinder provides the opportunity to study great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, and plays.
Availability
Requires a JCLC card.
Tutorials
Product Tour  Flash required
Search Tips  Microsoft Word document
Sample Searches  HTML document
Biography Resource Center
Description
Biographical information on more than a million notable historical and contemporary individuals. Facts, summaries, articles, and pictures.
Availability
Requires a JCLC card and residence in Birmingham, AL.
Tutorials
Fact Sheet  PDF document
Search Tips  PDF document
Navigation Guide  PDF document
Sample Searches  HTML document
Video Tutorial  Video tutorial by BPL on YouTube (length 8:58)
Websites
Author Yellowpages.com
Description
Author Yellowpages.com is a searchable directory of author websites.
Bookreporter.com
Description
Book reviews, interviews and excerpts on all the latest books as well as special features and polls may be found here.
Book Awards
Description
From Bookspot.com's internet site, find out who won the Pulitzer Prize, the Caldecott Medal, the Newbery Medal, the Nobel Prize for Literature, the PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as many other literary awards.
New York Times Book Review
Description
Book reviews back to1981 from the New York Times Book Review are archived and searchable.
Oprah's Book Club
Description
Join Oprah Winfrey to discuss books and other issues of interest to readers and writers.
Overbooked.org
Description
"A web site (formerly known as Book Links) for ravenous readers. Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information."
Project Gutenberg
Description
Probably the largest and best-known repository of electronic texts, provided in formats of Text, HTML, EPUB, Kindle and more.
Read the Books
Description
Find Birmingham area school reading lists and other books with AR points and reading level. Focuses on reading material for K-12.
Reading Group Guides
Description
ReadingGroupGuides.com is a Web site "built especially for reading groups, providing them with all they need to make their book club experience better than ever."
Alabama Authors
Alabama Authors and Their Works
Description
A compilation of 20th Century and 21st Century Alabama authors and their works as compiled by the members of the Alabama Library Association's Bibliographic Committee.
Alabama's Literary Landscape: This Goodly Land
Description
Gives profiles of over sixty Alabama authors with links to authors by county.
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