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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.
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Requires a JCLC card.
Websites
Author Yellowpages.com
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Author Yellowpages.com is a searchable directory of author websites.
Bookreporter.com
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Book reviews, interviews and excerpts on all the latest books as well as special features and polls may be found here.
Book Awards
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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
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Book reviews back to1981 from the New York Times Book Review are archived and searchable.
Overbooked.org
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"A web site (formerly known as Book Links) for ravenous readers. Overbooked specializes in literary and genre fiction information."
Project Gutenberg
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Probably the largest and best-known repository of electronic texts, provided in formats of Text, HTML, EPUB, Kindle and more.
Read the Books
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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
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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
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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
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Gives profiles of over sixty Alabama authors with links to authors by county.
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