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LitFinder
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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.
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Biography Resource Center
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Biographical information on more than a million notable historical and contemporary individuals. Facts, summaries, articles, and pictures.
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Requires a JCLC card and residence in Birmingham, AL.
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Author Yellowpages.com
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Author Yellowpages.com is a searchable directory of author websites.
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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.
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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.
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New York Times Book Review
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Book reviews back to1981 from the New York Times Book Review are archived and searchable.
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Oprah's Book Club
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Join Oprah Winfrey to discuss books and other issues of interest to readers and writers.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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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