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A comprehensive online literary site, Literature Resource Center addresses all facets of literary study in one highly searchable interface. Its extensive reference material includes biographical, bibliographical, critical, and contextual information on more than 120,000 authors and their works. Features include Scribner Writer's Series of 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series, as well as the full text of 200 frequently used Twayne Literary Masters books on individual World, US, or English authors, for a total of 600 full-text titles. Periodicals and journals on the database can be found here. What Do I Read Next?
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This site provides access to many current books with access to reviews, author interviews and excerpts. Manybooks.net
There are a number of places to get books online, but this recent addition is definitely worth a look. Manybooks.net has adapted over 10,000 e-texts created by the Project Gutenberg DVD and placed them online in a host of formats, including pdf, eReader, and as Palm document files. Visitors can begin by browsing by author, title, category, or language. Some of the languages covered in the database include Dutch, Esperanto, Swedish, Tagalog, and Welsh. You can browse through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews from visitors, or special collections. Also includes an ebook cover page, where you can peruse the covers of many of the books contained within the archive. New Zealand Libraries' Catalogue
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Visit our Fiction page for news, staff and reader recommendations and website links. Booklists
Complete lists of our new fiction (general, mysteries, science fiction & fantasy, short stories and large print) are available every month. MyLibrary
Every month we select our favourite new books on different subjects such as management, fiction, design, cooking and children's books. By visiting MyLibrary, you can read reviews and see images of the covers. MasterFILE Premier
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