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Do you like to read biographies, history, science, travel adventures, mysteries, fantasy, romance? Whatever your interests, check out our new e-mail newsletter service which will send great book suggestions by email.		Looking for the perfect book? With more than 220,000 fiction titles and over 60,000 nonfiction titles, NoveList Plus has something for everyone. NoveList Plus also has: Author Read-alikes, Recommended Reads and Book Discussion Guides.

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You can now download audiobooks onto your PC and transfer them onto your MP3 player or iPod.  Overdrive is a digital download service that provides:

WMA Audiobooks in the OverDrive Media Console™ format
MP3 Audiobooks in the OverDrive Media Console™ format

Literary Resources

Biography Resource Center includes biographies, full-text magazine articles, images, and website links.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select is an extensive collection of more than 11,000 critical essays on contemporary authors.

Contemporary Novelist Contains biographical/critical essays on the most important living novelists writing in English worldwide.

More Reading Links

Allreaders.com features detailed book reviews from many different genres of books. Enter your own reviews and be listed as a scholar!

Book Page typically reviews up to 100 of each month’s new fiction, nonfiction, business, children’s, spoken word audio, and how-to books, with a focus on bestsellers and new discoveries.

Books & Bytes provides information on mystery, science fiction, fantasy, and romance authors.

BookSpot is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the Web by serving as a portal for readers of all genres, age groups, and subject areas. You can even talk up your recent read in the discussion groups.

Contemporary Literary Criticism is a library database providing an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC–Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, critical essays, and sources for further study. Remote Access

Fantastic Fiction offers booklists for over 25,000 authors and information on over 300,000 books, including upcoming titles.

Genrefluent is the official web site of author, editor, reviewer, reader, and librarian Diana Tixier Herald, and a great place to find out about new books for adults and teens who read for the fun of it.

Historical Fiction Lists provides links to library booklists for different time periods as well as mystery and romance historical fiction.

Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about literary and genre fiction as well as readable nonfiction. Overbooked originals include annotated lists of nonfiction, fiction and mystery books which received starred reviews, themed booklists, featured titles lists and hot lists of hardcover US fiction releases.

What’s Next? is a service offered by Kent District Library to help you search adult fiction in series by title, author, or series title. If you ever picked up a book in the middle of a series and aren’t sure where you are, if you want to know if your current selection is part of a series, this is the search for you.