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BOOK DISCUSSION
GUIDES:
HarperCollins:
Readers
http://www.harpercollins.com/hc/readers/index.asp
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
and The God of Small Things are just two of the 62 featured books
and perennial classics available from HarperCollins.
Main
PPI Menu - Reading Group Guide
http://www.penguinputnam.com/
Click on "Reading Group Guides" for links
to more than 90 Penguin Putnam and Topaz Romance book discussion guides,
including Lilacs on Lace,
The Women of Brewster Place, The
Deep End of the Ocean, and
The Rape of Nanking.
Books@Random:
Reading Group Guides
http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/rgg.html
Reading guides for over 130 novels and
50 nonfiction books published by Random House are available here. Included
are guides to Anywhere But Here, Your Oasis On Flame Lake,
Snow
Falling On Cedars, and an Unquiet Mind.
Reading
Group Choices
http://www.readinggroupchoices.com/
Need help in coming up with questions
for your book group to discuss? Use the index at this site to identify
guides available from Random House, St. Martin's Picador
Reader's Groups Guides, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Putnam,
Henry
Holt, and other publishers.
SimonSays.com:Reading
Guides
http://www.simonsays.com/Sections/Areas.cfm?AreaID=4
Well over 100 reading guides are available
from Simon & Schuster. Each one provides a summary of the plot, biographical
information about the author - and often, transcripts of interviews with
the author, excerpts from the book, suggested discussion questions, and
a list of related readings.

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BOOK
SELLERS:
AddALL
Book Search and Price Comparison
http://www.bookarea.com/
Simultaneously searches 41 new book stores
(including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Powells) and 10 used,
out of print, and rare book dealer's inventories, then shows which ones
have what you want, the title's availability (in stock or special order),
price (including shipping charges), and average time to ship.
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/
Approximately 3 million titles are available
through this online bookstore. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click
on "Featured in the Media" to find books recently discussed on Oprah and
National Public Radio or reviewed in the New York Times, Utne
Reader, and other sources.
BarnesandNoble.com
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Millions of fiction, nonfiction,
ebook, music, DVD, video, software, college textbooks, and other titles,
in and out of print, can be purchased here. Also includes New York Times
and Barnes & Noble best seller lists, Reader's Catalog, author
chats, and free online courses.
BookFinder.com
http://www.bookfinder.com/
A great site for comparing book prices!
BookFinder simultaneously searches the inventory, then displays price and
availablity of new, used, rare and out of print books from over a dozen
major booksellers, including:
BookWire
http://www.bookwire.com/
Lists book awards, "authors on the highway",
articles from periodicals which review books, and links to book-related
sites.
Borders.com
http://www.borders.com/
Lists and provides brief summaries of
their stock of 10 million books, CD's, and videos.\
Tattered
Cover Internet Store
http://www.tatteredcover.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
An independent bookstore housing over half a million books
(all new, not used) -- with an extensive and unique assortment of titles.

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BOOK
SUGGESTIONS:
BookBrowser:
Reading Lists
http://www.bookbrowser.com/ReadingList/index.html
Looking for a good mystery, romance, general
fiction, horror or science fiction book to read? You'll find plenty of
suggestions here!
Genrereflecting
Books of the Week
http://www.mancon.com/genre/
Summarizes three books, each week, in
different genre - romance, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, etc.
Popular
Fiction - Readers' Advisory Tool Pages
http://members.home.net/albeej/pages/PopularFiction.html
Great links to genre fiction websites
and to readers advisory tools like "MatchBook", "Readalikes", "Reader's
Robot", "What's Great to Read", "Word of Mouth", and others.
Reader's
Corner: Mystery, Romance and Fantasy
http://www.autopen.com/index.shtml
Articles about genre fiction and lists
of recommended mystery, romance, and fantasy titles.
Romance
Writers of America: Romance Novels Database
http://www.rwanational.com/titlesdatabasesearchmenu.stm
You'll find all the latest romance titles
here, including those penned by Minnesota's own Amelia Autin, Pamela Bauer,
Jane Bonander, Connie Brockway, Edna Curry, Kathleen Eagle, Lois Greiman,
Michele Hauf, Susan Johnson, Susan Kay Law, Candace Schuler, Ana Seymour,
and Susan Sizemore.
Soon's
Historical Fiction Site
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon/histfiction/
Scroll down the page for a "Master List
of Historical Fiction Writers" and links to both recently published historical
fiction and to historical fiction by type and era.

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ELECTRONIC
BOOKS:
Alex:
A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Includes several thousand titles, mainly
classics of American and British literature, and Western philosophy.
Digital
Librarian: Electronic Texts & Primary Sources
http://www.digital-librarian.com/electronic.html
Links to collections of electronic books
on the Web.
netLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp
Minnesota library users can simultaneously
search the full text of more than 1,540 reference books for information.
Information can be read online, or library users can set up a free
netLibrary account at their library. With the account, they are
able to check out and download a reference book, or one of over 4,400 public
domain titles, to their home computer. Access to the netLibrary collection
of reference e-books is made possible by funds granted by the Minnesota
Legislature to MINITEX. Some
reference titles available on 8-hour loan include: Encyclopedia of African-American
Heritage, Gangs: A Reference Handbook, and School Violence:
A Reference Handbook.
On-Line
Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Classical and scientific/technological
books that are meant to be read online. A sampling of the more than 12,000
titles available include The Red Badge of Courage, the Bible,
Shakepeare's works, Decline of the Sea Turtles, and the Internet
Publishing Handbook.
Project
Gutenberg Index
http://www.promo.net/pg/
More than 2,900 books in the public domain,
most of them published before 1923, have been transferred to electronic
form through Project Gutenberg. Titles which can be freely downloaded from
the Internet range from Abraham Lincoln and
Adam Bede to
Zincali:
An Account of the Gypsies of Spain.
Washingtonpost.com:
Style Chapter One
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/books/chapterone.htm
Now you can read the first chapter of
selected new fiction and nonfiction books online! Connect with "Chapter
One" and choose from dozens of new books available in electronic format.
Internet Archive: Universal Access to Human Knowledge
http://www.archive.org/
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

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AUTHORS:
BookPage
Online
http://www.bookpage.com/
Click on the name of any author listed
under "Book Page Interviews", then scroll downt to the names listed on
the left side of the page, and select from over 100 authors, including
Gary Paulsen, Jane Yolen, Laura Landvik, Sara Paretsky, Scott Turlow, and
Alice Walker..
Literary
Calendar: an Almanac of Literary Information
http://litcal.yasuda-u.ac.jp/LitCalendar.shtml
Search by birth month and day for authors
from Shakespeare to Dickinson. This Japanese site also provides links to
web sites about the more than 2,700 authors in its database.
Literary
Menagerie
http://home.olemiss.edu/~egcash/
An A to Z listing of websites about authors
and their literary works. Includes modern authors like Edward Abbey and
Roger Zelazny and classical authors like Jane Austen and William Wordsworth.
Minnesota
Author Biographies Project
http://www.metronet.lib.mn.us/biog/index.cfm
A collaboration of Metronet, the Minnesota
Center for the Book, and the Minnesota Historical Society, this site provides
biographical information about 36 Minnesota authors.
Minnesota
Center for the Book
http://www.mnbooks.org/
Click on "Minnesota Book Awards" for names
of authors nominated for the awards from 1988 to the present, and for a
list of Minnesota authors who have won national awards.

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LITERARY CRITICISMS:
IPL
Online Literary Criticism Collection
http://www.ipl.org/ref/litcrit/
The Internet Public Library offers links
to 4,000 websites that have biographical information about authors and/or
scholarly literary criticisms of American literature from 1600AD to the
present, and of British literature predating 1500AD through the 20th Century.
Literary
Resources - American
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
Links to webpages about American authors,
literary time periods, and electronic texts.
VoS
English Literature - Main Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Links to webpages about authors and literature
of the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Canada, South Africa, and
other English-speaking countries from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present
time.

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POETRY:
Find
A Poem - The Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/poems/search.cfm
Browse or search for the title, or first
line, of over 600 poems.
Atlantic
Monthly's Poetry Pages
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/poetpage.htm
Listen to contemporary poet's reading
their poems, search a collection of poems published in "Atlantic Monthly",
including those of Emerson, Frost, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier, or
read articles about writing poetry.
Glossary
of Poetic Terms
http://shoga.wwa.com/~rgs/glossary.html
A comprehensive dictionary of forms and
terminology for poets.
HTI
American Verse Project
http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/amverse/
Over 120 books of American verse, written
prior to 1920, can be read online. Poets include Benet, Dunbar, Emerson,
Longfellow, Poe, Sandburg, Teasdale, and Whitman.
Literature
& Poetry Page
http://www.netten.net/~bmassey/
Biographical sketches and the text of
several representative poems from the works of Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost,
Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Donne, Rudyard Kipling,
and 30 other classic poets.
Verse.Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
Thousands of poems from 32 books of poetry
and six anthologies can be searched at this site. The anthologies included
in the database are:
The Golden Treasury, Lyrics and Poetry of
the 17th Century,
Modern American Poetry, Modern British
Poetry, Oxford Book of English Verse, and the Yale Book of
American Verse.

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QUOTATIONS:
Aphorisms
Galore!
http://www.aphorismsgalore.com
Who said, "Seventy percent of success
in life is showing up"? Search or browse this collection of 1,947 apt phrases
to find out!
Bartlett,
John. 1901. Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html
Search "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"
by one or more keywords in the quotation, or, browse chronological or alphabetical
lists of authors of famous quotations.
Cole's
Quotables
http://www2.xtdl.com/~scole/
Searchable collection of classic and contemporary
quotes.
Creative
Quotations for Creative Thinking
http://www.bemorecreative.com/home-cq.shtml
Search this database of over 25,000 quotations
by author, author's occupation, author's homeland, or a keyword in the
quotation. There is also a monthly calendar of quotations penned by people
born that month and day.
Kerrie
DeGood Quotes Page
http://www.fn.net/~degood/quotes.html
Modern and classical quotes are arranged
here under 51 categories.
Quotations
Home Page
http://www.geocities.com/~spanoudi/quote.html
This site includes more than 23,500 quotes,
compiled by Steve Spanoudis, searchable by author, topic, and keyword,
and arranged into 30 categories.
Quotations
Page: Search for Quotations
http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3
Search nine collections, including Michael
Moncour's own "MM's Cynical Quotes", simultaneously, by either a
quotation, or its author.

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PLAYS:
Interplay
http://www.lib.pdx.edu/systems/interplay/
Index to thousands of plays published
in collections, anthologies, or periodicals.

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SHORT
STORIES:
ClassicReader.com
http://classicreader.com/
ClassicReader.com, where you can read, search, and annotate great works of
literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and more.
Fiction.Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/fiction/
A collection of short story collections: The Short Story, The
Haunters and the Haunted, Winesburg,Ohio, Five Short Stories,
Three Stories, The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales,
and Monday Or Tuesday.

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