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Portland Library Links to ... amazon.com - Big Selection of products, including free electronic greeting cards, online auctions, and millions of books, CDs, videos, DVDs, toys and games, and electronics. Barnes and Noble - Focuses largely on the sale of books, music, software, magazines, prints, posters, and related products, the company has capitalized on the recognized brand value of the Barnes & Noble name to become the second largest, and one of the fastest growing, online distributors of books. Bibliofind - Thousands of booksellers offer for sale more than ten million used and rare books, periodicals and ephemera. BookPage - features the reviews and coverage of BookPage, as well as archives of BookPage Web since the January 1996 issue. It typically reviews up to 100 of each month's new fiction, nonfiction, business, children's, spoken word audio, and how-to books. BookFinder.com - It connects readers to over 15,000 booksellers from around the world; it's devoted to finding used and rare books. Booknotes - The Omicron Inforium sponsors booknotes.com, which is devoted to providing information for and about independent publishers, specialty booksellers, and their organizations. Books and Authors - Stuck on the question of "what do I read next"? Let Books and Authors spice up your reading with our expert title recommendations, online reading rooms, librarian favorite lists, and more. Chapter-A-Day Online Book Club - Enroll in the free OnLine Book Club and start receiving books in your daily e-mail. Receive a five minute selection from a book from Monday through Friday. After emailing two or three complete chapters, we’ll start a new book. Enroll and start reading tomorrow. If you like a book, you can finish it by checking it out from our library. Children's Literature - The Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is a subscription-based information retrieval service designed to meet the needs of organizations and individuals who work with children's books. The website also has these featured sections: themed reviews, meet the author and illustrator, teaching materials, and children's literature. New York Review of Books - Articles from the current issue of this literary and critical journal with the ability to search its archives. Novelist - Fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, for over 125,000 titles Nutmeg Children's Book Award - The award, sponsored by Connecticut Library Association and the Connecticut Educational Media Association, encourages children in grades 4 -5 to read quality literature and choose their favorite. Fiction_L: An Electronic Mailing List on Reader's Advisory - Developed for and by librarians. Topics include: genre study, bibliographies, workshops, audiobooks, and reading clubs. Pearl's
Picks Project Gutenberg Texts of books that are in the public domain. Last updated: 03/23/2011 |