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"Great Reads"
Bestseller Lists
- The
Amazon.com 100
- "The 100 titles Amazon.com customers couldn't live without in the last 24
hours. Updated hourly."
- Barnes
& Noble Bestsellers
- Barnes & Noble Top 100 Bestsellers from both online and in-store sales.
- New York Times
Bestseller List
- "The Times on the Web will now publish the New York Times best-seller
lists a week in advance of the printed Sunday Book Review." Complete lists
require free registration to the New York Times Web Site.
Other great reads...
- NY
Times 100 Notable Books of the Year-2008
- Selected by The Book Review from books.
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- NY
Times Book Reviews
- Search book reviews back to 1980. Also has new book reviews and links to reading
groups for different genres. Requires free registration.
- Salon.com
Books
- Book reviews of interesting and off-beat books. Recommendations monthly ("What
to Read In..." the given month)
- Sleepers:
Books You May Have Missed
- Recommended titles both fiction and non-fiction. This is a great resource for
books you don't always see on the bestseller lists. Updated reguarly.
NetLibrary
is a collection of online books (eBooks). Using netLibrary, you can access a
wide range of scholarly and reference materials entirely online.
- Based
on the Book
- A listing of movies that are based on books, short stories, and plays. Searchable
by movie title, book title, movie release year, and book author.
- What's
Next
- Search by author or title to see what comes next in a series.
- The
Internet Book List
- Search for books by author, genre, title, series and more. Also has online
book discussions and ratings from readers. Similar to the Internet
Movie Database.
- Stop,
You're Killing Me
- A great resource for mystery and suspense books. Includes chronological lists
of books and dates on future releases. Search and browse by author or character.
- Clearwater History
- Books about Clearwater and the surrounding communities.
- Teen Reads
- Includes school reading lists and books geared toward teens.
Also Check out GaleNet's What
Do I Read Next? and Literature Resource Center, available anywhere with a CPLS
library card.
Library-Related Sites
- American Library Association
- ALA provides "leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement
of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order
to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all."
- Library of Congress
- Special collections, U.S. History, Exhibitions, forms and information from the
Copyright office, and great research information.
- Libweb - Library WWW Sites
- A database of library sites from around the world. Updated daily.
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- Local Libraries
- A list of Pinellas County public libraries.
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