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Books & Literature

Amazon.com Books
Search for a title to see both professional and reader reviews.

Bartleby.com Online Books
An alphabetical index to full-text classics available for free from Bartleby.com.

Book Passage
Corte Madera's beloved independent bookseller; site includes Elaine's picks and a program calendar.

Books In Print with Reviews (Remote access requires MARINet library card & PIN.)
EBSCOhost database of approximately 2.5 million in print, forthcoming, or out-of-print books. The database also contains more than 500,000 full text reviews, updated monthly.

Fiction Connection (Remote access requires MARINet library card & PIN.)
Find books to read using the unique AquaBrowser which allows you to broaden or narrow your search in a new, fluid way. Give it a try!

Guardian Unlimited Books
Book reviews and news from England's Guardian and Observer newspapers.

Literary Reference Center(In-Library use only)
Literary Reference Center(Access from home or work; Belvedere & Tiburon residents only)
LRC is a comprehensive database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.

Literature Resource Center (In-Library use only)
Literature Resource Center (Access from home or work; Belvedere & Tiburon residents only)
Biographies and criticism from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, all major reference works published by the Gale Group.

NetLibrary (Remote access requires member account which must initally be set up inside the Library.)
Search thousands of full-length books that you can read over the Web
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New York Review of Books
Selection of reviews and articles from the bi-weekly print magazine.

New York Times: Books
Book reviews and articles from The New York Times and the Sunday Book Review. Requires free registration.

New York Times Best-Seller Lists
Fiction, non-fiction, children's, business, and paperback lists from The New York Times.

NoveList (Use this link for In-Library use)
NoveList (Use this link to login from home with your Library Card)
Readers' Advisory resource. Find new fiction books and authors based on your old favorites.

Powell's Books
Web home of one of the country's largest independent booksellers.

Readers' Links
A list of the most useful Web sites by reading genre, selected by Belvedere-Tiburon librarians.

San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Reviews from the Sunday books section of the newspaper.

San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers
Top-selling fiction and non-fiction in the Bay Area, updated weekly.

Today in Literature
Calendar of stories about books, writers, and events in literary history.

USA Today Books
Focus is on best sellers and best-selling authors.

USA Today 150 Best-Selling Books
List of the best-selling books in America, hardbacks and paperbacks listed together.

Washington Post Book World
Recent reviews from The Washington Post.
Registration may be required for access.

World of Poetry (In-Library use only)
World of Poetry (Access from home or work; Belvedere & Tiburon residents only)
Columbia Granger's full-text database of poetry, with commentaries & biographies.


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