A very useful resource on literature by women, searchable by name, country, date or ethnicity, The site include many complete books on-line.
Literature
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Literature
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Authors / Criticisms
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Free online access to the full text content of 180 literature guides. Students can ask a question to get started on an assignment through the interactive site “Ask Cliffs” and get an online answer.
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A compiled list of Native American authors with biographical information and online texts included.
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Online study guides similar to Cliff Note. Great source for students.
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A Collection of information about Victorian authors and the society they lived in.
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Booklists & Book Review
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Online version of the book review magazine.
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The guide for avid reviews with fiction reading lists, book reviews, forthcoming titles, author information and much more.
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Get book recommendations, keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read, form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes.
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Major library review publication.
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Partnership between Las Comadres and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) to promote reading of Latino authors. Membership is open to everyone. Most books are also available in Spanish.
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National public library staff picks list of the monthly ten most recommended titles. The focus is on adult publications, and the previous months are archived on the site.
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The most recent week of book reviews in the Times. There is also access to the on-line book reviews, and a handy calendar of local literary events.
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The preeminent literary review journal, available full-text back to 1996.
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The most recent week of the world's most popular book review, archived back to 1996.
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What is Oprah reading? Find out here or exchange opinions with other bibliophiles.
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Resources and selections for lively book discussions.
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Site for Science Fiction and Fantasy fans.
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General
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An excellent hotlist of book-related resources, including discussion groups, authors, bookstores with price comparisons, bestseller lists, prizes, publishers, on-line texts, and more.
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Online holdings of books, videos, audio, maps, and other materials held by libraries in California, provided by OCLC.
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Search the catalogues of the Library of Congress, which contain almost 12 million items and 5 million authority records ( the names all types of authors.)
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Register and agree to terms to browse Literary Market Place, and gain limited free access to trade services and resources, and basic information on publishers and literary agents worldwide.
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Grammar, Writing, & Style
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A list of hundreds of grammatical mistakes and commonly confused words in American English.
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William Strunk's classic guide to good writing.
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Formats bibliographies and works cited for researchers, writers and students.
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Writing handouts that cover a wide range of topics from the introduction, argument, summary, citations, punctuation, reviews, speeches, and more are available to non-students for non-commercial use.
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Literary Awards
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A yearly prize for an international author who has conferred the greatest benefit on mankind
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A searchable database of many literary awards.
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Several annual prizes for excellence in journalism, literature, drama, and music.
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Online Bookstores
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Alibris is an online store that sells new books, used books, out-of-print books, rare books, and other media through an online network of independent booksellers.
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A distributor and book dealer, similar to Amazon. Many books have links to outside reviews and author interviews.
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Chegg.com offers options to rent textbooks, buy textbooks (new & used), or sell back used textbooks.
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A network of independent bookstores, with many books and reviews by local booksellers.
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A major retailer of new and used books, which offers free shipping on books orders, as well as synopses and reviews of many books the store staff.
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A one-stop resources for buying, selling and renting textbooks, study guides and practice tests.
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Online Texts
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Full-text documents in English literature, American Literature, and Western Philosophy, with a searchable index. It is also possible to search within the texts themselves.
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An amazing collection of on-line classics, including literature, non-fiction, poetry, and reference.
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Provides Open-Access scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a research platform to scholars worldwide in print, eBooks, journals, working papers, previously published papers and conferences. Powered by the California Digital Library.
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Download full copies of out-of-copyright books from a variety of public domain titles.
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
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A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music.
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The original site for on-line texts, Project Gutenberg is still on the cutting edge with over 10,000 classics, including many international titles.
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Access to over 15,000 free self-published downloadable eBooks by Indie authors. Click on "Free" at the top of the page to list only free titles.
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This digital archive hosts over 1,800 children’s fiction, poems, and educational books dating from 1728 to 1999. This collection is searchable by popularity, title, date published, and creator.
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Out of Print Books
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A network of used bookstores, listing over 28 million titles for sale.
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Another network of used bookstores and rare book dealers, which includes free shipping on larger orders and special services for librarians and collectors.
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Used, textbooks, rare, and out-of-print books from a global network of independent booksellers.
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A comprehensive book search engine that includes 30,000 new and used book dealers and databases to find over 50 million new, used, rare, and out of print books
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Search multiple sites to verify and locate old, rare, and out-of-print books.
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Poetry
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The official society for American poetry, including a large collection of poems, information about authors, an events calendar, and even audio version of famous poems.
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Searchable archive of pre-1920 American poetry.
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A major collection and hotlist of contemporary poetry, including authors, poems, publishers, magazines and online e-zines.
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A review and calendar of poetry events for California.
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Quotations
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The tenth edition of this classic collection, with an index by date and author, and a concordance.
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Searchable catalog of quotations with additional features.
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