Weblinks Collection - Book
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Glendora Bookstores
Book Bin & Village Book Shop
Book Bin offers used books and videos. The
Village Book Shop sells new books.
Rare and
Out-of-Print Books
Advanced
Book Exchange
Brings buyers and sellers of rare,
out-of-print and antiquarian books together.
Free to searchers and buyers. Searchable by
author, title, publisher or keywords and
includes a directory of several hundred used
book dealers.
Alibris
"World's largest selection of out-of-print
books." Provides a database of over 2.5
million books for sale, a Missing/Stolen
Book Alert, and a nice set of links to
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General
Fiction and Literature Award Bibliographies
Los Angeles Times Book Awards
An annual award recognizing outstanding books in nine categories.
Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any nationality for fiction published in English or generally made available in an English translation.
National Book Award
These awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature.
Nobel Prize Winners
The official site of the Nobel Prize Awards.
New winners announced each October.
Pulitzer Prize
Annual awards by Columbia University. Prizes in Letters are for books published in the United States in the categories of fiction, biography, general non-fiction, history and poetry.
Genre
Fiction Awards
Bram Stoker Award
Each year, the Horror Writer's Association presents the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement.
Hugo Awards
Also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award, is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society.
Nobel Prize Winners
The official site of the Nobel Prize Awards.
New winners announced each October.
Mystery
Awards
Includes winners of the Agatha and Edgar
Awards. From 1986 to present.
Nebula Award
Winners
The Nebula Awards are voted on, and
presented by, active members of the Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. This
site lists past and present winners from
1965 to present.
World Fantasy Awards
A selection of presentations made by the World Fantasy convention, for various categories in the field of light and dark fantasy literature.
Children's Literature Awards
ALSC (Association for Library Service to
Children)
Award Winners
A
list of the winners to these awards: Newbery
Medal, Caldecott Medal, Wilder Medal,
Carnegie Medal, Batchelder Award, Belpré
Medal, Sibert Medal, Arbuthnot Honor Lecture
Award, and Geisel Award.
A direct link to the individual award's home
page is also present. Updated annually.
Caldecott
Book Awards
A comprehensive list of the
Caldecott
Medal Winners and Honor Books, 1938 to
present
Database of Award Winning Children's
Literature (DAWCL)
DAWCL has over 4,900 records from
57 awards across six English-speaking
countries (United States, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, England, and Ireland). Click
the link
Explanation of Awards to see a list of
awards, their countries, and a brief
explanation. Each book is indexed to some
degree so users can find it using the
form search or the keyword search.
Instructions explain what's included:
Age of Reader; Format; Setting; Genre;
Historical period; and more.
Newbery Book
Awards
A comprehensive list of the
Newbery
Medal Winners and Honor Books, 1922 to
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Los Angeles Times Best Sellers
Lists the best selling hardcover and paperback books in Southern California in fiction and nonfiction, as compiled by the Los Angeles Times. Covers the current week, and also shows previous lists going back approximately one month.
New York Times Best Sellers
Lists the best selling books nationwide, broken down into hardcover fiction, nonfiction, advice books, business books, children's books, and paperback trade fiction, mass market fiction, nonfiction and advice books, as compiled by the New York Times.
USA Today's
Top 150 Best Sellers
Lists the top 150 best selling books in the
country as compiled by USA Today.
New York
Times on the Web: Books
Includes an online version of The New
York Times Book Review that contains
extras that cannot be found in the print
edition, including the ability to read the
first chapters of featured books. Back
issues are also available. This site allows
searches of the Times's Book Archives back
to 1980 as well as searching the site for
author's name, book title, or keyword.
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Bartleby.com
- Great Books Online
Includes thousands of full-text poems,
novels, plays, essays, and other works
(including the 70 volumes of the Harvard
Classics & Shelf of Fiction) in the public
domain, as well as close to 100,000
quotations. Searchable and browsable.
Complete
Works of William Shakespeare
Includes searchable, full text of all the
Bard's works. Provides a chronological and
alphabetical listing of writings, Bartlett's
Familiar Shakespearean Quotations, plus
links to other Shakespeare sites.
NetLibrary eBooks Demonstration view
this short demo to learn how to use.
You may need to download these plug-ins first.
(Requires
Adobe Flash Player)
To use NetLibrary eBooks, you must
have a Username and Password. You must sign
up from inside the Glendora Public Library. Here’s how:
- To create your free username and password,
click
here
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You will be taken to the NetLibrary website.
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Click on the "Create a Free Account"
link in the upper right hand corner of their
website.
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To login remotely, enter your Netlibrary username and
password. Now, you can search for and
view electronic books. Ebooks are read
online using your computer.
Online Books Page
University of Pennsylvania offers a
searchable database of links to over 18,000
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Bookspot
Bookspot.com is a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best book-related content on the web. From the site, quickly and easily find bestseller lists, book awards and reviews, electronic texts, online booksellers, antique books,
author and publisher information, literary criticism, book news and events, and much more.
FantasticFiction
Bibliographies for over 10,000 authors. Throughout the site, just click on a book to see its cover picture, description and publication details.
FictionFinder
Search by place, by character, and more. See
if our library has a copy.
Juvenile Series and Sequels - Mid-Continent
Public Library
The 'Juvenile Series and Sequels' database
currently contains over 21,000 books in
series titles that are classified into three
audiences:
- Young
Adult – for high school-aged readers
- Juvenile
– appropriate for grade school through
junior high-aged readers
- Juvenile Easy – for young readers just beginning to
read
Lexile - Book Search
The Lexile Book Database contains more than
100,000 English and Spanish fiction and
non-fiction titles from more than 450
publishers. Once you know a student’s Lexile
measure, you can search the database for
books that fall within his or her Lexile
range.
You can search the Lexile Book Database using basic search
parameters:
- Title (including partial titles -- e.g., "moon"
when looking for "Goodnight Moon")
- Author (including partial names -- e.g., "rowl"
when looking for Rowling)
- Lexile Range (allows a variance around a reader's
Lexile measure)
- Keywords (searches both the book's title and its
description)
- ISBN
(allows you to target a specific title)
Mathematical Fiction
Do you like fiction and mathematics? Are you looking for a book or story that might be useful for the students in your math class? Are you interested in what our society thinks about mathematicians? Then you have come to the right place...
This list was compiled by Alex Kasman from
the College of Charleston.
Movies Based on the Books - Mid-Continent
Public Library
'Based on the Book' is a compilation of over
1,200 books, novels, short stories, and
plays that have been made into motion
pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie
Database as the authority, all movies in
this collection have been released as
feature-length films in the United States,
in English, since 1980.
  (Requires
library card for remote access)
A readers' advisory resource which assists
fiction readers in finding new authors and
titles. It contains materials for all ages
from picture books to books for adult
readers. Look for books to read by entering
descriptive terms that appear in subject
headings, reviews, and other fields in the
title records. Use a favorite author or
title as a template to locate other authors
and titles of interest. Updated monthly.
Oprah's Book Club
Lists a brief synopsis for each book
selected. Also provides information on other
non-Oprah's Book Club books featured on her
show.
Overbooked
Established in 1994, includes annotated lists of fiction, nonfiction and mystery books which received starred reviews.
Also includes themed booklists, featured title lists and hot lists of hard cover U.S. fiction releases.
Reading Rants! -- Out of the Ordinary Teen
Booklists!
A group of booklists for those of you teens
out there who need a good read, but are
wondering if there's life after Judy Blume
and Brian Jacques.
Reader's Robot - Teen
A list of over 7,000 titles in 21 genres
provided by Library Journal.
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