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Contents:
[ Reviews, Recommendaions, Awards ] [ Literary Potpourri: News, Programs, Issues, Activities, Events ]
[ Shopping Resources ]

  Reviews, Recommendations, Awards

o Amazon.com
    ...searchable multi-source book reviews, hardcover and paperback availability
o Best Book Lists (American Library Association)
o Booker McConnell Prizes
o BookWire
    ...Publishers' Weekly reviews and best book lists
o BookWire: Book Awards
    ...extensive listing of well-known and less publicized book awards
o Children's Literature: Book Awards
o Edgar Allan Poe Awards
o Hugo Awards Archive: Science Fiction
o Literature Award Winners Lists
o National Book Awards
o New York Times Book Reviews
    ...archive of 50,000 reviews since 1980
o Nobel Prize Internet Archives
o Oprah's Book Club
    ...American Library Association site featuring Oprah's selections, club information
o Other Award Sites
    ...links to a few book award sites, inc. first chapters of Newbery winners
o Pulitzer Prizes


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  Literary Potpourri: News, Programs, Issues, Activities, Events

o Book Fairs and Literary Festivals
o Booklist (American Library Association magazine)
o Book-Related Organizations and Programs
o BookWeb (American Booksellers Association)
    ...booksellers' news, industry issues and events, reports, statistics, literary awards
o Center for the Book
    ...Library of Congress vehicle for stimulating interest in reading, libraries, literacy
o Children's Literature Web Guide
    ...features young adult and children's literature
o Mystery Writers of America
    ...mystery awards, calendar of events, writer discussions, links
o PEN American Center
    ...book issues and features, writers' and literacy programs, literary awards


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  Shopping Resources

o Advanced Book Exchange
    ...locates used, rare, and out-of-print books, includes subject browsing
o Alibris
    ...locates used, rare, and out-of-print books, inc. email notice of subsequent finds
o Amazon.com
    ...searchable multi-source book reviews, hardcover and paperback availability
o barnesandnoble.com
    ...extensive in-stock selection, large magazine and software departments
o Best Book Buys
    ...searches 25 online bookstores for best price, posts special discount info
o Bibliofind
    ...locates used, rare, and out-of-print books, periodicals, and ephemera
o BookFinder
    ...locates new, used, rare, and out-of-print books
o Publishers' Catalogues Home Page
o Web Guide...Best Online Book Stores
    ...links to well-stocked and sometimes inexpensive book and magazine vendors





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