This Milwaukee Public Library list of over 100 popular African American authors contains links to the CountyCat online catalog for a quick check of titles and their availability.
Read about authors and poets, enjoy book excerpts or listen to poetry, learn about popular and interesting new books and classic titles, find publishers, bookstores, and more concerning African American Literature.
This site offers short book reviews by nonprofessional book enthusiasts in the categories of sci-fi, mystery/thiller, literature, romance, biography, and history. Books can also be searched by plot, character, setting and writing style.
Want to know what that book is worth? Or a map, signed photo, autograph, letter, manuscript or other printed or handwritten paper item? If it, or something similar, came up for auction from September 1, 1975 through last month, you'll find it on American Book Prices Current. The database is updated monthly with actual hammer prices from public auctions held in North America, Europe, Australia and other locations. Library subscription.
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Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition is an EBSCO database for school and public libraries. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for 1,290 popular nonfiction books. The database includes high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, adventure, sports, Native Americans, the United States, Canada, biographies, nature, civics and more. Award winning titles are an integral part of this database and Book Collection Nonfiction: Elementary School Edition features 300 books that have received highly acclaimed reviews from School Library Journal, BookList, or Publishers Weekly. Search the database by entering a topic you want to learn more about. It is particularly useful for assignments when a whole class must find material on similar topics. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition is an EBSCO database for school and public libraries, which provides content including popular series from top book publishers. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for 2,448 popular grades 9-12 nonfiction books, including high interest titles on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more. This database includes 1,464 books which are part of the Accelerated Reader program. Search a topic of interest to find full-text books on the subject. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition is designed by EBSCO for school and public libraries to provide content representing a wide spectrum of works, including popular series from top book publishers. It contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for 3,089 popular nonfiction books. Book Collection Nonfiction: Middle School Edition provides an interesting variety of high interest books on careers, health, life skills, ethnicity, disabilities, adventure, sports, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more. To see specific titles, click on the "Books" link on the EBSCO toolbar. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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Where does an author's life intersect an author's works? In the pages of the Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, that's where! This digitized version of the printed work also brings you complete online access to all the volumes of Gale's popular reference sets, Dictionary of Literary Biography (main series) as well as Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series and Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook Series. For more information on literature and authors, check out Something About the Author Online and Literature Criticism Online. Library subscription.
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This is a master index to every literary series published by Gale. It combines and cross references more than 130,000 author names including pseudonyms and variant names and more than 140,000 titles into one source to provide quick and easy access to the printed editions of Gale Publishing's 43 literary series (Click on about to read a complete description of what the index covers). This is an INDEX, not a full-text resource.
Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Produced by an imprint of EBSCO Publishing, this database includes all data from Humanities International Index (over 2,200 titles and 2.8 million records) plus unique full text content, much of which is not found in other databases, plus full text for more than 1,140 journals. Humanities International Complete is useful for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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Searching for just the right words? Lit Finder can connect you with them fast! From ancient times to the present day, there's a way to express it in Lit Finder. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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The Literary Reference Center provides users with a broad spectrum of information on literature from antiquity to the present day. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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Find your favorite literary reference works here! Authors, literary styles, genres and time periods are easily retrieved. For more in-depth information on your search topic, click on these links too: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online and Something About the Author Online. The results of online searches may be attractively printed in .pdf format or e-mailed as plain text or in html format. Library subscription.
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An entire suite of readers' advisory products, NoveList contains not only a core of 150,000 fiction titles, but 4,000 articles and lists, book talks, and book discussion guides (great for book groups!). Many genres, from graphic novels to Christian fiction are included here. An EBSCO product, NoveList also offers avid booklovers author read-alikes, readers' advisory training content and a variety of other reader and staff materials. With books for all ages, lists of award winning titles, a guide to books in series, attractive cover images, and a colorful design, NoveList has something to appeal to every reader! Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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A subset of the full NoveList database, NoveList K-8 is specially designed for children and teen readers. Produced by EBSCO, this database includes author biographies, recommended titles, books in series, and book cover art images. Teachers & parents can subscribe to two special newsletters found here: NoveList School News and NoveList RA News. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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Hear a book! See a book! Read a book! One More Story is an online library of children's classic and contemporary literature. Included among the over 50+ featured titles are such popular books as Crow Boy, Mouse Paint, and Pete's a Pizza. Through a simple point and click process, children can choose a book, see the illustrations and listen to the book out loud while following along as each word is highlighted. The guide is a bookworm and music accents the charming presentation - kids will want to come to the library for their personal storytime to read these books over and over again! Library subscription.
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Learn more about favorite authors and illustrators of the best books for children and young adults. From Cengage/Gale, Something About the Author Online is a complete archive that preserves the full experience of the print reference series. It provides a backfile of searchable pages digitized directly from the print volumes, from 1971 to current volumes as they are released, more than 230 volumes and over 19,000 entries. Search on an author's name and the screen will display the writer's biographical profile in Something About the Author's familiar format: personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author's life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more. For more information on authors and their writings, check out Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online and Literature Criticism Online. Search results may be printed or e-mailed. Library subscription.
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This site is dedicated to reviewing street fiction, also known as urban fiction, street lit, or gangsta fiction. Search by author, publisher, setting, or theme.
TeachingBooks is a multimedia resource center that generates enthusiasm for books and reading by providing easy access to authors, illustrators and other book resources all in one place. Included are original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, book guides with activities for the library and classroom, audio excerpts of book readings for grades PreK-12, pronunciation of author names by the authors themselves and links to author websites. Provided as part of Wisconsin's BadgerLink program. Library subscription.
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Magazines, newsletters, serials, annuals, databases. Find them all in Ulrichsweb.com, the online version of the well-known Ulrich's Periodicals Directory. Coverage is international in scope, and historical information on ceased publications is provided. Details in each listing usually include publisher name and contact data, frequency of publication, format, indexing available, and circulation figures. Library subscription.
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