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It's Almost Time To Curl Up With A Good Book

span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" Our holiday break is just around the corner and I?m sure you can?t wait to curl up with a good book.span style="" /spanTo help you, I'd like to share a few readers? advisory tolls.span style=""br /br //span/spanspan style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" First, check your local library for NoveList Plus.span style="" /spanIt is a wonderful tool that is accessed through many public libraries. NoveList is a searchable database that /spanspan style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"provides full-text reviews and annotations for over 20,0000 titles./spanspan style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" It allows searching by author, title, series, a variety of traditional index terms, natural language terms or phrases, and Boolean combinations. /spanspan style="font-size:100%;"br /br //spanspan style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" Another great resource is a href="www.BookSpot.com" target="_parent"span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"www.BookSpot.com/span/a.span style="" /spanThis free web site is a compendium of news about books, publishing, authors, and awards.span style="" /spanIt isn?t as user friendly as NoveList, but it is packed with information.span style="" /spanBookSpot provides numerous reviews and a great deal of genre-specific information including links to the book review pages of major newspapers and to book excerpts./spanspan style="font-size:100%;"br //spanspan style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" Well, I hope these help.span style="" /spanHave a wonderful holiday break./spanbr /br /br /br /img src="http://people.hofstra.edu/staff/lisa_a_spar/images/cats_eyes.gif" /Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat

Full post as published by Virtual Library Cat's Eye View on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).