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Databases
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Literature Resource Center - GaleNet
Provides access to
biographies, bibliographies, and literary criticism of
authors from every age and literary discipline. A valid library card number is needed to access this
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LitFINDER
LitFinder (includes poems, stories, plays, essays, & speeches) -
An index to thousands of poems, short stories, plays, essays and
speeches. Includes many in full-text, plus explanations,
biographies, pictures, and more. |
Novelist
An electronic readers’ advisory
resource which assists fiction readers in finding new
authors and titles. A valid library card number is needed to access this
database from home. |
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Language
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Bartlett's
Familiar
Quotations
Searches
for quotes by keyword from
listed authors, Shakespeare's plays, and the Bible. |
Bibliomania
Virtual library of thousands of full-text e-books, poems, articles,
short stories, plays, biographies, and reference books. Useful study
guides require registration but are also free. |
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Booknotes
Companion web site to C-SPAN series. Contains searchable archives of
author interviews back to 1989 and schedules of upcoming shows.
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Ethnologue:
Languages of the World
The
electronic version of the Ethnologue, the Ethnologue
Language Name Index, and the Ethnologue Language Family Index, with information on 6,703
languages.
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Google Language Tools
The award-winning search engine offers language tools
which will translate phrases and even whole web pages.
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Guide to
Grammar
& Writing
Almost everything you need to know about English grammar,
about writing and formatting research papers and essays,
and about improving your writing style. Take quizzes to
test your knowledge.
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Guide to Writing a Basic Essay
Find help on choosing a topic, then follow simple
steps which will guide you through the process of writing from
outline to finishing touches.
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iLoveLanguages
More
than 2,000 links to language-related web sites. Language
lessons, translation dictionaries, native literatures
and almost anything relevant to human languages. |
Language Learning Library
Guide to learning Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian,
and Spanish. Provides basic grammar, alphabet, numbers, common phrases, telling time;
pronunciation clues, links to online dictionaries, and brief notes on culture.
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OneLook Dictionaries
Search over 500 online dictionaries with over 2,800,000
words from this one site. |
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Phrase
Finder
Searches
from a database of 2,000 phrases from key words you
submit. Some listings include origins for the phrase.
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Rhyming
Dictionary
It
will try to rhyme any word you submit (but don't ask it
for words to rhyme with "gry".)
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Roget's
Thesaurus
The
University of
Chicago's searchable public domain thesaurus.
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Say
"Hello"
Learn
how to greet others in over 700 languages.
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World Wide Words
Find information, articles, or submit questions about
English words, phrases and usage. Subscribe to a weekly
newsletter and find links to many related web sites.
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WWWebster Dictionary
Merriam-Webster looks it up and tells you what it
means (also gives etymology and links to synonyms). |
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yourDictionary.com
Has links to over 2,500 dictionaries for more than 300
languages and in 90 specialty areas including medicine,
law, finance, sports, thesauri and rhyming. Links to
numerous sites on linguistics, writing systems, endangered
languages and to an archive of articles.
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Literature
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The
Academy of American Poets
Biographies and photos of
over 200 poets; collection of nearly 1,000 poems;
"Listening Booth" of poems, many read by the
author; poetry awards and exhibits.
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The
Atlantic Online Poetry Pages
Online
poetry journal of the Atlantic Monthly Magazine.
Reviews, essays and interviews with poets. Poems
in text and audio version.
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Bartleby.com:
Great Books Online
Searchable database
containing the full-text of fiction, nonfiction and
reference books and poetry, including all 70 volumes
of The Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction,
free of charge.
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Bibliomysteries
Annotated reading lists of "mysteries that have settings, plots or
substantial characters in them related to the world of books,
writers, archives, and libraries." Look at the "key to icons" to
clarify your search.
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The Booklist
Center
Enjoy browsing hundreds of categorized book lists,
including comprehensive listings of award winners, at this
site which claims to be "The Web's Largest Collection of
Book Lists." |
Bookwire
Find more than 5,000 links to book and publishing sites.
The Menu on the far left of the screen or the Search icon
at the top of the screen will guide you to over 18,000
links to the book industry, including author information,
reviews, publishers, reading lists, literary events,
statistics and much more.
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Gale
Literary Index
A searchable index to the
various criticism series found in many libraries. |
Glossary
of
Poetic Terms
Features
phonetic pronunciations, definitions, examples, poetic
quotations, writers guidelines and links to other useful
poetry sites.
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Internet
Public Library Literary Criticism Collection
Enter search terms to locate websites containing literary
criticism and authors' biographies, or browse by author,
title, nationality or literary period.
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Librarians' Index to
the Internet/Literature and Books
User friendly guide and links to hundreds
of sites from "Apocalyptic Literature" to "Young Adult
Literature" and 47 other categories. Evaluated and
monitored by librarians.
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The
New York
Review of Books
Contains
the current issue, plus a searchable index of the
magazine's contents from 1963 to the present, with full
text of all articles published in the Review
since November 1996.
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The
Online
Books Page
Indexes over 15,000 full-text books in
English and many foreign languages which can be read or
downloaded, for free, on the Internet.
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Oprah
Books
The home page for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club with
summaries of each book on the list.
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Overbooked
Web site for "ravenous readers." It has links to authors'
web pages, annotated reading lists of books which received
starred reviews, reading lists by theme and genre, lists
of new and "hot" fiction, reviews.
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Reader's
Advisory
A
collection of useful web resources courtesy of the Palm
Beach County Library System.
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Reading
Groups
An
extensive list of online reading groups and resources
for reading groups.
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Webrary
Fiction Lists
Lists
of various specialized genres collected from the "Fiction_L"
listserv.
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Biography
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Biographical
Dictionary
A searchable
biographical dictionary of over 25,000 individuals.
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Dead
People
Server
Living
and Dead Celebrities: tries to answer the question,
"isn't he dead, already?"
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Find A Grave
A searchable database with
over 3 million graves, including many celebrity sites.
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The following Internet sites have been selected for
their value as reference sources. Although reviewed by library staff
at the time of inclusion in this list, the Palm Beach County Library
System is not responsible for their contents.