Articles & Information
Books
Here you will find many online resources that can enhance your reading experience. Included are tools for selecting books - reviews and lists, finding books - libraries and bookstores, information on authors, and book discussions.
Note: These online subscription resources require a Henrico library card number for use outside the library.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
[in the library] [outside the library]
Contemporary Literary Criticism--Select is an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. Each CLC--Select entry contains a biographical/critical introduction, listing of principal works and sources for further study.
Literary Reference Center
[in the library] [outside the library]
Plot summaries, synopses and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies & interviews; full text of literary journals; book reviews; classic & contemporary poems; classic & contemporary short stories; full text of classic novels (anticipated by Fall 2006); and images of key literary figures. The database contains the Bloom Series and all of MagillOnLiterature Plus™, including the Masterplots series.
NetLibrary
[in the library] [outside the library]
NOTE: You MUST have a have a Henrico Library Card and a NetLibrary Account to access eAudiobooks and eBooks. Read these instructions.
NetLibrary offers two types of electronic books: eBooks -- which can be read on any computer and eAudiobooks which you can download to your computer and optionally to your portable listening device. eAudiobooks can be downloaded only on computers outside the libraries.
NoveList
[in the library] [outside the library]
Electronic readers' advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles.
WilsonWeb
[in the library] [outside the library]
A searchable collection of bibliographical databases that provides selective annotated lists of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children, young adults, and adults.
What Do I Read Next?
[in the library] [outside the library]
Includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 60,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards, all to help users uncover new reading adventures.
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