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Bookletters
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Books in Print 
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Fiction Connection
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Nonfiction Connection 
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Resources provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the SouthEastern Massachusetts Regional Library System:

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
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An extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary writers. Each entry also contains a biographical/critical introduction, a list of principal works, and sources for further study. 

Ebsco Literary Reference Center 
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A comprehensive, full-text  database designed to provide a broad spectrum of literary reference information from antiquity to the present day.  It includes information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. 

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Virtual Reference Library 
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A mix of more than 20 full-text reference books covering the arts, biography, business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science.