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About Books and Literature
 

Resources provided by Thayer Public Library: 

Bookletters
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Find book reviews and information on hundreds of authors  and stay connected with Thayer Public Library through BookLetters newsletter e-mails.  

Books in Print 
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Find books, movies, and audio books in this user-friendly database of over 5 million titles.  

Fiction Connection
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Find book suggestions based on titles you have already read, authors you like, or topics of interest to you.  

Nonfiction Connection 
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Search by title, author or topic to find nonfiction books.  Or find suggestions based on setting, location or timeframe. 

Salem Literature
From Home  From the Library

Access to the following Critical Insights titles on Salem Literature:
Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Statewide databases provided by the Massachusetts Library System (denoted by *) or the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners:

Books and Authors*
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Books & Authors offers new ways to explore  books, authors, genres and topics by combining over 140,000 titles, 50,000 authors, and thousands of read-alike, award winner and librarian’s favorites lists.  Books & Authors makes exploration of genre fiction and essential non-fiction easy and fun. 

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

Literature Resource Center*
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This current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature resource includes critical, biographical and contextual materials on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.  Includes biographical entries on more than 135,000 authors, more than 850,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 390 scholarly journals and literary magazines, and more than 75,000 selected full-text critical essays and reviews.  

LitFinder*
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Covering world literature and authors throughout history, LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more. 

PowerSearch
 
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Select multiple databases from a  list and then search across all of the databases you have chosen.
   
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.

   

 

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