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BOOKS & AUTHORS DATABASES
These databases are available from within the library and from your home or office. To access from home or office, use your library card barcode as your ID number.
All databases are funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Regional Massachusetts Library Systems unless otherwise noted.
Biography Resource Center
From the Library
From Home
Combines biographies from reference books, including Contemporary Authors, with full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals.
Contemporary Literary Criticism
From the Library
From Home
An extensive collection of literary analysis and other information on modern literature. You can find significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959.
 Literary Reference Center
From the Library
From Home
A comprehensive full-text literary reference database with detailed information on the most studied authors and their works.
 NoveList
From Anywhere
A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. Use a favorite author or title to find similar books, or find all the books in a series you enjoy. Other features include What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction. NoveList K-8 provides a student-focused interface and a database of young adult, children’s and easy titles designed for children in pre-K, elementary and middle school. Access funded by the Thomas Crane Public Library.
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