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What
To Read, What To Read?
Need suggestions for yourself
or your book group? Want the latest
in New Book News?
Look no
further than our Reader's Links page!
Check
out the links below for reading group guides, reviews, synopses of
great reads, and more.
Also look here for Killingworth Library reading events: book
discussions, author visits, and staff suggestions.
Visiting the library? Be sure to check out the staff and volunteer
suggestions shelf in the New Books section -- old reads, new
reads, and information on upcoming programs.
AND JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FURTHER UPDATES, RECOMMENDATIONS,
BOOK TRAILERS, AND MORE!
ONLINE READING LINKS
Author
Yellow Pages
Directory of author websites, searchable by name or genre.
Also links to authors' newsletters, for up-to-date information on
your favorites.
Book
Browse
Recommendations, new book previews, interviews, news, and
more. Membership required.
Book
Sense
Top monthly picks by independent booksellers.
Books & Authors
(Follow this link to IConn.org.
From there, click on Search Individual Resources, then choose
Books & Authors under the Books & Reading category.)
Free from
IConn: a full database of suggested reading! Lists of
bestsellers and award winners, seasonal and readalike
suggestions, and space to create your own online Personal
Reading Room.
Children's
Literature
Award winners, featured authors and illustrators, teaching
materials for home and classroom, news and events listings.
LibriVox
Free downloadable audiobooks - "Acoustical liberation of
books in the public domain."
Lit
Lovers
Reviews, reading guides, recommendations, online courses,
book-related recipes, literary films.
Reader's
Circle
Book club networking site, featuring links to book reviews and
awards, author interviews and phone chats.
Reading
Group Choices
Online version of the yearly Reading Group Choices
publication, a subject guide to the year's top picks by discussion
groups. Also includes tips on starting and leading your own.
Reading
Group Guides
Nearly 1,800 free discussion guides. Also includes advice
and ideas for reading groups, a message board, interviews, and
contests.
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CURL
UP WITH A GREAT READ!
COMING IN
MAY:
Best Kept
Secret
- Jeffrey Archer
Mary and
Lou and Rhoda and Ted: and All the Brilliant Minds Who Made the
Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
- Jennifer Armstrong
Inferno
- Dan Brown
Benjamin
Franklin's Bastard
- Sally Cabot
Zero Hour
- Clive Cussler
A Step of
Faith
- Richard Paul Evans
Saving
Normal: an Insider Revolts Against Out-of-Control Psychiactric
Diagnosis...
- Allen Frances
NOS4A2
- Joe Hill
And the
Mountains Echoed
- Khaled Hosseini
Keep It
Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World - Bill O'Reilly
Bunker
Hill
- Nathaniel Philbrick
Montaro
Caine
- Sidney Poitier
Living the
Good Long Life: a Practical Guide to Caring for Yourself and
Others
- Martha Stewart
Long Live
the King
- Fay Weldon
...AND MANY MORE!
Complete copies of this list are available
at the library, on the Staff Recommendations shelf.
RESERVE
YOUR COPY TODAY BY CALLING THE LIBRARY
AT 663-2000,
or online through the card catalog.
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