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Please Note: If you are coming in from outside the Library buildings or its subscription modem pool, the resoures on this page may require either your Farmington Community Library Card bar code number and the last 4 digits of your home phone number or your Metro Net subscription username and password for access .
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BookNook (BookLetters) BookNook is a unique Internet tool that integrates Faarmington Community Library's offerings with patron interests by using technology to strengthen patron communication channels. It provides an e-newsletter and set of web pages that lets library users receive book and library news on their computers and immediately connect into the Library's web site, e-resources and catalog. 
An extremely useful source for book club participants as well as students. Allows you to search for author biographies, bibliographies, and full-text criticism of an author's works and literary career. You can search Title to find related critical essays and Authors by Type (which includes options such as Author Ethnicity, Author Nationality, Genre, Theme, and Literary Movement or Time Period.)
Lit Finder is a unique database of full-text poems, stories, essays, speeches, and plays focusing on the humanities and social sciences, and includes biographies and literary criticism. You can search by title or author, or use the subject navigator organized into a hierarchy of groupings, leading from the most general to the most specific.
Michigan Authors and Illustrators (MIAI) is a database of information on authors and illustrators born in Michigan, who live in Michigan, or who have written books about or set in Michigan. Each entry includes biographical information, lists of works by the person and lists of works about the person. More complete information is available for those authors and illustrators who provide information to us. The database is a collaboration of the Michigan Association of Media in Education (MAME), the Library of Michigan (LM) and the Michigan Center for the Book (MCFB).
NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, 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.
This is the source to use when you need a good book recommendation. The database features more than 100,000 recommended titles and can be searched by title, author, subject, time period, geographic location, character, or reading level. Features include Help Me Find a Book, Genre Search, Award Winners and I. Cumulates entries from print sources including What Do I Read Next? What Do Young Adults Read Next?, What Do Children Read Next?, What Historical Novel Do I Read Next?, and others..
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