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    Biography Resource Center

    Provides information on more than 275,000 people throughout history from around the world from reference books and journal articles.
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    Books in Print

    Books in Print is a fully searchable bibliographic database with over 5 million in-print, out of print, forthcoming, book, audio book and video/DVD titles. It includes reviews from Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and Choice and contact/address information for more than 200,000 publishers, distributors and wholesalers.
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    Critical Companion to Popular Contemporary Writers

    An in-depth analysis of current, best-selling fiction providing details about the complexities of these carefully selected titles.
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    Credo

    Credo is a collection of 284 reference books, all of them in electronic format. They are cross indexed and available to you either from the library or from your home. The collection includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, atlases, and books of quotations. Coverage includes most subjects.
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    Literature in Context

    A rich collection of primary source material, collateral readings, and commentary that helps students understand the historical, social, and cultural milieu associated with major literary works.
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    Literature Resource Center

    Includes biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world
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    Last update: December 5, 2007