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The Readers' Advisory Room and Fiction Collection are located on the third floor
of the library.
Staff for this collection can be reached at 919-560-0147
or email us at libraryfiction@co.durham.nc.us.
To find out if the resources listed on these pages are currently available, please check our online catalog.
| General Fiction | Mystery | Romance | Inspirational |
| Science Fiction/Fantasy | Horror | African-American | Westerns |
These databases are provided by NCLIVE. Use from outside the library requires
a password. For more information:
A collection of information regarding books that have been challenged over the past year.
Provides links to thousands of international publisher and vendor web sites. These links are regularly updated and added to by acquisitions librarians from academic libraries.
A self-described "books you thought you'd never find" treasure.
Although this is a commercial site, it provides great information about books. Besides having the ability to search the site, there are also lists of best sellers, books featured in the media, award winners, and subject categories.
This site allows users to search for used or rare books and booksellers who have them available for purchase in association with Amazon.com.
Book reviews, ads, and best seller lists.
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. Available at the Main Library and Branches.
Contains newsworthy items about the book industry, publishers, and the latest bestsellers.
Links to more than 6100 library web sites in over 100 countries
A wonderful collection of full-text online books that have been the object of censorship in one form or another.
Used, new, or out of print, Powells Book Store knows just where to get it for you.
The official site of the popular Durham bookstore, the Regulator online provides a decidedly local twist to choosing books with lists of staff favorites, new books by local authors, and an email list for Regulator regulars.
This web site gathers multiple online reviews of recently released books. It mines the Internet to find reviews that the casual web surfer can access.
Worldcat through OCLC FirstSearchUnion catalog of materials in libraries world-wide.
Last update:January 9, 2008