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An Adventure at Every Turn

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A&E Book Club

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The Reading Group Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start Your Own Book Club

by Rachel W. Jacobsohn

Talking About Books: A Step-By-Step Guide for Participating in a Book Discussion Group

by Marcia Fineman

The Reading Group Book: The Complete Guide to Starting and Sustaining a Reading Group, With Annotated Lists of 250 Titles for Provocative Discussion

by David Laskin and Holly Hughes (contributor)

The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group

by Ellen Slezak (editor) and Margaret Eleanor Atwood

What to Read: The Essential Guide for for Reading Group Members and Other Book Lovers

by Mickey Pearlman

The Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading

by Shireen Dodson and Teresa Barker (contributor)

100 Books for Girls to Grow On

by Shireen Dodson

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Applewood Books

Reproductions of Nancy Drea and Hardy Boys

Author Yellowpages

searchable database of author websites

The Angelique Series

fan page

Books@Random

Random House home page

Penguin Putnam Inc.

Sue Grafton

Author of Kinsey Milhone "Alphabet" mysteries.

Time Warner Books

Hyperion Books

Also includes Theia.

The James Lee Burke Internet Guide

Award Winning author of the Dave Robicheaux series

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Random House Literary Imprint

Sisters in Crime

Women Mystery Writers

Partners in Crime HQ

Susan Wittig Albert and Bill Albert's homepage, authors of the China Bayles Herbal Mysteries and the Robin Page Victorian Mysteries

Kensington Books

Romance

Sweetacre's Jan Karon Links Page

A fan page for Jan Karon, author of the charming Mitford series

New Mexico Mysteries

series and single titles set in New Mexico

Ivan Scott

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Harlequin Superromance Authors

Intrigue Authors: romantic suspense novels

Eclectics

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Painted Rock Writer's and Reader's Colony

Paris Press

Publishes books by women.

Subversion: Celebrating Women's Fiction

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Bookwire

Inside the Book Business

Bookreporter

Bibliomania

Free online literature.

Reader's Advisory on the Internet

Milwaukee Public Library

Reader's Advisory Suggestions

Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Library

Reader's Advisory site

Mountain Lit

A web site devoted to West Virginia authors and their writing from the Bridgeport Public Library (Bridgeport, West Virginia)

Conference on Southern Literature in Chattanooga, TN March 31 - April 2, 2005

Biennial Conference on Southern Literature, April 23-24, 2003 2001 Conference

Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest online

Cluelass

Mystery Reader's resource

Tangled Web UK

Book Lover's Resources

A comprehensive resource page for readers.

Mystery Writers of America

Find award-winning mystery authors.

TennesseeWilliams.net

The Tennessee Wiliams New Orleans Literary Festival

Society for the Study of Southern Literature

Devoted to Scholarship on Writers and Writing in the American South

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Read My Reviews

Tears of the Giraffe

The House on Mango Street

by Sandra Cisneros

The Map of Love

Booker Prize finalist by Ahdaf Soueif

Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed

by Sark

Eagle Catcher

Susan Wittig Albert

author of the China Bayles herbal mysteries

Nevada Barr

author of the Anna Pidgeon mysteries

Lord Peter

anthology of Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey short stories

Lynn Kurland

author of a series of time-travel romances

Longitude

Death on a Cold, Wild River

Dove in the Window

Language of Letting Go

At Home In Mitford

Neon Rain

Zen and the Art of Murder

Nancy Drew Mysteries

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Book Collecting

Book Collecting on the Web, Mostly

Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Assocation

Sponsors of the Atlanta Antiquarian Book Fair

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First Year College and University Summer Reading Selections

• Appalachian State A Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America by Paul Cuadros
• Berry College I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Case Western Reserve University The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
• Dartmouth College Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli (Summer 2007), Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, As related to and edited by Solomon Volkov (Summer 2006), Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder (Summer 2005), and Previous Summer Readings
• Georgia Institute of Technology Freakanomics: a Rouge Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Summer 2007) and Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societes by Jared Diamond (Summer 2006)
• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Skidmore College Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Smith College Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• University of Dayton The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank by David Bornstein
• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions by Sister Helen Prejean Carolina Summer Reading Program
• University of Washington Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
• College of Wooster The Riverkeepers by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and John Cronin
• Colgate University The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore
• Ithaca College Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Seton Hall University The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Smith College Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi

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