- New
- Memphis Reads Blog
- Check out your favorite bestsellers (aka “Popular Library”
or "7-Day” books) from the Library and discuss them online. Read
original reviews written by Library staff members. Share your
thoughts about a book, offer points for discussion, or recommend
similar titles by leaving a comment at the end of a review. From
June 3 to July 29, MEMPHIS READS will be a part of
Tell Me About
A Book!, the Library’s annual Adult Summer Reading Club program
for book clubs. After that, the blog will remain an active venue
for book reviews and discussions.
- Bookletters
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BookLetters is a great new resource for readers! Read
BookLetters
on the web, or sign up for e-mail newsletters to have news of
the hottest new titles and authors, professional reviews of the
titles you want to know about, and even recommendations from our
own staff sent directly to you. BookLetters is made possible by a
grant from Mid South Reads and The Assisi Foundation.
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Bestsellers in the Library
- See lists of the top fiction and
non-fiction books according to the New York Times Book Review.
Find out the location and status of copies of the books in the library collection. Also check out what
books are checking out around the country from Library Journal.
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Book Reviews
- What Do I Read Next? Online offers over 93,000
book reviews. This interactive service can be found on
Infotrac from the
Databases
on the Library Web page. The service offers search by title,
author, subject, keyword, time period, geographic location, character
and reading level to discover your next reading adventure.
- Granger's World
of Poetry
- This database of poetry includes 250,000 poem citations, 13,000
poems in full text, 7,500 excerpts, biographies of leading poets,
and bibliographies on hundreds of poems and poets. The database
can be searched by keyword, first line, author, title, and subject.
(This service is not accessible outside the library.)
- Memphis
Public Library E-Audio Books
- A digital collection of hundreds of audio book titles that
can be downloaded for a borrowing fee of
$5 per title. E-audio books can be listened to on a desktop computer
or laptop computer, on portable devices like PDA's and smart-phones,
and in many cases can be copied to compact discs.
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- Library Book Clubs
- Join a Book Club where you can meet and discuss book selections
(both fiction and nonfiction) with other people, and at the end
of each meeting, determine the next month's book selection. The
library offers several book clubs at various library locations
and meeting times. Click for
for location and schedule information.
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Teen Reading Lists
- Recommended fiction for teens in Adventure, Fantasy, Historical,
Horror, Humor, Multicultural, Mystery, Suspense, Realism, Sports
and Science Fiction.
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Popular Collection Guide
- Find out where the most popular bestsellers, videos, DVD's
and other items are, visit the Popular Library Collection Guide.
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Collection Guide
- Looking for a particular kind of fiction, African American
materials, or books in languages other than English? This guide
will tell you which libraries have which types of books you are
looking for.
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