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For lovers of books at Hastings Central Library.

Once a month on Wednesdays
10.30 – 11.30am.
Come along and talk with others about the books you’ve read, your favourite authors etc.

We’ll have some new issues for you to borrow.
 

 

 

EPIC Databases
For Login Patron ID: please use your full Hastings, Flaxmere or Havelock North library card number.

EBSCO for NoveList  now online!
This is an outstanding database for lovers of fiction.  Want to find books similar to your favourites? A favourite author or title search is available to locate other authors and titles of interest.

You may also browse full-text reviews, theme oriented books lists, awards list in best fiction, learn more about books and authors through feature articles, book discussion guides and book talks.

NoveList contains materials for all ages. It is updated online monthly and adds about 10,000 new fiction records per year.

Gale What Do I Read Next?   Another excellent database, with lots of useful searches: author search, title and series search, genre search, award winners. This database also allows you to search by character, topic, setting and time period.  The Help Me Find a Book helps find books similar to others you have enjoyed.

Gale Literature Resource Center - More than 415,000 full-text journal articles from more than 250 literary journals.
Database has thousands of critical essays, plot summaries, and work overviews, author biographies and portraits, definitions of literary terms, and links to authoritative related Web sites.

New Zealand Writers - NZ Book Council - over 350 pages on NZ writers.

Booksellers NZ Speaking Volumes - lists of book reviews on National Radio, TV NZ's Good Morning and Children's book reviews on Nine to Noon.

Booksellers NZ Best Sellers - lists of NZ current best sellers.

Booksellers NZ Premier Best Sellers - lists of books that have achieved outstanding sales in NZ.

Book-Club NZ - for reviews, discussions book clubbers & booklovers

New Zealand Literature Links
National Library - Te Puna's extensive list of sites

Montana Book Festival 2005

AllReaders.Com   (International) Comprehensive Readers' Advisory site

New Zealand Book Council
- including NZ literary events, news, writers' biographies

New Zealand Literature File 
Auckland University site includes an A-Z of New Zealand authors & their works

New Zealand Literature Links
National Library - Te Puna's extensive list of sites

Booksellers of New Zealand  
Includes Montana NZ Book Awards
& NZ Post Children's Book Festival

Literary Index - Main Menu (International)

Literature Awards (International)

Yahoo Literature & Review Links (International) Extensive list of reviews

 

 


 

 

 

 


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