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Books and Authors: Explore the latest fiction and non-fiction, and find out about authors. Profiles, plot summaries and awards information.
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Literature Resource Center: Research the most-studied authors and literary disciplines. Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis, plus reviews, poems and short stories from journals and magazines.
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NoveList K8 Plus: Find new authors and reading options using your favourite writer, book or story as a starting point. Search by age group, title, author, series or genre.
NoveList Plus: Find new authors and reading options using your favourite writer, book or genre as a starting point.
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OverDrive: Free audiobook and e-book collection. Contains some Project Gutenberg titles. Regularly updated. Requires free OverDrive software installation.
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Popular Magazines: Articles from the most searched for magazine titles based on searches performed by library customers.Titles range from Time, National Geographic, Newsweek and Fortune to Vanity Fair, Men's Health and Sports Illustrated.
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Short Story Index: A detailed index of more than 76,500 stories from more than 4,025 collections. This reference database grows by 4,000 records each year, and includes coverage dating back to 1984.
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English: Published by Cambridge University Press, 1993. Electronic Resource from Credo reference.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 2000. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 1996. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 1996. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature: Published by Oxford University Press, 2000. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms: Published by Oxford University Press, 1996. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works: Published by Oxford University Press, 2001. Electronic Resource from Oxford Reference Online.
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Literature @ Credo referenceplus: A collection of reference books covering Literature.
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Literature @ Oxford Reference Online: A collection of reference books covering Literature.
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A booklover's guide to New Zealand: Region by region information about writers, literary locations and quotes. Includes literary map of New Zealand
AustLit: AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between ten Australian Universities and the National Library of Australia providing authoritative information on hundreds of thousands of creative and critical Australian literature works relating to more than 75,000 Australian authors and literary organisations. Its coverage spans 1780 to the present day.
Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ): BPANZ is the trade association of book publishers and distributors in New Zealand and represents the interests of the industry to government and other agencies. Serves as a professional organisation, providing a range of services including training.
BookCrossing.com - Read and Release!
Books into film and television: Archive of the "book of the film" list based on movies currently showing and what's screening on free to air television.
Bookseller + Publisher: Bookseller + Publisher Online, incorporating the Weekly Book Newsletter, is the online information portal for book industry professionals in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.
Cambridge History of English & American Literature: From Bartleby.com
Chicklit: Aims to to increase your chick lit reading pile to towering heights; to provide a fun place to browse for books and chat with other fans of the genre; and to provide the latest, greatest and most thorough chick lit information available.
Christchurch School for Young Writers Christchurch: Creative writing courses for children aged 8-18. Our aim is to teach young people to have responsive and investigative minds as well as power and pride in the use of written language skills
Early New Zealand Books Project: Aims to provide the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
Encyclopedia Mythica: Mythology, mysticism and folklore from around the world. Provides articles, images, genealogy tables and correct pronunciations.
English @ Studyit: for NCEA students: Studyit is an online learning environment for NCEA english students.
Freelance writers marketplace: New Zealand run site for freelance writers and market place for work. List your name and profile or post a freelance job.
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales: Provides a wide range of glossed Middle English texts and translations of analogues relevant to Chaucer’s works, as well as selections from relevant works by earlier and later writers, critical articles from a variety of perspectives, graphics, and general information on life in the Middle Ages.
Goodreads: Get great book recommendations from people you know. Keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read. Form a book club, answer book trivia, collect your favorite quotes.
Google Book Search
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International Institute of Modern Letters Te Pūtahi Tuhi Auaha o Te Ao: creative writing at Victoria University
Library Booklists and Bibliographies: This website consists of four sections: original booklists on various topics, primarily but not entirely focused on themes, places, characters, and plots of crime novels; annotated lists of other booklists, primarily but not entirely focused on fiction, for adults, kids, and teens; a growing calendar of authors' birthdates, organised by month, with links; and some resources for reading groups (discussion questions, recommended books, how to start a group, etc.).
LibraryThing: LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalogue their books. Because everyone catalogues together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
Literature in New Zealand 1930-1960: Explore the context of the flowering of New Zealand literature. From nzhistory.net
MysteryNet: Online mysteries, mystery games, mystery books and resources. For everyone who enjoys a mystery.
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
New Zealand Guild of Storytellers: The objectives of the Guild include preserving and practising, promoting and enjoying the ancient art of storytelling. The Guild provides current information on storytelling events and visiting storytellers and news about happenings with New Zealand storytellers.
Open Book: Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics. From BBC Radio 4
Overbooked: Overbooked specializes in providing timely information about literary & genre fiction as well as readable nonfiction. Includes author web pages, reviews, themed and title booklists.
Pacific Rim Voices: Pacific Rim Voices consists of a series of projects - the Kiriyama Prize, the young readers’ website PaperTigers, and an online literary magazine, WaterBridge Review - centered on books and reading as a means to encourage greater understanding of and among the peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim and South Asia.
Seattle Public Library: Reading Lists: Collection of reading lists for children, teens, and adults, created by staff at the Seattle Public Library. Includes a series of lists on Pacific Northwest explorers and travellers, fiction set in Seattle and Washington state, Seattle mysteries, local science fiction and fantasy authors, and more.
The Thrilling Detective
Uchronia: The Alternate History List: Uchronia: The Alternate History List is a bibliography of over 2800 novels, stories, essays and other printed material involving the "what ifs" of history.
WaterBridge Review: aims to celebrate and promote the world of books from and about the Pacific Rim and South Asia
Whichbook.net: Search for books by genre or type, including happy/sad, conventional/weird, funny/serious, romantic/realist, sex/no sex, and types of characters, plots, settings, etc. Each book has a reader comment, sometimes an extract, and the option to search for similar titles.

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