Reader's Corner

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
~Jorge Luis Borges

Summer Reading 2010

Library Staff Recommendations
Check out Bedford Library staff recommendations

Top Requests List
Find out what patrons in the Minuteman Library Network have been requesting.



Book Lovers' Websites

Bookbrowse
This website provides book lists, book reviews, author interviews, author biographies, and excerpts from books.

 

Nancy Pearl's Book Lust Forever

"Nancy Pearl is a librarian with a love of books so strong it has been officially classified as lust." Read reviews from her blog.

 

Overbooked
This is a website "for ravenous readers."  Overbooked includes author web pages, and  annotated lists of fiction and nonfiction books.



Library Databases

Click on "Search Databases" and enter your library card number to access the databases below.

Biography Resource Center
Biographies of many people from around the world from all time. Includes author biogrpahies.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
Along with articles on an author's work from a range of periodicals and reference works, such as Contemporary Authors, also contains a brief review of the author's life, works, and critical reception.

Expanded Academic
This database of magazines and journal articles includes many literary publications.


Massachusetts Newsstand
Search for book reviews and author interviews in full-text coverage of major Massachusetts newspapers including the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Quincy Patriot Ledger, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, and others.

New York Times Book Review

Novelist
This database provides a wealth of information about authors and books, including discussion guides.