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Reading, Viewing, Listening

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Get NextReads™ Newsletters Sent to Your Email

NextReads: a product of Novelist

After a brief pilot project we are offering access to the NextReads™ newsletter service. You pick what newsletters you want sent to your email account from our NextReads™ opt-in page.

The NextReads™ newsletters include recently released titles and, depending on the newsletter, may include additional recommendations of older books for fans of a particular author, or lists of books grouped by a theme. For example, the thematic section of Armchair Travel will occasionally focus on travel to a specific country, or Fantasy may include a round-up of Time Travel titles. Each newsletter is crafted by librarians and readers’ advisory specialists to provide readers with inspiring and interesting reading (and listening!) choices.

Please sent comments about the service to Toni Blessing.

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Finding the Next Great Story

Our Reading, Viewing, Listening pages serve as a jumping off point for the sometimes overwhelming sea of media.

KCPL's staff are devoted to helping you find the right book, video, or music to suit your tastes and regularly create thematic lists that you can find in our Reading, Viewing, Listening pages.

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Features

Keep an eye out each month for new pick lists, special web sites we have found, and new reading maps that we add to our site.

portrait of Nancy Pearl

Pearl's Picks - Each month we bring you book reviews from rock-star librarian Nancy Pearl.

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Past Picks

A good book, movie or album never truely gets old, so as we bring you new features to keep things fresh on the web site, we save pick lists we have taken down to this section.

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Readers' Resources

Imagine a place that collects only the best online resources based on your interests and then arranges them so they will be easy for you to find…

From Our Collection

Specialized searches and listings in our online catalog of award-winners, best sellers, new items, and media types.

Other Resources

If you want the best of what's on the web related to your favorite genres, the links in these sections will point you to what our librarians have bookmarked.

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Related Links

The library pays for subscriptions to resources not freely available. Discover treasures from the "hidden web" you won't find from a general web search.

KCPL Online Book Clubs

Join a KCPL OnLine Book Club and get e-mailed a chapter a day to try out new titles. Clubs include: nonfiction, pre-publications, fiction, horror, mystery, business, audio, teen, good news, science fiction, and romance.

NoveList Plus

Have you read everything by your favorite author and want to read something similar? Need to know what is the next book in the series? Looking for a guide to lead a book group discussion? Looking for good non-fiction to read? Novelist helps answer all these questions and many more. more information...

Authors 4 Teens

A chance to get up close and personal with 50 of the some hottest teen authors. Authors4Teens has in depth interviews with authors and links to further information on popular authors. more information...

Literature Resource Center

Are you writing a paper about an author? Getting ready for a book club meeting? Want to know more about a favourite author? Literature Resource Center explores the works of 130,000 authors. more information...

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