Books and Reading

Digital Materials

MyMediaMall

Check out and download eAudiobooks, eBooks, and eVideos any time of the day or night from the comfort of your home. MyMediaMall, powered by Overdrive, allows users to download to a personal computer, as well as enjoy digital content on a wide array of devices including MP3 players, IPods, CDs, Smartphones, and PDAs.

Book Lists & Reviews

Here you'll find more than 20 e-newsletters highlighting titles in specific categories. Subscribe to the categories of interest and on a regular basis you'll receive e-mail notification of new titles in those categories. And not just titles—we give you a peek at the book jacket, a brief description of each title and a direct link from the e-newsletter to the library catalog to place a hold on titles you'd like us to reserve for you. For Grayslake Library Card Holders only. Click on the icon above to get started.

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NoveList

A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For Grayslake Library Card Holders only.

Literary Reference Center

 Includes plot summaries, synopses, articles of literary criticism, author biographies, full text from over 300 literary journals, book reviews, poems, short stories, author interviews, and images of key literary figures.  For Grayslake Library Card Holders only. To access, click on EbscoHost Web and scroll to Literary Reference Center after Logging in.

Websites

The following links are free websites, the library does not subscribe to them.

Amazon.com

Barnes & Noble

Reading Group Choices

Selects discussible books and suggests discussion topics for reading groups.

What's Next-Books in Series

Helps you search for fiction books in a series.

eNotes

 "We have thousands of literature study guides, lesson plans, literary criticism, and a vibrant community."

Free Booknotes

A comprehensive guide to free book notes, free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides (like "cliff notes") for over 1600 books, plays, and poems.

CliffsNotes

Use these free CliffsNotes literature notes to help with your homework and tests.