What's Next In Series

What's Next Book in Series database from Kent District Library help you to find the books written in a series for adult and children's titles. Search by author, series, book title, and or/genre.

Want to find out the titles of all of the Alex Cross books from James Patterson? Just do an author search for James Patterson. If you only know the name of the series, that's OK! Just do a series search for "Alex Cross" and the database will retrieve a list of Alex Cross novels, in the order that they were written.

BookLust: A Community for People Who Love Books

Former librarian and bookseller Nancy Pearl has created Booklust, a wiki with books and reviews that she has created, along with comments and reviews from registered users. You can create an account by clicking on the yellow "Sign up" button on the upper right part of the page.

Nancy Pearl's book, Booklust and More Book Lust can both be found in the Library in section 011.73 PEA. These books include hundreds of book recommendations from this self confessed readaholic.

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weRead: Books, Authors, and More!

weRead is a site for booklovers that lets you enter books that you have read and provide ratings and reviews for those titles. You can then see what other users have to say about those books and see what readers with similar tastes are reading. This is a great way to keep track of books that you have read and also find new books to read. Users can follow weRead using Twitter or take their entire bookshelf to Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Browse books by title or author or participate in a book discussion here.

Take a tour to see how weRead works here.

New York Times Bestseller Lists

Take a look at the latest books on the New York Times Bestseller lists.

You can check to see if a book is available by searching the Library catalog or by contacting a librarian at the Reference Desk at 732-521-5000 or mtplref@monroetwplibrary.org.

If the book you to read is not available, it can be reserved by following these instructions.

J.D. Salinger Died at 91

J. D. Salinger, author of the Catcher in the Rye, died today at 91 years old. Learn more about his life and work here at this blog from The New York Times.

Robert B. Parker Dies at 77

Robert B. Parker, author of "Spenser" novels, died at 77.

Learn more at ABC News.

Free Downloadable Audiobooks

Free downloadable audiobooks can be found at the following sites:

• Epubbooks.com
• Web-books.com
• Books.google.com - to access them, you have to choose a subcategory from the left side and then choose Public Domain Only.

A large selection of downloadable audiobooks from ListenNJ and Recorded Books

can also be found on your Library website by selecting

"Download Movies and Audiobooks."