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"Beware of the man of one book." - Author unknown.

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an e-book.

Books may also refer to a literature work, or a main division of such a work. In library and information science, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, journals or newspapers. The body of all written works including books is literature.

In novels, a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, etc).

A lover of books is usually referred to as a bibliophile, a bibliophilist, or a philobiblist, or, more informally, a bookworm.

A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or bookshop. Books can also be borrowed from libraries.

QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS:
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Joseph Addison.
A library is a hospital for the mind. - Anonymous.
People die, but books never die. - Anonymous.
A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend. - Anonym.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot.
A good book has no ending. - R.D. Cumming.

Authors
Bookstore
Book Clubs
Ebook Reading Devices
Literary Prizes
AMAZON.COM - online bookshop.
ASK US 24/7 - a service of cooperating New York State libraries. - "We can find answers to your reference questions and provide information on your local library."
BARNES & NOBLE - Internet's largest bookstore: "We stock over 1 million titles for immediate delivery -- that's more titles than any other online bookseller."
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA - both a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity and an attempt to rekindle something of the brilliance that this earlier center of study and erudition represented.
BLURB - make your own book with Blurb.
BODLEIAN LIBRARY - search Oxford libraries online.
BOOKFINDER.COM - search for new & used books, textbooks, out-of-print and rare books.
BOOKMAN - used, unique and out of print books.
BOOKMOOCH.COM - exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter.
BOOKS-A-MILLION ONLINE BOOKSTORE - buy discount books, music, movies, magazines.
BORDERS buy books, DVD movies & music CDs online.
CENTER FOR INQUIRY LIBRARIES
COMIC CONNECT - the online marketplace for comic buyers & sellers.
DAILYLIT - read books online by daily email.
EUROPEANA - Think Culture! Search through the cultural collections of Europe. Links you to 4.6 million digital items.
FOYLES - fiction, medical, textbooks and more at our London store and online.
FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR | FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE
FRANKLIN EBOOKMAN - designs, develops, publishes, and distributes globally innovative electronic language learning solutions on handheld devices, memory media cards. Also distributes more than 52,000 book titles in electronic format.
GOOGLE BOOKS - a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans.
HARPER COLLINS - founded in New York City in 1817. One of the world’s leading English-language publishers.
HOW TO FIND A BOOK - Wikibooks.
INTERNET BOOK LIST - online database with information about books, authors, and short stories.
ISBN | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISSN | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
ISSUU - you publish. Turns your documents into beautiful online publications.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books.
LINOTYPE - download fonts from classic to cool.
LITERATURE - Wikipedia.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LIST
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS - the largest university press in the world.
PAPERBACK - Wikipedia.
PENGUIN BOOKS - UK book shop and online bookstore.
PRINT-ON-DEMAND - printing what you want, when you want, where you want.
PROJECT GUTENBERG - the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
PROMETHEUS BOOKS - a leader in publishing books for the educational, scientific, professional, library, popular, and consumer markets since 1969.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - international book & bookselling news, reviews, bestsellers.
RANDOM HOUSE - bringing you the best in fiction, nonfiction, and children's books.
SCRIBD - the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents.
SIMON & SCHUSTER - new book releases, bestsellers, author info & more.
SPEED READING - Glossary.
STRAND MAGAZINE - the magazine for mystery & short story lovers.
THE BOOKSELLER - daily news and comment for the book business.
THE BRITISH LIBRARY - "We hold 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more."
THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY - searches the content of European national libraries.
THE FREE LIBRARY - FREE ONLINE LIBRARY (14,557,847 articles & books): news, magazines, newspapers, journals, reference articles and classic books.
THE LITERARY REVIEW - its many special issues have introduced new fiction, poetry, and essays from many nations, regions, or languages to English readers.
THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF WRITING (NAW) - "A new start for talented writers." (UK).
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
THE NEW YORK TIMES: BOOKS
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
UBUWEB - a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY - a talent & literary agency.
WORLD BOOK DAY - designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading.

Authors

Crime, Mystery, Spy & Thriller Writers
BOND LIFESTYLE AUCTIONS - James Bond memorabilia, and more.
CRIME FICTION - the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives.
JAMES BOND 007 MUSEUM
LIST OF CRIME WRITERS - Wikipedia.
LIST OF EUROPEAN MYSTERY WRITERS - Wikipedia.
LIST OF THRILLER WRITERS - Wikipedia.
MYSTERY STORY - Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective, either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.
MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA - the premier organization for mystery and crime writers, professionals allied to the crime writing field, aspiring crime writers, and folks who just love to read crime fiction.
POLICE PROCEDURAL MYSTERY STORY - a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes.
THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE - a ring of spies in the UK who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s.
THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER
"WHO DONE IT?" - a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest.

Crime, Mystery, Spy & Thriller Writers

ABBY MANN - (NYPD Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak).
AGATHA CHRISTIE - (Miss Jane Marple & Hercule Poirot).
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE - (Sherlock Holmes & Dr John H. Watson).
CAROLINE GRAHAM - (DCI Tom Barnaby and Sergeant Troy).
COLIN DEXTER - (Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis).
COLLIER YOUNG - (Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside).
DAN BROWN - (Symbologist Robert Langdon).
DASHIELL HAMMETT - (Sam Spade, Nick & Nora Charles & The Continental Operative").
DICK FRANCIS
DON WINSLOW
DOROTHY L. SAYERS - (Lord Peter Wimsey).
EDGAR ALLAN POE - (C. Auguste Dupin).
EDGAR WALLACE - (Inspector Wembury).
ELIZABETH GEORGE - (DI Thomas Lynley)
ELLERY QUEEN - (Ellery Queen).
ELMORE LEONARD
ERIC AMBLER
ERLE STANLEY GARDNER - (Perry Mason).
FREDERICK FORSYTH
G. K. CHESTERTON - (Father Brown).
GASTON LEROUX - (Joseph Rouletabille). Best known for writing the novel 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
GEORGES SIMENON - (Commissaire Jules Maigret).
GLENN CHANDLER - (Scottish detective Taggart).
GRAHAM GREENE
HENNING MANKELL - (Kurt Wallander).
HERBERT REINECKER - (Derrick: DCI Stephan Keller and The Commissioner: DCI Herbert Keller).
HERMAN CYRIL McNeile - (Bulldog Drummond).
IAN FLEMING - (Commander James Bond).
IAN RANKIN - (D.I. John Rebus).
JAMES CRUMLEY
JAMES ELROY
JAN GUILLOU - (Carl Hamilton).
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE GRANGÉ
JOHN BUCHAN
JOHN GRISHAM
JOHN LE CARRÉ - (George Smiley).
JOHN MORTIMER - (Horace Rumpole).
LEN DEIGHTON - (Harry Palmer).
LYNDA LA PLANTE - (DCI Jane Tennison, Mike Walker).
MAURICE LEBLANC - (Arsène Lupin).
MICHAEL CONNELY
MICKEY SPILLANE - (Mike Hammer).
P. D. JAMES - (Commander Adam Dalgliesh).
PAUL ERDMAN
PETER CHEYNEY - (Lemmy Caution).
R. D. WINGFIELD - (DI William Edward Frost, GC).
RAYMOND CHANDLER - (Philip Marlowe).
REGINALD HILL - (DSI Andrew Dalziel and DI Peter Pascoe).
RICHARD LEVINSON - (Lieutenant Columbo)
ROBERT B. PARKER - (Spenser).
ROBERT BANKS STEWART - (Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac).
ROBERT LUDLUM - (Jason Charles Bourne - real name David Webb).
RUTH RENDELL - (Chief Inspector Wexford).
SJÖWALL AND WAHLÖÖ - (Martin Beck).
STEPHEN KING
STIEG LARSSON - (Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander).
THOMAS HARRIS - (Hannibal Lector).
TOM CLANCY - (Jack Ryan).

Bookstore

Architecture

Biographies

Business

Classics

Hans Christian Andersen's Fairytales - online.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES DARWIN - online.
The Complete Works of Percy Byssche Shelley, 8 Volumes, Leatherbound.
William Shakespeare - online.
William Shakespeare's Sonnets - online.

Comics

Cooking

Crime & Espionage

BENTLEY MARK VI - source for James Bond's fictional car and never-produced 'Bentley Mark II Continental'.
BOND LIFESTYLE AUCTIONS - James Bond memorabilia, and more.
CRIME FICTION - the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives.
CRIME THRILLER AWARDS - British awards ceremony dedicated to crime thriller fiction.
JAMES BOND 007 MUSEUM - Nybro, Sweden.
LIST OF CRIME WRITERS - Wikipedia.
LIST OF EUROPEAN MYSTERY WRITERS - Wikipedia.
LIST OF THRILLER WRITERS - Wikipedia.
MYSTERY STORY - Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective, either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.
MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA
POLICE PROCEDURAL MYSTERY STORY - a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes.
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES MUSEUM - London, England.
THE CAMBRIDGE FIVE - a ring of spies in the UK who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and into the early 1950s.
THE JAMES BOND DOSSIER
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES MUSEUM - London.
"WHO DONE IT?" - a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest.

Economics

Fantasy

Fashion

YVES SAINT LAURENT: L'OEUVRE INTÉGRAL, 1962-2002 - limited edition: 500 numbered copies.

Gambling

General

Gossip

Health

History

Inspiration | Motivation

Investment

Lifestyle

Luxury

Miscellaneous

1001 Cocktails
CLIMATE CRISIS - Al Gore's new book: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
How to Marry Super Rich: Or, Love, Money, and the Morning After
How to Run a Stately Home by John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford
Inside Monte Carlo
MICHAEL MOORE'S BOOKS
Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus
The New Journalism. With an Anthology Edited By Tom Wolfe and E.W. Johnson.

Music

Mystery

Philosophy

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Selections) / Also sprach Zarathustra (Auswahl): A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Books) (German Edition)

Photography

Poetry

POETRY - Wikipedia.

Religion

Royalty & Aristocracy

Science

Science Fiction

Sports

Travel

Who's Who

WHO'S WHO 2009 - the definitive directory of everyone who’s anyone in Britain, and beyond, today.
Who's Who in the World 2009

Book Clubs

BOOK SALES CLUB - Wikipedia.

Ebook Reading Devices

COMPARISON OF E-BOOK READERS - Wikipedia.

ALEX EBOOK READER
ASTAK EBOOK READERS
CYBOOK EBOOK READERS
HANVON
MIRASOL
NOOK - "The World's Most Advanced eBook Reader."
QUE PROREADER - less than a third of an inch thick.
SAMSUNG E6 & E101
SAMSUNG E6 - CrunchGear review.
SKIFF READER - dimension: 9 x 11 x 0.268 inches, display: 11.5 inches.
SONY READERS
SONY READER DIGITAL BOOK PRS-700BC
SONY READER TOUCH EDITION PRS-600BC

Literary Prizes

AWARD ANNALS - the literary award database.
EDGAR AWARD - Wikipedia.
LIST OF LITERARY AWARDS - Wikipedia.
NOBEL LAUREATES IN LITERATURE

PULITZER PRIZES - U.S. award for achievements in newspaper journalism, literature and musical composition.
THE EDGAR AWARDS - named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theatre published or produced in the previous year.
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE - promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.
THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE - is unique in the world of literature in that it can be won by an author of any nationality, providing that his or her work is available in the English language. It is awarded every second year.
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE