Now Read This II
A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1990-2001
Price: $55.00
ISBN13: 9781563088674
ISBN10: 1563088673
Book code: LU8673
Libraries Unlimited
Hardcover
| 300 pages
Publication Date: 03/07/2002
Series: Genreflecting Advisory Series
DESCRIPTION
Navigate the fascinating world of mainstream fiction! With emphasis on award-winning fiction, this companion guide to Now Read This: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction, 1978-1998, features more than 500 novels published between 1990 and 2001. Using the same easy-access organization that made the original so popular, this book includes more than 400 new entries and several features that enable you to discover new reads and read-alikes based on an appeal-characteristics approach to the literature. Never again shy of an answer to Can you recommend a good book? you will find this to be an indispensable resource and tool.
Provides more than 400 new entries and several features that enable librarians and teachers to discover new reads and read-alikes based on an appeal-characteristics approach to the literature.
REVIEWS
"If you teach students how to use this volume, they should be able to find another book similar to the one they have previously read. Recommended for high school and public library collections."?
"[T]here are many different levels of readers and fiction lovers who will benefit a great deal from the opinions offered in Now Read This II: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction 1990-2001."?
NANCY PEARL is Director of the Washington Center for the Book and Collection Development Specialist at Seattle Public Library, Washington. She was also named winner of the 2003 Washington Humanities Award.