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Looking for a book to bring on vacation or award winners for young adults? Try BookLetters. BookLetters is a reader’s advisory service providing opportunities for Newton patrons to sign-up to receive free email-newsletters with comments and reading recommendations in varied fields of interest (you can also sign up to receive newsletters by RSS feed).The service also includes Newton Free Library news and activities including author talks, bestseller and award lists, book discussion guides, author directories and other helpful information.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

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International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Browse by issue, country, or region; includes reference, periodical, primary source, and statistical information as well as multimedia.

Explore controversial issues--each topic includes a detailed Overview, Timeline, Facts & Figures, Current View & Outlook, Questions for Discussion, and Primary Sources. The "Analyze" section explores key questions in domestic and international issues, including various perspectives and suggestions for further research.

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Test Prep for Free! Practice tests and ebook study guides to help you with the latest SAT, TOEFL, GED, GRE, licensing exams, U.S. Citizenship and many other tests. Also includes online tutorials for math, reading, writing, job search and interviewing skills, and much more.

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Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Also includes LitFinder's full-text poems, short stories, speeches, and plays.

NetLibrary®'s ebook collection includes nearly 100 of Bloom's literature guides, as well as books on other popular topics. Create a free account to access ebooks from home. Please note: Because new books are no longer being added, some content is outdated.

Covering today's important social issues, Gale's Opposing Viewpoints in Context features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Statesman's Yearbook includes comprehensive coverage of government and politics, geography, history, economics, social policy and culture for all 192 countries.  Also included are biographies of key figures; searchable lists of international organizations; a week by week chronology of world events since December 1999; links and resources for additional research; and special profiles of regions, states, and cities.  The statistical comparison feature allows users to compare and chart key figures, such as population and GDP, between countries.  Information is updated monthly, with daily updates for key world events. Click on "Archives" to view all previous editions, beginning in 1864.

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Resources on all student core subjects from Science to Literature to History, including articles, images, primary sources, and multimedia. Search by topic, keyword, or source type.

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