Love the authors Laurie King, David McCullough, Jhumpa Lahiri or Alan Furst and want to find more good reads like theirs? Try the Library’s readers' advisory database, NoveList Plus, for author recommendations, reviews, book discussion guides, for over 200,000 fiction and non-fiction titles. Available on the Research Databases section of the Library’s web page, you can search in the Library or at home, by logging in with your library card bar code.There are author “readalikes” – type in the name of your favorite author, for example and NoveList will give you suggestion of other authors who might fit the bill. There are recommendations for Book Group reading and lists of author pseudonyms. You are able to
search for authors by gender, ethnicity, country of origin or cultural background. Childrens' and young adults' books and authors are included as well. If you have forgotten the title of a book but recall most of the plot, just type a few word in and NoveList K-8 Plus will find the book for you. When you get the result, click on the line Check Library Catalog, and you will be taken to the Santa Clara Library catalog to see if the book is in!ba
