Ottawa Library guides to Infotrac FirstSearch databases
A library workshop at the Topeka venue demonstrates Infotrac and FirstSearch online databases available via the Ottawa Library. It outlines databases for general research, business, health, Spanish language sources, and newspaper indexing, plus tips on full text access, abstracts, interlibrary loan, citations, printing, and emailing articles for quick research needs.
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Ricky Martin
Microsoft
Ottawa
Infotrac
FirstSearch
Topeka
Northeast Kansas Library Systems
Barbara Dew
Kansas State Library
Elian Gonzales
Informe
National Newspaper Index
Time
Best Sellers AP PUBLISHERS WEEKLY HARDCOVER FICTION LIST
The lists name top titles across fiction and nonfiction best sellers with authors like Tawni O'Dell John Grisham Isabel Allende Nora Roberts Helen Fielding and Robert Morgan in hardcover fiction and Spencer Johnson Deepak Chopra Dave Eggers John Grisham Tom Clancy and Danielle Steel in general nonfiction. Detailed rankings include many prominent names such as Grisham O'Dell and Kingsolver across multiple publishers.
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Associated Press Publishers Weekly
Tawni O'Dell
Viking
John Grisham
Doubleday
Isabel Allende
HarperCollins
Carolina Moon
Nora Roberts
Putnam
Helen Fielding
F-H
Gap Creek
Robert Morgan
Algonquin
Spencer Johnson
Andrew Weil
Knopf
Bill Phillips
Michael D’orso
Mortie
Mitch Albam
Phillip C. McGraw
Hyperion
the Rock
Joe Layden
Regan Books
God
Deepak Chopra
Harmony
Hillary Clinton
Peggy Noonan
Dave Eggers
Simon & Schuster
Trevor Reese Jones
Warner Books
Beatles reunite to write book Anthology in 360 pages
London AP reports Sir Paul McCartney George Harrison and Ringo Starr have spent six years compiling Beatles Anthology a 360 page volume to set the record straight about the band’s 1960s dominance. It includes tours drugs disputes and the decision to split.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Britain
United States
Geoff Baker
McCartney
Baker
Yoko Ono
John Lennon
Puissance of Ha Jin wins PEN/Faulkner Prize for Waiting
Ha Jin, a Chinese immigrant who arrived in 1985, wins the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel Waiting, taking 15000 dollars in prize money in addition to his earlier National Book Award. Jin, an Emory University English professor near Atlanta, follows a man who spends 18 years under the Communist government to end an arranged marriage and marry the woman he loves.
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Washington
Ha Jin
United States
China
PEN/Faulkner Foundation
Jin
Emory University
Atlanta
Marilyn Monroe fiction saga sparked by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates releases Blonde a 738 page imagined portrait of Marilyn Monroe prompting media hype and debate over exploitation of the star. Critics question moral boundaries while publishers push a TV miniseries and other adaptations amid legal names and public fascination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn
Joyce Carol Oates
Women's Advocate
CBS
Oates
Monroe
Sutter’s Mill
Princeton
N.J
Norman Mailer
Gloria Steinem
Arthur Miller
Berniece Baker
Susan Strasberg
Mailer
Miller
Manhattan
Mers
Carole Nelson Douglas
Douglas
Christie's
President
Madison Square
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e-Bay
Health Reference Center
Heidi van der Heuvel
John Irv
Ballantine
Dell Island
Dr. Atkins
Robert C. Atkins
Avon
John Sandford
Danielle Steel
Dell
Catherine Coulter
Signet
J. D. Rabb
Berkley
Angela's
Frank McCourt
Touchstone
Tom Clancy
Martin Greenberg
V. C. Andrews
Pocket
The
Seat of the
Gary Zukav
S&s
Fireside
Susanna Kaysen
Vintage
Life Strategies
Billie Letts
Warner
Barbara Kingsolver
HarperPerennial
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Brian Greene
Michael Cunningham
Pic
Beatles
Lennon
Germany
Japan
Derek Taylor
Taylor
Harrison
Starr
Ottawa Herald
Uie
S. Topeka
Dodge
Cummings
Silvarado
By Deborah Hastings
Maggie
Elia Kazan
Hollywood
House Un-American Activities Committee
Joe DiMaggio
John F. Kennedy
Peter Lawford
Den
Thom McAn
Laurence Olivier
Colin Clark
Clark
Colin
Jeffrey Dahmer
Ms. Oates
Michiko Kakutani
New York Times
As Forch
Neosho County Community College
Mary Grimes School of Nursing
Enln
State Board
Taylor Brothers Construction
iCall
Princeton Street
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