Genreflecting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genreflecting write by Diana Tixier Herald. This book was released on 2000. Genreflecting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nearly 6,000 titles aid in collection development, research and reader's advisory.
Genreflecting
Genreflecting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genreflecting write by Diana Tixier Herald. This book was released on 2019-05-24. Genreflecting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Librarians who work with readers will find this well-loved guide to be a treasure trove of information. With descriptive annotations of thousands of genre titles mapped by genre and subgenre, this is the readers' advisor's go-to reference. Next to author, genre is the characteristic that readers use most to select reading material and the most trustworthy consideration for finding books readers will enjoy. With its detailed classification and pithy descriptions of titles, this book gives users valuable insights into what makes genre fiction appeal to readers. It is an invaluable aid for helping readers find books that they will enjoy reading. Providing a handy roadmap to popular genre literature, this guide helps librarians answer the perennial and often confounding question "What can I read next?" Herald and Stavole-Carter briefly describe thousands of popular fiction titles, classifying them into standard genres such as science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction, and mystery. Within each genre, titles are broken down into more specific subgenres and themes. Detailed author, title, and subject indexes provide further access. As in previous editions, the focus of the guide is on recent releases and perennial reader favorites. In addition to covering new titles, this edition focuses more narrowly on the core genres and includes basic readers' advisory principles and techniques.
Romance Fiction
Romance Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romance Fiction write by Kristin Ramsdell. This book was released on 2012-03-02. Romance Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive guide that defines the literature and the outlines the best-selling genre of all time: romance fiction. More than 2,000 romances are published annually, making it difficult for fans and the librarians who advise them to keep pace with new titles, emerging authors, and constant evolution of this dynamic genre. Fortunately, romance expert and librarian Kristin Ramsdell provides a definitive guide to this fiction genre that serves as an indispensible resource for those interested in it—including fans searching for reading material—as well as for library staff, scholars, and romance writers themselves. This title updates the last edition of Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre, published in 1999.While the emphasis is on newer titles, many of the important older classics are retained, keeping the focus of the book on the entire genre, instead of only those titles published during the last decade. Specific changes include new chapters on linked and continuing romances, a new section on "Chick Lit" in the Contemporary Romance chapter, an expansion of coverage on the alternative reality subset. This is THE romance genre guide to have.
Women's Fiction
Women's Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Fiction write by Rebecca Vnuk. This book was released on 2013-09-17. Women's Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audience—fans as well as librarians—this book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles. Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this broad genre—titles that explore the lives of female protagonists, with a focus on their relationships with family, friends, and lovers. After a brief introductory history and a chapter that defines the characteristics of women's fiction, the author showcases annotations and suggestions of approximately 300 titles by more than 100 authors. She explains how women's fiction differs from romance fiction, enabling readers to appreciate this rich body of literature that encompasses titles as diverse as Meg Cabot's lighthearted chick lit to the more serious novels of Elizabeth Berg and Maeve Binchy. The book identifies some of the most popular and enduring women's fiction authors and titles, and provides invaluable reading lists and readalike suggestions that will be appreciated by both librarians and general readers.
Reality Rules!
Reality Rules! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reality Rules! write by Elizabeth Fraser. This book was released on 2008-06-30. Reality Rules! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide for the selection of nonfiction books for young adults and teens which includes annotations, interest, and reading level suggestions, and bibliographies of fiction read-alikes for each category.
