Book Reviews for Mr

Book reviews and author biography for Mr. Eickhoff's classes

For Book Reviews

Visit the Editorial Reviews (not customer reviews!) Amazon book search or Barnes & Noble.com
New York Times Books (after 1981) (Sign up for a free subscription or use the library user name: sthslib password: 12345
Historical Newspapers will lead you to New York Times Reviews before 2001. (Click on the "review" box.)
JSTOR (advanced search) Click on "review."
Book Collection: Nonfiction (in ACCESS PA)
For fiction use NoveList (in ACCESS PA)

If your book was written before the early 90s use:

Book Review Digest in the stacks by publication year (ask Mrs. V. to help you find them)

For books written after 1988, visit Catalogs and Databases and use

For books that are truly notable, you are likely to find literary criticism.

Try Gale's Literature Resource Center, under GaleNet in Catalogs and Databases.
For more recent titles:
After 1981--New York Times Review of Books http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html (username: sthslib password: 12345)

For Author Biography

Contemporary Authors
For more famous authors, visit Catalogs and Databases and use EBSCOhost or General Reference Center (GaleNet), or eLibrary
Also check Biography Reference Bank and Biography Resource Center (GaleNet in Catalogs and Databases)
Search Google using "quotation marks" around the author's name, words like biography, profile, resume, etc., and other key words you find in the author blurb on the book. If they teach at a university, visit the appropriate faculty page at the university.