Books - Interesting Books and where to find them |
| | Audio Books - Listen to the word.... |
| | | Learn Out Loud - Browse the Net`s largest Catalog of educational free audio & video, podcasts, & audio book downloads. - www.learnoutloud.com/ |
| | | LibriVox: - Free audiobooks. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. - librivox.org/ |
| | | Loyal Books - Because books should be free! Free public domain audio books and e-books - www.loyalbooks.com/ |
| | | Overdrive - Enjoy ebooks and audiobooks for free through your local public library or school - www.overdrive.com/ |
| | Bookshare.org - Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. - Bookshare.org |
| | Bookstores - Big Stores |
| | | Amazon Books - Full service on-line book dealer. - www.amazon.com/books-used-books-textbooks/b?ie=UTF8&node=283155 |
| | | Barnes & Noble - The World's Largest Bookseller OnLine. - www.barnesandnoble.com |
| | | Bartleby's - The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. - www.bartleby.com/index.html |
| | | Powells - The largest used and new bookstore in the world. Search by Author, Title, etc... - www.powells.com |
| | | VarsityBooks - order text books for college classes - - www.varsitybooks.com/ |
| | FeedBooks - Discover thousands of public domain books. Download to your device for free! - www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain |
| | Harry Potter - About the books, the author, and other.... - scholastic.com/harrypotter |
| | Internet Archive - Internet Archive. The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. This includes a special modern collection of over 500,000 eBooks for users with print disabilities, and a very interesting curated, modern collection for the world at large. The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account. - archive.org/details/texts?tab=about |
| | On-Line Books - Read a Book on-line |
| | | Banned Books - Full text of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. Includes a discussion of censorship. - onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html |
| | | Greek Classics - A searchable archive of more than 400 Greek texts. - classics.mit.edu/ |
| | | Loyal Books - Because books should be free! Free public domain audio books and e-books - www.loyalbooks.com/ |
| | | ManyBooks - A whole bunch of e-books in a whole bunch of genres - manybooks.net/ |
| | | Online Books Page - Look here for an index of thousands of on-line books. - digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ |
| | | Open Library - Open Library contains almost three million free ebooks. Most are available for immediate reading via the Web, in PDF format, or in EPUB format (for portable e-reader devices). - openlibrary.org/ |
| | | Overdrive - Enjoy ebooks and audiobooks for free through your local public library or school - www.overdrive.com/ |
| | | Project Gutenberg Australia - Project Gutenberg Australia - a treasure-trove of literature treasure found hidden with no evidence of ownership. eBooks may be found here that are not available in Project Gutenberg due to different copyright regulations. - gutenberg.net.au/ |
| | | Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the oldest free, open-source collection of literary works online. Gutenberg works are available in plain text, HTML, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and Plucker formats. - www.gutenberg.org/ |
| | | eBooks and Texts - Internet Archive. The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 8,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. This includes a special modern collection of over 500,000 eBooks for users with print disabilities, and a very interesting curated, modern collection for the world at large. The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account. - archive.org/details/texts?tab=about |
| | Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame - In June of 2004, a $20 million Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame opened its doors in Seattle, Washington. They even have Captain Kirk`s command chair on display. - www.analogsf.com |
Genealogy - Who Are You? |
| | Ancestry.com - has Social Security death index. - www.ancestry.com |
| | Church of LDS: - www.familysearch.org/en/ |
| | Cyndi Howell's Genealogy Web Site - www.cyndislist.com/ |
| | Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: - Alphabet Soup by Kathleen W. Hinckley, CGRS - www.genealogy.com/33_kathy.html |
| | FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service - www.familysearch.org/ |
| | Genealogy Gateway To The Web - by Steve Lacy - www.gengateway.com/ |
| | Genealogy - Ellis Island Searches: - www.ellisisland.org/ |
| | Roots Surname List Search Results: - Surnames matching Wade - rsl.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/rslsql.cgi |
| | USGenWeb Project - The USGenWeb Project is a group of volunteers working together and having fun providing free online genealogy help and information for every U.S. state and county. Our national site provides links to state sites, which, in turn, provide gateways to the counties. - www.usgenweb.org/ |
Knowledge - Want to know something? Look here: |
| | A Word A Day - Mailing list for interesting vocabulary words And now it is a book! - www.wordsmith.org/awad/ and www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471230324/ws00-20/002-7506577-8921659 |
| | Acronym finder: - www.acronymfinder.com/ |
| | Alexander Chislenko - public page. Great humor and much more - www.lucifer.com/~sasha/home.html |
| | BBC Podcasts - Documentaries - Documentaries Throughout the week BBC World Service offers a wide range of documentaries and other factual programmes. This podcast offers you the chance to access landmark series from our archive. - www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive |
| | Biographies - Biography.com - The TV programs presented on the A&E station. Great info here! - www.biography.com/ |
| | BulFinch's Mythology - A Complete exposition on the Greek Gods & related Myths. - www.greekmythology.com/Books/Bulfinch/bulfinch.html |
| | Credo Reference - is a completely customizable ready-reference solution for learners and librarians. Its full-text, aggregated content covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference. - corp.credoreference.com/ |
| | Databases - Now over 4564 Free Searchable Public Record Databases! Find public record information online - www.searchsystems.net/ |
| | Dead People Server - Here is the web site that tells which famous people have died. It also sometimes tells what famous people are still alive even if rumors of their death are going around. And there is a FaceBook website, too. - www.dpsinfo.com/dps/ and www.facebook.com/groups/deadpeopleserver/ |
| | Dictionaries - What was that word???? |
| | | A Web of On-line Dictionaries - YourDictionary.com - the #1 Online Dictionary - www.yourdictionary.com/ |
| | | Commonly Misused Words in the English Language - Did you really mean that?!? - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_commonly_misused_English_words |
| | | Dictionary.com - And a Thesaurus, too! - www.dictionary.com |
| | | Merriam-Webster`s Collegiate Dictionary - 11th edition - www.merriam-webster.com |
| | | Onelook Dictionary - 18,955,870 words in 1061 dictionaries indexed. With links to other Dictionaries - www.onelook.com |
| | | Visual Dictionary Online - From the image to the word and its definition, the Visual Dictionary Online is an all-in-one reference. Search the themes to quickly locate words, or find the meaning of a word by viewing the image it represents. - www.visualdictionaryonline.com/ |
| | Documentary Network - Bunches of Documentary videos here. Check it out. Learn stuff - documentary.net/ |
| | Elements of Style - This book covers a portion of the field of English style. By WILLIAM STRUNK, Jr. - www.bartleby.com/141/ |
| | Encyclopedias - and other ways to gather info... |
| | | Encyclopedia.com - www.encyclopedia.com/ |
| | | Smithsonian Encyclopedia - www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/ |
| | Etymologically Speaking - Many words in the English language have interesting pedigrees. Find origins and backgrounds for words from Abacus to Zero. - www.westegg.com/etymology/ |
| | Free Online Research Tools - Bob Rankin has compiled an excellent, well annotated list of Search Sites to search for, well, for just about anything! - askbobrankin.com/free_online_research_tools.html |
| | Free Online Research Tools - The World Wide Web is at once a gold mine and a cesspool, so how can you find answers to your questions, and the helpful, authoritative information you need? Check out Bob Rankin`s list of the best free online reference and research tools… He also publishes a free daily newsletter of interesting and valuable information on all types of computer technology. I highly recommend it. - askbobrankin.com/try_these_free_online_research_tools.html and askbobrankin.com/ |
| | Google vs Deep web vs Dark net - Step by step guide to safely accessing the Dark Net and Deep Web. The links that Google and other search engines return when you type in a query is known as the “surface web.” There is a whole world of other, non-searchable information out there which is referred to as the “deep web” or “invisible web”. This website talks about how to use it and why you would want to. - www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/how-to-access-the-deep-web-and-darknet/ |
| | How Stuff Works - Topics: Health, Science, Home & Garden, Auto, Tech, Culture, Money, Lifestyle, Entertainment, Adventure, Animals - www.howstuffworks.com/ |
| | Info Please - Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. - www.infoplease.com |
| | Internet FAQ Archives - Somebody published a FAQ on the web? It's probably searchable here. - www.faqs.org |
| | Law - I'm innocent! How about you? |
| | | FindLaw Legal Forms - Our mission is to make the law accessible and understandable for everyone. FindLaw.com contains a wealth of free, up-to-date, and easily understandable legal information and tools. - www.findlaw.com/forms.html |
| | | Online legal documents - Wills, Contracts, Estate Planning, Law, Leases, Partnerships, Corporations. - legaldocs.com |
| | | Self Help - Self Help Law Center - nolo.com/ |
| | Library Spot - Convenient links to popular online Almanacs, Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias, Historic Documents, Quotations, Statistics, and Thesauri. - www.libraryspot.com |
| | Library of Congress - American Memories - memory.loc.gov |
| | Merlot - The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching -- is a free, peer-reviewed collection of over 8,000 different online learning tools and simulations developed (mostly) by college professors around the world. You can browse MERLOT's collection by subject area -- Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. - www.merlot.org |
| | Modern Language Association - A group of people who explore that's happening with the languages of today. - www.mla.org/ |
| | Mt Wilson Observatory - Much of our understanding of the Universe came from research done at this facility. - www.mtwilson.edu |
| | National Archives and Records Administration - The National Archives and Records Administration is a government agency charged with preserving historical records and making them available to the public. History buffs in particular will love this site. But, everybody can find something here to hold their attention! - www.archives.gov/ |
| | National Public Radio - Online NPR Online- National Public Radio. - www.npr.org |
| | Natural History Museum - Dedicated to furthering the understanding of the natural world. - www.nhm.ac.uk/ |
| | Quakers Home Page - The Religious Society Of Friends. Intro, Resources, and Writings. - www.quaker.org/ |
| | Research Guides - The Internet Public Library. IPL Pathfinders are “ipl Expert Guides” intended to help you get started doing research on a particular topic, both online and at your local library. - www.ipl.org/div/pf/ |
| | Rules of Thumb - A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess. It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. The goal of this website is to gather every rule of thumb on earth into one gargantuan, easily searchable online reference database that will be accessible from anywhere in the world and continue to grow forever. - www.rulesofthumb.org/about.php |
| | Sign Language |
| | | A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms - - www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html |
| | | American Sign Language Resource Guide - Great resources for Culture, Learning, Children, and Dictionaries - www.wiseoldsayings.com/asl-resource-guide.php |
| | | HandSpeak - A full service site. - www.handspeak.com/ |
| | Slanguage - Interesting Slang Language with specialties by city. - www.slanguage.com |
| | Smithsonian Institute - The SI Home Page! - www.si.edu/ |
| | Southern Words - Patric Crispen has collected a collections of funny Southern Words. It grows daily! - netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html |
| | Telescope - Welcome to the Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory site. - www.telescope.org/ |
| | The Etymology and history of first names - www.behindthename.com/ |
| | The New Georgia Encyclopedia - - The New Georgia Encyclopedia provides an authoritative source of information about people, places, events, institutions, and many other topics relating to the state of Georgia. - www.georgiaencyclopedia.org |
| | The Rhyme Zone - Find rhymes, synonyms, adjectives, and more! - www.rhymezone.com/?loc=bar |
| | Virtual Library - The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert, even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web. - www.vlib.org/ |
| | Virtual Reference Desk - Atlas - maps, Biography / Who's Who, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Genealogy, Government, History, Internet, Law, libraries, Misc. Phone Book, Population, Postal, Science, Quotations, Time-Date, Weights-Meas, World Religions, WWW, Virtual Library - www.refdesk.com/ |
| | Wonders - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and other wonders! - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_World |
| | Writer`s Web - Clarity and Style - avoiding confusion with words. Do you know the difference in: Eminent / Immanent / Imminent - writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/conford.html |
People - Interesting People |
| | Asimov - www.asimovonline.com/ and www.asimovs.com/ |
| | Biographies - Biography.com - The TV programs presented on the A&E station. Great info here! - www.biography.com/ |
| | Brandon Sanderson - Interesting imagination. Good magic & humor. - www.brandonsanderson.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson |
| | Catherine Asaro - Great use of technology to support good plots. - www.catherineasaro.net/ |
| | Charles de Lint - Charles de Lint is a Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician. - www.charlesdelint.com/ |
| | Diane Duane - An excellent writer of Fantasy & Science Fiction. I especially like the Young Wizards series. “THE BOOK OF NIGHT WITH MOON” is superb as are the others in this series. I have a goal of reading everything she has done. Still a long way to go…. - www.dianeduane.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Duane |
| | Gypsy Daughter Amy Lynn Hess - Amy Lynn Hess is an Atlanta area poet, painter, potter, publisher, professor, and dramaturg. Textbooks, Classes, Chapbooks, Essays - gypsydaughter.wixsite.com/amylynnhess |
| | J.R.R. Tolkien - The box-office success of the recent Lord of the Rings movie shows that J.R.R. Tolkien's popular fantasy series is as popular now as it ever was. Learn more about what influenced him and how the books have affected popular culture. - www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html |
| | Juliet Marillier - An author who writes like Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon (and that's high praise!) - www.julietmarillier.com/ |
| | Larry Niven - Read anything from Larry Niven. They are all great. Start with “Ringworld”. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_niven |
| | Ly De Angeles - Witch and Author - www.lydeangeles.com/ |
| | Marion Zimmer Bradley - A very prolific author. Her Avalon series is powerful (start with “Mists of Avalon”). The Shadow's Gate series is very interesting. My favorite is the Darkover series – history of a planet that starts with sword & sorcery and evolves from there… - mzbworks.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley |
| | Octavia Butler - Amazing fiction with powerful social implications - www.sfwa.org/members/butler/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler |
| | Orson Scott Card - Interesting, thought provoking, and fun! - www.hatrack.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card |
| | Piers Anthony - Great fantasy & science fiction. The Xanth series is one pun stacked apun another pun which is stacked apun another pun ... - www.hipiers.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Anthony |
| | Robert Heinlein - Robert Heinlein is one of my favorite authors. He’s been writing since the dawn of SF and I like his view of the world. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein_bibliography |
| | Robert J. Sawyer - A Science Fiction writer with a powerful mind. - sfwriter.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Sawyer |
| | Robert Reed - Strong Science Fiction. Marrow - the story of the Ship that travels between galaxies. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reed_(author) |
| | Robin Hobb - Author of the astounding Farseer Trilogy. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hobb#Bibliography |
| | Spider Robinson - Spider Robinson is a fantastic author with an excellent presentation of ideas, feelings, and music. The Callahan series is wonderful as is everything else of his that I’ve read. I have a goal of reading everything he has done. Still a long way to go…. - www.spiderrobinson.com/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_Robinson |
| | Steve Cash - A very interesting person with a great trilogy: The Meq, Time Dancers and The Remembering. Sure hope he makes more.... - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cash |
| | Thomas Edison - biography and more - www.thomasedison.com/ |
| | Will Rogers - www.willrogers.com/ |
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