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Home Page > Online Library > A to Z Resources > NoveList Pro > Login with unique Library Card ID Here's how I access NoveList Plus at my library: It's extremely helpful and I hope you'll check it out. Some readers already have a good vocabulary for talking about the books they love, while some do better in talking about books they never want to read again – but framing these conversations around appeal is the foundation for helping people find what to read next. NoveList Pro calls these Book Appeal Terms:Īppeal is a way of determining why people enjoy the books they read. The recommendations written by library workers utilize several key elements to help users find a specific book, and then from that one book, find other similar books called, 'Read-Alikes', based on matched criteria like pace, tone, genre, themes, and writing styles. Patrons of most local public libraries can access this database through each public library's website using a personal library card.

NoveList Plus is a huge database of book recommendations serving as a resource and guide for library workers.

(Sept.I decided to write this review in the style of one of my personal favorite tools of the trade, NoveList Plus powered by EBSCO. Still, the author’s strong prose does an impressive job anchoring everything on solid ground even as the stories spiral into surrealist grotesquerie. These gore-soaked excesses have difficulty reaching satisfying resolutions the stories’ considerable guts never get a chance to function properly within the collection’s body politic before they are ripped out. A man discovers a mysterious bone with his initials etched into it in “You’ll Find It’s Like That All Over” and engages in an escalating series of wagers with his elderly neighbor, stretching his personal boundaries for the sake of affability. In the Ari Aster–esque “The Enchantment,” a husband and wife grieving the loss of their son under grotesque circumstances become caretakers of a remote island, where they are visited by a strange man who promises either closure or utter damnation. The epistolary title story follows the online relationship between two women as it escalates into increasingly intense submission and domination, culminating in a horrifying event. The three bloody stories of LaRocca’s debut collection, all “tethered by the human need to connect with someone, something else,” explore the nether sides of human relationships, digging into physical and emotional abuse and the lengths to which people will go to stay civil.

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