Can We Talk?

The libraries book discussion group meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 4:00 p.m. in the library's programming room. New members welcome.

BookLetters Award Lists

Discover the latest in bestsellers, award winners and author profiles.

BookLetters Authors

A comprehensive listing of authors from A - Z. Read interviews and browse summaries of their work.

BookLetters Reviews & Recommendations

Professional reviews of the titles you want to know about.

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Keep up to speed on the latest books and resources provided by the Mount Pleasant Public Library. Simply sign up for BookLetters and you’ll gain access to online book discussions, the hottest new titles & authors, and professional reviews of the titles you want to know about. You can even reserve the books right from your e-mails.

Literature Resource Center

The most comprehensive and current online database on authors and their works. Provides full-text literary criticism, biographies, bibliographies, and work overviews covering authors from every genre, time period and discipline. Covers more than 130,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers such as philosophers, filmmakers, and anthropologists.

Chadwyck-Healy 20th Century Poetry

Contains both English and American poetry collections and covers the time period from 1900 to the present. It contains over 70,000 poems from 300 poets, including over forty distinguished authors from the Faber Poetry Library.

OCLC Worldcat

An online catalog of library materials from OCLC member libraries. A useful tool for finding materials in other libraries, it provides indexes of books, periodicals, audio-visual materials, newspaper, films, maps, musical scores and internet resources. It covers 1000 BC to the present and millions of bibliographic records from around the world, updated daily.