Home >
Readers’ Advisory
Readers’
Advisory
NoveList
database
Through GALILEO (Georgia’s virtual
library), you may access the NoveList database, a useful tool for
discovering fiction books and authors of interest to you.
The NoveList database
•
helps you find books similar to others
that you have enjoyed
•
helps you find books about particular
subjects or time periods
•
offers discussion guides and other
features
Access NoveList (with a password from the Reference Department of
the
A. Mitchell Powell Jr. Public Library)
Part of the database offerings in GALILEO, Georgia’s virtual library
Author lists
The following lists (PDF files*)
provide the names of authors who have one or more works in the
collection of the A. Mitchell Powell Jr. Public Library:
•
African-American authors
•
Authors of Christian
fiction
•
Southern authors
New large-print books
This flier (PDF file*)
provides a list of books in large print that were added to the
collection of the A. Mitchell Powell Jr. Public Library in March.
Top titles among
patrons
People often enjoy knowing
which books are the most popular among readers in their community. As of
late April, the following
books are the ones most frequently reserved by patrons at the
A. Mitchell Powell Jr. Public Library:
|
1. |
•
The
Senator’s Wife,
by Sue Miller |
|
2. |
•
Change of Heart, by Jodi
Picoult |
| |
•
Where Are You Now?,
by Mary Higgins Clark |
|
3. |
•
Dead Heat, by
Joel C. Rosenberg |
| |
•
Killer Heat,
by Linda Fairstein |
Reference Department
For other information and questions
regarding readers’ services—including to obtain
the current GALILEO password—you may visit, call, or send e-mail to the
Reference Department:
•
by phone at (770) 253-3625, option 4
•
by e-mail at
referencedesk@newnan-coweta.org NOTE:
This e-mail account is
temporarily out of service. We apologize for the inconvenience.
*PDF (Adobe®
Acrobat®)
files are
viewable only with the
free Adobe®
Reader® installed on your computer.
 |