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Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Biographical and bibliographical details on more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world along with an extensive collection of critical essays.
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Current Biography
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Encyclopedia Americana
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Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls New World
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Magill On Literature and Authors
Critical analyses and
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Over 130 dictionaries and reference titles from a wide
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An extensive database on California and its cities and counties. Includes information on California public policy issues, statistics on business, employment, population, real estate, and crime rates, school test scores and monthly reports on the California economy.
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Scribner Writers Series
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