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Week 3 Prompt: Using Novelist

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 1. I am looking for a book by Laurell K. Hamilton. I just read the third book in the Anita Blake series and I can’t figure out which one comes next! Let's pretend that I don't know this series backwards and forwards for a second (off the top of my head, you just read Circus of the Damned  and up next is The Lunatic Cafe ), and we'll take a look at how to find this info via Novelist! So, first things first. We need to find out what the third book is in the Anita Blake series. So, let's search Laurell K. Hamilton on Novelist. Novelist automatically attempts to populate LKH as an author in its predictive text, so we can get to her pretty easily. When we scroll down on Laurell K. Hamilton's Novelist Author page, we'll find a tab labeled "Series." This tab shows us the different series that Hamilton has authored. The first one listed is the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Once we select that, we can see the order of the books and find out whi

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Hello Readers' Advisory...readers! In case you haven't checked my "About" area, I'm Cat. I am an Access Services library Assistant at Hancock County Public Library, where I've been for the past five years and change. I am also the co-managing editor for Embodied Effigies , a creative nonfiction online literary magazine. Needless to say, I read nonfiction pretty heavily--mostly essays, memoirs, and personal stories. However, just like Saricks quoted from Deutsch's PLA panel, "Patrons don't worry about Dewey when they're looking for a good book to read."(9) I enjoy YA, but I've found myself drifting from it--mostly because I'm having trouble relating to it. I couldn't get into the latest John Green, and I've previously enjoyed all of his work. I also enjoy fantasy, specifically George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire  and Andrzej Sapkowski's tales of The Witcher. For a long time, I've followed the literary