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In order to help COM students, faculty and staff suggest books for our collection, COM Library has created Select Books, which brings together sites that inform about books: Bestseller Lists, Book Reviews, New Books, Publishers, Retailers, as well as how to Suggest a Book to COM Library and Library Staff links.

Suggest a Book
If you would like to suggest a book* for COM Library, please call the Collection Development Librarian at (409) 938-1211 x 204 or email at dl-library-collection@com.edu. Please include Title, Author, ISBN, Publisher and Publication date. 

* Note: Books generally take 6-8 weeks from the day ordered to the time they are placed on the shelf, but it can take longer depending on availability and other factors. COM Library will inform you when your book has come in or inform why it was not available.

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Bestseller Lists

Amazon.com: Top Sellers
Barnes & Noble.com: What America's Reading
Book Sense: Bestsellers
Books Unlimited: Bestsellers (content of the Guardian and Observer)
Chronicle of Higher Education: Publishing | Campus bestsellers | New scholarly books**
NY Times Bestsellers*
Publisher's Weekly: Bestsellers
USA TODAY's Top 150

* Requires registration with the NY Times (free). Select Save my ID and Password on my Computer to avoid having to re-enter them each time.

**Requires username and password--available to all print subscribers. Register here.

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Book Reviews

Academia
Booknotes.org
BookWire
Books Unlimited: Reviews (content of the Guardian and Observer)
HoustonChronicle.com: Books Etc.
LA Times: Books & Talks
Library Journal: Behind the Book | Best Books & Reference | Book Reviews | PrePub Alert 
NYT Books *| Back Issues
Salon: Books
TLS 100: Times Literary Supplement (Times, London)
USA Today Books
Utne Reader: Books
Village Voice Literary Supplement
Washington Post: Book World

* Requires registration with the NY Times (free). Select "Save my ID and Password on my Computer" to avoid having to re-enter them each time.

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New Books

Amazon.com: New & Future Releases
Barnes&Noble.com: New Releases | Coming Soon
Chronicle of Higher Education: Books *
Library Journal: PrePub Alert

* Requires Subscription to Chronicle of Higher Education

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Publishers

The following are links to Academic, Commercial and Texas publishers. Main sites are listed first in larger font. Companies that have multiple departments/imprints/subsidiaries are listed with the main company in smaller font. Generally, going to the main site will provide access to a catalog that includes all departments/imprints/subsidiaries. In some cases there is no way to search the subsidiaries without going to the main site. 

Example: Random House Inc. Books@Random | Knopf | Borzoi | Vintage

If you are having a trouble locating your desired publisher, they may be listed as a subsidiary of a larger publisher. To see if they are on this page, try going to Edit in your browser and selecting the Find function. Type in the publisher name to search the page--the search will take you to the word you typed in.

Or try these extensive lists of publishers:

AcqWeb: Publishers
Yahoo! Publishers

Academic
Cambridge University Press
Columbia University Press | Backlist Bestsellers
Harvard University Press
Oxford University Press USA

Commercial
ABC-CLIO | Academic | New
Abrams
AMACOM
Barron's Educational Series
Beacon Press
Berrett-Koehler
Career Press
Chronicle Books
CQ Complete Catalog
CRC Press (Sciences)
Delmar (Technical)
Dummies.com
Facts on File | Checkmark
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fitzroy Dearborn
Freeman
Gale Group | Macmillan USA | Scribner | Schirmer | Twayne | GK Hall | Thorndike | Taft | UXL | St. James Press
Garland Publishing
GreenHaven Press
Greenwood Publishing | Browse by Series
Grey House Publishing
HarperCollins
Henry Holt
HMCo Trade Division Catalog
Houghton Mifflin | College Division
Hyperion | Theia
IDG | Dummies | CliffsNotes
Lawrence Erlbaum
McGraw Hill | McGraw hill Higher Education | McGraw Hill Professional
Newnes (technical)
O'Reilly & Associates (computers) | Product List
The Oryx Press
Pearson Education | Addison Wesley Higher Education Group | allyn & bacon/longman | Pearson Technology Group (Addison Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que, SAMS, Sun)| Prentice Hall Higher Education
Penguin Putnam | Penguin Lives | Ace Books | Avery | Berkley Books | BlueHen Books | Dutton | G.P. Putnam's Sons | HPBooks | Jeremy P. Tarcher | Jove | New American Library | Penguin | Perigee | Plume | Riverhead Books | Viking
Perseus | Basic | Basic Civitas Books | Counterpoint Press | Da Capo Press | Fisher Books | Perseus Publishing | PublicAffairs | Westview Press
Plough Publishing
Prometheus
Random House Inc. Books@Random | Knopf | Borzoi | The Modern Library | Villard  | Vintage 
Rowman & Littlefield
Sage Publications | Corwin | Pine Forge | Sage Science
Simon & Schuster | Fireside | The Free Press | Pocket Books | Scribner | Touchstone
Taylor & Francis | Brunner-Routledge | Carfax Publishing | E & FN Spon | Europa Publications | Falmer Press | Garland Publishing | Hemisphere Publication Services | Martin Dunitz Publishers | Psychology Press | Routledge | UCL Press
TaylorWilson | Lone Star Books Leadership Press | Mills & Morris Publishing | Round Oak Publishing | 
Time Warner | Little, Brown and Company | Warner Books
Wiley Web General Catalog | Jossey-Bass (Education)| New Directions
for Community Colleges

William Morrow
WW Norton | College 

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Texas

Texas Academic
Texas A&M University Press Consortium
Texas Tech University Press
University of North Texas Press
University of Texas Press

Texas Commercial
State House Press
Texas State Historical Association

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Retailers

Amazon.com | Award Winners | Purchase Circles | Movers & Shakers | Reference | Top Sellers

Barnes&Noble.com | New Releases | Coming Soon | What America's Reading

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