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**Here you will find**

 * ====**What’s just hit the shelves at Beth Rivkah Secondary Library**====
 * ====**What your fellow students and teachers are reading and enjoying**====
 * ====**Librarians’ recommendations**====
 * ====**A place to talk about what you are reading**====
 * ====**Suggestions for “a good read” and links to book reviews**====


 * // This term, check out the true-life titles on our Red Display Trolley… //**
 * // Some definitions of biography: //**
 * ** Biography **is the story of a person’s life written by someone else.
 * ** Popular biographies ** tell about the lives of such currently famous people as movie stars and sports figures.
 * ** Historical biographies ** describe how individuals influenced past events. These works also tell what life was life during certain periods of history.
 * ** Literary biographies ** tell the life and personality of an author, painter, or other kind of artist. Literary biographies also try to describe the talent and inspiration that enabled the subject to create great works.
 * ** Reference biographies **are short accounts that mention only the major events of a person’s life.
 * ** Fictional biographies ** combine features of a biography and of a novel. They are biographies because they are based on real people and events. They are novels because the author created conversations, background information, and other elements.
 * ** Autobiography **is a type of iography in which the author tells the story of his or her own life.
 * ** Autobiographical novels ** are fiction that is based largely on the author’s own life story.
 * **Memoir** is a record of facts or events based on the personal experience of the writer.
 * ** Oral history **is an account of past events assembled from the spoken reminiscences of those who lived through them.