Advanced search helps you find books by narrowing your search using one or more search criteria:
- Select the "Collection to Search" (Bookshare or a partner collection).
- Select your search and sort criteria. For example:
- Specify a particular book by "Title," "Author,” or other category.
- Filter by language, grade, category, etc. and set the sort results order.
- Click the "Advanced Search" button to begin your search.
Need more information on searching? Visit Bookshare's Find Books
page for general information or the Help Center to get
more tips on searching for books.
Can't find the book you want? Try searching our partner collection, the
Internet Archive, or
request to add the book to the Bookshare collection.
Search Tips
You can use the quick search box at the top of the page to search for
books by titles, authors or ISBN.
If multiple words are entered, they are treated as a phrase. Entering
more words will result in more exclusive results (ie: "king" will return
matches for "Alan King", "Stephen King", "The King and I", etc. whereas
"stephen king" will only return results where Stephen King is the
author, or where the phrase "stephen king" appears in the title. Author
searches will be matched as "Firstname Lastname". Partial word matches
are not done, so "king" will not match "kingfisher".
If we detect that the search term is a number, we will assume its an
ISBN and try to match on that.
You can use the "*" wildcard as many times as you like. "*ing" will
match "king" ping, etc.