Alphabet soup, it is.
Every book has to have an ISBN, a CIP and a PCN. Look for yourself on the verso page of any recent book. (The verso page is also called the copyright page, and it's the reverse of the title page.)
ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. The CIP block is the "Cataloging in Publication information. And the PCN is a Preassigned Control number issued by the Library of Congress.
There is no "one-stop" shopping opportunity here -- each piece of information comes from a different source.
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention the EAN barcode.
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