Literature

Books and Authors
Available through December 31, 2010. Looking for a new book to read? Search by author, title, or genre.

Discovering Collection
Discovering Collection offers easy access to award-winning content based on national curriculum standards and covers core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies. This database also includes a selection of primary sources, creative works, and multimedia as well as an integrated national and state curriculum standards search with content correlated to the standards.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources covering a wide range of topics including the arts, business, education, history, law, literature, medicine, religion, science, and social science.

Literature Resource Center
Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

Litfinder
Provides the opportunity for complete appreciation and study of great literary works by offering access to more than 135,000 full-text poems, stories, and plays in addition to other information sources such as biographies, essays, and explanations of the author and his/her work.

NetLibrary
NetLibrary provides full-text access to several thousand reference, scholarly, and professional books.  Patrons must set up an account for this database at the library reference desk before accessing it at home.

NextReads
Receive a monthly e-mail with suggestions for books to read based on your favorite fiction genre.

NoveList Plus
NoveList Plus is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interests to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.

NoveList Plus K-8
NoveList Plus K-8 is a database of young adult, children's, and easy titles designed for children in pre-K, elementary, and middle schools utilizing the same search techniques and content of interests as the adult version.

Scribner Writer Series
This database provides critical essays on the works of noted world authors as well as biographies and research topics.  Information is drawn from the acclaimed Scribner print series.

TumbleReadables New Database!
This database provides an online collection of read-along titles for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Great for emergent, struggling, and reluctant readers, this database features adjustable online text, complete audio narration, sentences that are highlighted as they are read, and pages that turn automatically. Chapter books, early readers, YA novels, high interest/low level books for middle and high school students, and classic American and English literature are available.

TumbleTalkingBooks New Database!
TumbleTalkingBooks is a database of online audio book available from any computer with an Internet connection at any time. Listeners are not restricted to a check out period—books are always available and can be bookmarked by the listener and returned to at a later date. This database includes unabridged audio versions of classic American and world literature, non-fiction, fiction, YA, and children’s books.

Twayne Authors Series
Comprises of over 600 full-text titles from the Twayne Literary Masters series, including Twayne World, U.S. Authors, and English Authors.