Books & Literature
Free access to books and literature databases
Background information about authors, novels, poetry, multicultural classics, and contemporary literature. Includes videos, sample essay topics and discussion questions, and writing guidance.
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Search across individual eBook titles purchased by the CCCS library and those which are part of subscription databases, on a wide variety of topics. Search all of the CCS eBooks at once!
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Biographical and bibliographical information and references on U.S. and international authors. Extensive collection of full-text literary commentary about novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers. Uses Contemporary Authors and Literature Criticism Online. Available in multiple languages.
Full Collection. History, art, and anthropology students use for older journal articles, books, images, and primary sources. Includes Artstor, images of museum and archive holdings, like artifacts, paintings, photographs, advertisements, and other original art.
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Includes synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals, and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories, and poems covering all genres and time periods.
Contains information on American and world literature as well as critical analysis of over 100 individual literary classics of fiction, short stories, and poetry. Available in multiple languages. Text-to-speech available.
Find your next read with Novelist's information about popular fiction and nonfiction titles using features like Author Read-Alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, lists of award winners and more. Search among hundreds of thousands of titles.
Access Spanish-language and Arabic-language eBooks and audiobooks for free.
Explore more than 600,000 words in the English language and learn their history and meaning through time.
Contains classic and contemporary poems, short stories, biographies, essays, lesson plans and learning guides. It also includes high-quality videos and audio recordings from the Academy of American Poets.
Search the collections of libraries in the United States and around the world including books, music CDs, videos and digital content, article citations with links to their full text, authoritative research materials, documents and photos of local or historic significance and digital versions of rare items. Available in multiple languages.