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Participate in reading challenges, track reading, and keep your family motivated to read.

Bring reading to life. Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone's experience reading children's and young adult books.

Answer the age-old question, “What do I read next?” Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.

Freely accessible digitally archived materials from libraries, archives, and museums.

Access eBooks on the following subjects: arts, business, education, general information, health and medicine, history and political science, law, literature and language, religion and philosophy, social science, and science and technology.

The EBSCO eBook Collection provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks from leading university, academic, and professional publishers. 

Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.

Literary content integrates with subject indexing for a full research experience.

Find up-to-date biographies, overviews, full-text criticisms, audio interviews, and reviews on writers from all eras.

Literary Reference Center provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes.

Access literary works and authors throughout history, including full-text poems, plays, short stories, speeches, and more.

Find read-alike recommendations specifically for younger readers. NoveList K-8 Plus helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests.

The secret to finding your next great read! NoveList Plus is a trusted source of expert read-alike recommendations.

Online book club that emails excerpts of books from genres of your choice directly to you.

Browse original scholarly essays on authors from around the world. Places authors and their works in personal and historical context.

TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books.

Find in-depth critical introductions to the lives and works of major writers. Includes influences of literary movements.

This unparalleled collection includes some 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, an