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Bloom's Literary Reference Online
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Bloom's Literary Reference Online features thousands of author biographies, a guide to more than 41,000 literary characters as well as overviews, synopses, analyses, and literary criticism of thousands of works-from novels to poetry to plays.
BookNews Newsletters
Looking for a new book or author? View our current BookNews newsletters online or sign up to receive a copy each month in your email - try Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Bestsellers, "Books to Movies," "Teen Scene at the Library!" & more.
Biography In Context
Biography In Context includes more than 600,000 biographies on notable children's authors, poets, musicians, political figures, filmmakers, writers & more from around the world and throughout history. Biographical sources include: images, video & audio-clips along with reference, news, magazines, academic journals & website sources that you can easily bookmark, save, share or email.
EBSCO ebooks and e-Audiobooks
EBSCO ebooks and e-audiobooks are each an internet-based electronic library that offers the full-text of online books (e-books) that can only be read online as well as downloadable audiobooks (e-audiobooks) that can be downloaded to computers or a wide range of portable devices. Our ebook collection includes many classic titles, as well as CliffsNotes. Our e-audiobook collection includes over 2000 fiction, nonfiction and classic titles.
Email Book Clubs
Join our Email Book Clubs and each week, Monday through Friday, you will receive in your email a five-minute selection of a book. By the end of the week, you'll have read 2-3 chapters. Also, learn more about authors through AuthorBuzz, where you can meet 3 to 6 authors a week who each have written notes so you can get to know them and their novels.
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Learning Express Library - Tutorial
When you register on LearningExpress Library, you must use your library card number (122220.......) as your username.
LearningExpress (Learn-a-Test) provides electronic books for: SAT, ASVAB, Postal Worker, Nursing Assistant, Resumes, etc.
NoveList Plus
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Looking for the perfect book? Try NoveList Plus, an online database of over 200,000 fiction
and non-fiction titles and you'll never worry about how to find a great read again. You'll be able to find read-alikes for authors
and books you already enjoy, award winning books as well as book discussion guides for book groups. You can read reviews from
authoritative sources and get a list of titles in that series you've always wanted to read. There are 500 book discussion guides,
450 searchable book award lists, coverage of over 9000 fiction and nonfiction series, 25,000 first chapter excerpts and more. All
titles link to the library catalog and if PCCLD owns it, you can quickly place a hold on the title to be picked up at the branch nearest you.
NoveList K-8 Plus
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Novelist K-8 Plus includes curriculum driven material designed to help integrate reading across subject areas in the classroom - including 30,000 nonfiction titles specifically chosen to support what kids are studying in school.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
World Almanac for Kids Online
World Almanac for Kids Online includes a "Reader's Corner" with lists of award winning children's books, biographies of famous writers & journalists, facts about the history of books, lists of popular children's books and ALA book recommendations, and and much, much more on other age appropriate topics, providing fun material that is perfect for school assignments.
World Cat
WorldCat is a database of materials held by libraries throughout the United States that you can
search and you can also place interlibrary loan requests for materials not owned by the Pueblo City-County Library District. |