E-Source Home  >  Databases by category  >  Books & Literature E-Source Targets Bloom's Literature (Login required - click here)     Examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. Contemporary Authors (Login required - click here)     Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. [Gale] Literary Reference Center (Login required - click here)     Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a comprehensive literary reference database, which provides users with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. LRC is a completely full-text database that combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available anywhere else. [Ebsco] Novelist K-8 Plus (Login required - click here)     NoveList® K-8, a fiction database, is aimed at helping younger readers find the books they want to read - whether in a school setting or in public library childrens' rooms. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles. NoveList K-8 has all of the searching features contained in NoveList and allows users to search by author, title, series, theme or topic. [Ebsco] Novelist Plus (Login required - click here)     NoveList® Plus will help users find that next great read. With well over 200,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles included, plus feature content including lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Recommended Reads and more, NoveList Plus is a complete readers’ resource. [Ebsco] Online Book Clubs     Join the Library's Online Book Clubs and start receiving chapters from popular books in your daily email. Every day, Monday through Friday, we'll send you a portion of a book that takes only five minutes to read. Each Monday we begin a new book and by Friday you will have the chance to read 2 or 3 chapters, enough to know if it's a book you want to finish. You can read a wide variety of books including fiction, nonfiction, romance, business, teen and mystery books. Just give us your email address and five minutes a day, and we'll give you an exciting world of reading. SelectReads     Newsletters that you can subscribe to or read on our website. BookNews has recommended books in a variety of genres and includes book covers, and reviews. Writer's Reference Center (Login required - click here)     Writer's Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. From the mechanics of writing and grammar to style and research, this indispensable online resource thoroughly covers the fundamentals of quality writing and provides a wealth of vocabulary-building reference dictionaries, and examines numerous thematic areas. An in-depth grammar section defines grammatical terms and gives examples of use, while another section explains the meaning and usage of frequently confused words. Writing resources teach users how best to write and revise their work.[Infobase]