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Books & Literary Criticism
Books & Literary Criticism Research Materials
Biblioteca TumbleBook
¿Usar en casa? Sí
Descripción: Ciber-libros para ciber-niños.
Booklist
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Book review journal of the American Library Association, connecting library and education workers to the books and resources needed to support and enrich their communities.
BookPage
A discovery tool for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres, BookPage is editorially independent; only books we highly recommend are featured. Any publisher-sponsored content is clearly labeled as such.
Books in Print
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Search the availability of current books, audio and video in a database of millions of titles. Also contains full text reviews from standard magazines.
Boundless by Baker & Taylor (formerly, Axis360)
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Audiobooks, Ebooks, Graphic Novels
Description: check out audiobooks or ebooks for 14 days to use on your smartphone, tablet or computer (not compatible with Kindles)
Having trouble finding us when setting up Boundless? Make sure you’re typing the period in St. Charles.
Comics Plus powered by Library Pass
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Graphic Novels
Description: Enjoy unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; on your computer, tablet, or phone. No holds. No wait lists. No limits.
Core Collections
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains six key H. W. Wilson collection development titles – Children’s Core Collection, Fiction Core Collection, Graphic Novels Core Collection, Middle and Junior High Core Collection, Public Library Core Collection Non-fiction, and Senior High Core Collection in an easily searchable interface.
Gale eBooks
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains the full text of hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects, including history, business, medicine, science and humanities. Includes tables of content, indexes and illustrations.
Gale Literature Resource Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: search across more than 165,000 entries, including biographies, overviews, and full-text literary criticism—past and present.
Hoopla Digital
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Audiobooks, eBooks, Magazines, Music, Video
Description: Stream or download up to 5 titles per month in a variety of forms. Videos check out for 3 days, Binge Passes and Music for 7 days, eBooks and Audiobooks for 21 days.
The library has a daily allotment of checkouts from Hoopla. If you receive a message that the daily limit has been reached, all available checkouts have been used for the day. The next day’s allotment resets at midnight.
If you receive an error message from Hoopla about your account settings, please visit the Hoopla settings menu and re-enter your library card number and PIN. If you do not know your PIN, please contact the reference department at 630-584-0076 x1.
Illinois Libraries Group Catalog
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Use WorldCat Discovery to search the holdings of libraries across the state of Illinois.
Inkie.org through Biblioboard
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: eBooks (plus some Audiobooks, Music, and Video)
Description: Always available collection of primarily eBooks, provided for free to everyone in Illinois thanks to the generosity of the Reaching Across Illinois Libraries Systems (RAILS). Also includes local collections from other Illinois libraries and PressBooks tool to convert your manuscript into eBook format.
Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy
Use at Home? Yes
Description: From the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom, keep up to date with news of book bannings and censorship, new policies and reports from the Intellectual Freedom Committee and the Freedom to Read Foundation, and read peer-reviewed articles on privacy and intellectual freedom.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Coverage back to the mid-1960s makes this the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
Literary Reference Source
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full-text literary database covering all genres and timeframes, including thousands of synopses, critical essays, book reviews, literary journals and author biographies, plus full-text classic novels, short stories and poems.
NoveList K-8 Plus
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Search for picture books through chapter books by author, title, series name or subject. Includes helpful educator’s tools.
NoveList Plus
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Fiction and nonfiction guide for all ages. Find read-alike books and authors, book reviews, book group discussion questions and author websites.
OverDrive/Libby/eMediaLibrary
Use at Home? Yes
Formats Available: Audiobooks, eBooks, Magazines
Description: Check out up to 10 eBooks or Audiobooks for up to 3 weeks. Check out an unlimited number of magazines for 3 weeks. Only Kindle-friendly library eBook vendor.
Browse the Libby App from your Laptop/Desktop
PressBooks through Inkie
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Easy-to-use online tool that allows you to create professional quality versions of your book in ePUB, MOBI, PDF and more—all through your library.
Salem Literature
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains the series Critical Survey and Masterplots, great resources for plot summaries, author biographies, and outlines of the major themes discussed in literary works.
Scholastic BookFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Online literacy resource that pairs classic fictional video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks. Reinforces core reading skills and introduces students to a world of knowledge and exploration. Includes helpful educator’s tools.
Shakespeare Survey
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A great resource from Cambridge University Press for students and Shakespeare lovers. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English, and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.
TumbleBook Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: A collection of animated, talking picture books and puzzles created from existing picture books, Large Print chapter books and classic children’s books. There are also books in Spanish and French.
UlrichsWeb
Use at Home? Yes
Description: The authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types from around the world.
WorldCat Discovery
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Locate books, periodicals, computer programs, films, maps, sound recordings, videotapes, dissertations and other formats in thousands of libraries worldwide.
Books & Literary Criticism Websites
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- Historical Fiction
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