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Book Index with Reviews (EBSCO)

Information on over 3.8 million book titles, including over 800,000 book reviews and a wide variety of search options.

Contemporary Authors (Gale) Help

Biographies of over 100,000 novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and other writers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select (Gale) Help

Collection of critical essays on contemporary literature.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (Gale) Help

Biographies of authors with bibliographies of their works.

Gale Literary Databases (Gale)

Search "Contemporary Authors," "Contemporary Literary Criticism Select," and "Dictionary of Literary Biography" together.

Literature Resource Center (Gale) Help

Full-text journal articles, critical essays, work overviews & summaries, and author biographies from authoritative sources.

MLA International Bibliography (Gale) Help

Literary research index of journal articles, books and essays within books. No full text.

netLibrary (netLibrary, Inc.)

Enter here to create an account you can use to access Lone Star College's collection of over 33,000 netLibrary e-books.

NoveList (EBSCO) (Cy-Fair and Tomball Colleges only)

Find fiction by author, genre, or even search for books that are similar to a particular novel you have liked.

ProQuest Learning: Literature (ProQuest) Help

Full-text references for literature study, including biographies, reference books, journal articles, images, video and sound

Twentieth Century American Poetry (Proquest/Chadwyck) Help

Over 50,000 complete poems by over 300 different American poets since 1900.

Twentieth Century English Poetry (Proquest/Chadwyck) Help

Tens of thousands of complete poems by over 280 different English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Commonwealth poets since 1900.

Visual Thesaurus (Thinkmap, Inc) Help

Interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates visual "word maps" that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.

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