Track your reading and participate in the library’s year-round reading challenges with Beanstack.

• Get book recommendations, track books read, and leave reviews
• Participate in year-round reading events, including the library’s Summer at Your Library challenge.
• Earn badges and prizes

This series focuses on an author’s entire body of work, providing literary criticism and biographical information.

• Authors included are: William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Walker, and Tennessee Williams.
• Dyslexia-friendly font available.
• Able to export citations into a separate file.

Essays covering themes and concepts of graphic novels, including genres, time periods, foreign language traditions, social relevance, and craftsmanship such as penciling and inking.

• Includes chronological history of graphic novels.
• Dyslexia-friendly font available.
• Option to save articles and citations.

In-depth insight for over 215 of the most popular and studied graphic novels. Researchers will be familiar with the characters and stories included in this collection, yet will gain a deeper understanding, as the literary nature of the stories is presented in critical format by leading writers in the field.

• Literary nature of the graphic novels is presented in critical format by leading writers in the field.
• Dyslexia-friendly font available.
• Option to save articles and citations.

In-depth insight for over 55 of the most popular manga graphic novels, ranging from metaseries to stand-alone books; focusing on translated works that have been particularly influential in the development of the manga tradition.

• Includes publication history as well as style, themes, and impact of each title.
• Dyslexia-friendly font available.
• Option to save articles and citations.

Find your next literary adventure with Gale Books and Authors! Receive expert guidance on your next pick using these categories:

• Browse Genres: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, or Nonfiction.
• Review Book Lists: Award Winners, Expert Picks, and Librarian Favorites.
• Search By: Title, Author, Series, or Keyword.

In Gale eBooks find more than 60 reference e-books on history, business, medicine, religion, social science, literature, education, art, the world, and more. A few titles include: Business Plans Handbook; Novels for Students; Newsmakers; Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans; Environmental Encyclopedia; American Decades; and Countries of the World. Search for reference information, and read a short snippet or the full-book. These e-books can be read online, listened to from the database, or downloaded to your personal computer.

Embark on a literary journey with access to multiple literature databases and delve into literary criticism with these tools:

• Browse popular topics and refine results using filters such as biographies, literature criticism, or reviews and news.
• Person Search: search by Name, Ethnicity, Nationality, Gender, Occupation, Literary Movement and more.
• Works Search: search by Title, Author, Type of Work, Publication Date, and more.

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

• Access to a visualization tool shows intersection of different topics.
• Contains secondary materials like biographies, images, and more.
• Suitable for students, book clubs, and general readers.

Looking for your next read? Search for books you enjoy and get read-a-likes and recommendations from Novelist.

• Find books similar to ones you already like, or recommendations for similar authors
• Search for new books by subjects, time periods, characters, awards and more
• Get discussion guides to lead book club meetups

Introduce yourself to new authors and books each week by reading short daily excerpts sent to your email.

• Choose from 12 different online book club categories: audio books, romance, classics, science fiction, and more.
• Sample chapters for the selected book club pick each day of the week
• Goodreads account holders can leave reviews for others to enjoy

Search for books at OCLS and libraries worldwide.

• Can easily find out if a book is carried at OCLS, as well as other libraries worldwide
• Directly links to library websites, to find out status of the book.
• Provides contact information for libraries worldwide