LITERATURE
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Looking for critical reviews, essays and author biographies? Look no further! The library has gathered their best resources on popular authors or obscure ones below. If you have any questions simply e-mail us by clicking on the icon below.
DATABASES
Academic ASAP Expanded
Find full-text articles from 4,700 scholarly journals covering the arts, humanities, social sciences, technology and general sciences.
Academic Search Premier
Full-text articles from over 4500 journals covering a broad range of subjects and includes 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. Back files to 1975 for over 100 journals. Great newspaper/magazine articles for high school, college and adults, on all topics!
Contemporary Authors
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
Crossword Puzzle Solver
Enter the letters you have with question marks for those you don't and it will give word options which fit the pattern.
Hispanic Biography (GVRL)
Provides informative biographical profiles of the important and influential persons of Latino heritage who form the international Hispanic community. Covers persons of various nationalities in a wide variety of fields, including architecture, art, business, dance, education, fashion, film, industry, journalism, law, literature, medicine, music, politics and government, publishing, religion, science and technology, social issues, sports, television, theater, and others.
Literature Collection (GVRL)
An all encompassing source of information and criticism about authors and their works, playrights, poetry, short stories and graphic novels.
Literature Criticism Online
Contemporary Literary Criticism is THE resource to use when you need literary criticism. Now, you can find CLC, PLUS poetry criticism, drama criticism, and much, much more, online, without visiting the library!
Literature for Students
This collection is for older students. Includes Drama For Students, Novels for Students, Short Stories for Students, Poetry for Students, Nonfiction Classics, Literary Themes, Literary Newsmakers & Graphic Novelists.
Literature for Students (GVRL)
Includes Something about the Author, Children´s Literature Review & Author & Artists for Young People.
Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline.
Shakespeare Collection
Resources include the most recent Arden Shakespeare editions of the complete works, as well as editions and adaptations of Shakespeare's works, other works published during Shakespeare's time, prompt books, the Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diaries, criticism, reviews, images, and reference.
Something About The Author
Provides illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and artists, ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries typically cover personal life, career, writings, works in progress, adaptations, and additional sources. This database is now part of Literature Criticism Online.
Student Resources in Context
Search reference books, Magazines & Journals, Newspapers, Primary Documents, and Multimedia for subject areas History, Literature, Science, Social Science & biographies.
What Do I Read Next?
Information about books your friends have told you about!
RESOURCES IN YOUR LIBRARY
Read Me Vegas
The online book discussion group for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District.
DIGITAL BOOKS
Online Books Page
Contains public domain works from a variety of languages.
Online Texts
Contains public domain works from a variety of languages.
Project Gutenberg
Contains public domain works from a variety of languages.
Universal Digital Library
Online library offers 1.5 million works and counting. The online library offers full text downloads of works that are in the public domain, or for which the copyright holder has been given permission to make available. The collection goes far beyond the widely available classics, though those are there, too.
WEB SITES
Absolute Shakespeare
Absolute Shakespeare, the essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes, biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
Nancy Pearl has become a rock star among readers and the tastemaker people turn to when deciding what to read next.
Center for Adolescent Reading
Books for teens with comments by teens!
Gnooks
Gnooks is a self-adapting community system based on the gnod engine. Discover new writers you will like, travel the map of literature and discuss your favorite books and authors.
Guide To Book Genres
Reading is a popular pastime that is enjoyed by individuals from all parts of the world. When it comes to reading, many people have a specific type of book that they prefer to read, which is known as a "genre." While there are a wide variety of genres currently in existence, some of the most popular include fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, mystery, romance, horror, biography, informational, and child/young adult.
IPL Kidspace: Picture Books
Internet Public Library's picture book collection, each with a story hour inside!
IPL Kidspace: The Reading Zone
The Reading Zone is a little like the fiction section at a public library. You can find links to on-line stories and also learn more about your favorite books and authors.
Kids Read
Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties. And for even more reading fun we have trivia games, word scrambles and awesome contests
Librarian's Index to the Internet: Literature
LII is a searchable, annotated literature subject directory of hundreds of Internet resources, evaluated by Library of California librarians, featuring literature styles, periods, and authors.
Literary Criticism at the Internet Public Library
IPL has found Literary Criticism links for many authors, schools of writing, etc. They also have a Online Literary Criticism Guide, and a Literary Criticism Pathfinder, that can give you suggestions for finding criticism in your library and on the Web.
Oprah's Book Club
See what Oprah's reading now!
Reading Rockets
Information about teaching kids to read, and helping those who struggle.
Shmoop
Shmoop wants to make you a better lover (of literature, history, poetry and writing). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time.
Teens Read
We at Teenreads.com bring teens info and features about their favorite authors, books, series and characters. We are a part of The Book Report Network, a group of websites founded in 1996 that share thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, literary games and contests, and more with readers every week.
Your Comprehensive Guide to Everything Shakespeare
Covers cool Shakespearean facts, links to all of the Bard's work online, all of the Shakespeare festivals in the country and more.
LOCAL RESOURCES
Nevada Young Reader's Award
NYRA is an annual recognition, awarded by the students of Nevada, for their favorite book in four categories: Picture Book, Young Reader, Intermediate Reader, and Young Adult. One of the few awards that come directly from the children reading!
Rainbow Company
Rainbow Company Youth Theater performs 5 plays a season and offers classes to children aged 4 to 18 years. Phone 229-6553 for information.
Super Summer Theatre at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park
http://www.supersummertheatre.com/
UNLV Performing Arts Center
University theater at it's best
Utah Shakespearean Festival
Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, Utah: Headlines not only Shakespeare but also musicals and plays by other playwrights. Order tickets on-line or order a brochure.
NATIONAL RESOURCES
Association for Library Service to Children
Association for Library Service to Children, ALSC, a division of the American Library Association: ALSC is responsible for the Notables book list and for awarding such prestigious book awards as the Newberry and Caldecott awards.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Responsible for the annual Nebula Awards, science fiction or fantasy, for the best short story, novelette, novella, and novel of the year.
GAMES AND ACTIVITIES
The 1920s Challenge
How well do you know the 1920's and the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Do you know the plot & characters in the novel The Great Gatsby? Do you know what happened in the 1920's? This game will find out how just how much you know!
SEE ALSO HOT TOPIC
LIBRARY CATALOG
The Edgar Allan Poe audio collection [sound recording].
by Poe, Edgar Allan
Recordings of dark poetry and short stories by this famous American writer.
Bound to please : an extraordinary one-volume literary education : essays on great writers and their books
by Dirda, Michael
This new work features scores of Dirda´s most engaging essays, all intended to introduce readers to wonderful writers, from the anecdotal Herodotus and James Boswell to the sensuous Colette and Steven Millhauser and European masters including Joseph Roth, Flann O´Brien, and Penelope Fitzgerald.
Hispanic literature of the United States : a comprehensive reference
by Kanellos, Nicolás
nic literature in the United States from the Spanish colonial period to the present.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Twain, Mark,
Probably the most definitive book of American Literature, this work exemplifies Twain´s unique sense of humor and his biting social commentary.
Understanding comics
by McCloud, Scott
Includes a history of comics that reaches back to pre-Columbian picture manuscripts and Egyptian monuments, an explanation of how sequential art is constructed and why, and a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication. Cool book!
Booktalks and more : motivating teens to read
by Schall, Lucy
100-plus entries of good books for teens are organized into four thematic sections, each further divided into subtopics.
Children & books
by Sutherland, Zena.
Zena Sutherland was editor of and reviewer for the Bulletin for the Center of Children´s Books from 1958 through 1985. She knew what kids like!
Children's and young adult literature by Latino writers
by York, Sherry
Great stories by Latino authors!
African American women writers
by Wilkinson, Brenda Scott
Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as: Phillis Wheatley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Terry McMillan.
Babies in the library!
by Marino, Jane
This guide describes activities designed to promote fondness for the library and a love of language in babies as young as three months old.
Randolph J. Caldecott and the story of the Caldecott Medal
by Bankston, John
A biography of the nineteenth-century English illustrator of children´s books, for whom the Caldecott medal is named.
Look! I can read!
by Hood, Susan
A young girl demonstrates to her mother and father how well she has learned to read.
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