Literature & Language
American Writers, Supplement 22 & Supplement 23 - biographical and critical information on some popular American authors, such as Laura Ingalls Wilder and Anne Rivers Siddons
Literature Resource Center - in-depth information on the lives and writings of nearly 100,000 authors along with critical reaction to their works from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Dictionary of Literary Biography
Novelist K-8 Plus - for new readers up to teens, find fiction and nonfiction books and audiobooks by title, plot, keyword or author. Find award winners, book recommendations, and teacher resources, also
Novelist Plus - helps you find fiction and nonfiction books and audiobooks by title, plot, keyword or author. Novelist Plus also includes "best of" lists, author "read-alikes", and book discussion guides
PowerSpeak Languages - Whether you want to learn a language for travel, business, or personal enrichment, Powerspeak Languages is a breakthrough in online language learning. The highly engaging courses use an arsenal of progressive language learning methods. Languages so far include Spanish, French, Mandarin, German, and ESL for Spanish speakers
ProQuest Learning: Literature - provides more than 180,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from around the world, as well as secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews, and interviews
Foreign Language & ESL Resources - Find the Best library, internet, and local resources for learning a foreign language or English as a Second Language
Literary Criticism Resources - Find the Best resources on literary criticism using books, magazines, and web sites
NextReads Newsletters - an email newsletter service from NoveList;sign up for monthly or bi-monthly lists of fiction and nonfiction bookson such topics as mystery, science fiction, and history
Reader's Corner Blog - staff members of the library recommend favorites (mostly fiction) from among the books they’ve been reading
eBooks
EBSCOhost eBooks - our secondary eBook supplier features travel guides, computer books, Cliffs Notes, test study guides, and other high demand books that can be viewed online or downloaded to any device supporting the ePub format. See OverDrive for our main eBook supplier which supports Kindle
Gale Virtual Reference Library - full-text encyclopedias and other reference sources in a number of subject areas
One Click Digital - audiobooks that you can download to your personal computer or portable listening device from the library’s collection
OverDrive - our main supplier of downloadable eBooks that are compatible with many devices, including Kindles, Nooks, and iPads. You will find a variety of fiction, nonfiction, children's, young adult, and adult titles. See Ebscohost for more eBook options
Downloadable eBooks - find out how to download and view electronic books from Spokane Public Library
eBooks - find more details about our various eBook services
Archive.org's Ebook and Texts Archive - the Internet Archive’s Text Archive contains a wide range of federal documents, fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books, some of which can be downloaded into various formats
Bartleby.com - searchable full text of the Harvard Classics plus standard reference sources such as Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Online Books Page - listing over 35,000 free books on the web, from the University of Pennsylvania
Project Gutenberg - one of the earliest electronic book web sites, Project Gutenberg has thousands of free online books you can view or download
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