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Title	Recommended
ABC-CLIO E-book Collection	History & literature e-books, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
African-American Poetry	Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
American Poetry	Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.
eBooks on EBSCOhost	Nearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
English Poetry	Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Faber Poetry Library	Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.
Literary Reference Center Plus	Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
MyiLibrary	Online books on a variety of topics including art, language learning, medical, health, history, and more.
NC LIVE Video Collection	Online videos from PBS including Ken Burns', Masterpiece Theater, Scientific American, American Experience, and more.
NoveList Plus	Readers' advisory service for fiction and non-fiction. Searchable by author, title, series name, subject, and plot. Includes author read-alikes and lists of award-winners.
OAIster	Catalog of digital books, articles, audiofiles, images, and more.
One Click Audio	Downloadable audio books on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with most iPods and WMA compatible MP3 players.
Open Library	A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry	62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
Twentieth Century American Poetry	A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry	Modernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.
WorldCat	Catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world.

Articles

Title	Recommended
Literary Reference Center Plus	Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
OAIster	Catalog of digital books, articles, audiofiles, images, and more.

Audio Books

Title	Recommended
One Click Audio	Downloadable audio books on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with most iPods and WMA compatible MP3 players.

Classics

Title	Recommended
ABC-CLIO E-book Collection	History & literature e-books, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
eBooks on EBSCOhost	Nearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
Literary Reference Center Plus	Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
MyiLibrary	Online books on a variety of topics including art, language learning, medical, health, history, and more.
One Click Audio	Downloadable audio books on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with most iPods and WMA compatible MP3 players.
Open Library	A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.

Criticism

Title	Recommended
ABC-CLIO E-book Collection	History & literature e-books, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
eBooks on EBSCOhost	Nearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
Literary Reference Center Plus	Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.

eBooks

Title	Recommended
ABC-CLIO E-book Collection	History & literature e-books, including the series Daily Life, Critical Companions, Literature in Context, as well as American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography.
eBooks on EBSCOhost	Nearly 25,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.
Literary Reference Center Plus	Articles and criticisms, including peer-reviewed, bios and interviews, novels, short stories, poems, and literary magazines.
MyiLibrary	Online books on a variety of topics including art, language learning, medical, health, history, and more.
OAIster	Catalog of digital books, articles, audiofiles, images, and more.
Open Library	A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.
WorldCat	Catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world.

Poetry

Title	Recommended
African-American Poetry	Poems from 1750-1900 including Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more.
American Poetry	Find poems written from 1650-1920. Includes Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Phillis Wheatley, Walt Whitman and Herman Melville.
English Poetry	Find poems written from 600 to 1900 including Thomas Percy, Walter Scott, Robert Dodsley, Francis Turner Palgrave, and more.
Faber Poetry Library	Find poems written by modern poets such as Wendy Cope, T. S. Eliot, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Tom Paulin, Sylvia Plath and more.
Twentieth Century African-American Poetry	62 of the most important African-American poets of the last century: Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde and Rita Dove.
Twentieth Century American Poetry	A database of modern and contemporary American poetry from the early twentieth century to the present. Presently includes 36,000 poems drawn from 460 volumes by 217 poets.
Twentieth-Century English Poetry	Modernist poems (1900-1999): W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, A.E. Housman, D.H. Lawrence, Carol Ann Duffy, and more.

Videos

Title	Recommended
NC LIVE Video Collection	Online videos from PBS including Ken Burns', Masterpiece Theater, Scientific American, American Experience, and more.