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  • November's Free eBook Available Now

    Each month, Schlow highlights a new title available as a free eBook through our netLibrary subscription, which is part of the Power PA Library. The titles are varied and range from referenceQuestions that you ask of library staff that require knowledge of the content of the collection or other resources such as those on the web. Sometimes you are referred to the answer, hence Reference. Reference can also refer to our reference materials that are often encyclopedic books that have many volumes and a concentrated number of facts and/or statistics. These materials usually have an overnight loan period so they are available in the library most of the time. to self-help to home & life improvement. Try one.

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  • Teen Ink
    Magazine, blogs, book series and website written entirely by teens. An excellent resource for teen writers and artists.
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  • Litfinder logo

    Search for full text poems, citations and excerpts using Poem Finder. Poet biographies, a Kids Korner, and the Years Best Poetry are included. Story Finder provides thousands of full text short stories with explanations, biographies, and more. Use Essay Finder to locate full text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century. The essays focus on humanities and social sciences and include biographies and literary criticisms.

     

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  • CA logo

    A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.

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  • SIRS logo

    Includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines and government documents. Articles are assigned a reading level of either Easy, Moderate or Challenging- based on age-appropriateness, educational content, interest and reading level. This database is an excellent student resource.

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  • Oxford Reference logo

    Provides information on many subjects including general reference, language and quotations, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professions. Bilingual dictionaries provided in English/French, English/German, English/Spanish, and English/Italian.

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  • netLibrary logo

    Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. netLibrary eBooks are full text searchable and available for use on personal computers in online formats.

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  • BRB logo

    Links to biographical articles on over 470,000 individuals. Full text articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals, feature articles, interviews, essays, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.

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  • Apollo with lyre

    Provides access to the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and the Oxford Companion to Music. Links are available to musical sites on the Internet; some examples use Sibelius (music notation software.)

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  • van Gogh Cypresses

    Provides access to Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Newly-commissioned articles and links to images from galleries and museums from around the world are included.

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