Literature & Reading

Download books, music, and videos to your laptop or home computer - you can then transfer files to an e-reader or MP3 player.  Most, but not all,  hardware platforms are supported (for more information please contact the library.) Available downloads are organized by genre in fiction and non-fiction, by music style, and by video genre. Use the links on the right side of the WVDELI main p...

With information on over 260,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles included, plus feature content including lists of award-winning books, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, Recommended Reads and more, NoveList Plus is a complete readers' resource.  It includes coverage of over 9,000 fiction and nonfiction series, making it one of the most comprehensive treatments of series available....

NoveList K-8 Plus allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers. Find Recommended Reads lists organized by age group or search for books by genre, subject, or literary award.

ProQuest® Learning: Literature provides more than 180,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama from around the world. This unique resource also offers secondary sources such as author biographies and multimedia, as well as literary criticisms, essays, reviews, and interviews drawn from 100+ full-text literary magazines and journals.   A library card barcode number is required ...

Poets.org is the award-winning website of the Academy of American Poets. Visitors to Poets.org will find thousands of poems as well as hundreds of poet biographies, essays, interviews, and poetry recordings - with new material being added all the time.

NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotation, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book lists.