This database provides book summaries, bibliographic data, review excerpts and many full text reviews from over 8,000 periodicals covered by other Wilson databases. Every book appears with all of its reviews together. A single book can have as little as one review citation and as much as a descriptive summary and many reviews, depending on the coverage the book received in the reviewing literature.

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• " Who is the author of the books in which Thursday Next is the main character?
• " How can I find some reviews of A Thousand Splendid Suns?
• " Can you tell me how to find a book that I could buy about understanding To Kill a Mockingbird?

Documentation

• End user tips - Searching EBSCO Databases
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• EBSCO

This source includes book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press), which produces individual books and biographies, essays and literary criticism. Full text sources featured in the database include Canadian Fiction Studies, Canadian Biography Series, Canadian Writers and Their Works (Poetry and Fiction Series), ECW's Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction, George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Poetry, The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Essays on Canadian Writing, Books in Canada, Quill & Quire, Textual Studies in Canada, University of Toronto Quarterly and many more.

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• Where would I find a review of Hazel Hutchins' children's book, The Sidewalk Rescue?
• What was the relationship between the Maritime poets, Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman?
• Has Will Ferguson written anything about writing in general?

Documentation

• End user tips - Searching EBSCO Databases
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• EBSCO

The selective list presented features classic and contemporary works of fiction recommended for a general adult audience, written in or translated into English. The best authors and their most widely read works in literary and popular fiction, old and new, are listed, including mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, Westerns and romance. The database, which is accessible by author, title, subject and genre, provides entries for individual novels and analytic entries for novellas and novels contained in composite works. There are more than 8,000 titles listed, with entries providing complete bibliographic data, price, descriptive annotations and evaluative quotations from a review when available. Out-of-print titles are included.

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• Do you have any fiction books about the environment or environmentalists?
• Is there somewhere to look for summaries of novels by John Grisham?
• I would like to read a novel that takes place in Chile.

Documentation

• End user tips - Searching EBSCO Databases
• End user tips - Using a Visual Picture to Search EBSCO databases
• End user tips - How to Create Alerts

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• EBSCO

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• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials

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• CENGAGE

This center provides biographical, bibliographical and contextual information from the Contemporary Authors and Dictionary of Literary Biography databases. It also provides full-text criticism from the Contemporary Literary Criticism database, and selected criticism from titles in the Literary Criticism Series. Together these include more than 500,000 full-text journal articles, 65,000 critical essays, 136,000 author biographies, 3000 author portraits, and 7000 work overviews, contextual essays and explications. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature which provides 10,000 definitions of literary terms. There are also links to related authoritative websites.

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• When was Khaled Hosseini born and where does he live now?
• Where can I find critical essays on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"?
• Am I able to find literary articles on the women’s suffrage movement?
• Can I find the names of British authors who wrote political poetry during the 1800s?

Documentation

• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials
• End user tips - Using Literature Resouce Center
• Training - Tour of Literature Resource Center

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• CENGAGE

Includes more than 150,00 full-text poems and 850,000 poem citations; over 10,000 stories, essays, and plays; plus additional information sources such as biographies, essays and explanations. Includes world coverage and period pieces. Literature is from antiquity to the present, with 3,500 poems and stories published in the current year.

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• Can you find me poems about snowflakes?
• Where can I read speeches John A. Macdonald made as Prime Minister?
• What poem has the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" (don’t know title or author)?

Documentation

• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials
• End user tips - LitFinder Search Tips
• Training - Using LitFinder, including PoemFinder and StoryFinder: sample searches

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• CENGAGE

Index and links to a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including dramas, comedies, monologues, one-act plays, classical and historical plays, radio and television plays, pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances and radio and televisions plays. The Play Index provides full publication details needed to locate the play including plays published separately and in anthologies and collections. A descriptive annotation summarized the plot, indicates number of actors, any musical requirements, number of sets and scenery requirements. Included are plays appropriate for all ages, from preschoolers to adult.

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• I would like to do a play for adults, perhaps 7 or 8 actors. I want it to be set in Canada or to be about Canada. Is it possible to locate such a play?
• Can you help me find a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird?
• How can I find a play about bullying to be performed by and for high school students?

Documentation

• End user tips - Searching EBSCO Databases
• End user tips - Using a Visual Picture to Search EBSCO databases
• End user tips - How to Create Alerts

Vendor

• EBSCO

Based on the reader's advisory Genreflecting series, this service brings books and readers together with guides based on the advice of well-known experts. Multiple access points include browsing by author, characters, genre, location, series, time period, topic or theme. Includes over 400 genre divisions and subgenres with detailed definitions of each. Readers can find read-alikes and related reads via multiple paths which allow you to refine searches by awards won, associated films, suitability for book groups, young adult focus and special reading interests, such as African, Asian or Native American. Essays and notes cover a variety of reading topics. Allows users to save, edit and print personalized reading lists. Includes Canadian content.

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• I just read a Sharon McCone book, Dead Midnight. Are there any other books with this character?
• What is the difference between a techno thriller and a cyber thriller? Can you find me some examples of each?
• Are there other funny travel books like Bill Bryson writes?

Documentation

• End user tips - Tour Reader's Advisor Online

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• ABC-CLIO, LLC

The Shakespeare Collection includes the Arden full-text, annotated scholarly editions of the complete works of Shakespeare, with introduction and appendices. Other major past editions of his works from the First Folio to the 19th century are provided. Also includes full-text scholarly journals in the fields of the Renaissance, Elizabethan studies, film studies, etc. The Gordon Crosse Theatrical Diary provides eyewitness accounts of 60 plus years (1890-1953) of Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom. The database contains primary source material, criticism from the 17th century to the present and general reference data. There are also selected works by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, as well as maps, photos and other illustrations about Shakespeare’s productions, life and times. Biocritical information about Shakespearean actors, actresses and directors is included.

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• In what Shakespeare play is the phrase "The fault… is not in our stars, but in ourselves"?
• Can I find theatre reviews of "The Taming of the Shrew"?
• Where can I find information on the beliefs about witchcraft in Shakespeare's time?

Documentation

• Training - Tours, Fact Sheets, Tutorials
• End user tips - Shakespeare Collection brochure
• End user tips - Shakespeare Collection Fact Sheet
• Training - Shakespeare Collection Tour

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• CENGAGE

Locate more than 3000 full text short stories, with indexing to 81,000 more. Search by author, title, subject, keyword, date, literary technique or source. Subjects include theme, locale, narrative technique or device (such as stories with surprise endings, stories in dialect, parodies) and genre (mystery, science fiction, etc). Links within each record provide access to other stories by the same author, stories on the same subject and stories in the same publication.

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• Where can I find the story "The Birthday Party" by Stuart McLean?
• Where can I find a short story about summer camp?
• Can I find the title of a short story by Alice Munro that appeared in the New Yorker magazine?

Documentation

• End user tips - Searching EBSCO Databases
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• End user tips - How to Create Alerts

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• EBSCO

Theatre in Video provides the opportunity to watch online in streaming video the world's leading plays featuring notable actors, playwrights and directors as well as film documentaries. Theatre in Video shows original productions which cover a wide range of 20th century theatrical history starting from the 1930's. It also includes live television broadcasts from the 50's , revivals of classic works and experimental performances from the 60's and 70's as well as contemporary performances. You can browse by productions, documentaries, people, genre, companies, theatres and specific dates. You can also create playlists or bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging. When complete, Theatre in Video will contain more than 350 full length plays and documentaries.

Use this database to answer questions like

• I am looking for the production of A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.
• We are currently studying the Open Theatre of New York. Can I view any productions from this experimental theatre group?
• I need an example of a farce written by Moliere.

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• Gibson Library Connections