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Check out the follow sources for your report. Some resources are books that we have in the library, some are online, and some are both.
=Online Databases:=
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809 LIT ||   || Literature and it's times 5 volumes/2 supplements Duplicate volumes 1-5 available for check-out || 809.3 MAG ||   || Magill's Critical Survey of Short Fiction 7 volumes Available online in Salem Literature || 809.3 NOV ||   || Novels for Students 40 volumes 45 volumes online in the GALE Database || 810.9 CON ||   || Popular Contemporary Writers 11 volumes || 810.9 GRE ||  || Great American Writers/20th Century 13 volumes || 810.9 MAG ||   || Magill's Survey of American Literature 8 volumes Available online in Salem Literature || 810.9 NOT ||   || Notable African American Writers 3 volumes || 920 AUT ||  || Authors & Artists for Young Adults 88 volumes Available online in the GALE Database || 920 ENC ||  || Encyclopedia of World Biography 30 volumes Available online in the GALE Database ||
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"The Outage" was published in New Yorker Magazine and can be found HERE. "Varieties of Religious Experience" is available HERE. ||
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 * **Lit2Go** ||  || Includes a selection of stories & poems in Mp3 format(audio). Each passage can also be downloaded and printed as a PDF. Check to see if your author and their short stories are available ||
 * **Story of the Week** ||  || Check here to find stories by Sherwood Anderson, John Cheever, Kate Chopin, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, John Updike, and Eudora Welty, ||
 * **10 Wonderful Short Stories** ||  || Includes stories by Flannery O'Conner, Ray Bradbury, and Vladimir Nabokov ||
 * **Short Stories East of the Web** ||  || This is a British site with short fiction by a number of authors. ||
 * **American Literature: Short Stories** ||  || Too many authors to list here. Visit the site to see if your author is listed here. ||
 * **Kate Chopin ** ||  || Biographical information and many of her short stories ||
 * **Zora Neale Huston** ||  || "Sweat" is posted on the web site Bibliokept ||
 * **John Updike** ||  || "The Rumor" was published in Esquire Magazine and is available online HERE.
 * OpenCulture.com ||  || OpenCulture.com has over 600 books or short stories that you can download to a device or read online. You'll find many of your authors on this site. ||

**Many of the authors you are researching have books available as FREE ebooks. Check out Project Gutenberg, Planet Book, or even World Book to find the title you need online.**

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Don't forget that the public libraries have ebooks and online resources for you to use. All you need is a library card from your local library - the best FREE source around.
Click HERE for the Santa Clarita Libraries. Click on "ELIBRARY" and then "Articles and Databases" to begin your search.

Click HERE for the County of Los Angeles Public Libraries. Click on "Research" and then "All Databases" to begin your search.

Click HERE for the Los Angeles Public Libraries. Click on "Research and Homework" to access the online resources.

The Los Angeles Public Library has a number of "Research Guides" online that are accessible without a library card. HERE is the guide for Literary Criticism.

Other helpful websites:
Shmoopis an online publishing company that speaks to students. Shmoop covers a variety of subjects in an engaging, humorous way. You'll just have to visit the site to experience Shmoop.

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