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eBooks

ABC CLIO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism. Includes large a collection of slave narratives.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Background information from encyclopedias, dictionaries, quotations, and subject-specific titles, 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
Dogwood Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Access to thousands of audiobooks and eBooks. Content can be enjoyed on your mobile device by downloading the free Libby app in your app store. Visit the FAQ page to find out more about the apps.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
This resource contains scholarly eBook titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction titles on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills. There are no limits on concurrent multi-user access to ebrary titles, and most titles can be downloaded and read via the Ebook Central Reader and on the Bluefire Reader app for Android and iOS.
eBooks (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Thousands of full text reference and scholarly ebooks.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Twenty-three electronic versions of reference works covering various subjects.
Home Grown eBook Collection (NC Live) This link opens in a new window
Ebooks from North Carolina publishers and authors. Includes fiction, non fiction and poetry. *Click "Continue as a guest" to access content. If you want to place items on your virtual bookshelf, you can create a free profile.*
Hoopla This link opens in a new window
Formerly RBdigital. Access to thousands of audiobooks and ebooks.

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--Click the "hoopla" link or download the hoopla app.
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--Type "NC LIVE" as your library.
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JSTOR eBooks This link opens in a new window
Ebooks and journals from renowned scholarly publishers.
Mometrix eLibrary This link opens in a new window
FREE TEAS, CNA, TOEFL, ASVAB, and CDL practice exams. Links within this resource to optional additional study aides (such as flash cards) may require purchase.
Omnigraphics Health Reference Sourcebooks This link opens in a new window
Straightforward and authoritative ebooks on consumer health topics.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window
Free eBooks. Downloadable ebooks no longer in copyright.
R2 Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Offers fully integrated and searchable medical, nursing and allied health source book content from key health science publishers.

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Suggested eBooks

Encyclopedia of Women in American History by Eileen Chang; Joyce Appleby; Neva Goodwin
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780765680389
Publication Date: 2002
This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women, but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole.
One Step over the Line by Elizabeth Jameson (Editor); Sheila McManus (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780888645012
Publication Date: 2008
This unfamiliar territory is the borderlands of women's histories traversing the American and Canadian Wests. Specialists in women's history, settler societies, colonialism, storytelling, education, and native and borderlands studies introduced by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus pool their distinct contributions toward forging the very first comparative, transnational collection of its kind.
Reshaping Women's History by Julie A. Gallagher (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780252042003
Publication Date: 2018
Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History presents autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists who persevered through poverty or abuse, medical malpractice or family disownment, civil war or genocide. As they illuminate their own unique circumstances, the authors also address issues all-too-familiar to women in the academy: financial instability, the need for mentors, explaining gaps in resumes caused by outside events, and coping with gendered family demands, biases, and expectations. Eye-opening and candid, Reshaping Women's History shows how adversity, and the triumph over it, enriches scholarship and spurs extraordinary efforts to affect social change.
She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781492662921
Publication Date: 2018
Meet the bold women history has tried to forget...until now! Women's stories are often written as if they spent their entire time on Earth casting woeful but beautiful glances towards the horizon and sighing into the bitter wind at the thought of any conflict. Well, that's not how it f**king happened. When you hear about a woman who was 100% pure and good, you're probably missing the best chapters in her life's story.
U. S. History As Women's History by Linda K. Kerber (Editor); Alice Kessler-Harris (Editor); Kathryn Kish Sklar (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780807821855
Publication Date: 1995
This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors,'intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part.'State formation, power, and knowledge have not traditionally been understood as the subjects of women's history, but they are the themes that permeate this book. Individually and together, the essays explore how gender serves to legitimize particular constructions of power and knowledge and to meld these into accepted practice and state policy.
U. S. Women's History by Leslie Brown (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780813575841
Publication Date: 2017
In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women's historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful—women's historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field.