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Find ratings and recommendations on thousands of products and services including cars, electronics, home & garden, and babies and kids products. You can compare up to 5 items side by side in the same search. You can also read the current issue, articles on money, health, and safety recalls.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using ConsumerReports.org.

Sign up for weekly emails about WVPL’s newest books and movies so you can reserve them quickly. Learn about upcoming library programs.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using WOWbrary.

Search thousands of online full-text magazines. It is a great source for students doing research papers. You can print, email, save, listen to & cite articles. The New Oxford American Dictionary is also included.

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Please CLICK HERE for help in searching and viewing content in the EBSCOhost Research Databases.

Your child can watch and listen to a large collection of animated, online story books. There is also a large collection of audio books, including ones in French and Spanish. Tumblebooks also has book related puzzles & games. 

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Please CLICK HERE for help using Tumble Book.

Learn one of 38 languages or English as a Second Language (ESL). Mango includes a translation feature that lets you translate English into one of the 38 languages or vice versa. If you’re using an iPad or iPhone, you can download the free app.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using Mango Languages.

Search full text articles from Civil War-1922. You can search by dates and eras including US Presidencies and Eras in American History (Antebellum Period, US Civil War, Roaring Twenties etc.). You can also search by article types, including: News/Opinion, Election Returns, Letters, Poetry, Legislative Acts or Legal Proceedings, Prices, Shipping News, Advertisements, Birth Notices, Cartoons and Comics.

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Please CLICK HERE for help using the Philadelphia Inquirer Historical Archive.

Find information on topics in arts, biography, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, nation and world, religion, science and social science, and technology through the 77 reference eBooks. It’s great for research papers on topics like: American History, World War I & II, Ancient Greece & Rome, the Middle Ages, Holocaust, clothing, immigration, inventors, climate change, sports biography, animal rights, drugs and alcohol, crime, and diseases.

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To find help for using this eRESOURCE, login using your WVPL library card barcode and look for the orange HELP link in the middle of the page.


NOTE: Access to this eRESOURCE is limited to WVPL card holders or Internet computer users in the Blue Bell or Ambler libraries.

Take real-time online college preparation practice tests for ACT, AP, CLEP, CUNY, PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, THEA, TEOFL iBT, TOEIC, GRE, GED. If you are looking for a job, you can take practice test for careers in air traffic control, civil service, commercial driving, cosmetology, culinary arts, electrical, emergency medical services, firefighting, law enforcement, legal, military, nursing, plumbing, real estate, and teaching. Those seeking US Citizenship can practice for the exam. There are also learning centers that provide skills improvement for grades 1-12 in Math, Reading, Writing, Social Studies and Science.  

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Please CLICK HERE for help using Learning Express.