Explore an A-Z list of our our Adult Resources.
Creativebug
Creativebug.com has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. Take classes on baking, sewing, drawing and more!
Culinary Arts (Gale OneFile)
Focuses on all aspects of cooking and nutrition with thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information.
Fine Arts (Gale OneFile)
Covers such topics as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking with emphasis on full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.
Freegal
Download and stream free music with your library card
Petrucci Sheet Music Library
The Petrucci Music Library offers over half a million scores of sheet music and recordings that date before the copyright year or are offered by the composer for free. They are offered to either play or read and usually can be downloaded.
AtoZdatabases is the premier Job Search, Reference & Mailing List Database including 65 million business & executive profiles & 240 million residents. Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!
Business (Gale OneFile)
Provides coverage of all business disciplines as well as business strategy, theory, and practice.
Business Insights: Essentials
Company and industry profiles, including SWOT and financial reports.
Consumer Reports
Provides access to expert, unbiased ratings and reviews of over 5,000 products.
Data Axle
Reference and research information on businesses, healthcare professionals and more.
Economics and Theory (Gale OneFile)
Academic journals and magazine articles focusing on topics in economics.
Entrepreneurship (Gale OneFile)
Insights, tips, strategies and success stories for business owners or students.
FinacialFit
FinancialFit offers short, easy-to-understand personal finance lessons, videos and interactive tools that empower you to make informed financial decisions and achieve your financial goals.
Test Preparation by Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers economic principles via YouTube videos meant to teach someone macroeconomics and consumer theory. The videos allow one to pause and rewind on tough subjects.
Morningstar
Ratings, research, and tools to build and analyze your portfolio.
Library Name: Brentwood
Access World News
Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources from around the world to around the corner. Also available remotely 24/7 on any device.
Gale Legal Forms
Provides access to thousands of downloadable forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues ranging from personal to business purposes.
Insurance and Liability (Gale OneFile)
Collection of journals covers such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.
Military and Intelligence
Composed of content from over 400 journals, which covers all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs.
News (Gale OneFile)
Search over 1,100 major US newspapers. Includes full-text articles and images.
NewsBank
U.S. news content from local, regional, and national newspapers.
Asian Life in America
Offers comprehensive coverage of the Asian American experience from the early 18th century to the present day with over 35 million resources. Great for genealogists and researchers.
Mango Languages
Choose from over 60 languages and start learning a new language with this great resource. Download the app if you're learning on the go.
Pop Culture Studies (Gale OneFile)
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture. The database offers useful information for researchers in social science, history, art, or liberal arts courses.
Religion and Philosophy (Gale OneFile)
Covers religion and the related areas of philosophy and anthropology.
Transparent Language
Learn over 110 different languages with Transparent Language Online. You can also learn English from 30 different languages.
Bookflix
Online resource that pairs video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks to build a love of reading and learning.
Books and Authors
Find your next great read. Browse by title, author or genre, or view seasonal selections & expert picks.
Hoopla
A multi-use database that offers downloads of online books, audiobooks, comicbooks, and music. Hoopla also offers a range of streaming movies and TV shows including AcornTV programming.
Gale eBooks
Search the text of over 3,500 authoritative reference books.
Gale Literature
Journal articles, literary criticisms, reviews, biographical information, and overviews.
Libby
An app that allows a person to read eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, and more.
Novelist K-8
Reading suggestions, read-alikes, award winners and genre search for fiction and nonfiction books for younger audiences.
Novelist Plus
Find author read-alikes, plot summaries, series information, reading suggestions, and more.
TeachingBooks
A wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books to support reading and library activities for all grades and content areas.
Username: brentwoodlib
Password: library
World Book Advanced
Online interactive reference guide, primary sources, and encyclopedic entries.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile)
Provides up-to-date information on the complete range of healthcare topics for students, consumer health researchers, and healthcare professionals.
HiveClass
Hiveclass is a video database designed to teach sports and health in a coordinated platform.
Medicare Financial Planner
Weiss Ratings System will help seniors plan for the best Medicare coverage on the market. It will provide an easy comparison of the cost and package associated with Medicare part B.
MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's website, providing you with information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues.
Ancestry Library Edition
Billions of genealogy records, including Census data, voter lists, and Military records. Available only at the library.
FamilySearch
FamilySearch is the world's largest free genealogy resource, where billions of historical records are available. Family search wiki also offers a tried and true guide for whether the records one is looking for actually exist.
Fold3
Fold3 is a genealogical database that contains the military records for Ancestry.com
Freedom on the Move
This collection of articles on runaways is a useful tool for discovering genealogical records for people related to those who were enslaved in American history. Not a library-affiliated database.
Heritage Hub
The largest and most comprehensive collection of newspaper obituaries and death notices.
Heritage Quest
With HeritageQuest, you can search census data, Freedman's Bank records, the U.S. Serial Set and more.
High School (Gale in Context)
Features reference texts, videos, primary sources and more on many topics including history, geography, and world cultures.
The Tennessean (1812 - 2009)
Full-text digital archive of The Nashville Tennessean Newspaper, 1812-2009.
The Tennessean
Full color issues of The Tennessean newspaper with a seven-day delay from publication.
U.S. History (Gale OneFile)
Useful both to the novice historian and to the advanced academic researcher, this collection of journals provides balanced coverage of both current thought on events in U.S. history as well as scholarly work established in the field.
Academic OneFile
Full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Agriculture (Gale OneFile)
Provides authoritative periodical content that spans the industry—from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture.
Chilton Library
Detailed information on vehicle maintenance and repairs.
Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile)
Articles that focus on the practical aspects and scientific theory of horticulture studies.
Great Courses
Articles that focus on the practical aspects and scientific theory of horticulture studies.
Home Improvement (Gale OneFile)
Home improvement articles include such topics such architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, etc.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an online tutorial and test preparation website meant to assist all ages with continued learning. Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Subjects include math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)
Pro and con articles about controversial issues. Including topic overviews, primary source documents and statistics.
Permit Practice Test
TN DMV permit practice tests for cars and motorcycles. Also provides access to the TN driver's handbooks.
Test Preparation by Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers various videos meant to help students prepare for the SAT, LSAT, MCAT, or PISA tests. The sites include video preparation and test practice.
Udemy
Udemy provides access to thousands of video-based courses in business, technology, leadership and personal development.
Universal Class
Over 500 continuing education online courses to choose from, all at your own pace.
Vocations and Careers
Provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career.
Fiero Code
A fun program that teaches coding through games! Learn all types of coding that range from making a Minecraft world, controlling a robot, or building a website.
Mathematics by Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers mathematical YouTube videos meant to teach someone all mathematical principles, ranging from Addition and Subtraction to Calculus and Differential Equations. The videos allow one to pause and rewind on tough subjects. Not a library-affiliated database.
Psychology (Gale OneFile)
Hundreds of full-text periodicals concerning Psychology and the study of the human mind.
Science (Gale OneFile)
Journals and articles provide information on the latest scientific developments.
Bookflix
Online resource that pairs video storybooks with related nonfiction eBooks to build a love of reading and learning.
Elementary (Gale in Context)
Easy-to-use resource for the younger learner. Features age-appropriate, reliable, curriculum-related content covering a broad range of educational topics.
Fiero Code
A fun program that teaches coding through games! Learn all types of coding that range from making a Minecraft world, controlling a robot, or building a website.
Hoopla
A multi-use database that offers downloads of online books, audiobooks, comic books, and music. Hoopla also offers a range of streaming movies and TV shows, including AcornTV programming.
Libby
An app that allows a person to read eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, and more.
Little Pim
Little Pim teaches children how to learn new languages in a fun and easy way.
Mathematics by Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers mathematical YouTube videos meant to teach someone all mathematical principles, ranging from Addition and Subtraction to Calculus and Differential Equations. The videos allow one to pause and rewind on tough subjects. Not a library-affiliated database.
Middle School (Gale in Context)
Perfect for middle school researchers, this site offers resources on a wide variety of topics.
National Geographic Kids
Includes the complete run of the magazine from 2009 to the present, as well as books, videos, and images.
Novelist K-8
Reading suggestions, read-alikes, award winners and genre search for fiction and nonfiction books for younger audiences.
TeachingBooks
A wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books to support reading and library activities for all grades and content areas.
Username: brentwoodlib
Password: library
TEL4u
An online galaxy of eBooks, homework helpers, state history information, games, and activities for grades K-5.
Transparent Language
Learn over 110 different languages with Transparent Language Online. You can also learn English from 30 different languages.
TumbleBooks
Online books with animation, sound, music, and narration for kids to read or have read to them.
World Book Advanced
Online interactive reference guide, primary sources, and encyclopedic entries.
World Book Kids
The premier reference source developed especially for younger library patrons. The site offers simple navigation, easy-to-read articles, multimedia, games, interactive tools, and activities.