Remember that keyword searching simply matches whatever you type in against text in book records. Spelling, word order, phrases can all drastically affect your search results.
Break up your topic instead of typing it as a phrase. Instead of searching "rural homeownership by single mothers" as a single phrase, it's better to search "homeownership AND single mothers AND rural". See the section on Boolean operators for more information.
You may need to search using synonyms for your topics. For example, if you search "teens", the search will match only that word and will skip any articles that use the phrase "young adults" or "adolescents." Try multiple searches with different synonyms or spellings, or use the Boolean operator OR as in the example: "teens" OR "young adults" OR "adolescents."
If you are looking for books written by Fitzgerald instead of books written about Fitzgerald change the search setting to Author.
