Embedded Files
To learn how to find materials in our library, click on "Catalog Use" at the bottom of this page.
Click on the MackinVIA logo below to access our E-book collections.
What Should I Read Next?
What Should I Read Next?
Here are some sites to help you answer this question.
Here are some sites to help you answer this question.
Series and Sequels
Series and Sequels
Fiction Connection (requires Hennepin County Library Card)
NoveList Plus (requires Hennepin County Library Card)
Music
Music
Jamendo copyright-free music
Book Trailers
Book Trailers
Audiobooks
Audiobooks
BITS English Language Learning website provides access to several free audiobooks that can be accessed online.
CC Prose combines high-quality audio, large print text, and synchronized closed captions, with machine translations in multiple languages.
Free Sources of E-books
Free Sources of E-books
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet. Founded by Michael Hart, who invented e-books in 1971, this collection includes over 15,000 e-books, primarily older literary works that are in the public domain in the U.S. Creators of the site characterize their collection as containing light literature such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, heavy literature such as Shakespeare's works and Moby Dick, and reference works such as almanacs and thesauri.
Users can search Project Gutenberg's online catalog by title, author, and language. The site includes over 50 books in each of the following languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, and Spanish; up to 50 books in 34 additional languages are also included. Imagine sharing with your Spanish teacher that Don Quijote de la Mancha is available as a free e-book.
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Bartleby.com began in 1993, published Whitman's classic Leaves of Grass in 1994, and now offers various reference, verse, fiction, and nonfiction works, accessible via author, title, and subject indexes. Reference choices include such classics as the Columbia Encyclopedia, Roget's Thesaurus, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and Bulfinch's Mythology. Verse offers anthologies as well as individual works by classic poets such as Burns, Dickinson, Frost, Sandburg, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Yeats. Fiction includes everything from short stories by Harte and Poe to the works of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. Nonfiction offers such variety as Darwin's Origin of the Species and Inaugural Addresses of Presidents of the United States. Since The Oxford Shakespeare is available, students will have no excuse for not having read Act One of Romeo and Juliet for English class!
International Children's Digital Library
The mission of the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL), a project of the University of Maryland funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, is "to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old." Launched in November 2002, this project currently features 611 children's books online, searchable by simple, advanced, and location search. Using location search, the patron can search by continent (books from, books about, or books set in); view by cover or text; sort by title, author, illustrator, language, or publication date; and specify language.
The International Children's Digital Library offers patrons the opportunity to experience diverse cultures and perspectives through literature. Unlike Project Gutenberg and Bartleby.com, which primarily feature classics and reference targeted at teens and adults, the ICDL includes recently published works (228 available children's titles were copyrighted in the 2000s), and, of course, it caters to children. Attractive, colorful, and user-friendly, it makes children's world literature freely accessible and readily available.
LibriVox
"Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain." LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.
Links to other libraries:
Book Lists
Book Awards and Booklists
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) lists all the pertinent awards for young adult literature on this page.Of special note is the Printz award
Young Adult Books in Series from Bettendorf Library
Book Reviews
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Hub
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