LibGuides: Cooper Library Media Center: Books

Now Available in MackinVia

Why Reading Comics Makes You Smarter
"Evidence and Research is stacking up to prove that comic books make their readers smarter."
Why Doesn't Ancient Fiction Talk About Feelings?
Literature’s evolution has reflected and spurred the growing complexity of society.
Vita Ayala on Comics of Resistance
Ayala isn’t content with just living the dream of working on a big corporate superhero. The New York City native is make comics that give voice to people without money, power or privilege.
Laini Taylor : In Defense of Genre Fiction
The fantasy author talks about her new book and why fantasy is just as valuable as other kinds of stories.
Books are dangerous
A brief history of how people viewed books as having the potential to upset, terrify and even - "gasp" - educate readers.
Dark Books
What's more wholesome than reading? Yet books wield a dangerous power: the best erode self, infecting readers with ideas.

Library Catalog Home: CHS Find books, ebooks, videos and web sites in the CHS Library catalog.

MackinVIA Ebooks & Audiobooks This link opens in a new window Find ebooks and audiobooks on a wide variety of topics. Includes popular fiction. To login, pull-down the menu to your school and enter your school network username and password.
Tumble Book Library This link opens in a new window Animated, talking picture books. Kindergarten - Gr. 5. Highlighted text. Some titles in Spanish and French. All Tumblebooks are also available in MackinVia.

HCL: How to get a library card
HCL: Novelist Plus for Grade 9 + (Book recommendations) Information and resources to find fiction and nonfiction titles. Includes author read-alikes, discussion guides, reviews and articles. For grade 9+ readers. Requires a Hennepin County Library card.

Galaxy Magazine
Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980.Editor H. L. Gold rapidly made Galaxy the leading science fiction (sf) magazine of its time, focusing on stories about social issues rather than technology.

Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo
Eyewitness accounts of the last days of French rule in Haiti.
Braided Lives Anthology
From the Absent Narratives collection at the Minnesota Humanities Center.