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Subscription Databases

Social Issues Resource Series (SIRS)  

This database is best used for research on current social and political issues.

ProQuest eLibrary
This large general reference includes more than 2,000 full-text sources on a broad range of topics. 

NebraskAccess
A service from the Nebraska Library Commission, this collection of databases includes:  Small Business Reference Center, WorldCAT, EbscoExplora, MyHeritage, NoveList, Biography Reference Center, and more!

JSTOR – This is your source for full-text primary sources, journal articles, art, news, and thousands of free e-books.

Gale Virtual Reference Library – Includes Twayne’s Authors Online, Scribner, New Catholic Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution and more!

Open Access Resources

Internet Archive – This virtual library provides “universal access to all knowledge”.  Books, magazines, movies, music, television, software, artwork, virtually everything.

Open Libraries – A collaborative project with Internet Archive, this resource provides online access to Four Million Books.  Free access to Four Million Books.

Khan Academy – Study for your ACT, SAT or AP exams.  Get extra help in Math, Science, Reading, Art, Social Studies, Computer, Economics and Life Skills. 

ERIC – The Education Resources Information Center is a database for finding information and resources in the field of education. 

Southern Nebraska Register

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor

BookList

Common Sense Media

(From National Catholic Register, May 31, 2015)

• Leisure, the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
• The Odyssey by Homer
• The Dialogues of Plato
  • Apology
  • Euthyphro
  • Phaedo
  • Crito
  • Gorgias
  • Republic
• Confessions by St. Augustine
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• William Shakespeare’s Plays
  • King Lear
  • Hamlet
  • Macbeth
  • Henry V
  • The Merchant of Venice
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• The Power and the Glory by Graham Green
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
  • Out of the Silent Planet
  • Perelandra
  • That Hideous Strength
• Middle Earth epics by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the first part of The Lord of the Rings
  • The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings
  • The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Reading Now:

 Eternity in the Midst of Time by Fr. Wilfrid Stinissen

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Solito by Javier Zamora

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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by Dave Von Drehle

Just Finished:

Absolution by Alice McDermott

The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon