Online Collections for Adults
These are online collections of books in many languages for use with adults. Beneath the brief description of each resource, click on Available Languages to find those represented within the collection. Once you open an Available Languages tab you can use the ‘Find’ function on your device to locate a specific language (Control+F on PC; Command+F on Mac). Some collections have unique links listed in the Description for the various available languages.
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+ Description
A book about the experience of a woman migrating to the USA from the Central African Republic. Click the links below to access the book in each of the available languages:
- Food for Thought narrated (English)
- Food for Thought (French version)
- Food for Thought (Spanish Edition)
+ Available Languages
- English
- French / Français
- Spanish / Español
+ Description
LIDA Stories provides 30 stories for adults with text and audio in several European languages and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages in Europe.The stories are particularly relevant to migrants. The books have been produced by www.lidalearn.net/.
+ Available Languages
- Amharic / Amarinja / Amharinya / አማርኛ
- Arabic / العربية
- Dari / Persian, Afghan / دری
- English
- Kurdish, Central / Sorani
- Kurdish, Northern / Kurmanji
- Norwegian / Norsk (Bokmål)
- Norwegian / Norsk (Nynorsk)
- Oromo / Afaan Oromo / Oromiffa
- Pashto / Pashtu / پښتو
- Portuguese / Português
- Somali / Af Soomaali
- Tigrigna / Tigrinya
- Ukrainian
- Urdu /اُردُو
+ Description
A book about the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, produced in bilingual format by CPIA Montagna, an adult education center in Italy. Click the links below to access the book in each of the available bilingual language pairings:
- Frida Kahlo by Huna Adelina (Italiano - Albanian)
- Frida Kahlo by Latifa Zamour (Italiano - Arabic, Moroccan)
- Frida Kahlo by Fatima Manhoor (Italiano - English)
- Frida Kahlo by Vahid Ilbeygi Sabet (Italiano - Farsi)
- Frida Kahlo by Orchidee Kokilodisabu (Italiano - Lingala)
+ Available Languages
- Italian - Albanian
- Italian - Arabic, Moroccan
- Italian - English
- Italian - Farsi / فارسی
- Italian - Lingala
+ Description
Simply Cracking Good Stories is a Newcastle University collaboration between creative writers, artists, and linguists for the production of original fiction books of up to 400 words for adults with lower levels of reading and often linguistic competence (below CEFR A1). The editors -- creative writer, Margaret Wilkinson, and second language acquisition specialist, Martha Young-Scholten -- work with creative writers on writing engaging texts that comprise short, single-clause sentences and use familiar vocabulary, and they work with artists for the images that accompany each book. The 15-book backlist is available free of charge in downloadable e-book form in English with some of the same books in Arabic, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. New books will be made available at low price in a variety of languages. Visit http://simplystories.org/ to order books.
+ Available Languages
- Arabic / العربية
- English
- German / Deutsch
- Italian / Italiano
- Portuguese / Português
- Turkish / Türkçe
+ Description
A literacy organization based in South Africa, you will find e-books for teens and adults on FunDza’s online library accessible via https://live.fundza.mobi. Genres include fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry. Readers are invited to submit their own stories for publication.
+ Available Languages
- Afrikaans
- Chichewa / Chewa / Chinyanja / Cinyanja / Nyanja
- English
- French / Français
- Lingala
- Ndebele / isiNdebele / Ndebele, Southern
- Portuguese / Português
- Setswana / Tswana
- Shona / ChiShona
- Sotho, Northern / Sepedi / Pedi
- Sotho, Southern / Sesotho
- Swahili / Kiswahili
- Swati / SiSwati
- Tsonga / Xitsonga / Changana
- Venda / Tshivenda / Tshivenḓa
- Xhosa / isiXhosa
- Zulu / isiZulu
Vermont Folklife Center: The Most Costly Journey
+ Description
This series of short graphic novels for adults are written by migrant farm workers in Vermont in Spanish and English.
+ Available Languages
- English
- Spanish / Español
+ Description
This health literacy resource developed with LESLLA learners in mind includes videos on health topics in eight languages. Use the wordless picture books for literacy activities in any language.
+ Available Languages
- Arabic / العربية
- Chinese, Mandarin / 國語 / 普通话
- English
- Farsi / فارسی
- Hindi / Hindustani / हिंदी
- Spanish / Español
- Tigrigna / Tigrinya
- Urdu /اُردُو
+ Description
A book about the Kenyan Nobel Prize winner, Wangari Muta Maathai, produced in bilingual format by CPIA Montagna, an adult education center in Italy. Click the links below to access the book in each of the available bilingual pairings:
- Wangari by Huna Adelina (Italian-Albanian)
- Wangari by Abdellah El Kherbi (Italian- Arabic, Moroccan)
- Wangari by Mantika Afroz Parsa (Italian-Bengali)
- Wangari by Fatima Manhoor (Italian-English)
- Wangari by Nganhoul Bella (Italian - Mbum Mann)
- Wangari by Precious Ekhator (Italian-Pidgin English)
- Wangari by Cristina Daniela Bobocea (Italian-Romanian)
- Wangari by Dulja Krasnic (Italian-Romany, Kosovar)
+ Available Languages
- Italian - Albanian
- Italian - Arabic, Moroccan
- Italian - Bengali / Bangla / বাঙালি / বাংলা
- Italian - English
- Italian - Mbum (Mann)
- Italian - Pidgin, Nigerian / Pidgin English, Nigerian
- Italian - Romanian
- Italian - Romany, Kosovar