Sunday, January 25, 2009

Graphics galore!


More Graphic Novels for you to check out!

Titles such as:
Earthlight
MeruPuri
My Heavenly Hockey Club
Ark Angels
Oh My Goddess!
The Walking Dead
Located on the "New" cart near the Youth Services desk.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tis the season to cuddle up with a good book! :)



Dishes by Rich Wallace - YA Fic Wal- Nineteen-year-old Danny spends an eventful summer in Maine, looking for romance, working as a "straight" dishwasher in a gay bar, and trying to reconnect with his estranged father.











Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan- YA Fic Lan- young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down







Bone Chiller by Graham McNamee- YA Fic McNam- Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.











Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd- YA Fic Dow-In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.


by Christine Deriso- YA Fic Der-Seventh-grader Elsa moves to a new town and starts a new school where, with the help of her recently deceased mother and a magic locket that allows her to redo the last ten seconds in any situation, she attempts to become popular. Imagine having the power to turn back time.







The Hollow People by Brian Keaney - YA Fic Kea -On an island that houses the asylum where law-breakers are imprisoned, two teenagers rebel against a rigidly controlled society where dreams are considered antisocial and all citizens over the age of fourteen take a drug to control their behavior.









Zipped by Laura and Tom McNeal- YA Fic McNea
At the end of their sophomore year in high school, the lives of four teenagers are woven together as they start a tough new job, face family problems, deal with changing friendships, and find love.










Likely Story by David Van Etten - YA Fic Van Ett -

Sixteen-year-old Mallory, daughter of the star of a long-running but faltering soap opera, writes her own soap opera script and becomes deeply involved in the day-to-day life of a Hollywood player, while trying to hold on to some shaky personal relationships.





Missing Abby by Lee Weatherly YA Fic Wea -
As the last one to see thirteen-year-old Abby, Emma is determined to discover the truth about her mysterious disappearance, spurred in part by her feelings of guilt over ending their friendship in order to ensure popularity at her new school.






Morning in a Different Place- by Mary Ann McGuigan- YA Fic McGui- In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions at home despite family and social opposition to their interracial friendship, but Fiona is on her own when popular classmates start paying attention to her and give her a glimpse of both a different way of life and a new kind of hatefulness.

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Graphic Novels Galore!

We have 30 new graphic novels including titles from the series Oh My Goddess!, Kaze Hikaru, Skip Beat, Vampire Doll, Slayers Special, Vampire Hunter and more! Check them out!

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

New Books for 2009

The Last Apprentice Wrath of the Bloodeye- YA Fic Del
The continuing adventures of Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son and apprentice to the local Spook, who faces danger and death daily in his job protecting the region from evil.









Thirteen Reasons Why- YA Fic Ash - When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.












Stolen- YA Fic Van
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.










Thing That Are - YA Fic Cle- Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.












Airhead- YA-Fic Cab-Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.







Brisingr -Audio on Compact Disc- YA CDBK Fic Pao v3- The further adventures of Eragon and his dragon Saphira as they continue to aid the Varden in the struggle against the evil king, Galbatorix.



The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)- YA Fic Sco-Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.