Monday, January 11, 2016

New Arrivals!


December 1st - January 1st

Noragami : stray god. 1
YA Ada   
Adachi, Toka

Noragami : stray god. 2
YA Ada   
Adachi, Toka

Noragami : stray god. 3
YA Ada   
Adachi, Toka
           
Oblivion
YA Arm   
Armentrout, Jennifer L.         

Forbidden
YA Bun   
Bunting, Eve

The 13th reality. Books 1 & 2              
YA Das   
Dashner, James

The 13th reality. Books 3 & 4              
YA Das   
Dashner, James

The game of lives
YA Das   
Dashner, James

Triple moon
YA Del   
De la Cruz, Melissa

These shallow graves              
YA Don   
Donnelly, Jennifer

If only   
YA Eva  
Evans, Richard Paul

Dangerous lies
YA Fit  
Fitzpatrick, Becca

Blythewood    
YA Goo   
Goodman, Carol

Hawthorn
YA Goo   
Goodman, Carol

Ravencliffe
YA Goo   
Goodman, Carol

Unforgiven
YA Kat   
Kate, Lauren
           
Waterfall
YA Kat   
Kate, Lauren

Calvin   
YA Lea   
Leavitt, Martine

Soundless
YA Mea   
Mead, Richelle

Winter
YA Mey   
Meyer, Marissa

Rise of the Titans
YA Ohe   
O'Hearn, Kate

Frozen tides   
YA Rho   
Rhodes, Morgan

Wandering star
YA Rus   
Russell, Romina

The beginning of everything  
YA Sch   
Schneider, Robyn

UnBound : stories from the Unwind world   
YA Shu   
Shusterman, Neal

The black reckoning
YA Ste   
Stephens, John

Friday, January 8, 2016

Librarian's Pick of the Week: A Curse Dark as Gold


Title: A Curse as Dark as Gold
Author: Elizabeth C. Bunce
Published: 2008
Age: 12+

This book was the selection for the William C. Morris Award in 2009, which is given to books written for young adults by a first-time, previously unpublished author. For more information about the William C. Morris awards and other book awards, visit the YALSA page on the ALA website.

Synopsis: "This supernatural novel retells the story of Rumpelstiltskin, setting it at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and centering it around the life of Charlotte Miller. When the bank wants to repossess her mortgaged mill, Charlotte strikes a bargain with the mysterious Jack Spinner, a creature who knows the art of turning straw into gold, but then discovers she must free her loved ones from a generations-old curse."

Review: "Too stubborn to let go of the troubled mill that has supported her community for generations, Charlotte Miller takes over after her father's death, fighting impending disaster with bargains with a mysterious Jack Spinner that eventually threaten her infant son. Set in a rural valley in the late 1700s, this reworking of the "Rumplestiltskin" story includes ghosts, witchcraft, elements of Georgian society, and much earlier folk magic in the guise of a novel of manners. The leisurely paced narrative gathers steam as it becomes clear that the family and the mill have not simply had a long run of bad luck, but are seriously cursed. Readers need not be familiar with the folktale to see where Charlotte's efforts to save her mill are headed. Though their roles in the narrative are clear, secondary characters are distinctive: foppish Uncle Wheeler is more than a stereotyped villain, and Charlotte's eventual husband is an admirable romantic lead with unsuspected talents. A rich opening to Jane Austen's world for teens." - Kathleen Isaacs, School Library Journal


If you're intrigued, don't forget to check our library's catalog for this book!

Monday, January 4, 2016

Book Sculptures


Can you even fathom these beautiful sculptures by Su Blackwell? She has taken several beloved stories and non-fiction books, such as The Wizard of Oz, Through the Looking Glass, The Wild Swans, and Peter Pan, and has turn them into art of another form. How incredible.












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