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

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for the William C. Morris Award in 2009, which is given to books written for young adults by a first-time, previously unpublished author.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!

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.

Cat vs. Human

This is evidence that soon cats will take over the world.

New Arrivals!!

October 1st - November 1st

The Masked Truth

YA Arm   

Armstrong, Kelley

Manners & mutiny

YA Car   

Carriger, Gail

Happily ever after

YA Cas   

Cass, Kiera

The conjurer's riddle

YA Cre   

Cremer, Andrea R.     

Dark tide

YA Don   

Donnelly, Jennifer

Sky Key

YA Fre   

Frey, James

Wolf by wolf   

YA Gra   

Graudin, Ryan

Traffick

YA Hop   

Hopkins, Ellen

Unspoken

YA Hun   

Hunter, C.

kid : old school

YA Kin   

Kinney, Jeff

The Rose Society

YA Lu   

Lu, Marie

Twilight/Life and Death

YA Mey   

Meyers, Stephanie

Newt's emerald

YA Nix   

Nix, Garth

The murder of an angel

YA Pat   

Patterson, James

Ice like fire

YA Raa   

Raasch, Sara

Carry on : the rise and fall of Simon Snow

YA Row   

Rowell, Rainbow

A mad zombie party

YA Sho   

Showalter, Gena

Black Widow : forever red    

YA Sto   

Stohl, Margaret

Autotuned Physics

Aaaaaand I am going to just leave this right here. Happy first day of November!

Book List: Halloween

Do you have any plans for the big night? Trick-or-Treating? Family Halloween Party? Scary movie night with friends? Or maybe you'd rather sit in and read some spooky tales instead? Well, either way it's time for a Halloween Book List! So here's a list of books that will leave you goosebumpy and a little scared to look under the bed:

Beating Heart by A.M. Jenkins

Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.

The Accident by Diane Hoh

A wispy, shadowy figure appears in Megan's mirror one day begging to trade places with her for just one week. The young girl begs her to let her live again. Gradually Megan comes to realize that she must grant this request.


Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

A collection of fifteen original ghost stories by award-winning author Joe Hill, son of authors Stephen King and Tabitha King.



Pay the Piper by Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple

When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin.

All Hallows Eve: Thirteen Stories by Vivian Vande Velde

Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.




All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn

Travis and his sister Corey decide to boost business at their grandmother's Vermont inn by staging a few "hauntings" that soon draw tourists from across the country, but when their antics awaken a dark force, they must find a way to put to rest the ghosts they have disturbed.

The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn

Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," twelve-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil, crazy woman who once ruled the old Willis place.

Shadowed Summer by Saundra Mitchell

In the small town of Ondine, Louisiana, fourteen-year-old Iris uncovers family secrets when she conjures up the ghost of a boy missing for decades and decides to solve the mystery of his disappearance.



Intrigued? Don't forget to check our library's catalog to see if they're in!

New Arrivals!!

September 1st - October 1st

Six of crows

YA Bar

Bardugo, Leigh

The copper gauntlet

YA Bla

Black, Holly

The witch hunter

YA Boe

Boecker, Virginia

Lair of dreams : a Diviners novel

YA Bra

Bray, Libba

Mechanica

YA Cor

Cornwell, Betsy

The taking

YA Der

Derting, Kimberly

Michael Vey. 5, Storm of lightning

YA Eva

Evans, Richard Paul

The accident season

YA Fow

Fowley-Doyle, Moïra

The trouble in me

YA Gan

Gantos, Jack

Star wars : lost stars

YA Gra

Gray, Claudia

The tattooed heart : a Messenger of Fear novel

YA Gra

Grant, Michael

Redeemed

YA Had

Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Magonia

YA Hea

Headley, Maria Dahvana

The fate of ten

YA Lor

Lore, Pittacus

Queen of shadows

YA Maa

Maas, Sarah J.           

Scorched

YA Man

Mancusi, Marianne

Shattered

YA Man

Mancusi, Marianne

Smoked

YA Man

Mancusi, Mari

The shepherd's crown

YA Pra

Pratchett, Terry

Library of souls

YA Rig

Riggs, Ransom

Jackaby

YA Rit

Ritter, William

Eleanor & Park

YA Row

Rowell, Rainbow

The blackthorn key

YA San

Sands, Kevin

The hired girl

YA Sch

Schlitz, Laura Amy

Zom-B fugitive

YA Sha

Shan, Darren

Thirteen chairs

YA She

Shelton, Dave

The walls around us

YA Sum

Suma, Nova Ren

Trouble is a friend of mine

YA Tro

Tromly, Stephanie

Zeroes

YA Wes

Westerfeld, Scott

Paper hearts

YA Wiv 

Wiviott, Meg

Spooky Bookish Facts

It's that time of year! Time for apple cider and horror novels. I just came across this list from Book Riot of creepy bookish trivia.

2. While books bound with human skin can be found in collections in several libraries, the Boston Athanaeum holds one of the few books bound with the skin of its author. While imprisoned, a highwayman wrote of his life, but could not afford to have it bound. Upon his death, he requested his skin be used and the memoir gifted to the man who had originally caught him.

4. Virginia Poe, late wife of Edgar Allen Poe, startled the family one night while singing and playing the piano. During that time, her lungs began to hemorrhage from her Tuberculosis and she started bleeding from the mouth.

12. Though it may seem like an odd ritual now, visiting the corpse of a loved (complete with hugging) was a common practice in the 19th century. After his wife died at a young age, Ralph Waldo Emerson made it a routine to have her coffin opened every morning so he could embrace her corpse. This carried on for a year.

Head over to Book Riot for the complete list!

Literary Clothing

So I own my fair share of literary and comic book inspired clothing, but I really don't think I will ever have enough. Especially if its Harry Potter inspired.

New Arrivals!

August 16th - September 1st

The copper gauntlet

YA Bla   

Black, Holly

The witch hunter

YA Boe   

Boecker, Virginia

Lair of dreams : a Diviners novel

YA Bra

Bray, Libba

Mechanica

YA Cor

Cornwell, Betsy

The accident season

YA Fow

Fowley-Doyle, Moïra

The trouble in me

YA Gan   

Gantos, Jack

Star wars : lost stars

YA Gra

Gray, Claudia

                       

Redeemed

YA Had   

Haddix, Margaret Peterson

Magonia

YA Hea   

Headley, Maria Dahvana

The fate of ten

YA Lor   

Lore, Pittacus

Queen of shadows

YA Maa   

Maas, Sarah J.

The shepherd's crown

YA Pra  

Pratchett, Terry

The blackthorn key

YA San   

Sands, Kevin

The walls around us

YA Sum   

Suma, Nova Ren

Trouble is a friend of mine

YA Tro   

Tromly, Stephanie

Paper hearts

YA Wiv   

Wiviott, Meg

New Arrivals!!

August 1st - 15th

Never always sometimes

YA Als   

Alsaid, Adi

Me and Earl and the dying girl : a novel

YA And   

Andrews, Jesse

Every last breath

YA Arm   

Armentrout, Jennifer L.

Court of Fives

YA Ell   

Elliott, Kate

Crystal kingdom

YA Hoc   

Hocking, Amanda

Reawakened

YA Hou   

Houck, Colleen

King : a Prophecy novel

YA Oh   

Oh, Ellen

Warrior : a Prophecy novel

YA Oh   

Oh, Ellen

Fantastic Four. 4, The end is fourever

YA Rob   

Robinson, James Dale

Books Are My Bag

Um, can I tell you how much I love this bag? No, I can't, because it's inexplicable. Excuse me while I run off and get it.

New Arrivals!

July 16th - 31st

Fantastic Four

YA Agu

Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto

Goodbye stranger

YA Ste  

Stead, Rebecca

           

Return to the Dark House

YA Sto

Stolarz, Laurie Faria

Trollhunters

YA Tor

Toro, Guillermo del

Spoilers as Punishment

So I just read an article that there's this math teacher in Belgium who keeps his students in line by threatening them with Game of Thrones spoilers. The Telegraph wrote "Asking his students which of them watched the fantasy drama, the majority raised their hands, to which the teacher responded: “Well, I’ve read all the books. If there is too much noise, I will write the names of the dead on the board.” Reported in the Belgian newspaper, the teacher continued: “They [the dead] are enough to fill the whole year and I can even describe how they die.”

Apparently he has only needed to follow through on his threat once. Ice cold!

Geek Zodiac

Check out this Geek Zodiac! Apparently, I am an Alien, which is "+ Intelligent. Technophile. Diplomatic. - Suspicious. Secretive. Inscrutable." And this was determined according to prominent works that came out in certain years. Mine originated from 1938 when Orson Wells radio broadcasted H.G. Well's book The War of the Worlds and everyone got freaked out. Where do you fall?

New Arrivals!

July 1st - 15th

Ink and bone  

YA Cai   

Caine, Rachel

Silver in the blood

YA Geo   

George, Jessica Day

           

Edda  

YA Kos   

Kostick, Conor

           

Deceptive : an Illusive novel

YA Llo   

Lloyd-Jones, Emily

           

Shadowshaper

YA Old   

Older, Daniel José

Lights out

YA Pat   

Patterson, James

The heart of betrayal  

YA Pea   

Pearson, Mary

Outrage

YA San

Sandford, John

Return to the Dark House

YA Sto   

Stolarz, Laurie Faria

Suicide notes from beautiful girls

YA Wei   

Weingarten, Lynn

LEGO X-Men

So, LEGO has really been killing it lately. Have you seen the Simpsons LEGO set?! They haven't made an X-Men set yet, but LEGO Cuusoo user DarthKy has shown the X-Men possibilities by building Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning. The giant X-Mansion is built to fold out and is four stories tall. DarthKy wants to include 45 mini-figures and locations like the Danger Room and Cerebro.  Let's hope it gets made!

Redheads in Literature

I had never thought about it before, but a lot of my favorite literary characters (like, EVER) have been redheads, which is interesting since such a low percentage of the general population are red-haired. 

Young Adult author Alison Cherry has put together a great list of the best fictional redheads. "Perhaps my favorite thing about the group of characters listed below is that it shows just how different redheads can be. Underneath those fiery locks and freckles, there are introverts and extroverts, firecrackers and daydreamers, badasses and sweethearts."

Who is your favorite red-haired literary character? 

New Arrivals!

June 1st - 30th

99 days 

YA Cot

Cotugno, Katie

Fire with fire 

YA Han

Han, Jenny

           

The hunted 

YA Hig

Higson, Charles

             

Finding Audrey 

YA Kin

Kinsella, Sophie

           

To hold the bridge 

YA Nix

Nix, Garth

A book of spirits and thieves 

YA Rho

Rhodes, Morgan

The stars never rise     

YA Vin

Vincent, Rachel