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for the William C. Morris Award in 2009, which is given to books written for young adults by a first-time, previously unpublished author.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