New books!

Hooray, I can log into Blogger from work again! :)

Due to a donation from the PRHS Student Council, I purchased new books for the library, some based on some student requests.

Fiction

Bowler, Tim. Frozen fire.

Brightwell, Geri. The dark lantern.

Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with a pearl earring.

Cornish, D. M. Factotum (The foundling's tale, book 3)

Efaw, Amy. After.

Ford, Jeffery. The shadow year.

Gallo, John. On the fringe.

Griffin, Adele. Where I want to be.

Hamilton, Steve. The lock artist.

Kluger, Steve. My most excellent year.

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The death-defying Pepper Roux.

McKinley, Robin. Chalice.

Shulman, Polly. The Grimm legacy.

Shusterman, Neal. Everlost.

Smith, Sherri. Flygirl.

Valentine, Jenny. Me, the missing, and the dead.

Volponi, Paul. Rikers High.


Nonfiction

Guinness World Records 2011.

Ripley's Believe it or Not! Enter if you Dare!

Stone, Tanya Lee. The good, the bad, and the Barbie.

Rick Riordan on "The lost hero"

One of the new books at the library is The lost hero by Rick Riordan, which is the beginning of a new series based in the same world as his Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. It sounds great!

Brand new books

A load of books arrived today, and several have been borrowed in the 3 hours since I put them on the new book display shelf.

Fiction

The demon's lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan

The crossbones (Skeleton Creek #3) by Patrick Carman

Beautiful creatures by Kami Garcia

Paper towns by John Green

The enemy by Charlie Higson

Dairy queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Before I fall by Lauren Oliver

Marcelo in the real world by Francisco X. Stork

Cracked up to be by Courtney Summers
Lips touch: three times by Laini Taylor

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Nonfiction

A visual dictionary of architecture by Francis D. K. Ching

Why dogs eat poop: & other useless or gross information about the animal kingdom by Francesca Gould

Photojojo!: insanely great photo projects and DIY ideas by Amit Gupta

Lights on Broadway: a treasury of theatre from A to Z by Harriet Ziefert

Winterdance: the fine madness of running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen

Iraqigirl: diary of a teenage girl in Iraq edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

New books!

Fiction

Darkest Hour (Mediator book 4) by Meg Cabot

Fire by Kristin Cashore

The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Revelations and The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De La Cruz

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Gone by Michael Grant

Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson

Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell

Death's Shadow, Wolf Island, and Dark Calling (Demonata books 7-9) by Darren Shan

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Nonfiction

How to play guitar by Roger Evans

The Humongous Book of Cartooning by Christopher Hart

The Life and Opionions of DJ Spinoza by Eugene Ostashevsky

The little black book for guys: guys talk about sex by St. Stephen's Community House

Reference

Historical atlas of Canada by Derek Hayes

New Orca Soundings books

Orca Soundings series

Running the risk by Lesley Choyce

Impact by James C. Dekker

Hannah's touch by Laura Langston

Jacked by Carrie Mac

Back by Norah McClintock

Picture this by Norah McClintock

In the woods by Robin Stevenson

Riley Park by Diane Tullson

Other fiction from Orca Publishers

Sister wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka

The Beckoners by Carrie Mac

Five minutes more by Darlene Ryan

New books!

A large box of new books arrived late last week, and all are now circulating (except the reference volumes, of course). There is already a lengthy waiting list for Catching Fire.

Fiction

Thirteen reasons why by Jay Asher.

Graceling by Kristin Cashore.

Catching fire by Suzanne Collins.

An abundance of Katherines by John Green.

Meridian by Amber Kizer.

Boy meets boy by David Levithan.

So punk rock: and other ways to disappoint your mother by Micol Ostow

Dead is the new black, Dead is a state of mind, and Dead is so last year by Marlene Perez.

The forest of hands and teeth by Carrie Ryan.

Hell phone by William Sleator.

The arrival by Shaun Tan.

Skinned by Robin Wasserman.

Wake by Lisa McMann.

Nonfiction

Bodies from the ice: melting glaciers and the rediscovery of the past by James M. Deem.

Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson.

The stuff of life: a graphic guide to genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz.

Reference

30,000 years of art by the editors of Phaidon.

The way we work: getting to know the amazing human body by David Macaulay.

Rainforest by Thomas Marent.

New books!

Fiction

Feed by M. T. Anderson

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Chosen, Untamed and Hunted (House of Night books 3, 4 & 5) by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast

Blue Bloods and Masquerade (Blue Bloods books 1 & 2) by Melissa De La Cruz

Operation Red Jericho by Joshua Mowll

Wolf Brother and Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver

Viking Warrior and Dragons from the Sea (The Strongbow Saga books 1 & 2) by Judson Roberts

Skin and Sight by Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Nonfiction

Beyond the myth: the story of Joan of Arc by Polly Schoyer Brooks

I can't keep my own secrets: six-word memoirs by teens famous and obscure edited by SMITH Magazine

The Crusades: a very short introduction by Christopher Tyerman

It's that time of year again

...new books time! A couple of quick orders and a generous donation (of 5 books from the Bluford High series) have brought some new fiction into the library in the past couple of weeks.

The diary of Pelly D by L. J. Adlington

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Darkside by Tom Becker

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

The ruins of Gorlan (Ranger's Apprentice #1) by John Flanagan

Ten cents a dance by Christine Fletcher

Right behind you by Gail Giles

Newes from the dead by Mary Hooper

Payback (from the Bluford High series) by Paul Langan

The declaration by Gemma Malley

The fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Lost and found, Secrets in the shadows, Someone to love me, and Until we meet again (all from the Bluford High series) by Anne Schraff

Inside the cage by Matt Whyman

Hush by Jacqueline Woodson

A few new books

A few new fiction books have come in this week. Hopefully there will be many more coming later this month from orders I sent a couple of weeks ago. Can't wait!

Go ask Alice by Anonymous

Girls in pants: the third summer of the sisterhood by Ann Brashares

The knife of never letting go (Chaos walking, book 1) by Patrick Ness

The ghosts of Kerfol by Deborah Noyes

Tantalize by Cynthia Leitich Smith

New library books

A few new books have arrived at the library this week, thanks to a Scholastic book sale and preview books from Copper Beech. Our ordering year starts today as well, so I'll be busy making orders over the next few weeks. Hooray!

Fiction

I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you and Cross my heart and hope to spy by Ally Carter

Models don't eat chocolate cookies by Erin Dionne

Nonfiction

The boy who dared by Susan Campbell-Bartoletti

Sexually transmitted diseases by Leanne Currie-McGhee

Genocide in Darfur by Janey Levy

Anorexia by Peggy J. Parks

New books

A small batch of new books arrived this morning:

Fiction

Blood beast and Demon apocalypse (Demonata #5 and #6) by Darren Shan

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner

Story of a girl by Sara Zarr

Nonfiction

Survivors: true stories of children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun

Book shipment

Two book orders arrived this week, and they included one of my favourite reads of 2008.

Fiction

The Sweet far thing by Libba Bray

Scum by James C. Dekker*

Spiral by K. L. Denman*

Soulless by Christopher Golden

Sticks and stones by Beth Goobie*

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

First time by Meg Tilly*

Learning to fly by Paul Yee*

Nonfiction

Off to war: voices of soldiers' children by Deborah Ellis

Rare courage: veterans of the Second World War remember by Rod Mickleburgh

SAS survival guide: how to survive in the wild, in any climate, on land, or at sea by John "Lofty" Wiseman


*Orca Soundings books.

Shipment of new books

Fiction

Does my head look big in this? by Randa Abdel-Fattah

A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess

Nick & Norah's infinite playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

Geography club by Brent Hartinger

Luna by Julie Anne Peters

So hard to say by Alex Sanchez

Night runner by Max Turner


Nonfiction

What if someone I know is gay?: answers to questions about gay and lesbian people by Eric Marcus

Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers by Mary Roach

Burn journals by Brent Runyon

New books!

Between the Scholastic book sale at the elementary and a batch of books coming in that I had ordered a while back, there are more than 10 new books this week.


Fiction

Jinx by Meg Cabot

The crow (third book of Pellinor) by Alison Croggon

Arthur: of the crossing places by David Crossley Holland

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

The specialists: model spy by Shannon Greenland

Diary of a wimpy kid and Diary of a wimpy kid: Rodrick rules by Jeff Kinney

Schooled by Gordon Korman

Hero by Perry Moore

The death gene by Malcolm Rose


Nonfiction

Between a rock and a hard place by Aron Ralston

More new books!

I just finished processing another batch of new books and they are now available and ready to be borrowed.

Fiction

Mistik Lake by Martha Brooks

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

The number devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Sold by Patricia McCormick

A certain slant of light by Laura Whitcomb


Nonfiction

An inconvenient truth by Al Gore

GLBTQ: the survival guide for queer & questioning teens by Kelly Huegel

Body drama by Nancy Redd

Good masters! Sweet ladies! Voices from a Medieval village by Laura Amy Schlitz

New books at the library

A small delivery of books came in today, including one which has been greatly anticipated.

Arthur: the seeing stone and Arthur: king of the Middle March by Kevin Crossley-Holland

King Arthur and the round table retold by Geraldine McCaughrean

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini

Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging, Knocked out by my nunga-nungas and Dancing in my nuddy pants by Louise Rennison

New books for September

Fiction

Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block

A great and terrible beauty and Rebel angels by Libba Bray

Darkest hour (Mediator #4) by Meg Cabot

Deadline and Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Ingo by Helen Dunmore

Things left unsaid by Stephanie Hemphill

Magic or madness by Justine Larbalestier

Margaux with an X by Ron Koertge

Girl, 15, charming but insane and Girl, 16, absolute torture by Sue Lamb

Wicked lovely by Melissa Marr

One of those hideous books where the mother dies by Sonya Sones

Under the baseball moon by John H. Ritter

Spud by John van de Ruit

The rules of survival by Nancy Werlin




Nonfiction

Canada in space: the people & stories behind Canada's role in the exploration of space by Chris Gainor

Canadian women adventurers: stories of daring and courage by Tamela Georgi and Lisa Wojna

Disasters of Atlantic Canada: stories of courage & chaos by Vernon Oickle

Greatest goalies of the NHL: stories of legendary players and World's greatest soccer players: today's hottest stars by J. Alexander Poulton