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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Last Week for Summer Reading!


There is still time to participate in Summer Reading 2012!  If you read or listened to just 5 books this summer, you can enter yourself in our raffle to win all sorts of prizes, like movie tickets and restaurant gift cards.  Participating is easy:
1. Read or listen to 5 books.
2. Log your titles at our online reading log or at the library and write a short review to enter the prize drawings.

Remember that eBooks, audiobooks, and graphic novels count too.  You have until this Sunday, August 5th to turn in your reading logs.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Rise of Nine First 5 Chapters Sneak Peek

Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive look at the first 5 Chapters of The Rise of Nine before it's release on August 21st.  The Rise of Nine is the the third in an action packed bestselling trilogy that started with I Am Number Four and tells the story of John, a teenage alien on the run for his life.  The first book also was adapted to a feature film starring Glee's Dianna Argron, although no word yet if the rest of the series will be.

New Graphic Novels!

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout
by Brian Michael Bendis








Godzilla: Legends by Matt Frank









Bleach, Vol. 45 by Tite Kubo










Kekkaishi, Vol 33 by Yellow Tanabe









Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 Vol 1: Fallout by Joss Whedon

Friday, July 13, 2012

Celebrate Bastille Day!

July 14th is Bastille Day, the French national holiday!  French patriots around the world recognize the day as the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 and a big step on their road to revolution.  The day is celebrated much like the United States celebrates the 4th of July, with fireworks and parades.  You may not be French or have a chance to fly to Paris this weekend to celebrate, but there are still plenty of ways to jump into Parisian life at home.  Here are a few books and movies to get your started!

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion form her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French Revolution by a young actress attempting to help tortured, imprisoned little boy, Louis Charles, the lost king of France.






The Academie by Susanne Emily Dunlap
Eliza Monroe, daughter of the future president of the United States, is devastated when her mother decides to send her to boarding school outside of Paris.  But the young American teen is quickly reconciled to the idea when she discovers who her fellow pupils will be: Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter of Josephine Bonaparte, and Caroline Bonaparte, youngest sister of the famous French general.  It doesn't take long for Eliza to learn the two French girls are mortal enemies, and that she's about to get caught in the middle of their schemes.




Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
When Anna's romance novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.







The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll & Mademoiselle Odile by James Reese
In the prequel to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde set in 1870s Paris during the Prussian siege, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl whose knowledge of witchcraft includes transformation spells meets a young medical doctor from London.








Le Chevalier d'Eon vol. 1 by To Ubukata
A mysterious cult is sacrificing beautiful young women to demonic force that has promised them the kingdom of France in return for the blood of their victims.  Only one man can save Paris from chaos and terror, the Chevalier d'Eon.








No and Me by Delphine de Vigan
Precocious thirteen-year-old Lou meets a homeless eighteen-year-old girl on the streets of Paris and Lou's life is forever changed.








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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Top 10 of 2012 So Far

2012 is half way over and many book followers are posting their Top 10 of the year so far.  Amazon put out their own list a while back of their top YA titles this year so far and other blogs and book sellers have followed suit, including Shelfari, a book social networking site.  Both have The Fault in Our Stars by John Green as their top pick of the year so far, a book that got some attention when author John Green promised to autograph all 150,000 copies of the book's first printing.  Did any of your favorites make either of these lists?  

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Meet Mango

There are lots of great reasons to learn another language: going on a trip, wanting to work somewhere overseas, connecting with family members or simply because your college of choice demands you to!

To help you with all your language learning needs, the library is now subscribing to Mango Languages, a language learning database which provides lessons for over 40 languages, including Spanish, French and Pirate (not sure if Pirate qualifies as an actual language, but I'm giving Mango the benefit of the doubt on this one).

So use Mango to ace your next language exam, amp up for your vacation or impress your landlubber friends with your newly acquired Pirate slang.  Find Mango on our Online Databases page