A chocolate cake, a vanilla cake, and a spice cake!

For the three birthdays today!
Happy birthday to Libba Bray, Kate Brian, and D. J. MacHale!

In November I am Thankful for...New Books! (part 4)

So You Want to be a Comic Book Artist by Philip Amara

A step-by-step guide to creating, publishing and marketing comic books shares professional insights into developing compelling characters and approaching publishers, offering additional advice for such topics as adapting storylines for video games and movies.

 

Soda-Pop Rockets by Paul Jarvis

Anyone can recycle a plastic bottle by tossing it into a bin, but it takes a bit of skill to propel it into that bin from 500 feet away. Skill, and a copy of Soda-Pop Rockets.

 Author and engineer Paul Jarvis has designed 20 different easy-to-launch rockets that can be built from discarded plastic drink bottles. After learning how to construct and fly a basic model, readers will find out new ways to modify and improve their designs.  Clear, step-by-step instructions with full-color illustrations accompany each project, including how to build a launch pad, along with photographs of the author firing his creations into the sky. 

 

 SYLO by D. J. MacHale

They came from the sky parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on the sidelines when the high school running back dropped dead with no warning. He saw the bizarre midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that travel like shadows through the night sky. He tasted the Ruby--and experienced the powers it gave him--for himself. What all this means, SYLO isn't saying. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery. Look to the sky because Pemberwick Island is only the first stop.

 

 Taken by Erin Bowman

In the isolated town of Claysoot, every male is mysteriously "Heisted" on his eighteenth birthday, and seventeen-year-old Gray Weathersby is determined to figure out why.

 

 

This is NOT a Writing Manual by Kerri Majors

You're an aspiring writer. Maybe you've just discovered your love of words and dream of being a novelist someday. Maybe you've been filling notebooks with science-fiction stories since middle school. Maybe you're contemplating a liberal arts degree, but you don't know what the heck you're going to do with it. The last thing you need is another preachy writing manual telling you how you should write. This book isn't a writing manual. It is a series of candid and irreverent essays on the writing life, from a writer who's lived it.

Triple birthday today~

Ready?  Here we go---

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIBBA BRAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KATE BRIAN!!

Ok Kate!  We have 44 (!) of your books here, so instead of doing covers of the books we have by you, I'm putting up a guide to your books for readers to follow :)  (*Durham has this one*)

Private
The Book of Spells: A Private Prequel (2010)*
1. Private (2006)*
2. Invitation Only (2006)*
3. Untouchable (2006)*
4. Confessions (2007)*
5. Inner Circle (2007)*
6. Legacy (2008)*
7. Ambition (2008)*
8. Revelation (2008)*
9. Paradise Lost (2009)*
10. Suspicion (2009)*
11. Scandal (2010)*
12. Vanished (2010)*
13. Ominous (2011)*
14. Vengeance (2011)*
Last Christmas: The Private Prequel (2008)*

Privilege
1. Privilege (2008)*
2. Beautiful Disaster (2009)*
3. Perfect Mistake (2009)*
4. Sweet Deceit (2010)*
5. Pure Sin (2010)*
6. Cruel Love (2011)*

 

Shadowlands
1. Shadowlands (2013)*
2. Hereafter (2013)

 

Novels

The Princess and the Pauper (2003)
The V Club (2004)
     aka The Virginity Club
Sweet 16 (2005)
Lucky T (2005)
Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys (2005)
Fake Boyfriend (2007)
Ex-Mas (2009)

  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO D.J. MACHALE!

  

 

April showers bring May...books :) (Part 4)

The Blood by D. J. MacHale

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A final showdown is in order between best friends Marshall and Cooper and the terrifying villain Damon, who's more determined than ever to break down the walls between the worlds of the living and the dead. Marshall is forced to make a brave and shocking choice when the battle is on the line, and he and Cooper might be rewarded with help from someone quite unexpected.

 Purity by Jackson Pearce

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Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."

Battle Fatigue by Mark Kurlansky

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Joel Bloom chronicles his life experiences during the 1960's which eventually lead him to oppose the war in Vietnam and to flee to Canada rather than be forced to kill Vietnamese.

Ascend by Amanda Hocking

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Duty-bound to marry her friend Tove in order to give the Trylle people their strongest king and queen in history, Wendy, a changeling troll princess, is torn between two other suitors, Finn and Loki.

Grimalkin The Witch Assassin by Joseph Delaney

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Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.

What is Ms Gardiner reading this weekend?

Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber

Merchant of Death: Pendragon book 1 by D. J. MacHale

Want to go Private? by Sarah Darer Littman

And Miss G is currently listening to in her car...

Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride

New blog! New YA librarian! New books!

Hello teens!  I have lots of new stuff to share with you, the first being myself.  My name is Karyn Gardiner, but you can call me Miss Gardiner or Miss G, and I am the new Young Adult Librarian at the Durham Public Library.  I'm very excited to be here and to be working with you all.  Feel free to stop in and say hello if you haven't met me yet, or introduce yourself here. 

On to the other new stuff.  This blog!  This blog will be a place for me to share with you new books or other materials for the YA section, library programs for you, or any other interesting tidbits that I think you might be interested in!  I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to share your feedback with me on how I can improve the blog. 

Finally, on to the really good stuff!  I have a few new books that will be heading out to the new shelf soon, so I want to give you a little preview here.



When her best guy friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover who in her small town did it. Richly atmospheric, this daring mystery mines the secrets of a tightly knit Southern community and examines the strength of will it takes to go against everyone you know in the name of justice. Against a backdrop of poverty, clannishness, drugs, and intolerance, Myracle has crafted a harrowing coming-of-age tale couched in a deeply intelligent mystery. Smart, fearless, and compassionate, this is an unforgettable work from a beloved author.



At the end of The Light, Book One of the Morpheus Road trilogy, Marshall learned the truth about what happened to his best friend Cooper. Now in Book Two, the POV switches to Cooper and we get to see his side of the mystery. What does his story have to do with Marshall and the journey along the Morpheus Road? It's time to learn more . . . Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.





In this stand alone sequel to The Mealworm Diaries, Aaron is anxiously waiting for his father to return for the first time since Aaron's mother's death eight years earlier. Aaron works hard with a counselor at school, but he still has problems getting along with and understanding other kids, and he's worried that his dad will think he's weird. As well as having to confront Tufan, the class bully, Aaron must find ways to cope with the fact that his dad now has a pregnant wife, and his beloved Gran needs surgery. In the end, his greatest strength is not his intelligence or his sense of humor, but the openness and warmth of his heart.





Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave behind the pain of Thea's mom's death. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering days are over. At the ranch she makes friends with Van, a local boy, and works hard to build the trust of an abused horse named Renegade. When Thea unearths the decades-old story of a four-year-old girl who disappeared from the ranch and was never seen again, she enlists Van to help her solve the mystery. When some disturbing facts come to light, she finally starts to come to terms with the losses in her own life.



Noah's happier than I've seen him in months. So I'd be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It's not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah's happiness because of a kiss? Across four sun-kissed, drama-drenched summers at his family's beach house, Chase is falling in love, falling in lust, and trying to keep his life from falling apart. But some girls are addictive....

Well thats all I have for you today!

Well...not really, because I just thought of something else.  On May 14th from 2-4pm I am having a hemp jewelry program at the library.  So, if you're interested, stop in or call and register!

Ok, now, really thats all.  I hope you enjoyed it!  See you soon!