Showing posts with label New Orleans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Orleans. Show all posts

Monday, June 13, 2016

New Books for June - Part 3

Daughters of Ruin by K. D. Castner
Fantasy 
As a war begins, four princesses of enemy kingdoms who were raised as sisters must decide where their loyalties lie: to their kingdoms, or to each other.

Devil and the Bluebird by Jennifer Mason-Black
Paranormal 
Armed with her mother's guitar, a knapsack of cherished mementos, and a pair of magical boots, Blue journeys west in search of her sister Cass, but when the devil she met at the town's crossroads changes the terms of their deal, Blue must reevaluate her understanding of good and evil.

Double D vol 1 by Eddie Argos
Graphic Novel 
After the official Worst Day Ever, overweight bully magnet Danny Carter discovers he can use his excess body mass to fuel superpowers. Obviously he's going to be a superhero and fight crime, but when you're 15 years old and you live in the suburbs it's not *quite* as easy as he expected... 

Dreamology by Lucy Keating
Contemporary Fiction 
Experiencing dreams about her soulmate all of her life, Alice meets the real boy, Max, when she moves to a new school but finds that their real relationship is more complicated than their dream one.

Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown
Graphic Novel 
Presents a graphic account of the events of Hurricane Katrina and its effects on the city of New Orleans and its people, detailing the selflessness, heroism, and courage, while also noting the incompetence, racism, and criminality.






Tuesday, February 3, 2015

New Books for February (part 7)

Mystery
~On shelf date: 2/10/15~
Rory, Callum and Boo are still reeling from Stephen's tragic death, but Rory is determined to bring Stephen back while new dangers lurk around the city from Jane and her nefarious organization

Contemporary Fiction
Alice is ready to go out in a blaze of glory, but then she discovers she's in remission from cancer and she must deal with all of the mistakes she's made and the people she's hurt.

Paranormal
When seventeen-year-old Lucy Aimes moves to New Orleans and meets Alex, a boy who behaves as if they've known each other forever, she becomes caught up in a centuries-old vendetta.

Action/Adventure
After Riley and his friends see some disturbing visions through a mysterious pair of binoculars, they soon realize these hallucinations are coming true, especially as one of Riley's closest friends becomes the prime suspect of a gruesome murder.

Nonfiction
The popular Top 10 series was packed with pictures and charts and information. The 2015 edition will be bigger (320 pages vs. 256 pages) and once again deliver the tallest scariest windiest fastest lightest winning-est slowest worst free-est deadliest loudest most-wanted brightest sleepiest longest reigning deepest driest most valuable richest wettest most aggressive heaviest cleanest of games books basketball players Olympic athletes buildings bridges pop music twitter followers movies oil production race cars Oscar winners paintings and much more! Packed with unusual comparisons, special features, awe-inspiring photographs and holographic foil histories, engineering feats, and thousands of facts and pictures, the Top 10 of Everything 2015 will be one of the most desired and appreciated reference books of the 2014 season.

Friday, August 30, 2013

New School Year...New Books for September! (part 3)

45 Pounds (more or less) by K. A. Barson
When Ann decides that she is going to lose 45 pounds in time for her aunt's wedding, she discovers that what she looks like is not all that matters.

 Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am by Harry Mazer
Wounded in Iraq while his Army unit is on convoy and treated for many months for traumatic brain injury, the first person Ben remembers from his earlier life is his autistic brother.

 Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff
Join troublemaker Delilah Dirk for a headlong plunge into adventure!Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside. 

The How-To Handbook by Martin Oliver
Whether you plan on spending your life playing sports, serving clients, running businesses, or flying to the moon, there are certain things that everyone just has to know how to do: unjamming a jar, for instance, fixing a flat tire, and removing a particularly embarrassing stain. They may seem simple in retrospect, but you don’t have to turn all your laundry pink more than once before you learn that it’s best just to get things right the first time. The How-To Handbook packs over 50 essential life skills into one handy reference book.

Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Lots of new books for February ~ Part 5

Dead Rules by Randy Russell
When high school junior Jana Webster dies suddenly, she finds herself in Dead School, where she faces choices that will determine when she, a Riser, will move on, but she strives to become a Slider instead, for the chance to be with the love of her life--even if it means killing him.

 Ruthless by Sara Shepard
Hanna, Spencer, Emily and Aria are trying to move on and forget about their old friend Alison DiLaurentis and all the torture she put them through, but someone is trying to keep her spirit alive.

 Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

 Lenobia's Vow by P. C. Cast
Before she is Zoey's favorite professor and the House of Night's powerful horse mistress Lenobia is just a normal 16-year-old girl - with enough problems to last a lifetime. As the illegitimate daughter of a powerful baron, she has never quite belonged, and instead has to watch her spoiled half-sister, Cecile, get anything she wants. As if that's not enough, her remarkable beauty draws unwanted attention wherever she goes.

The Fire by James Patterson
Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

New audiobooks!

Miss G has 5 new books on CD for you, these all sound awesome, so snap them up quick =)

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.

 Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
For seven hundred years, the souls of Romeo and Juliet have repeatedly inhabited the bodies of newly deceased people to battle to the death as sworn enemies, until they meet for the last time as two Southern California high school students.

 Dark Life by Kat Falls
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

 The Doom Stone by Paul Zindel
When fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.

 Crusade by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie
An international team of six teenaged vampire hunters, trained in Salamanca, Spain, goes to New Orleans seeking to rescue team-member Jenn's younger sister as the vampires escalate their efforts to take over the Earth.