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February 26, 2009

More New Fiction for March 2009

Ibbotson, Eva. The Dragonfly Pool. YA/ IBB
Tally Hamilton is furious to hear she is being sent from London to a horrid, stuffy boarding school in the countryside. And all because of the stupid war. But Delderton Hall is a far more unusual and interesting place than Tally ever imagined, and she soon falls in love with its eccentric staff and pupils.

Marchetta, Melina. Jellicoe Road. YA/ MAR
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

McNab, Andy and Rigby, Robert. Avenger. YA/ MCN
Seventeen-year-old Danny, his grandfather, Fergus, who is an ex-SAS explosives expert, and friend Elena set out to stop the evil computer hacker who is sending teenaged suicide bombers to their deaths around the world. Third book in the series.

Napoli, Donna Jo. The Smile. YA/ NAP
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that will ensue.

Pratchett, Terry. Nation. YA/ PRA
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.

Scott, Michael. The Magician: The secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel YA/ SCO
Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.

Watson, Sasha. Vidalia in Paris. YA/ WAT
Teenage Vidalia's summer in Paris studying art settles into a stimulating and enjoyable routine until she becomes romantically involved with a mysterious young man who seems to have ties to an art-theft ring.

February 25, 2009

New Fiction for March 2009

Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Ten Things I Hate About Me. YA/ ABD
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.

Brashares, Ann. 3 Willows: the sisterhood grows. YA/ BRA
Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their families, and the changing nature of their friendship.

Godbersen, Anna. Envy. YA/ GOD
Manhattan's most envied residents appear of have everything they desire: wealth, beauty, happiness. But sometimes the most practiced smiles hide the most scandalous secrets.

Jones, Carrie. >Need. YA/ JON
Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.

Lanagan, Margo. Tender Morsels. YA/ LAN
A young woman who has endured unspeakable cruelties is magically granted a safe haven apart from the real world and allowed to raise her two daughters in this alternate reality, until the barrier between her world and the real one begins to break down.

Schrefer, Eliot. The School for Dangerous Girls. YA/ SCH
Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.

Stoffels, Karlijn. Heartsinger YA/ STO
Smee was born with a great gift: the ability to sing other people's stories and heal their pain. But Smee also carries his own pain -- his failure to reach his deaf mother and heal her grief at his father's death. As he travels the country, he eases many people's sorrows, but he cannot connect with anyone himself.

Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World. YA/ STO
Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify--and he's always attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world." There Marcelo meets Jasmine, his beautiful and surprising coworker, and Wendell, the son of another partner in the firm. He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire. But it's a picture he finds in a file -- a picture of a girl with half a face -- that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice, and what he can do to fight.

Tan, Shaun. Tales From Outer Suburbia. YA/ TAN
Fifteen illustrated short stories, some humorous and some haunting, set in the Australian suburbs.

Weingarten, Lynn. Wherever Nina Lies. YA/ WEI
Two years after the disappearance of her older sister, sixteen-year-old Ellie goes on a quest to find her.

February 23, 2009

New Biographies for February 2009

Hurley, Jo. Kristen Stewart: Bella of the Ball! YA/ STE
Burst onto the scene as Jodie Foster's daughter in the 2001box office hit Panic Room. With that success behind her, Stewart was cast in Cold Creek Manor, Catch that Kid, and Undertow. But in 2008 Kristen's going to break away from the pack when she fulfills every tween/teen girl's dream and plays the role of Isabella in the movie version of Stephanie Meyer's phenomenally successful Twilight. With buzz about the movie already all over the web, it's time for a bio of this rising young star.

More New Fiction for February 2009

Cast, P. C. and Cast, Kristin. Untamed. A House of Night Novel. YA/ CAS
Zoey's life at vampyre training school takes a turn for the worse as she loses most of her group of friends and all three of her potential boyfriends and the High Priestess Neferet plans a war on humans that Zoey knows is wrong.

Cooney, Caroline B. Driver’s Ed. YA/ COO
Three teenagers' lives are changed forever when they thoughtlessly steal a stop sign from a dangerous intersection and a young mother is killed in an automobile accident there.

Hill, Lexie. Kissing Booth. YA/ HIL
Lisi has never been kissed. Sure, she could practice on her guy friend, Johnny, but he’s like a brother to her! So when it comes time to pick a theme for the Spring Carnival booth, Lisi suggests a "Kissing Booth," hoping it will give her the chance to get a cheek-kiss from her crush, the handsome, popular Brett. But on the day of the carnival, as rumors fly and kisses are stolen, Lisi discovers that the person she should really kiss may have been right in front of her all along.

Hughes, Dean. Search and Destroy. YA/ HUG
Hearing stories about the front lines of Vietnam, Rick Ward is eager to see the drama for himself and so joins the Charlie Rangers to make sure he finds himself in the midst of all the action, but his plans for pushing himself to the limit become reality soon enough when he finds himself in the heart of the deadly fight and sees just how ugly war truly is.

James, Sabrina. Be Mine. YA/ JAM
Valentine's Day is fast approaching at North Ridge High! And this year, the school is sponsoring a "Most Romantic Couple" contest. Everyone wants to win - including Jennifer, who's not going to let the fact that she doesn't actually have a boyfriend stop her! Original.

Jordan, Dream. Hot Girl. YA/ JOR
Kate, a fourteen-year-old Brooklyn girl and former gang member, risks losing her first good foster family when she adopts the risqué ways of her flirtatious new friend, Naleejah.

Marsden, John. Circle of Flight. The Ellie Chronicles. YA/ MAR
Ellie is a fighter. She has faith in her own abilities. But she's not Superwoman. Not all battles can be won with a gun and bullets, and never has she faced enemies so ruthless or so brutal. Whether she has friends at her side or stands alone, for Ellie, enemies are everywhere. Life as she knows it is about to change. John Marsden's explosive finale to The Ellie Chronicles pushes Ellie to the edge in a tense, gripping, and completely surprising conclusion.

Melling, O. R. The Light-Bearer’s Daughter. YA/ MEL
In exchange for the granting of her heart's desire, twelve-year-old Dana agrees to make an arduous journey to Lugnaquillia through the land of Faerie in order to warn King Lugh, second in command to the High King, that an evil destroyer has entered the Mountain Kingdom.

Ruditis, Paul. Drama! The Four Dorothys. YA/ RUD
The students at the Orion Academy put on a musical based on the Wizard of Oz. Due to their egotism, four of them have the part of Dorothy, but as opening night approaches, the Dorothys drop out of the show one-by-one. Bryan Stark must find out why in order to keep the musical from being cancelled.

Ruditis, Paul. Drama! Show, Don’t Tell. YA/ RUD
The Renaissance Faire has come to town! Okay, so the exclamation point doesn't make it any cooler, but Sam is overjoyed to reunite with her former faire folk. Bryan, on the other hand, can do without all the "thees," "thous," and, oh yes man tights. But he'd best take part in the festivities lest he lose his head with Sam doing the chopping.

Ruditis, Paul. Drama! Entrances and Exits. YA/ RUD
It’s time for the Fall One-Act Festival and Hope gets the honored privilege of debuting her very first original play. It seems as if nothing could go wrong, but with a lot of raging hormones, it will be a wonder if the play goes off at all.

Vivian, Siobhan. Same Difference. YA/ VIV
Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.

Complete Cliff's Notes February 2009

We just added more Cliff's Notes titles...

The Aeneid
All the King’s Men
Anna Karenina
As I Lay Dying

Beloved
Beowulf
Billy Budd & Typee
Bleak House
Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited

The Catcher in the Rye
Crime and Punishment
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cyrano de Bergerac

A Doll’s House & Hedda Gabler
Doctor Faustus
Don Quixote

Fahrenheit 451
A Farewell to Arms

Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, & The Wild Duck
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby

Heart of Darkness & The Secret Sharer
Huckleberry Finn

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The Iliad
Invisible Man

Julius Caesar

King Lear

Lord of the Flies

MacBeth
Merchant of Venice
Moby-Dick

1984

The Odyssey
Of Human Bondage
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Paradise Lost
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and Prejudice

The Red Badge of Courage
Return of the Native
Romeo and Juliet

A Separate Peace

A Tale of Two Cities
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird

Wuthering Heights

February 02, 2009

New Non-Fiction Music February 2009

The Ultimate Rock Guitar Fake Book.
YA/ m786.2/ ULT
Includes tablature. Over 200 rock hits for guitar, vocal, keyboards and all C instruments.

All- time Hits for Easy Guitar. YA/ m786.2/ ALL
21 classic hits including Hound Dog, Love Me Do, My Generation and Wonderful Tonight.

New Bigraphies for February 2009

Adams, Isabelle. Robert Pattinson: Eternally Yours. YA/ B/ PAT
Everything you need to know about Robert Pattinson. From his early days in amateur theatre to landing the role of Cedric in Harry Potter to the moment he found out he would be Edward in Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.


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