Interested in Upcoming books, author interviews, and book reviews? Try The Book Studio ...an online site with great content about new titles and authors.
New items are purchased monthly. These include the newest best sellers, fiction, non-fiction, picture books, youth titles, movies on DVD, music CDs and audio books on both CD and cassette. We also own all of the books on the Flume High School List, Great Stone Face Book List and the Isinglass Teen Read List for 2009-2010! Lists of new and upcoming book purchases for children and young adults can be found on the Kids' Corner and Teen Zone pages.
If you would like to be on the reserve list for any of these titles please e-mail the library and include your FIRST and LAST name, library card number, complete titles, format and authors. Please consider donating your books, DVDs, audio books or music CDs to the library once you have read/viewed/listened to them.
Have you read a book lately that you'd like to review? Viewed a movie that you loved? Listened to an audio book that blew your socks off? If so, please send your book review (or just the title) to Amy Inglis at blibrary@metrocast.net We also have a display board where these books are put out so people may see "great finds" by other patrons!
New Book Titles by Month:
October 2009
We're always expanding our collection of DVD titles for you and your family!
New
DVD Titles:
September-November
New Music CD Titles at the Library
None For October 2009
New AudioBook Titles on CD & Playway at the Library
October 2009
The 39 Clues Books 2-5
Catching Fire by Collins
Ever by Gail Carson Levine
Shipwreck Series by Korman
Her Fearful Symmetry by Niffenegger
Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Martian Chronicles by Bradbury
U is for Undertow by Grafton (12/09)
Year of the Flood by Atwood
Wedding Girl by Wickham
Archenemy by F. Beddor
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Playaway)
Island Trilogy by Gordon Korman (Playaway)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by O'Farrell
Hard Truth
Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Finney
Knitting Circle by Hood
Silas Marner by Eliot
Vicious Circle by Littell
Wrongful Death by Wilhelm
Remember: We get a new set of audio books on CD every three months from our cooperative. 25-30 titles that circulate here for 3 months...then we get a new batch! We get new ones in March, June, September, and December. (Usually the 2nd week of the month)
Book Award Links
Need a new author, a great new book to read? Check out some of these sites that list current and past award winners and recommended titles!
The Edgar Award: Mystery and Suspense Novels
The Pen/Faulkner Award: The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year....list of winners is located at the bottom of the page.
Pulitzer Prize for Literature: Covers fiction, poetry, music, drama, biography, non-fiction, and news reporting!
The National Book Award: Covers fiction and non-fiction.
The RITA Awards: Romance Writer's of America choices. Current years winners and runners-up listed on bottom of the page.
The HUGO Awards: For best science fiction and fantasy titles.
The Printz Award: For best teen novels.
Bram Stoker Award: Best Horror books.
The Spur Awards: Best Westerns.
The Hammett Awards: Best crime fiction.
National Book Critics Circle Award: Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English
The Man Booker Prize: Prizes for best International fiction.
Book Sense: A wonderful site with tons of recommended reads from independent booksellers.
State Awards for Children's and Young Adult Books Lots of wonderful titles picked by teachers, librarians, and kids!
Caldecott Awards: Most distinguished American picture book for children.
Newbery Award: It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.
Agatha Awards: The Agatha Awards, named for Malice inspiration Agatha Christie, are awarded for the Best Novel, First Mystery Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Story in the genre for the previous year.
Nebula Awards: Science Fiction novels, short stories, etc.