Upcoming Winter programs!

Winter schedule brochures are available to grab here at the library, but here's some of the upcoming events:

The next three dates for Anime Club are Wed, Jan 29, Feb 19, and March 19 from 3:30 to 5:00. Come in and vote on an anime show to watch, enjoy some snacks and hang out with teens who share your interests!

Next Friday, January 31, join us at the library for a screening of Pixar's Monsters University at 4:00!

We'll be having a trivia contest on Wednesday, February 5 from 4 to 5. Come in and have fun competing for fun and prizes! 

On Wednesday, February 12 we'll be making blackout poetry by taking old books, magazines, newspapers and anything else we can find and marking them up to make new passages! 

Anime Club and our movie are drop-in, but registration is now open at the library for Teen Trivia Day and Blackout Poetry!

Lots of new titles for the week of 1/12/2014!

Another week with lots of new releases. Come check some stuff out before these shelves burst!

FICTION

• The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (book 2 of The Raven Cycle)
• To Be Or Not To Be: a choosable-path adventure by Ryan North
• Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz
• Scorpion Shards by Neal Shusterman (book 1 of The Star Shards Chronicles)
• Thief of Souls by Neal Shusterman (book 2 of The Star Shards Chronicles)
• Shattered Sky by Neal Shusterman (book 3 of The Star Shards Chronicles)
• Hollow City  by Ransom Riggs (book 2 of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)
• Frozen by Melissa De La Cruz (book 1 of Heart of Dread)

NON-FICTION

• Guinness World Records 2014 Gamer's Edition
• Drawing Words and Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel & Matt Maddden
• S.E.X. the all-you-need-to-know progressive sexuality guide to get you through high school and college by Heather Corinna
• YOU: The Owner's Manual for Teens by Michael F. Roizen, Mehmet C. Oz and Ellen Rome
• Start It Up: the complete teen business guide to turning your passions into pay by Kenrya Rankin
• How to Draw Hip Hop by Damion Scott and Kris Ex

GRAPHIC NOVELS

• Johnny Hiro {Half Asian, All Hero} by Fred Chao
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Dan Duncan (vol. 1 & 5)
• Bad Houses by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki (vol. 1)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secret History of the Foot Clan by Mateus Santolouco and Erik Burnham
• Battling Boy by Paul Pope

AUDIO BOOK PLAYAWAYS - FICTION

• Champion by Marie Lu (book 3 of Legend trilogy). Read by Steven Kaplan and Mariel Stern
• The Fiery Heart by Richelle Mead (a Bloodlines novel). Read by Emily Shaffer

New Year, New Books

Happy New Year! We've got lots of new additions this week, and a lot of new graphic novel selections. Start 2014 off right with a new book to read!

FICTION

• Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard (A Lying Game novel)
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler (replacement)
• Invisibility by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan
• Pieces by Chris Lynch
• Unbreakable by Kami Garcia (The Legion Book 1)
• How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller
• The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural by various
• Taken by Edward Bloor

NON-FICTION

• The Ultimate History of Video Games by Steven L. Kent
• Doing it Right: making smart, safe, and satisfying choices about sex by Bronwen Pardes
• Freaking Out: real-life stories about anxiety  by Polly Wells
• Minecraft: Essential Handbook by Stephanie Milton

GRAPHIC NOVELS

• Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley (replacement)
• Doctor Who Omnibus vol. 1
• The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare and Hyekyung Baek
• My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
• Runaways: Pride & Joy by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona
• Fullmetal Alchemist  by Hiromu Arakawa (vol. 1, replacement)
• Dragonball by Akira Toriyama (3-in-1 collecting vol. 4-6)
• Dragonball Z by Akira Toriyama (3-in-1 collecting vol. 4-6)
• Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori (vol. 2-3)
• Soul Eater by Atsushi Ohkubo (vol. 2-3)
• Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Prudence Shen & Faith Erin Hicks
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sins of the Fathers by Kevin Eastman (vol. 4)
• I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and JM Ken Niimura

Since I'm always trying to find a way to use Vine, here's one of some of the new graphic novels we got in! (Some like the Dragonball volumes and the Clockwork Angel were already checked out by the time I shot this!)