NEW YOUNG ADULT BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK

ROBERT MUCHAMORE - THE ESCAPE

It is the summer of 1940, Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run. Amid the chaos, two British children are being hunted by German agents. British spy Charles Henderson tries to reach them first, but he can only do it with the help of a 12-year-old French orphan. The British secret service is about to discover that kids working undercover will help to win the war. For official purposes, these children do not exist.

C. C. HUNTER - AWAKE AT DAWN

Step into the world of Shadow Falls, a camp that helps teens tap into their special…talents. Once you visit, you’ll never forget it—and you’ll never, ever be the same.

From the moment Kylie Galen arrived at Shadow Falls Camp, she’s had one burning question: What am I? Surrounded by vampires, werewolves, shape-shifters, fairies and witches, Kylie longs to figure out her own supernatural identity…and what her burgeoning powers mean. And now she’ll need them more than ever, because she’s being haunted by a new spirit who insists that someone Kylie knows—and loves—will die before the end of the summer. If only she only knew who she was supposed to save. And how…
But giving Kylie the most trouble is her aching heart. Gorgeous werewolf Lucas left camp with another girl, but he’s still visiting Kylie in her dreams. And Derek, a sexy half Fae who’s always been there for her when she needed him, is pushing to get more serious—and growing impatient, especially when Lucas returns. Kylie knows she needs to decide between the boys, and it’s tearing her up inside.
Yet romance will have to wait, because something from the dark side of the supernatural world is hiding in Shadow Falls. It’s about to threaten everything she holds dear…and bring her closer to her destiny

 

 

SOPHIE MCKENZIE - FALLING FAST

When River auditions for a part in an inter school performance of Romeo and Juliet, she finds herself smitten by Flynn, the boy playing Romeo. But Flynn comes from a damaged family—is he even capable of giving River what she wants? The path of true love never did run smooth . . .

CATHERINE AUSTEN - ALL GOOD CHILDREN

It's the middle of the twenty-first century and the elite children of New Middletown are lined up to receive a treatment that turns them into obedient, well-mannered citizens. Maxwell Connors, a fifteen-year-old prankster, misfit and graffiti artist, observes the changes with growing concern, especially when his younger sister, Ally, is targeted. Max and his best friend, Dallas, escape the treatment, but must pretend to be "zombies" while they watch their freedoms and hopes decay. When Max's family decides to take Dallas with them into the unknown world beyond New Middletown's borders, Max's creativity becomes an unexpected bonus rather than a liability.

NEW DVD'S AVAILABLE NOW

NOEL FIELDING'S LUXURY COMEDY

HELL AND BACK AGAIN

THE BIG YEAR

JIMEOIN - SOMETHING SMELLS FUNNY

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

HIT SO HARD

GRAFFITI WARS

GLASS - A PORTRAIT OF PHILIP IN TWELVE PARTS

THE WALKING DEAD - SEASON 1

HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN TWO HOURS

UNDERGROUND: THE JULIAN ASSANGE STORY



NEW CDS IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

ALICIA KEYS - GIRL ON FIRE

TORI AMOS - GOLD DUST

THE KILLERS - BATTLEBORN

 

CHRISTINA AGUILERA - LOTUS 

JENS LENKMAN - I KNOW WHAT LOVE ISN'T

LISA MITCHELL - BLESS THIS MESS

NEIL YOUNG CRAZY HORSE - PSYCHEDELIC PILL

GO-BETWEENS - QUIET HEART

SARAH BLASKO - I AWAKE

THE PRESETS - PACIFICA

TIM ROGERS - ROGERS SINGS ROGERSTEIN

RIHANNA - UNAPOLOGETIC

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB - BEACON

GREEN DAY -UNO, DOS, TRE

NEW NOVEL THIS WEEK

GLADIATOR: STREET FIGHTER by Simon Scarrow

Now a member of Julius Caesar's palace, Marcus's training continues in the city of Rome. The streets are plagued by vicious gang war attacks, and Caesar must employ his own gang leader, who learns of a plot to murder him.

Only Marcus can go in undercover. But he's in terrible danger. If the rival gang discover him the price will be fatal. Julius Caesar's isn't the only life at risk . . .

NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS THIS WEEK

AVENGERS: THE ORIGIN by Joe Casey and Phil Noto

Redefining the origin of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Iron Man! Thor! Ant-Man and the Wasp! Individually, each has the power to fight injustice and protect the innocent. But even the strongest heroes can only do so much when they stand alone. When the mischief god Loki uses the rampaging Hulk as his pawn of destruction in his bid to escape exile, it's up to Earth's Mightiest Heroes to stand together and stop him! The adventures of the Avengers echo throughout history, and it all begins here!
COLLECTING: Avengers: The Origin 1-5

V FOR VENDETTA by Allan Moore and David Lloyd

A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V FOR VENDETTA takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil.

DAYTRIPPER by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba

DAYTRIPPER follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in Bras’ life in exotic Brazil, and each story ends the same way: with his death. And then, the following story starts up at a different point in his life, oblivious to his death in the previous issue – and then also ends with him dying again. In every chapter, Bras dies at different moments in his life, as the story follows him through his entire existence – one filled with possibilities of happiness and sorrow, good and bad, love and loneliness. Each issue rediscovers the many varieties of daily life, in a story about living life to its fullest – because any of us can die at any moment.

NEW YOUNG ADULT BOOKS THIS WEEK

BZRK by MICHAEL GRANT

Love The Hunger Games?  Action-adventure thrillers with a dystopian twist? BZRK (Berserk) by Michael Grant, New York Times best-selling author of the GONE series, ramps up the action and suspense to a whole new level of excitement.
Set in the near future, BZRK is the story of a war for control of the human mind.  Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, conjoined twins and owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, have a goal:  to turn the world into their vision of utopia.  No wars, no conflict, no hunger.  And no free will.  Opposing them is a guerrilla group of teens, code name BZRK, who are fighting to protect the right to be messed up, to be human.  This is no ordinary war, though.  Weapons are deployed on the nano-level. The battleground is the human brain.  And there are no stalemates here:  It’s victory . . . or madness.
BZRK unfolds with hurricane force around core themes of conspiracy and mystery, insanity and changing realities, engagement and empowerment, and the larger impact of personal choice. Which side would you choose?  How far would you go to win?

HARBINGER by SARA WILSON ETIENNE

Girl, Interrupted meets Beautiful Creatures in this fast-paced thriller
When sixteen-year-old Faye arrives at Holbrook Academy, she doesn't expect to find herself exactly where she needs to be. After years of strange waking visions and nightmares, her only comfort the bones of dead animals, Faye is afraid she's going crazy. Fast.
But her first night at Holbrook, she feels strangely connected to the school and the island it sits on, like she's come home. She's even made her first real friends, but odd things keep happening to them. Every morning they wake on the floors of their dorm rooms with their hands stained red.
Faye knows she's the reason, but what does it all mean? The handsome Kel tries to help her unravel the mystery, but Faye is certain she can't trust him; in fact, he may be trying to kill her - and the rest of the world too.
Rich, compelling writing will keep the pages turning in this riveting and tautly told psychological thriller.

Summer Chess Tournamet

The Summer Chess Tournament returns to Manly Library in 2013 on the 23rd January.
Bookings are essentail for this all day event and places are stictly limited so get in early to avoid dissapointment.

Watch this space for full event details comming soon or call 9976 1731 for more information.

NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS @ THE LIBRARY

BABY'S IN BLACK by ARNE BELLSTORF

Arne Bellstorf's sad, magically charming graphic novel about the Beatles in Hamburg — when the band's then-bassist Stuart Sutcliffe fell in love with German photographer Astrid Kirchherr — evokes the innocence and romantic hunger of youth with quiet, heart-tugging grace. The period is 1960-62, when the Beatles were playing nightly in a rathole on the Reeperbahn, Hamburg's tough red-light district, the crucible in which the band's world-shattering sound was formed. Klaus Voormann, Kirchherr's fellow art student and boyfriend (who later designed the cover of "Revolver"), wanders down to the district one night — not a place he would usually go, being a middle-class lad — and is distracted by the sound of the band wafting up from the Kaiserkeller. He can't wait to drag the reluctant Astrid and other friends to see these Teddy boys with the choirboy voices and rockin' guitars.

The story that follows is well-known. The hip German art students expose the lads to existentialist cool and they swap their Elvis haircuts and leathers for turtlenecks and Parisian-style moptops (but not before Kirchherr snaps some historic photos in all their greaser glory). They get tossed out of the country on visa violations; Sutcliffe quits the band to study art; the boys return, with Paul McCartney switching from guitar to bass; Sutcliffe and Kirchherr get engaged; then Sutcliffe, who has been experiencing severe headaches, suddenly dies of an aneurysm.

Bellstorf tells this fated love story in black-and-white panels conjuring John Lennon's pointed nose and Astrid's doe-eye gaze with caricaturelike lines and punctuating his minimalist cartooning with great swatches of black (Kirchherr's favorite color). There are some great scenes, including Lennon snarling at the (non-English-speaking) crowd, "And don't forget, we won the war"; Kirchherr and Sutcliffe walking in the woods, with the lyrics of "Love Me Tender" scrolling above.

AT A CROSSROADS: BETWEEN A ROCK AND MY PARENTS PLACE BY KATE T. WILLIAMSON
 
After graduating from college and spending a magical year abroad writing our best-selling A Year in Japan, Kate T. Williamson felt ready for anything. But, like many a postgraduate, she needed some time to figure out just what that anything was. Her parents' house in Pennsylvania seemed like the perfect place for a brief layover, but twenty-three months later, Williamson was still contemplating the past and the future, while explaining to curious neighbors that, at present, her life was "at a crossroads."
At a Crossroads is a unique graphic memoir about the common, yet little-discussed, "boomerang years." With sharp wit and expressive drawings, Williamson illustrates the joys, disappointments, comforts, and embarrassments of life back home with mom and dad. Highlights and low points include celebrating her twenty-fourth birthday at a Hall & Oatesconcert with her mother; noticing the train sounds from her bedroom for the first time; battling an infestation of squirrels;discovering that the ballet class she has signed up for is actually for children, and attending anyway; getting mail fromher college crush, who has developed an interest in taxidermy; wearing a chain-mail belt of her own creation to her cousin'sRenaissance-themed wedding. Moving from season to season, Williamson uses her delightful illustrations and vivid descriptions to discover the beauty and truth inside every hilarious episode. At a Crossroads is a book for young and old alike, or for anyone contemplating the little things worth noting in the times of our lives we often erase from our histories.

HEAPS OF NEW DVDS FOR LOAN @ MANLY LIBRARY

MIS FITS seasons 1+2


CITY OF MEN

SHERLOCK seies 1


THE INBETWEENERS MOVIE


YOUNG ADULT


KOYAANISQATSI


THE DOORS - MOJO RISIN' THE SORY OF LA WOMAN


DRAGONSLAYER

DINOSAUR JR - LIVE IN THE HANDS OF FANS


CONCEPT ART - AN INTRODUCTION