New YA Books for January

Holding Up the Universe - Jennifer Niven

Murder in Midwinter - Fleur Hitchcock

Highly Illogical Behaviour - John Corey-Whaley

Word Hunters: The Curious Dictionary - Nick Earls & Tery Windborne

The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily

River of Ink - Helen Dennis

The House of Eyes - Patricia Elliott

And I darken -- Kiersten White

Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake

Septimus Heap: Flyte - Angie Sage

Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom - Booki Vivat

The Otherlife - Julia Gray

Finders Keepers - Shelley Tougas

The Bricks that Built the Houses - Kate Tempest

The Colour of Darkness: The Book of Storms Trilogy #2 - Ruth Hatfield

Just Like the Movies: If Only... #7 - Kelly Fiore Stultz

The Last Boy and Girl in the World - Siobhan Vivian

Kids of Appetite - David Arnold

The Beginning Woods - Malcolm McNeill

Escape to the Moon Islands: Quest of the Sunfish Book 1 - Mardi McConnochie

Spontaneous - Aaron Starmer

Stealing Snow: Stealing Snow #1 - Danielle Paige

Swarm: Zeroes #2 - Scott Westerfeld

Lost Stars - Lisa Selin Davis

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz 

The Call - Peadar O'Guilin

2 New and Recommended Reads for January

The Wildings - Nilanjana Roy

This is a book for all those cat lovers out there – those who know cats as felines / cats, not as ‘kitties’ or any other derogatory and disrespectful term… These cats mean business.Set in India in the heart of old Delhi – it is atmospheric and superbly crafted. Three main types of cats live in the area – indoor cats, most of whom never go out, the Wildings a group of felines living with respect for each other, their prey and other species around them and another group the Ferals – enclosed in a shuttered house who’s Big Foot is coming to the end of its life…They are not respectful. They kill for pleasure and enjoy any torment that they can cause in the process.This is not a cat book for those of a delicate nature. It is a beautifully observed extraordinary volume. There is life and death in this book – beautifully described and detailed…As to characters – each is distinctive and as different as you might wish from a book that isn’t about cats – some cruel, some wise, and the kittens, almost mindlessly falling and tumbling though life and the dangers that are set against them. It is marvellous. 

      There is a note in the back which states that the story continues in a volume called The One Hundred Names of Darkness. Which I will be ordering, of course, as soon as I return to work tomorrow. I hope and trust it will be as good. Looking on the computer – there is a note that states this title won’t be available till November. Irritating, but I expect I will survive. 

      My only complaint – and it is a severe one, is that Nilanjana Roy, lives in India, which I suppose is reasonable, considering the setting of this book. It does mean though that it is unlikely I will ever meet her and she probably won’t come and ‘do’ an event in Waterstones. Which is a great pity. I have been told though, that I can have a single title table for this – and will organise this as soon as the weekend is over.

The Tale of One Bad Rat - Bryan Talbot

Helen Potter lived a happy life until she got lost in a nightmare of sexual abuse. Now she's on a journey that takes her through urban and rural England along the same path that another Potter, Beatrix Potter, once took. Across the decades, two lives touch, and Helen discovers that the strength of two is far greater than one. She becomes the armored knight before her own personal demons in this story of heroism and courage.

SUMMER CHESS TOURNAMENT

There are still places left in the Summer Chess Tournament held on January 25 @ Manly Library.
Places are limited and filling fast so if you are a chess player and 15 years of age or younger book now to avoid disappointment: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/summer-chess-tournament-at-manly-library-registration-29139244264

Book Club in 2017

The Manly Library Young Adult Book Club continues in 2017 with our first meeting to be on Tuesday the 14th February at Manly Library at 4pm.

We are reading Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay.

Joan Lindsay's best-selling novel Picnic at Hanging Rock is a subtle blend of mysterious and sinister events set in a period drawn with loving nostalgia.
The final chapter of the novel was removed at the request of her publishers, creating a mystery to which thousands have begged to know the solution.
Published for the first time in 1987, 3 years after the authors death, the missing chapter reveals what did happen to the schoolgirls who vanished from the Rock after a St Valentine's Day picnic in 1900.

Drop by the library and pick up your copy to read before the meeting.

After you have read the book you may like to read the last chapter available here:
https://carusopascoski.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/secret_hanging_rock.pdf

Think about what the removal of this chapter means for the story, would you have preferred it included in the original text? does it spoil the mystery? Did you guess what happened to the girls before reading this chapter?