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

NEW BOOKS THIS WEEK

A MIDSUMMERS TIGHTS DREAM by LOUISE RENNISON

Performing Arts college, here I come again! Hold on to your tights!! Because I'm holding on to mine, I can tell you.
Tallulah Casey is back and ready to Irish-comedy-dance her way through another term at Dother Hall, but now that she's been officially admitted to the performing arts program, that won't cut it anymore. Especially if she's going to help raise enough money to keep the school from closing at the end of the year.
There are also some . . . distractions to worry about: The boys of Woolfe Academy are lingering about. And they are still boys, so they are still confusing.
Will Tallulah be able to test out her new snogging skills and ace her performance in this term's project, A Midsummer Night's Dream? Only time and more Irish comedy dancing will tell.
Louise Rennison returns with her trademark sidesplitting humor, sending Tallulah and her mates on another riotously spectacular (mis)adventure.

BALTHAZAR by CLAUDIA GRAY
 
Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil. Most of the town’s residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight.
Using the city’s water system to spread, the draug have rapidly multiplied. Things in Morganville look grim, especially since vampire Amelie—the town founder—has been infected by the master draug’s bite. Now, if Claire and her friends don’t figure out how to cure Amelie and defeat the draug, it looks like Morganville will become little more than a ghost town…

BLACK DAWN by RACHEL CAINE

For hundreds of years, the vampire Balthazar has been alone--without allies, without love.
When Balthazar agrees to help Skye Tierney, a human girl who once attended Evernight Academy, he has no idea how dangerous it will be. Skye's newfound psychic powers have caught the attention of Redgrave, the cruel, seductive master vampire responsible for murdering Balthazar and his family four centuries ago. Now Redgrave plans to use Skye's powers for his own evil purposes.
Balthazar will do whatever it takes to stop Redgrave and exact his long-awaited revenge against his killer. As Skye and Balthazar stand together to fight him, they grow closer--first unwillingly, then undeniably. Balthazar realizes his lonely world could finally be changed by her. . . .
In a story filled with forbidden love and dark suspense, one of the most beloved characters in Claudia Gray's "New York Times" bestselling Evernight series will captivate readers with his battle to overcome his past and follow his heart.

NEW CDS @ MANLY LIBRARY

ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI - BFORE TODAY

BILLY BRAGG - MR LOVE & JUSTICE

DAPPLED CITIES - ZOUNDS

REGINA SPECTOR - MARY ANN MEETS THE GRAVEDIGGERS (CD +DVD)

STRAIGHT TO YOU - TRIPLE J's TRIBUTE TO NICK CAVE (CD + DVD)



LOTS OF NEW ZINES

We have HEAPS of new zines @ Manly Library.
Come in and check them out.

There will be many more appearing over the comming weeks so grab a zine today.