Youth at the Beaches

Thursday, 17 September 2015

ZINE FAIR THIS WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!

COME DOWN TO MANLY ON SATURDAY AND EXPLORE THE 6TH ANNUAL MANLY ZINE FAIR.

JOIN A WORKSHOP WITH NICHOLAS BECKETT http://saintbeckett.net/ AND LEARN HOW TO MAKE AND BIND YOUR OWN MINI-ZINES

AND ENJOY LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES ON THE DAY BY LOCAL ARTIST MERI AMBER https://www.youtube.com/user/meriamber

NEW THIS WEEK

New books out now.

Manly Library has lots of new YA books to read in the school holidays.

Theodore Boone: The Fugitive by John Grisham

Tigers on the Beach by Doug MacLeod

The year it all Ended by Kirsty Murray

The Minnow by Diana Sweeney

Love and Miss Communication by Elyssa Friedland

Thursday, 10 September 2015

NEW BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS HERE TODAY

BECAUSE YOU'LL NEVER MEET ME - LEAH THOMAS

NIGHT VISION - ELLA WEST

I AM REBECCA - FLEUR BEALE

THE AGE OF SELFISHNESS - DARRYL CUNNINGHAM

A SAILOR'S STORY - SAM GLANZMAN

ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER - STEPHANIE PERKINS

RISK - FLEUR FERRIS

HARRISON SQUARED - DARYL GREGORY

VOICING THE DEAD - GARY CREW

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

NEW BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK

ANNA CAREY - DEADFALL

SARAH DARER LITTMAN - BACKLASH

VICTORIA AVEYARD - RED QUEEN

LISA GLASS - AIR

MANDY HAGER - SINGING HOME THE WHALE

TANYA LANDMAN - BUFFALO SOLDIER

BRIAN FALKNER - RECON TEAM ANGEL (4 BOOK SERIES)
ASSAULT-TASK FORCE-ICE WAR-VENGEANCE

Monday, 31 August 2015

NEW STUFF THIS WEEK

YOUNG SAMURAI: THE RING OF EARTH by CHRIS BRADFORD

BODYGUARD: AMBUSH by CHRIS BRADFORD

TALK UNDER WATER by KATHRYN LOMER

THE WORLD WITHIN: A NOVEL OF EMILY BRONTE by JANE EAGLAND

MERMAID TALES: VOL 2

Friday, 28 August 2015

ART FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS AT THE LIBRARY

The Northern Beaches Writers Group's Young Writers Workshop and Cartoon Dave's "no rules" Cartooning Workshop are happening at Manly Library this September for the Manly Arts Festival. Book now!

6th annual zine fair on the 19th September

Come down to Manly Library on Saturday 19th September for our annual zine fair.

This year will be the biggest fair yet with over 20 stallholders selling zines, artist-books, comics and artworks. Join in a mini bookbinding and zine making workshop with prolific Sydney artist and zine-maker Nicholas Beckett http://saintbeckett.net/ while enjoying the sounds of local musicians playing live all day.

The Zine Fair runs 11am-2pm in the Manly Library Forecourt.

NEW BOOKS AVAILABLE THIS WEEKEND

HUNTER'S MOON - SOPHIE MASSON

A retelling of the classic fairytale Snow White that glitters with magic and treachery

Bianca and her glamorous model stepmother are preparing for Bianca’s Presentation Ball. Bianca is so looking forward to it. She only wishes her father could be here with her, instead of away on business. When she hears after the ball that her father is ill, she doesn’t notice that newspaper The Mirror has summed up the ball guests with this fatal sentence: "Lepmest has a new Fairest Lady, and her name is—Bianca." But though Bianca doesn’t notice, her stepmother certainly does. And very soon Bianca will learn the true nature of the woman whom she trusted and who she thought loved her and her father. Plunged into a terrifying world that will turn her from a daughter of privilege to a hunted creature in fear of her life, Bianca must find allies if she is to survive.

SOON - MORRIS GLEITZMAN

After the Nazis took my parents I was scared. After they killed my best friend I was angry. After I joined the partisans and helped defeat the Nazis I was hopeful. Soon, I said, we'll be safe. I was wrong.

Soon continues the incredibly moving story of Felix, a Jewish boy still struggling to survive in the wake of the liberation of Poland after the end of World War Two.

NOWHERE BUT HERE - KATIE MCGARRY

An unforgettable new series from acclaimed author Katie McGarry about taking risks, opening your heart and ending up in a place you never imagined possible.

Seventeen-year-old Emily likes her life the way it is: doting parents, good friends, good school in a safe neighborhood. Sure, she's curious about her biological father—the one who chose life in a motorcycle club, the Reign of Terror, over being a parent—but that doesn't mean she wants to be a part of his world. But when a reluctant visit turns to an extended summer vacation among relatives she never knew she had, one thing becomes clear: nothing is what it seems. Not the club, not her secret-keeping father and not Oz, a guy with suck-me-in blue eyes who can help her understand them both.

Oz wants one thing: to join the Reign of Terror. They're the good guys. They protect people. They're…family. And while Emily—the gorgeous and sheltered daughter of the club's most respected member—is in town, he's gonna prove it to her. So when her father asks him to keep her safe from a rival club with a score to settle, Oz knows it's his shot at his dream. What he doesn't count on is that Emily just might turn that dream upside down.

No one wants them to be together. But sometimes the right person is the one you least expect, and the road you fear the most is the one that leads you home.

MY SECRET ROCKSTAR BOYFRIEND - ELEANOR WOOD

Geeky girl meets famous boy . . . what could go wrong?

Tuesday Cooper is happy being normal -doing her a-levels and indulging in her twin obsessions: buying weird vintage clothes in charity shops and writing her beloved music blog (which nobody ever reads). Her love for music started when she was thirteen and had a massive crush on Jackson Griffith, teen rock god and SUPER HOT LOVE OF HER LIFE. Now Tuesday's eighteen and has moved on to fancying boys in real life and Jackson went off the celebrity radar years ago.

So it can't be him that's messaging her on her blog, can it?

From one girl's computer to the pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, this is a love story for anyone who has ever wished that someone would sing a love song just for them.

Dreams can come true . . .

13 DAYS OF MIDNIGHT - LEO HUNT

When Luke Manchett’s estranged father dies unexpectedly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance: a Host of eight unique, powerful, and restless spirits. Unfortunately, Luke has no clue how to manage them, which the ghosts figure out pretty quickly. Armed with only his father’s indecipherable notes and a locked copy of The Book of Eight, Luke struggles to adapt to his new role as a necromancer. Meanwhile, the increasingly belligerent Host mutinies, possesses Luke’s mother, and forces him out of his own house.

Halloween, the night when ghosts reach the height of their power, is fast approaching, and Luke knows his Host is planning something far more trick than treat. With the help of school outcast Elza Moss, who knows a bit about ghosts herself, Luke has just thirteen days to uncover the closely guarded secrets of black magic and send his unquiet spirits to their eternal rest.

And if you thought it was going to be easy, you’d be dead wrong.

ENDGAME: THE COMPLETE TRAINING DIARIES - JAMES FREY

All three thrilling volumes of Endgame: The Training Diaries, the prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Endgame series, together in one paperback bind-up!

Before they were Players . . . Before the Calling . . . They trained to be selected as the one to save their ancient bloodline—and win Endgame.

Follow the Twelve through sacrifices and betrayals, broken hearts and broken bones, as they shed their normal lives and transform into the Players they were meant to be.

They must train, learn, prepare.

To Play, survive, and solve.

To kill or be killed.

Endgame is real.

Endgame is coming.

And only one can win.

WAY DOWN DARK: THE AUSTRALIA TRILOGY BOOK 1 - JP SMYTHE

The first in an extraordinary new YA trilogy by James Smythe, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.

There's one truth on Australia: You fight or you die. Usually both.

Seventeen-year-old Chan's ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one.

The only life that Chan's ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive.

But there might be a way to escape. In order to find it, Chan must head way down into the darkness - a place of buried secrets, long-forgotten lies, and the abandoned bodies of the dead.

Seventeen-year-old Chan, fiercely independent and self-sufficient, keeps her head down and lives quietly, careful not to draw attention to herself amidst the violence and disorder. Until the day she makes an extraordinary discovery - a way to return the Australia to Earth. But doing so would bring her to the attention of the fanatics and the murderers who control life aboard the ship, putting her and everyone she loves in terrible danger.

And a safe return to Earth is by no means certain.

IF YOU WERE ME - SAM HEPBURN

From the author of CHASING THE DARK comes a thrilling young teen crime mystery, guaranteed to keep you guessing until the very end.

Not long after Aliya’s family escapes Afghanistan for Britain, her brother is accused of a bomb attack. Aliya is sure of his innocence, but when plumber’s son Dan finds a gun in their bathroom, what’s she to think?

Dan has his own reasons for staying silent: he’s worried the gun might have something to do with his dad. Thrown together by chance, they set out to uncover a tangled and twisted truth.