Remember Me? by Shophie Kinsella

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian
Sophie Kinsella has a knack for creating protagonists readers cannot help but root for.  True to form, within the first few pages of her latest novel, Remember Me?, Kinsella had won me over with hapless heroine Lexi Smart.
We meet Lexi on the eve of her [...]

What I Was by Meg Rosoff

What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Reviewed by Suzanne Dlugolonski, Teen Services Librarian

Award-winning young adult author Meg Rosoff’s first adult novel, What I Was, is a thrilling coming-of-age tale.  The 100-year-old narrator, H, takes us back to his year at St. Oswald’s, an all-male school on the eastern coast of England.  This is H’s third boarding [...]

New YA Non-Fiction

Posted by Suzanne Dlugolonski, YA Librarian 
The following Non-Fiction titles have been added to the Young Adult Collection:
I Don’t Want to be Crazy by Samantha Schutz
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon
Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food by Eric Schlosser & [...]

New YA Fiction

 Posted by Suzanne Dlugolonski, YA Librarian

The following titles were added to the YA collection today:

Sold by Patricia McCormick, a National Book Award Finalist
From School Library Journal: As this heartbreaking story opens, 13-year-old Lakshmi lives an ordinary life in Nepal, going to school and thinking of the boy she is to marry. Then her gambling-addicted stepfather [...]

New Graphic Novels!

Posted by Suzanne Dlugolonski, YA Librarian
The following 6 titles were added to our Graphic Novel collection today:
Bone 1: Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith
Bone 2: The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith
Bone 3: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith
The Amazing Spiderman: Civil Warby J. Michael Straczynski
Ultimate Spiderman 3: Double Troubleby Brian Michael Bendis
Ultimate Spiderman [...]

New Young Adult Fiction!

Posted by Suzanne Dlugolonski, YA Librarian 

The following 14 titles were added to the YA collection today: 
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
I am Rembrandt’s Daughter by Lynn Cullen
The Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
The Green Glass Sea [...]

New Graphic Novels

Posted by Suzanne Dlugolonski, YA Librarian 
 
The Lewiston Public Library added the following titles on Friday, September 7, 2007:
 
Adventures in Oz by Eric Shanower
The Baby-Sitter’s Club Volume 2: The Truth about Stacey by Raina Telgemeier
The Hardy Boys Volume 1: The Ocean of Osyria by Scott Lobdell
The Hardy Boys Volume 3: Mad House by Scott Lobdell
The Hardy Boys [...]

New Adult Books

Just in are some new books that you may request from NIOGA.
“Beyond Reach” by Karin Slaughter
“Burnt House” by Faye Kellerman
“Careful Use of Compliments” by Alexander McCall Smith
“Critical” by Robin Cook
“Dockside” by Susan Wiggs
“Jinx” by Meg Cabot (Young Adult)
“Judas Strain” by James Rollins
“Malice” by Robert K. Tanenbaum
“Someone to Love” by Jude Deveraux
“Third Watch” by Anne McCaffrey
“What [...]

New DVDs

These DVDs just arrived.  They are first come first serve, no request are allowed.
Blue’s Room Little Blue Riding Hood
Dora the Explorer Summer Explorer
Go Diego Go! Ready, Set, Go!
Premonition
Shooter

New Children’s Books

These Children’s titles have just arrived!  You may request them from NIOGA.
“Big Fat Hen” by Keith Baker (picture book & board book)
“Fred Stays with Me” by Nancy Coffelt
“Green as a Bean” by Karla Kuskin
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J.K. Rowling
“Incredible Book Eating Boy” by Oliver Jeffers
“Mummies” by John Malam
“Out of the Ballpark” by [...]