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Finally, time to cover some more books...

I click my fingers and everybody dies.
Sam wakes from his nightmare to discover the terrifying reality. It will come true.
With his life and identity shattered, Sam's salvation is tied to an ancient prophecy. He is in the final battle to save the world, up against an enemy plotting destroy us all.
He alone can find the last 13. Are you one of them?

Features nearly a century of timeless songwriting and legendary performers.

Ella always thought she was odd, but when she meets an emotionally unstable pixie she discovers just how different she really is. She is a Flitterwig - a human with magical blood - and only she can save the kingdom of Magus.

'Seek and ye shall find.'
With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings.

They say cats have nine lives, and that's certainly true of Kaspar. From the glamorous suites of the Savoy Hotel to the servants' quarters in the attic, and from a crowded lifeboat to the hustle and bustle of new York City, Kaspar proves that no cat is too small for big adventures.

Shahana lives alone with her young brother in the shadow of the Line of Control, the border patrolled by pakistani and Indian soldiers that divides Kashmir in two. Life is hard, but Shahana ekes out a living with her beautiful embroidery. Then she finds a boy lying unconscious near the border. Zahid is from across the Line of Control, and Shahana takes a terrible risk by sheltering him. But how can she give Zahid up to the authorities when she knows he will be imprisoned - or worse?

Sequel to The Maze Runner.
The maze was only the beginning...

One fatal prophecy
Seven brave demigods
A quest to find -  and close - the doors of death

New Books!

Assam, 1925. Surrounded by the dramatic landscape of a tea plantation, sisters Mary and Serafina grow up in a world of contradiction and confusion. Born to a beautiful but naive Indian mother and dynamic Scottish father, they are loved but hidden away. For these are children who cross two very different cultures, and are accepted by neither...

They killed Number One in Malaysia. 

Number Two in England.

And Number Three in Kenya.

They tried to kill Number Four in Ohio... and failed.

I am Number Seven. And I am ready.

Zilla Online Magazine

This site has just been added to the Links to explore tab. It has amazing art, architecture, graphics.... It describes itself as 'Online magazine for design, trends, and inspiration.' I have just spent far too long looking at PyroPet Candles, a gigantic 11 acre portrait called Wish and much, much more.

Looking for Alaska

I read Looking For Alaska for the second time, and decided to do a review on it! Miles has had enough of his friendless, boring life in Florida, so he convinces his parents to let him go to a boarding school in Alabama so he can seek "The great perhaps". When he gets there he meets his roommate and future best friend Chip, who is known as the Colonel, and Alaska Young, the gorgeous, moody, crazy girl who immediately becomes his one desire. Miles becomes a part of the war against the Weekday Warriors, a bunch of rich kids who go home every weekend. Miles becomes closer with Alaska and Chip and the rest of their group (Takumi, Lara) through pranks, studying, smoking, and rule-breaking. About halfway through the book a tragedy occurs. John Green is the only author to make me cry over a book! He made my heart ache. He's amazing. After the tragedy happens, those left spend the rest of the book trying to make sense of what happened, and to pull off one last, greatest-ever prank. This book is amazing. It deserves all of the awards it's won. It's passionate, funny, and moving. John Green is truly one of the best authors I've ever read. Other books you can read by him are Paper Towns, The Fault In Our Stars, An Abundance Of Katherines, Will Grayson, and some others. There's a movie coming out for The Fault In Our Stars so I suggest you see it as well!

-Telesia 

You can check out Telesia's blog here

New books...

These books are being covered right now. If you would like me to keep 1 or 2 of them for you, use the 'Reserve a book' area on the right-hand side - leave your name and the name of the book/s you want.

Mess around with time and the world you know could become a world you don't

An original novel based on the bestselling game from Ubisoft 

A tale of blood and treachery, magic and brotherhood

A secret that has been kept for centuries... A legacy that could change the world

Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon 

Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket and comes out with a dog

Kill the Possum by James Moloney

With a title like this I just had to read it and it was a gripping read. Dylan likes Kirsty, Kirsty likes Dylan but she has 'stuff' going on at home. That stuff includes a step-father who threatens and manipulates her, her mother and her brother, leaving her mother unable to get out of bed and her brother unable to speak. Dylan turned up on Sunday afternoon just to say hi to Kirsty but he saw everything. Now he wants to kill Kirsty's step-father but first can he kill the possum? I had to read to the end to see what happened!

Weta Workshop Designer taking free drawing session at Paraparaumu Library

Paul Tobin, creator of White Cloud Worlds and a Weta Workshop designer will be at Paraparaumu Library this Friday (18th Oct) from 5.30 to 7pm

Drift Race

It is the most beastly book of all books I have read it twice it is amazing highly recomend.

ConnorOTK

Writing

Writing is an utmost fundamental, and a necessity in communication and expression. It translates between physical and mental states, in such a diverse artform - stocked with an abundance of brilliant colours and brushes at hand, thick and thin. To think, twenty six symbols that are the English language are able to create such wonderous works, never running out of words. I, myself, am an inexperienced writer, and so my ability is lacking practicality. With this, below is a series of various quotes by experienced writers; wisdom with writing. 


 E. B. White - "The process of writing is magical -- there are times
 when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across
 thin air, and it's absolute and utter happiness. Mostly, it's a process 
of putting one word after another."

Italo Calvino - "To write well about the elegant world you have to know 
it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not
 whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position 
regarding it."

Walter Benjamin - "The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea,
the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself."

Anais Nin - "Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great
terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances 
them."

Kurt Vonnegut - "The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is
 that you do not know what is interesting and what is not."

Mary Gordon - "However thoroughly we lose ourselves in the vortex of our
invention, we inhabit a corporeal world."

E.B.White - "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper."

Ponder over these quotes, absorb them into your own chemistry. Though this may not be a lengthy article, it pays to keep things precise. My intention with these various quotes is to not inspire, but to strip you of your hesitation. Inspiration is not required to write, it is a mere concept. A pencil is enough, combined with a focused mind. Do not write for anyone else, write for yourself. Write not to impress anyone at all, and only for the sake of writing. 

P.S. I call the above structure a 'quote burger', as it has quotes in the centre, and personal remarks on either end. Would you like fries with that? 

- Andre

Check out what's happening at the public library in the holidays!

New Magazines for skateboarders and mountain bikers

 The Spring issue, September 2013

Deen Rakich takes cover honours of Issue 51 with a risky backside flip two storeys up. 

Element New Zealand head to Boomtown Perth with the likes of Mike Bancroft, Scott Lai, Chase Collins, Lucas Wotawa, Josh Gemmell and cover star Deen Rakich.

Justice Reid reaches a Turning Point, Stem Distribution get caught in a Spot Drought on their tour through the Coromandel, we interview The Gonz on 15 years of skateboarding with adidas and being a general legend.

Arto Saari is the Man of the Moment, we feature a 10 page gallery of his stunning imagery and he talks on where he's at with his skating and photography. We have the exclusive story from the Off Trail project with Corona NZ featuring Chris Wood skateboarding at The Remarkables Ski Area and Life's a Beach for our feature interview with Beach Thurlow-Meyer.

Also in this issue: Geoff Campbell, Mitchell McCarthy, Bryce Golder, Scott Olds, Jesse Abolins, Michael Knuckey, Andrew Peters, Municipal Waste, Jack Fardell and much much more.

 September 2013

It's been way too long since Issue 52, so we're pretty chuffed that 53 is out now. Caleb got to ride the new 2014 GT Sensor and Force  in Utah and Scott's new Genius and Spark lines in Switzerland (where he shot this issue's sweet cover image). The lucky bugger was also in South Australia where the Melrose Fat Tyre Festival was going off. Retallack, British Columbia is fast becoming a must-ride destination... We got all the dirt in words and images from Riley and Mattias. Also in this issue Leif got to tag along for an unexpected journey when Teva sent a bunch of their top riders down south for a team road trip. If that's not enough there's a heap of regular columns and inspiring stories and images.

New Books!

He's strapped to a chair. He's covered in blood and and bruises. He hurts all over. And a strange voice outside the door just ordered his death.  Part 1 of The Homelanders

Charlie West went to bed one night an ordinary high school student. He woke up a hunted man. Terrorists are trying to kill him. The police want to arrest him for the stabbing death of his best friend. He doesn't know whose side he is on or who he can trust.Part 2 of The Homelanders.

My name is P.K.Pinkerton and before this day is over I will be dead. My foster parents were scalped & killed a few days ago, on my 12th birthday....

Pay The Debt or lose a pound of flesh!

Colin Fischer doesn't like to be touched. Or the colour blue. he avoids eye contact unless absolutely necessary. BUT when a gun goes off in the school cafeteria he isn't scared. He's curious ....

Crete. 1941. Payback time.

From the sublime to the ridiculous, a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints

'Hark to the beating wings of the angel of death!'

In the time before the shooting I was Leah Jackson Sixteen years old I used to wish my life was different but nothing is ever that simple is it?

Kyla's memory has been erased, her personality wiped blank, her memories lost forever. She's been Slated.

She's sick of being nearly-but-not-quite grown-up, kind-of popular, almost good-looking. And she's sick of waiting for things to change. It's time to take matters into her own hands!

Charlie came through a dark mist with his head pounding and his stomach looping. Where was he? What had happened? had a bomb gone off?

Manga and Anime

Here are a couple of websites recommended by students:

Features all sorts of different Manga (cartoon books) and they are all free to read online. I have started reading Fallen Angels. Recommended by Library Kitty!

Awesome Anime videos with English subtitles - for free!! Recommended by Library Bob.