Thursday, 25 February 2021

Look at these new books....

 

Yes!! Diary of a Wimpy Kid in Te Reo.


If only love and politics could mix!


How do you defend the present when you have no future?


New Melissa De La Cruz Descendants novels

Tell me how you want your story to go, he says, and we’ll write it straight across the sand.


When your best friends are pop superstars, how do you sing your own song?


10:00am The principal finishes her speech.

10:02am The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.

10:03am The auditorium doors won’t open

10:05am Someone starts shooting.


He has no name, only a rank, Eigth. He doesn’t know the details of the mission, only the instructions that hum in his mind. Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall.


Evelyn is breaking up with her boyfriend as she’s seen their dismal future together singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to a Chihuahua and arguing about cheese. Godfrey is proposing to his girlfriend who’s not quite willing to take that leap. The Evelyn and Godfrey meet and from that moment their lives become entwined.


A wise, tough, heart-breaking, funny love story about facing your demons.


Aurora – queen of the Peaceforest and queen of the Moors – is reigning under the weight of two crowns and is determined to sign a treaty to unify humans and the Fair Folk. But who can she trust when it becomes apparent that an underhanded plot poses an unforeseen danger?


Fox is a branded thief, convinced he is on an inevitable journey to the gallows. Wynter is a water diviner hunted for witchcraft. Trapped in a dangerous web of superstition and injustice, they unite in the hope of making a brave new life.  But in their perilous world, can they do it?


15 year old Ricky lives in Aspiring, a town that’s growing at an alarming rate. But he’s stuck in a loop: student, uncommitted basketballer, and puzzled son, burdened by his family’s sadness. And who’s the weird guy in town with a chauffeur and half a Cadillac?


In 1960s NZ, conventional middle-class lives are not always as respectable as they appear. When his grandfather is threatened, Callum confronts authority and power and uncovers forces hell-bent on destruction.


Lele sits alone at lunch until, overnight, her newfound digital fame catapults her into popularity. She now has to deal with the cliques, the drama, the cute boys…


Friends – music – lies


With fireworks, fireflies and midnight swims, the summer feels full of possibility and, for the first time, Taylor wants to hold on to the moment but is one summer really enough to have a second chance – with family, friends and love?


Ross Maloy just wants to fit in but after he is diagnosed with a rare eye cancer he suddenly becomes the ‘cancer’ kid of his school. Now he has to deal with weird hats, a squinty eye, and – hardest of all – disappearing friends.


When Kate is forced to travel to Greece with her parents, family secrets begin to surface, and she discovers there are complex, missing pieces to her troubled life.


A gripping tour of how cars will change in decades to come




New graphic novels on the shelf now!

 Come into the library and check out these new graphic novels:

A railroad murder mystery with a genius child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a spell-stingy wizard, multiple deadly magical artefacts, and a pair of meat monsters. The usual things you find on a train!


Alex Rider finds himself in the middle of an international crime hunt. The connection – Ark Angel, a revolutionary space hotel with catastrophic potential.


Josh Bell and his twin brother Jordan are kings on the court. But life doesn’t come with a playbook.


In 2011 one of the biggest political events in the world, the Arab Spring, swept across North Africa. But what came next? As the world moves on, four young Tunisians must cope with the reality of an uncertain future.