New Books on the Shelves

Some say love is deadly. Some say love is beautiful. I say it is both.

Jack McKinley is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. 

An ordinary teenager's world turns upside down when he's mistaken for a ruthless young spy.

 It was hard to remember when the genuine hacking started; but free phone credit was the first illicit, tangible "real-life" results of a hack, though not the last. 

Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots of games. But when morning comes, the doors remain locked. Kyle and the other winners must solve every clue and every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route. And the stakes are very high.

Ever since Jacob Reckless was a child, he has been escaping to a hidden world through a portal in his father's abandoned study. Over the years, he has made a name for himself as a finder of enchanted items and buried secrets.

Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world’s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps?Well this is NOT the book for you.

Mika and Ellie live in a future behind a wall: Solid concrete topped with high-voltage razor wire and guarded by a battalion of Ghengis Borgs, it was built to keep out the animals, because animals carry the plague. 

Zoe Shugg and Holly Smale - New books!!

Calling all Writers under 25!

Starling is a new journal for writers under the age of 25

Their web site is here.

New Fiction!

Calling all Skulduggery Pleasant fans!
The Dying of the Light is the FINAL shocking, heart-wrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series.
The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder.
And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals… and Valkyrie’s own murderous reflection.
The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive…

After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos.

But when another tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure to the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip, exchanging gunfire with enemy gangs, excaping cults and militias, and braving the wilds of the subway—to save humankind.

The first novel from acclaimed film writer/director CHRIS WEITZ (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Golden Compass) is the heart-stopping debut of an action-packed trilogy.

New! New! Non-Fiction books to enjoy!

Appo Hocton, New Zealand's first naturalised Chinese immigrant, arrived in Nelson in 1842. As a nine-year-old he had left China to become a cabin boy on English sailing ships. In his early 20s he jumped ship in Nelson he was employed as a housekeeper but eventually saved enough money to buy a bullock team and established a carting business.

Young Country is a book of poetry by twenty-first-century writer Kerry Hines alongside images by nineteenth-century photographer William Williams. The wry, plainspoken but haunting poems sit alongside evocative photographs of settlement: landscapes, streetscapes, skyscapes; the escapades of a trio of flatmates; portraits of family and friends; burnt bush and rising buildings.

If necessity is the mother of invention then Kiwi ingenuity is its father.

Fangirl

Fangirl

Cath and Wren are identical twins and until recently they did absolutely everything together.
Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair anymore - she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose.
It's not so easy for Cath.
She would rather bury herself in the fanfiction she writes where there's romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life.
Now Cath has to decide whether she's ready to open her heart to new people and new experiences, and she's realizing that there's more to learn about love than she ever thought possible...

Grimsdon

Grimsdon

Grimsdon is in ruins.
Three years ago a massive wave broke its barriers and the sea flooded this grand city.
Most were saved, some were lost - and some were left behind.
Isabella Charm and her best friend, Griffin, live with three other children in the top of an opulent mansion.
They've survived with the help of Griffin's brilliant inventions, Isabella's fighting skills and their vow to look after each other.
But what will happen when a newcomer arrives in his flying machine?