Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Monday, March 18, 2019
Getting to Know...Kylie
Introducing another valuable member of our YA Volunteer Team, Kylie Hatfield! A 14-year-old freshman, Kylie has accumulated 8.25 hours since January.
FAVORITE BOOK GENRE: Non-Fiction
SOMEONE I LOOK UP TO: My mom
FAVORITE TELEVISION SHOW: Riverdale
PERSON I WOULD WANT WITH ME ON A DESERTED ISLAND: My best friend Maddie
AN INVENTION THAT I WOULD UNINVENT: Math
HAPPY PLACE: My room and Tennessee
SPIRIT ANIMAL: Giraffe
SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT MYSELF: I'm very outgoing
FUTURE PLANS: Become a professional photographer
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
FAVORITE BOOK GENRE: Non-FictionSOMEONE I LOOK UP TO: My mom
FAVORITE TELEVISION SHOW: Riverdale
PERSON I WOULD WANT WITH ME ON A DESERTED ISLAND: My best friend Maddie
AN INVENTION THAT I WOULD UNINVENT: Math
HAPPY PLACE: My room and Tennessee
SPIRIT ANIMAL: Giraffe
SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT MYSELF: I'm very outgoing
FUTURE PLANS: Become a professional photographer
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Recently Added to the YA Bookshelf
Taking a look at some of the most recent additions gracing the shelves of our YA department:
The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason
While struggling to cope with her alcoholic boyfriend's betrayal that put her sister in a coma, seventeen-year-old Harley reconnects with neighbor Raf, who is facing his own demons after rehab.
An ABA Spring 2019 Indie Next Top 10 Book
A Goodreads Best Book of the Month
Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard
Aeduan joins forces with Iseult and Owl to stop a bloodthirsty horde of raiders from destroying a monastery that holds more than just faith. But to do so, he must confront his own father, and his past.
Book 3 in Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling Witchlands series.
Courting Darkness by Robin LaFevers
When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister in arms before time runs out.
"Sharp and breathless, full of anger and strength. May the sequel hurry." -- Kirkus, starred review
Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss by Kasie West
When teen actress Lacey Barnes gets cast as the female lead in a film, she quickly learns that life in the spotlight isn't as picture perfect as she imagined.
Companion novel to West's Love, Life, and the List.
Enchantée by Gita Trelease
Paris is a labyrinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren't. When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother.
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Voices Pick
Book-of-the-Month Club Pick
Amazon Best Book of the Month (Literature & Fiction, Young Adult)
Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian
The Kaiser murdered Theodosia's mother, the Fire Queen, when Theo was only six. He took Theo's country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess - a pet to toy with and humiliate for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak and defenseless. He didn't realize that a sharp mind is the deadliest weapon.
Sequel to the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess.
The Cerulean by Amy Ewing
Chosen as the sacrifice needed to break the tether that holds her city in the sky to the planet below, Sera feels betrayed. And as things don't go as planned, she finds herself not only fighting for her own life, but the lives of her people as well.
"Part high fantasy, part mystery, with a whole lot of feminism, this inventively explores gender, nonconformity, self-acceptance, and family. Readers will be hooked." -- School Library Journal
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
Nikolai has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war, and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravkas coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.
"[Bardugo] touches on religion, class, family, love - all organically, all effortlessly, all cloaked in the weight of a post-war reckoning with the cost (literal and figurative) of surviving the events that shape both people and nations." -- NPR
A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Eighteen for the three-hundred-twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day, until Harper enters his life.
"This enthralling modern fable champions altruism while illustrating intimacy's relationship with honesty, respect, trust, and consent." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
Come Find Me by Megan Miranda
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chander are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined.
"Miranda has created a compelling pair of protagonists, filled with heartfelt angst and relentless tenacity." -- Booklist, starred review
The Art of Losing by Lizzy Mason
While struggling to cope with her alcoholic boyfriend's betrayal that put her sister in a coma, seventeen-year-old Harley reconnects with neighbor Raf, who is facing his own demons after rehab.
An ABA Spring 2019 Indie Next Top 10 Book
A Goodreads Best Book of the Month
Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard
Aeduan joins forces with Iseult and Owl to stop a bloodthirsty horde of raiders from destroying a monastery that holds more than just faith. But to do so, he must confront his own father, and his past.
Book 3 in Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling Witchlands series.
Courting Darkness by Robin LaFevers
When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister in arms before time runs out.
"Sharp and breathless, full of anger and strength. May the sequel hurry." -- Kirkus, starred review
Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss by Kasie West
When teen actress Lacey Barnes gets cast as the female lead in a film, she quickly learns that life in the spotlight isn't as picture perfect as she imagined.
Companion novel to West's Love, Life, and the List.
Enchantée by Gita Trelease
Paris is a labyrinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren't. When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother.
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Voices Pick
Book-of-the-Month Club Pick
Amazon Best Book of the Month (Literature & Fiction, Young Adult)
Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian
The Kaiser murdered Theodosia's mother, the Fire Queen, when Theo was only six. He took Theo's country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess - a pet to toy with and humiliate for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak and defenseless. He didn't realize that a sharp mind is the deadliest weapon.
Sequel to the New York Times bestselling Ash Princess.
The Cerulean by Amy Ewing
Chosen as the sacrifice needed to break the tether that holds her city in the sky to the planet below, Sera feels betrayed. And as things don't go as planned, she finds herself not only fighting for her own life, but the lives of her people as well.
"Part high fantasy, part mystery, with a whole lot of feminism, this inventively explores gender, nonconformity, self-acceptance, and family. Readers will be hooked." -- School Library Journal
King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
Nikolai has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war, and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravkas coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.
"[Bardugo] touches on religion, class, family, love - all organically, all effortlessly, all cloaked in the weight of a post-war reckoning with the cost (literal and figurative) of surviving the events that shape both people and nations." -- NPR
A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer
Eighteen for the three-hundred-twenty-seventh time, Prince Rhen despairs of breaking the curse that turns him into a beast at the end of each day, until Harper enters his life.
"This enthralling modern fable champions altruism while illustrating intimacy's relationship with honesty, respect, trust, and consent." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
Come Find Me by Megan Miranda
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chander are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined.
"Miranda has created a compelling pair of protagonists, filled with heartfelt angst and relentless tenacity." -- Booklist, starred review
Thursday, March 14, 2019
BPL on YouTube
Were you aware that Bremen Public Library has a YouTube page? Here you will find reviews, recommendations, features on programming, services we offer, and more!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOKSkwXfrZmVYEXi44wET7w
Our Young Adults are a big part in its development, from behind the scenes to in front of the camera. Perhaps you'd like to be a part as we continue to grow this platform. You just never know when something you help create might go viral.
As it happens, this group effort by library members Shelli Kauffman (kid), Chris Scandling (ant), Terrie Bickel (narrator), and Holly Heller (video production), has garnered over 39,000 views!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RXGa1MKq9E
Creativity, imagination, and inspiration, are but a page away at your local library.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOKSkwXfrZmVYEXi44wET7w
Our Young Adults are a big part in its development, from behind the scenes to in front of the camera. Perhaps you'd like to be a part as we continue to grow this platform. You just never know when something you help create might go viral.
As it happens, this group effort by library members Shelli Kauffman (kid), Chris Scandling (ant), Terrie Bickel (narrator), and Holly Heller (video production), has garnered over 39,000 views!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RXGa1MKq9E
Creativity, imagination, and inspiration, are but a page away at your local library.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Winter 2019 Volunteers
Recognizing nine of our charitable Young
Adult volunteers who helped us through the Winter Session - December 2018
through February 2019.
Top Row
Kylie Hatfield
Leo Reynoso
Emma Heller
Middle Row
Hannah Wright
Braden Unruh
Isiah Sarille
Bottom Row
Sara Boyer
Selena Martinez
Angel Estrada
Braden, Isiah, Sara, and Emma all
received certificates for reaching the benchmark of 8 hours completed. Special
recognition to Braden for contributing the most service, logging 26 hours!
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