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Can’t get enough Dystopia? Check this out!
From Goodreads:
Young love has always had its challenges, but even so, the world falling apart at its seams is a pretty big obstacle. This stellar collection of YA dystopian tales explores survival of the fittest in terms of love, passion, and humanity. When the survival of the human race is at stake, what will it take for the bond between two people to hold strong together? Featuring some of the most well known and best-selling names of the dystopian genre, as well as the hottest up-and-coming authors, this anthology includes works from Jeanne DuPrau (City of Ember), Kiera Cass (The Selection), William Sleator (Interstellar Pig), Jesse Karp (Those That Wake), Diana Peterfreund (Secret Society Girl), Carrie Vaughn (The Kitty Norville Series), and Carrie Ryan (New York Times bestseller The Forest of Hands and Teeth).
Find it at our library here.
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Book of the Day: Underworld by Meg Cabot
Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead.
Not this time.
But she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait before embarking upon their final journey.
Her captor, John Hayden, claims it’s for her own safety. Because not all the departed are dear. Some are so unhappy with where they ended up after leaving the Underworld, they’ve come back as Furies, intent on vengeance…on the one who sent them there and on the one whom he loves.
But while Pierce might be safe from the Furies in the Underworld, far worse dangers could be lurking for her there…and they might have more to do with its ruler than with his enemies.
And unless Pierce is careful, this time there’ll be no escape.
Don’t forget to read the first book in the series, Abandoned, which you can find in our online catalog right here.
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Video: Vans Off The Wall Spring Classic 2012
Couldn’t make it to the Vans Off The Wall Spring Classic in Varraze this year? No worries, here’s a recap of what you missed.
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Trailer: “The Amazing Spider-Man”
With less than two months until the film premieres, this latest trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man should be enough to keep your appetites whetted.
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awesome propaganda posters for the HUNGER GAMES
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Happy Friday everybody! I think it’s time for a giveaway of The Golden Lily, don’t you? We’re running one right now over at Goodreads—20 copies, open to residents of the US, Canada, the UK & Australia! Click here to enter!
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applicable to a LOT of books I’ve read
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NEW! Young Adult Magazines - Coming Soon!!
We are adding some new magazines to our great collection.
Here is what you can look forward to in the coming months:
- AltPress
- Sci Fy
- Nylon
- Nylon Guys <- This is a tumblr page!!
Hope you all enjoy these new selections!
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s “Good Omens” is being turned into a mini series!
If you haven’t read it yet, check it out!
While you wait for the show to be developed, check out this fan-made “book title sequence” that MTV Geek posted - it’s pretty cool!
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I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.
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npr:
Internet’s over, people. Maurice Sendak just won.
Higher praise there could not be. —Wright
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(via Dangerous Minds | R. Crumb predicted Facebook over 40 years ago)
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Kiera Cass' 'The Selection' - Soon to be a show on the CW!! →
Check out this Entertainment Weekly interview with Kiera Cass, author ofThe Selection.
The Selection, the first in a planned trilogy, hit shelves last week. In the book, the Selection is a lottery in which girls from all castes are picked to compete for a chance to marry Prince Maxon. Enter 17-year-old America Singer who has no interest in entering the Selection, particularly because she’s already in love with her secret boyfriend, Aspen.
Aspen insists she enter for the chance at a better life, and in a whirlwind of events, she gets chosen and winds up at the castle competing for the prince’s heart. It’s The Bachelor meets Cinderella, and I couldn’t put it down. Nor could pick sides in the quintessential YA love triangle. Team Maxon or Team Aspen? I don’t know!
The second book is slated for next spring, and while author Kiera Cass was tight-lipped about what’s coming in book two, she did confirm that Maxon, America, and Aspen will make clear choices. Unfortunately, those love-triangle decisions won’t be revealed until the third, and final, book.
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LEGO “Game of Thrones” Opening
Usually, we’d say people who make things like this have way too much time on their hands but this recreation of the Game of Thrones opening sequence is pretty spectacular.
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The Horn Book: What Makes a Good YA Dystopian Novel?
Check out this interesting article about what makes a good YA dystopian novel - there is sure to be something interesting for you to read next!
Dystopias are characterized as a society that is a counter-utopia, a repressed, controlled, restricted system with multiple social controls put into place via government, military, or a powerful authority figure. Issues of surveillance and invasive technologies are often key, as is a consistent emphasis that this is not a place where you’d want to live.
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