New books out this week!

 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

A Million Suns by Beth Revis (the sequel to Across the Universe)

New manga!

Blue Exorcist by Kazue Kato:

Bakuman by Tsugami Ōba:

Kobato by CLAMP:

Mistress Fortune by Arina Tanemura:

And these additions to manga series we already have:

Black Butler #7

Black Bird #11

Fullmetal Alchemist #27 (the final installment!)

Naruto #52

Vampire Knight #13

Anime Club celebrates the New Year on January 7

The next meeting of the Anime Club is Saturday, January 7. We will create pochibukuro (small decorated envelopes) and nengajō (New Year's postcards) to celebrate the arrival of 2012.

Cut the templates, fold, and glue -- your own pochibukuro!

Please register if you will be attending.

Hope to see you there!

New books on the shelf in the Teen Area

Playground by 50 Cent	Ashes by Ilsa Bick
First Kill by Heather Brewer	Vengeance by Kate Brian
The Price of Loyalty by Mike Castan	Shelter by Harlan Coben
The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross	The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
Carrier of the Mark by Leigh Fallon	The Poisoned House by Michael Ford
Stay with Me by Paul Griffin	Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel
Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck	Once Every Never by Lesley Livingston
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi	My Beating Teenage Heart by C.K. Martin Kelly
Soul Thief: A Demon Trapper Novel by Jana Oliver	Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber
The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab	Hunted by Adam Slater
The Watch That Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic by Allan Wolf	Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

Happy New Year

A Book Bite to enjoy as we look toward 2012:

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

-- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (one of my favorite books!)

Book Bite: Delirium

It has been sixty-four years since the president and the Consortium identified love as a disease, and forty-three since the scientists perfected a cure. Everyone else in my family has had the procedure already. My older sister, Rachel, has been disease free for nine years now. She’s been safe from love for so long, she says she can’t even remember its symptoms. I’m scheduled to have my procedure in exactly ninety-five days, on September 3. My birthday.

-- Delirium by Lauren Oliver (2011)