HANDLE WITH CARE

Just a few minutes ago, as I was straightening up the new book display in the Young Adult area, I found something that made me very sad. Our new copy of This Dark Endeavor: the Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel was badly damaged. Though it only has a few torn pages, I will have to remove it from the collection because any more tearing will make the last few pages impossible to read.

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Please, if you return a book that has torn pages, gotten wet, has food stains, or been damaged in any way, tell us. If you tell us right away it gives us an opportunity to repair the book A.S.A.P. Be aware that if the book is badly damaged, as was This Dark Endeavor, and we have to withdraw it from our collection we will ask you to pay for it. (You get to keep the book!) However, by paying the replacement fee it will allow us to purchase a new copy, allowing the book to be available for the next person who wishes to read it.

Send me an email telling me what you've read that you have liked.
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Three new books!

Remember Toby McGill? We first met him in Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor. While working at the pizza place Killer Pizza, Toby and his friends are shocked when they find out the shop is really a front for an underground monster hunting organization. Now they are back in this new installment.

Killer Pizza: The Slice. Toby, Annabel, and Strobe's visit to New York City is cut short when they are sent on a secret mission delivering a defecting monster to the Monster Protection Program.

Stephen Biesty, best known for his Cross Section books, has paired up with writer Stewart Ross in a book about explorers. Into the Unknown: how great explorers found their way by land, sea, and air highlights specific travelers and what they used to get around. There is Pytheas the Greek, Leif Eriksson, Captain Cook, and Umberto Nobile, to name a few. For each entry, Biesty has a pull-out section showing details about the explorers mode of transport. It is a lovely book; one that readers can dip into over and over again.

Every wonder what to do if a pack of wolves threatened to attack you? What if you were pinned under a fallen rock? These and many more make up The Worst-Case Senario Survive-O-Pedia. After a brief explanation on how the accidents can happen, the book explains in four or more easy steps, how to come out alive. The book's design reminds me of Ripley's Believe It or Not! with it's two page spreads, limited text, color photos, and entertaining diagrams. This is a great book to take along on those long car rides.

Stop in and we point out more new books!