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Friday, December 2, 2011

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!

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