Speculative fiction is a broad genre that includes fiction with supernatural, fantasy, magical realism, alternative history, or futuristic elements. Check out some of our new books! The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli Having arrived in Candeia, Brazil, starving and footsore, after walking sixteen days to fulfill his dying mother’s last wishes, young Samuel takes up residence in an […]
This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern one. This week starts Thursday, May 26th with Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone and Egg and Spoon by Gregory Maguire. These two titles […]
Here’s what’s new in Realistic Fiction this month: The Haters by Jesse Andrews Inspired by the years he spent playing bass in a band himself, The Haters is Andrews’s road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band. For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. […]
This week’s SYNC books feature two boys and their different roads to manhood with some rough patches along the way. As usual, one is fiction and the other is nonfiction. The first book is 100 Sideways Miles written by Andrew Smith and read by Kirby Heybourne. It features sixteen year old Finn Easton. Finn Easton sees the world through miles instead of minutes. It’s […]
Are you waiting for the next book to come out? Check here to see if one of these new series books is on your to-read list: The Rose & The Dagger by Renée Ahdieh (Sequel to The Wrath & The Dawn) In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her in an attempt to […]
This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a modern YA title with a more classic YA title. This week starts Thursday, May 12th with The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury and Divine Collision: An African Boy, An American Lawyer, and Their […]
This summer, SYNC will be providing two free teen audiobooks each week from May 5th to August 11th. Each week will focus on a specific theme, pairing a classic YA title with a more modern YA title. The first week will start on Thursday, May 5th with The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial by Peter Goodchild and Vivian Apple at the […]
This week the library will be hosting the H.D. Jacobs High School Music Industry Club for an outdoor concert on the backyard patio. The concert will be on Thursday, May 5th, 2016 from 4:00-6:00pm. The library has been hosting Rock the MIC for several years now. Throughout the years, the student performer styles have varied from blues, rock, rap, piano, or […]
These new historical fiction books really make history come alive! Check them out: The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock In Alaska, 1970, being a teenager here isn’t like being a teenager anywhere else. Ruth has a secret that she can’t hide forever. Dora wonders if she can ever truly escape where she comes from, even when good luck […]
Check out our new Fantasy and Science Fiction titles: Guile by Constance Cooper Yonie Watereye lives in the bayou. The water there is full of guile, a power that changes people and objects. Yonie makes a living investigating objects affected by guile, but in fact it’s her talking cat, LaRue, who has the power to see guile. Yonie becomes aware […]
