Counting By 7s
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift. Booklist: “A graceful, meaningful tale featuring a cast of charming, well-rounded characters who learn sweet—but never cloying—lessons about resourcefulness, community, and true resilience in the face of loss.â€â€”(starred review)
Project Kid: 100 Ingenious Crafts For Family Fun
Publishers Weekly ★ 03/03/2014 This excursion into childhood’s dream world—where a spool with a ribbon remnant can become a balloon and cotton balls can make juice-box owls fly—is not a typical kids’ craft book. Kingloff tells parents the grocery store is “no longer about shopping for oatmeal and crackers,†but “about finding materials to make […]
City of Heavenly Fire
Overview Shadowhunters and demons square off for the final showdown in the spellbinding, seductive conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever […]
Crown of Midnight
Kirkus Reviews After being named the King's Champion in Throne of Glass (2012), Celaena Sardothien serves as the king of Adarlan's personal assassin–at least, she pretends to–in a densely plotted sequel. If the king catches Celaena disobeying his orders, he will execute her closest friends. However, she can't stomach advancing his agenda, especially if it […]
How to Catch a Bogle
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift. The New York Times Book Review – Christine Kenneally : The book, which is part Great Expectations, part Ghostbusters and a little bit Vindication of the Rights of Woman, mixes monster murder with work ethics and the importance of a girl being able to make […]
Dr. Ernest Drake's Dragonology : the Complete Book of Dragons
Children's Literature Everything you need to know about dragons is included in this lushly packaged volume. Antiqued pages give the impression that this information has been passed from generation to generation. Would-be dragonologists will learn the five F's of dragonology: "fieldwork, foresight, forwardness, frankness, fatalities ('unless these are avoided, the student will make little progress.')." […]
Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue!
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Little City Thrift Store.
Wildwood Imperium
Kirkus Reviews ★ 2013-11-20 Drawing from wildly original tropes and paradigms and populated by a wide cast of characters old and new, this portrait of a magical world just outside mundane reality (here represented by Portland, Ore.) brings the trilogy to a satisfying conclusion. The opening strikes a somber note as a teenage girl calls […]
The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Publishers Weekly ★ 12/23/2013 Walton debuts with an entrancing and sumptuously written multigenerational novel wrapped in the language of fable, magical realism, and local legend. Ostensibly about a 16-year-old born with wings, the novel is also a rich retelling of Ava Lavender's family history, including her stalwart grandmother Emilienne's journey from adolescence in rural France […]
Insanity
VOYA, February 2014 (Vol. 36, No. 6) – Natalie Simonian While Vaught uses vivid descriptions throughout her novel, the same basic storyline is repeated not once, not twice, but three times. The author never clearly explains the structure of her supernatural world. The reader views the world through the first-person perspective of three characters who […]