Library

NEW TO OUR SHELVES

Before I introduce the latest additions to the library, I want to say how much I have enjoyed sharing news of our collection and library-related information with the wonderful AHS community.  This is my last contribution to The Arrow, as I am taking up a role with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Library.  I have really enjoyed sharing news of our collection and library-related information with the wonderful AHS community.

I hope I have helped you discover the pleasures of reading, new authors, old favourites, and being transported to other worlds.  The only possible downside to reading is the dreaded abibliophobia - the fear of running out of things to read.  I leave you with a quote from Albert Einstein:

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

Dune  The Graphic Novel, Book 1 by Frank Herbert

An epic science-fiction masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar society, it tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale that takes an unprecedented look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel format.

The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp by Leonie Agnew

Hannah Kemp is dealing with a traumatic accident for which she was responsible. Struggling to come to terms with her guilt, she is ostracized in a community that condemns her. She deals with this by rebelling and pushing away anyone that offers kindness or seeks to understand her. Crippled by her own guilt and anger, she comes across a mobile library bus where every book is the true story of someone’s life, and realizes that judgement of others is almost always shallow and uninformed. When she finds her own book … she also finds that her past can reshape her present. 

Venom Dark and Sweet by Judy I Lin

A great evil has come to the kingdom of Dàxī. The Banished Prince has returned to seize power, his rise to the dragon throne aided by the mass poisonings that have kept the people bound in fear and distrust. Ning, a young but powerful shénnóng-shī - a wielder of magic using the ancient and delicate art of tea-making - has escorted Princess Zhen into exile. Joining them is the princess' loyal bodyguard, Ruyi, and Ning's newly healed sister, Shu. Together the four young women travel throughout the kingdom in search of allies to help take back Zhen's rightful throne. But the golden serpent still haunts Ning's nightmares with visions of war. An evil far more ancient than the petty conflicts of men has awoken, and all the magic in the land may not be enough to stop it.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Private William Mandella is a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but Mandella will perform his duties and even rise up through the ranks - if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel Mandella is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries - and this difference will prove the saying: you never can go home.

The Quiet and the Loud by Helena Fox

George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George's past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. Everything is a blaring, blazing mess. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George's world and shot it through with brilliant, dazzling colour, be her calm among the chaos?

Stars and Smoke by Marie Lu

The most famous person in the world is going undercover . . .Global phenomenon Winter Young is the pop star of a generation. With sell-out tours and smash-hit records, everyone wants him, or wants to be him. That's why a top-secret government organisation think he'll make the perfect spy. His target is infamous business tycoon, and all-round bad guy, Eli Morrison. Because Morrison's daughter has just one birthday wish- a private concert with Winter Young. Winter must use his stardom to crack his target's inner circle and bring Morrison down. With him will be expert spy, and expert bad-ass, Sydney Cossette - and she's convinced Winter doesn't have what it takes.

The Deadlands - Hunted by Skye Melki-Wegner

The last surviving dinosaur kingdoms are waging war. Eleri is an oryctodromeus, a small dinosaur raised in an underground warren. He dreams of becoming his herd’s storyteller but when he saves an enemy soldier from a pterosaur attack, he is exiled to the Deadlands. To survive this scorched desert full of carnivores, he joins a herd of other young exiles, including a peppy stegosaur, a stoic sauropod, an irritable triceratops … and a mysterious spy. Can five young misfits save their warring kingdoms?