Come Check Out A Book!

Check out our new displays of books!

Improve your health, start a new hobby, learn about other cultures or satisfy your hunger with our new display of books about food.

Spring has finally come to Boothbay! Make the most of the good weather and get outside. Our "outdoor" display includes books about surfing, camping, golfing, running and hiking.

New Fiction (Part II)

...and more new fiction!

• Burn by Suzanne Phillips Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grow, leading to deadly consequences
• 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows the beginning of a new series by Ann Brashares
  
• World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
• Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antartic, 1910-13 by Richard Farr
• Several books by Lauren Myracle: l8r g8r, ttfn and Bliss
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• What I Was by Meg Rosoff A piercing, magical story about a life-altering friendship

• A short story collection called Love is Hell with stories by Melissa Marr, Scott Westerfeld, Justine Larbalestier, Gabrielle Zevin and Laurie Faria Stolarz

This is just a peak at the new stuff that BRHS has gotten in...come in and check it out!

New Non-Fiction (Part II)

Two more boxes of books have arrived, bringing several fascinating new non-fiction including:

• The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam A biography of New England Patriots coach Bill Belicheck
• 1968 by Michael T. Kaufman
• Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh A rogue sociologist takes to the streets, embedding himself in a Chicage crack-dealing gang
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
• The Summer of '49 by David Halberstam The classic chronicle of baseball's most magnificent season as seen through the Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry
• Charles and Emma: The Darwin's Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
• Immigrants Rights After 9/11 by Wendy E. Biddle
• School Violence by Peggy J. Parks

Other New Additions to the Collection

We also added some graphic novels to our collection:

• The Essex County series
• The Cartoon Guide to Genetics by Larry Gonick and Mark Wheelis
• The Cartoon History of the Universe II by Larry Gonick
• The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Larry Gonick and Art Huffman
• The Hobbit for J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jum Rugg
• Beowulf by Gareth Hinds
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
  

As well as some non-fiction:

• The Curseof Akkad by Peter Christie
• Criminal Investigators: Serial Killers
• Mr. Lincoln's High Tech Wars by Thomas B. Allen and Roger Macbride Allen
• Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
• Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
• American Shaolin by Matthew Polly
• Searching for Schindler by Thomas Keneally
  

New Fiction @ BRHS!

The BRHS library has finally gotten some new books! The fiction additions to our collection include:

• Darren Shaw's Demonata series
• Stephen King's Just After Sunset Stories
  
• Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson Longing to the part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen year old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.
• Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne The story of a luminous force of nature: a boy who encounters evil and whose magic isn't truly felt until he disappears
• Your Own, Sylvia by Stephanie Hemphill A verse portrait of Sylvia Plath
  
• Cut by Patricia McCormick A compelling and compassionate look at a young woman's struggle to overcome the impulses that led her to inflict harm on herself

Ishmael Beah Comes to USM

Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is coming to the University of Southern Maine on April 14. I have had seperate conversations about this book with Brooke C, Morgan M, Aliesha P, and Tom B. Everyone including me was extremely touched by Beah's story.
Beah became a boy soldier in Sierra Leone and his stories are horrific. This book is a must read for anyone into non-fiction or curious about Africa or being a boy soldier.

New and Improved Displays!

The "Vampire" books display has been improved! It now includes books about vampires, beasts and monsters, including Sasquatch, Frankenstein and the Loch Ness Monster.














We've also added a new display of books. This display enables you to explore what life is like in other cultures without leaving your home! Experience life behind the Berlin Wall, during the Iranian Revolution, under the Taliban, in South Africa during apartheid or many other times or places.

April brings new book displays!

We've recently set up two new book displays in the library

Read about Royalty features some great titles about kings, queens, princes and princesses, including The Once and Future King, The Princess Bride, and The Return of the King.












There's also a new display about baseball--Opening Day is April 6! We have a lot of fiction and non-fiction books about baseball including 101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox, The Natural by Bernard Malamud and biographies of Yogi Berra and Jackie Robinson.