The Apothecary's Daughter

The Apothecary's Daughter by Charlotte Betts is an entertaining romance set in London in the seventeenth century. It includes romance, plague, a wicked step-mother, secrets and finally the Great Fire of London. Who will Susannah finally find happiness with?

Plugged

There is not a fairy in sight in this new senior fiction series from Eoin Colfer, author of the popular Artemis Fowl stories.
Former army sergeant Daniel McEvoy is a bouncer at a run down New Jersey casino. What starts out as just another day on the door rapidly becomes a battle to survive as Daniel out fights and out wits gangsters, corrupt lawyers, police officers and his crazy neighbour who thinks he's her missing husband.
A great book with lots of action and humour, I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series over the holidays.

Librarians at Marcellin School Ball 2013

 


We had a great time at the School Ball. We loved seeing all you lovely students looking so polished and so very glamorous!

Slated

Slated is the first of a trilogy. It's set in the not too distant future in the UK. Deadly youth riots led to the government bringing in slating wherby young people who show tendencies towards rebelling are slated. That means their brains are wiped, they're reset and sent to another family to start a new life. However, Kyla the main character can remember bits of her past and this starts to get her in all sorts of trouble. This series ( we have Fractured the second one) is action packed and good fun. I highly recommend it to people who enjoy series like The Hunger Games and The Uglies series. 

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet.

Highly intelligent but socially inept, Don decides to take a scientific approach to finding a partner and launches The Wife Project complete with sixteen page questionaire. But when he designed the project he didn't factor in Rosie who breaks all his rules and teaches him some unexpected lessons on love.
This is a very funny book as the world can be a confusing place for Don sometimes but you will be cheering him on in his quest to win Rosie.

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Wool by Hugh Howey

I really loved this sci fi novel. It's exciting and intelligent too with some great characters. It's the first of a trilogy, the second one being Shift. I enjoyed that one just as much. Apparently, the last one will be out in a couple of months. The story involves the world a few hundred years into the future and the characters live underground in a vast multi levelled silo. What happened to the Earth and why they're living in a silo comes out over the course of reading Wool and Shift. This knowledge though brings great danger for the characters who try to find out if there is life beyond the silo.