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“It would have really cramped my future plans had I died. (Nick)”

The June book club pick is Infin­ity by Sher­ri­lyn Kenyon, book 1 in the Chron­i­cles of Nick series.  Join us for pizza and to dis­cuss the book on Sat­ur­day June 12, 2012 from 1–2 PM at the Fair­field Lane Library.  Reg­is­tra­tion is required. Copies of the book can be picked up at the Ref­er­ence Desk.  For more infor­ma­tion please call, 858‑3238 ext. 358.

At four­teen, Nick Gau­tier thinks he knows every­thing about the world around him. Street­wise, tough and savvy, his quick sar­casm is the stuff of legends…until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mys­te­ri­ous war­rior who has more fight­ing skills than Chuck Nor­ris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immor­tal vam­pire slay­ers who risk every­thing to save humanity.

Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dan­ger­ous one: a world where the cap­tain of the foot­ball team is a were­wolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.

But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fel­low stu­dents are turn­ing into flesh eat­ing zom­bies. And he’s next on the menu.

As if start­ing high school isn’t hard enough…now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chain­saw from the prin­ci­pal, and keep the zom­bies and the demon Simi from eat­ing his brains, all with­out get­ting grounded or sus­pended. How in the world is he sup­posed to do that?

(In terms of books sold, that is?)

Find out here.

Did you know you can down­load FREE mp3s from the library? Not just old, bor­ing stuff, either. One of the top down­loads right now is “What Makes You Beau­ti­ful” by One Direction…you know, the British boy band that’s sud­denly every­where.  So, if you just can’t get enough of their hit sin­gle on the radio, tele­vi­sion, and the inter­net, you can put it on your com­puter, phone, and mp3 player, too. Or, choose one (or two, or three) of the other songs avail­able — there are thou­sands to choose from!

Join us for May’s Fel­low­ship of the Book dis­cus­sion of The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Car­olyn Mack­ler at the Fair­field Lane Library

Sat­ur­day May 12th, 2012 1–2 PM

Want to learn more about this month’s book? Watch this!

Join us Sat­ur­day April 14th from 1–2 pm to dis­cuss Kathy Reichs Seizure, book two of the Virals Series.

The sec­ond novel in the Virals tril­ogy from #1 best­selling author and inspi­ra­tion for the TV series Bones — Kathy Reichs!

Ever since Tory Bren­nan and her friends res­cued Cooper, a kid­napped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine par­vovirus, they’ve turned from reg­u­lar kids into a crime-solving pack! But now the very place that brought them together — the Log­ger­head Island Research Insti­tute — is out of fund­ing and will have to shut down. That is, unless the Virals can fig­ure out a way to save it!

So when Tory learns of an old Charleston leg­end about a famous she-pirate, Anne Bon­ney, whose for­tune was never found, she can’t believe her luck — buried trea­sure is exactly what she needs to save the Insti­tute on Log­ger­head! Trou­ble is, she and her friends aren’t the only ones look­ing for it. And this time, the Virals’ spe­cial pow­ers may not be enough to dig them out of trouble …

How many can you guess? For answers, go to the designer’s web­site, Mike BaBoon Design

Now that many of you have read the book or seen the movie (or both), why not try this nifty quiz from the Guardian to see how well you really know The Hunger Games?

Mut­ta­tions? Force fields? Hov­er­crafts? Some of the tech­nol­ogy used by the Capi­tol to keep the peo­ple of Panem in line seems a bit out there, and the peo­ple behind the Hunger Games movie no doubt used some pretty sweet spe­cial effects to bring it to life. But how plau­si­ble is it all? Check out this arti­cle from MSNBC to find out.

The Hunger Games open­ing is just over a week away! Here are some web good­ies to help pass the time:

How would you die in the Hunger Games? What name would flash on the screen as your death was announced? Find out with the Hunger Names!

Check out the Mup­pets par­o­dy­ing The Hunger Games in a trailer for the DVD release of their own movie. Wait, what?

Explore the­o­ret­i­cal maps of Panem from MercuryNews.com (which also lets you design Panem the way you think it should look), Mockingjay.net, Fan­Pop, and one from aim­m­yarrow­shigh, which is being called “per­haps the most well-researched” Panem map on the internet.

Let peo­ple know what you’re up to in your own lit­tle fic­tion world with “Go Away, I’m Read­ing” print­able book cov­ers. Use the “In the Arena” dust jacket when you’re re-reading the series to get ready for the movie. Don’t for­get, you can request the books from the library!

And finally, check out the trail­ers again. And again. And again. Happy Hunger Games!

“Amos clapped his hands. “Khufu!”
I thought he’d sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a lit­tle dude about three feet tall with gold fur and a pur­ple shirt came clam­ber­ing down the stairs. It took me a sec­ond to real­ize it was a baboon wear­ing an L.A. Lak­ers jersey.”

― Rick Rior­dan, The Red Pyramid

What: Join us for a dis­cus­sion of Rick Riordan’s book Red Pyra­mid, book 1 in the Kane Chron­i­cles.
When: Sat­ur­day March 10, 2012 1–2 pm
Where: Fair­field Land Library
Why? Because we’ll have tons of fun dis­cussing this hilar­i­ous adven­ture novel.