After Hours @ EOL: Flappers, Gangsters, & All That Jazz

It’s Twenties Night! Join us for “after hours” fun, & support a great cause, too: the Greater Birmingham Humane Society.

Saturday, December 1st, at 6:00 the library will be closed, and the fun begins…we have gala style games to play, vintage 1920’s cars (one comes complete with bullet holes), jazz & swing music, all the food you can eat, and door prizes. Also, dress in a twenties-style costume and you may win the Costume Contest (and a cash prize!).

All you need to get in the door is a donation(s) for the Humane Society. They need dog & cat treats and toys, bleach, detergent, USED blankets and towels, and NON-CLUMPING kitty litter, among many other items. For a complete list come by the library or check out the GBHS website at http://www.gbhs.org/ under ‘support us/wish list.’

You’ll earn Community Service hours for this fun, as well as good, deed!

Who: TEENS! Grades 7-12
When: Saturday, December 1st, 6:00-8:00
Where: Emmet O’Neal Library
Your Ticket In: Donation(s) For The Humane Society

Call 445-1122 or email Terri at tleslie@bham.lib.al.us to register or if you have any questions.

New Arrivals!

We have so many new books coming in, it feels like Christmas! Over one hundred new books have arrived in the last few weeks; there's just not enough hours in the day when you have so many good reads to choose from. You can find these in the 'New YA Literature' section on the first floor. Some of my favorites from this latest shipment:

"The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Sports, girls, & hilarious graphics: Junior tells it like it is.

"Vampire Academy" by Richelle Mead

Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots. One of the best of the emerging 'vampire genre.'

"Evolution, Me, and Other Freaks Of Nature" by Robin Brande

Following her conscience leads high school freshman Mena to clash with her parents and former friends from their conservative Christian church, but might result in better things when she stands up for a teacher who refuses to include "Intelligent Design" in lessons on evolution. A relevant topic, presented well.

"Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You" by Peter Cameron

It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he’s more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope. James’s sense of dislocation is exacerbated by his willfully self-absorbed parents, a disdainful sister, his Teutonically cryptic shrink, and an increasingly vague, D-list celebrity grandmother.

"Powers" by Ursula Le Guin

The third book in the "Gifts" series. When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from slavery and sets out to explore the world and his own psychic abilities.

"The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous" by Suzanne Crowley

In the small town of Jumbo, Texas, thirteen-year old Merrille, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to live a "very ordered existence". But disruption begins when a boy and his father arrive in town and the youngster makes himself a part of the family.

Other arrivals:

Sealed With A Diss by Lisi Harrison

21 Proms by David Levithan

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

Pendragon: The Pilgrims of Rayne by D.J. MacHale

Pants On Fire by Meg Cabot

Dragons From the Sea by Judson Roberts

Fire From the Rock by Sharon Draper

Cover Up! Mystery At the Super Bowl by John Feinstein

Miracle Wimp by Eric Kraft

The Spell Book of Listen Taylor by Jaclyn Moriarty

Time of the Eagle by Sherryl Jordan

Also, check out our ever-growing Manga collection!