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new book for april 2011 the glass collector anna perera in cairo fifteen-year-old aaron makes a living out of gathering garbage as a member of the despised zabbaleen this is his fate but aaron has dreams every day he dreams of rachel who looks after the ponies that pull the carts piled high with garbage to and from the slum they call home he dreams that they will make a life together far from the smells cruelty and squalor of their daily existence aarons skill at sorting glass is the only thing that keeps him alive his mother is dead and his stepfather and stepbrother elijah subject him to an endless regime of bullying and abuse when aaron steals some goods from a shop bringing shame to his family he is forced to work for the medical wasters the lowest of the low who risk their lives sorting through the piles of rubbish from the hospitals just as it seems he can sink no further aaron makes a choice that will change his life and when rachel looks at him in a new light there may be hope for him after all matched ally condie cassia has always trusted the society to make the right choices for her what to read what to watch what to believe so when xander s face appears on-screen at her matching ceremony cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate until she sees ky markham s face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black the society tells her it s a glitch a rare malfunction and that she should focus on the happy life she s destined to lead with xander but cassia can t stop thinking about ky and as they slowly fall in love cassia begins to doubt the society s infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice between xander and ky between the only life she s known and a path that no one else has dared to follow rice without rain minfong ho another dry season another silent harvest the parched yellow fields outside the village where seventeen-year-old jinda lives are her family s only source of income how can the rain-starved crop produce enough rice to feed them much less pay the rent perhaps the recently arrived young strangers from the city are right about the need for centuries-old traditions to change at least when she listens to their talk she feels the stirrings of hope hesitantly jinda grows to trust the outsider learning resources centre new books april 2011

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poison study maria v snyder choose a quick death or a slow poison about to be executed for murder yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve she ll eat the best meals have rooms in the palace and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the commander of ixia and so yelena chooses to become a food taster but the chief of security leaving nothing to chance deliberately feeds her butterfly s dust and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison as yelena tries to escape her new dilemma disasters keep mounting rebels plot to seize ixia and yelena develops magical powers she can t control her life is threatened again and choices must be made but this time the outcomes aren t so clear magic study maria v snyder completing her apprenticeship could prove deadly with an execution order on her head yelena has no choice but to escape to sitia the land of her birth with only a year to master her magic or face death yelena must begin her apprenticeship and travels to the four towers of the magician s keep but nothing in sitia is familiar not the family to whom she is a stranger not the unsettling new facets of her magic nor the brother who resents her return as she struggles to understand where she belongs and how to control her rare powers a rogue magician emerges and yelena catches his eye suddenly she is embroiled in battle of good against evil and once again it will be her magical abilities that will either save her life or be her downfall fire study maria v snyder when word that yelena is a soulfinder able to capture and release souls spreads like wildfire people grow uneasy already yelena s unusual abilities and past have set her apart as the council debates yelena s fate she receives a disturbing message a plot is rising against her homeland led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before honour sets yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward her journey is fraught with allies enemies lovers and would-be assassins each of questionable loyalty yelena will have but one chance to prove herself and save the land she holds dear learning resources centre new books april 2011

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the espressologist kristina springer jane turner is a 17 year old barista at a popular coffee chain she loves her job and is constantly writing in a notebook which many of her fellow employees become curious about jane finally reveals that she is taking notes on the drinks that people order and the type of person they are jane believes that a person s coffee drink order can be very telling when gavin a regular customer comes in heartbroken over his ex-girlfriend jane decides to hook him up with another friend based on their coffee drinks and espressology was born when jane s boss derek finds out that jane is matchmaking people based on their coffee preference he turns her talent into a holiday promotion each friday in december jane is stationed at the coffee shop with her notebook and an excel sheet ready to make some matches the holiday promotion blows up and soon a local tv talk show wants to do a feature on it and all of a sudden all eyes are on jane ice angel charlotte haptie zack and clovis are obsessed with the strange and unexplained disappearance of their father balthazar every night he used to drive his van the ice angel from the family s secret mountain home into rockscar city to sell flavoured ices to the rich and dispense free clean drinking water to the poor but that was before the night the ice angel was found on the mountain road mysteriously abandoned and balthazaar was never seen again now many years later zack and clovis revive the ice angel and plan to carry on their dad s legacy using the family s secret spring and old recipe book to create the most mouth-watering ices imaginable crushed vanilla with ginger crystals coffee and bitter chocolate with frozen crystallized orange spoons and cherry and cream vanilla bombes but great danger looms scarspring water company punishes anyone dispensing water is there a link with the mystery of their dad s disappearance then drought hits rockscar city water supplies are polluted and dry up protests and riots brew against the scarspring water company and everything zack and clovis believed about their father and mother begins to unravel my family and other animals gerald durrell gerald durrell was born in 1925 in india he was the youngest of four children from the age of two he knew that he wanted to be a naturalist the family returned to england when gerald was three but after a few years they found the grey skies and summer rains too depressing so they sold the family home and moved to corfu in greece for durrell now ten years old corfu was a paradise ­ a green and beautiful island with a very small population of humans and a very large population of animals insects and plants he spent hours wandering over the hills and next to the sea turning over stones to look for insects and building up his collection of `small uglies ­ i.e scorpions and spiders it was the beginning of his lifetime as a naturalist learning resources centre new books april 2011

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angel james patterson evil scientists are still trying to convince max that she needs to save the world this time by providing the genetic link in speeding up the pace of evolution worse they re trying to convince her that her perfect mate is dylan the newest addition to the flock the problem is that despite herself max is starting to believe it fang travels the country collecting his own gang of evolved humans but the two separate flocks must unite to defeat a frightening doomsday cult whose motto is save the planet kill the humans and this time the true heroine for once might just be little angel cryer s cross lisa mcmann the tiny town of cryer s cross is shocked when local schoolgirl tiffany disappears without a trace already off-balance due to her ocd sixteen-year-old kendall is freaked out by seeing tiffany s empty desk in the one-room school house but somehow life goes on until kendall s boyfriend nico also disappears alone in her depression and with her ocd at an all-time high kendall notices something that connects nico and tiffany she knows it s crazy but kendall finds herself drawn to the desk that both nico and tiffany sat at then she begins receiving messages from someone who can only be nico can he possibly be alive somewhere and how can kendall help him thyla kate gordon my name is tessa i am strong i am brave i do not cry these are the only things i know for certain i was found in the bush ragged as a wild thing i have no memory not even of how i got the long striping slashes across my back they make me frightened of what i might remember the policewoman connolly found me a place in a boarding school and told me about her daughter cat who went missing in the bush i think there is a connection between cat me and the strange things going on at this school if i can learn cat s story i might discover my own and stop it happening again learning resources centre new books april 2011

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where she went gayle forman it s been three years since the devastating accident three years since mia walked out of adam s life forever now living on opposite coasts mia is juilliard s rising star and adam is la tabloid fodder thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend when adam gets stuck in new york by himself chance brings the couple together again for one last night as they explore the city that has become mia s home adam and mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future and each other golden day ursula dubosarsky there were only eleven of them like eleven sisters all the same age in a large family because it was such a very small class they had a very small classroom which was perched at the very top of the school today girls,aid miss renshaw we shall go out into the beautiful garden and think about death so off they go and in the garden they meet a poet a dreamy young man with a voice like an owl who takes them to a cave at the nearby beach the girls wait while the poet and miss renshaw explore the cave they wait and they wait and they wait but miss renshaw and the strange man never reappear so the girls make their way back to school alone as the days turn into weeks and innuendo turns into scandal they remain loyal to miss renshaw but what really happened that day on the beach and do the girls know more than they are letting on cranford catherine gaskell the formidable miss deborah jenkyns and the kindly miss matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way their days revolve around card games tea thriftiness friendship and an endless appetite for scandal from the alarming sight of a cow in flannel pyjamas to the shocking news of the titled lady who marries a surgeon but like it or not change is coming into their world whether it is the new ideas of captain brown a bank collapse rumours of burglars or the unexpected return of someone from the past learning resources centre new books april 2011

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dark horse marcus sedgwick a boy destined to lead his clan a girl raised by wolves a stranger with a sealed box these are the elements of this powerful novel set on a rocky northern coast in a distant time in a small community who lives in dread of the coming of the legendary warrior tribe the dark horse road to belgrandia michael stephens marcia says there are wondrous things in belgrandia houses like palaces and enormous chandeliers and flying cats and music like nothing you ve ever heard but is it a real place or is she just a bit crazy her best friend lewis isn t sure but over four extraordinary days in their quiet seaside town the evidence begins to build and on that last breathtaking night their belief in belgrandia becomes one of life or death learning resources centre new books april 2011

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