New and Featured Books for Young Adults for 07/15/2013:

Come and check out these and some of the other new books and materials (or at least new to us) for Young Adults added to our library collection…

FICTION:

Theodore Boone: The Activist by John Grisham

All I Need by Susane Colasanti

Goddess: A Starcrossed Novel by Josephine Angelini

Survivor by James Phelan

The Silver Dream: An Interworld Novel, story of Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves, written by Michael Reaves and Mallory Reaves

NON-FICTION:

Polluted Water And Your Vital Organs by Bridget Heos

Smart Saving And Financial Planning by Carla Mooney

Digital Smarts: How To Stay Within A Budget When Shopping, Living, And Doing Business Online by Judy Monroe Peterson

The Technology Of Basketball by Suzanne Slade

Careers As A First Responder by Gina Hagler

Internship & Volunteer Opportunities For Peole Who Love All Things Digital by Anastasia Suen

Internship & Volunteer Opportunities For Science And Math Wizards by Daniel E. Harmon

Internship & Volunteer Opportunities For People Who Love Nature by Greg Roza

Genetic Modification: Should Humans Control Nature? by Leon Gray

Global Positioning System: Who’s Tracking You? by Leon Gray

Apache Chief Geronimo by William R. Sanford

Maya Angelou: A Biography Of An Award-Winning Poet And Civil Rights Activist by Donna Brown Agins

Drawing Manga Faces And Bodies by Anna Soughgate and Yishan Li

Dealing With Bullies, Cliques, And Social Stress by Jennifer Landau

Assassins, Traitors, And Spies by Elaine Landau

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Please note that books mentioned here could be checked out between the time they end up on the blog and when you come to check them out. If you don’t see the items you’re looking for then please come up to the front desk, OR call us, OR send us an email at robinsbaselibrary@gmail.com and  we’ll put your name on the reserve list for when the item returns.

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Previous New/Featured books for Adults:

07/10/13.

07/02/13.

06/18/13.

06/06/13.

And for Young Adults:

06/28/13.

06/05/13.

05/08/13.

04/18/13.

And for Kids/Juvenile Readers:

06/19/13.

06/18/13.

05/21/13.

05/06/13.

Reading material for 02/06/12:

Some reading material from around the internet:

A brief history of the Super Bowl coin toss.

The history of Fritos.

The science of football.

Football physics: the anatomy of a hit.

NASA releases some new and incredibly beautiful pictures of the Earth.

The best and worst of this year’s Super Bowl ads.

Second teacher at L.A. school accused of “lewd acts” against pupils.

Many singles are looking for love, not marriage.

Where did dragons come from?

via The Art of Google Books.

Some Super Bowl ads were ending up online before the game to create a buzz.

How Apple’s “1984” television ad was almost canceled.

The iphone 5 may be coming out this summer.

You should only pay so much attention to your community.

Tumblr makes itself the news.

Your YouTube activity and your online searches will now be linked, thanks to Google’s new privacy policy.

South Korean man arrested for retweeting North Korea.

Hacker collective Anonymous eavesdropped on an anti-Anonymous strategy phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard.

Why the clean tech boom went bust.

Are high tech classrooms better classrooms?

Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto: Why Facebook exists.

Michelle Obama and Nelson Mandela reading together, from here.

Van Gogh found himself at home in nature.

The saddest movie in the world?

Adam Lambert is the new lead singer for Queen.

Jane Levy replaces Lily Collins in the Evil Dead reboot.

DC Comics is going forward with their long threatened prequels of Alan Moore’s Watchmen.

R.I.P. Ben Gazzara.

Loving/hating Philip Glass.

And below, Brian Cox teaches Hamlet to a small child:

Michelangelo writes a letter to his father.

Béla Tarr: Cinema’s ultra dark unknown genius.

An interview with David Cronenberg.

GZA the Genius and David Kaiser.

A new commercial directed by Sophia Coppola.

Soul Train creator/host Don Cornelius found dead of apparent suicide.

Second Mona Lisa may have been painted at the same time as the original.

They’re still trying to make a third Bridget Jones movie.

The stars of Downton Abbey, both on screen and off.

via Awesome People Reading and Retrogasm.

“How I learned to stop worrying and write The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides.

The top 10 books lost to time.

A nice guide to literary tumblrs.

Science fiction futures ruled by the popular kids.

Five essential books on football history.

The seven types of book lovers.

Why are so many literary writers shifting into genre?

Judging books by their covers: The US vs. the UK.

Viggo Mortensen reading Tolkien, from here.

Houston millionaire adopts his girlfriend.

Path is found for the spread of Alzheimer’s.

UNC-Charlotte gets its own SWAT team.

Iran’s giant cardboard cut out of the Ayatollah.

10 famous people who turned down a Knighthood.

Obesity epidemic strikes U.S. pets (too)

How to be the bearer of bad news.

Chicken wing cupcakes.

Isolated Peruvian tribe makes uncomfortable contact.

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Previous online reading material:

01/30/12.

12/27/11.

12/19/11.