new AQUISITIONS

Your school library is stocked full with interesting, curriculum driven, new books! There are really too many new books to be able to mention them all here. Instead, what you will find is a Top Ten list of new books in several categories. Please take a moment to peruse the lists and be sure to stop into the library and pick up a few interesting reads!

TOP RATED SERIES NOVELS:

1. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

2. Catching Fire, Suzzane Collins

3. Mocking Jay, Suzanne Collins

4. Wonderous Strange, Lesley Livingston

5. Tempestuous, Lesley Livingston

6. Darklight, Lesley Livingston

7. The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

8. Inheritance, Christopher Paolini

TOP TEN NEW COOK BOOKS

popular with our culinary arts students

1. Fast Food Nation
2. Greece: Mediterranean Cuisine
3. Morocco: Mediterranean Cuisine
4. The Everyday Diabetes Cookbook
5. Ginger
6. Healthy Whole Foods
7. The World of Street Food
8. The Great Canadian Feast
9. Finger Food
10. 1,001 Delicious Soups & Stews

TOP TEN NEW PICTURE BOOKS

popular with students with younger family members and staff

1. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chaves, Krull
2. Your are Special, Max Lucado
3. The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq, Jeanette Winter
4. Papa, Do You Love Me?, Barbara M. Joosse
5. The Widow’s Broom, Chris Van Allsburg
6. Come on, Rain!, Karen Hesse
7. The Z was Zapped, Chris Van Allsburg
8. The Reluctant Dragon, Kenneth Grahame
9. Can We Help You, Saint Nicholas? Gerda Marie Scheidl
10. My Secret Bully, Trudy Ludwig

TOP TEN NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS

popular with our Anime Club members

1. Maus, Art Spiegelman
2. Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda, Stassen
3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
4. Safe Area Gorazde The War in Eastern Bosnia, Joe Sacco
5. V for Vendetta, Moore & Lloyd
6. Paul Has a Summer Job, Michel Rabagliati
7. Nodame Cantabile, Tomoko Ninomiya
8.    Fruits Basket, Natsuki Takaya
9. Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba
10. Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa

TOP TEN NEW CANADIAN HISTORY BOOKS:

1. Germany’s Lightning War: From the Invasion of Poland to El Alamein by Adrian Gilbert
2. Dieppe, Dieppe by Art Global
3. The Story of Canada by Janet Lunn & Christopher Moore
4. Canada: An Illustrated History by Derek Hayes
5. Canada: A Portrait in Letters by Charlotte Gray
6. Documenting Canada: A History of Modern Canada in Documents by Dave De Brou & Bill Waiser
7. Toronto Between the Wars: Life in the City 1919-1939 by Charis Cotter
8. Made in Canada: 101 Amazing Achievements by Bev Spencer
9. Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of World War II by O. Rains, L. Rains & M. Jarrat
10. Toronto Women: Changing Faces 1900-2000 by Macdonald, Stoikoff & White

TOP TEN NEW SPORTING BOOKS

1. The Matchless Six: The Story of Canada’s First Women’s Olympic Team by Ron Hotchkiss
2. Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything by Anne Dublin
3. Mike Weir: The Road to the Masters by Lorne Rubenstein
4. Hockey Heroes: Dominik Hasek by Sean Rossiter
5. Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton by Don Yaeger
6. Ekaterina Gordeeva by Anne E. Hill
7. Lisa Leslie by Brent Kelley
8. Jackie Robinson by Gina De Angelis
9. Laila Ali by Cindy Dyson
10. Boxing for Everyone: How to Get Fit and Have Fun with Boxing by Cappy Kotz

 TOP TEN NEW ART BOOKS

1. Sculpture: A Visual History of the Art of Sculpture by Mary-Jane Opie
2. The Fundamentals of Drawing Still Life by Barrington Barber
3. The Art of J.M. W. Turner by David Blayney Brown
4. Michelangelo: Master of the Italian Renaissance by Gabriella Di Cagno
5. Artists’ Questions Answered by Hilary Leigh
6. North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment by Lois Sherr Dubin
7. Tolkien’s World: Paintings of Middle-Earth
8. Underground Art by Oliver Green
9. Lives and Works in the Arts 10 volume set
10. Great Artists of the Western World  10 volume set