A Little Bit Of Something New

I love finding new things and, as always, our hardworking selectors at Auckland Libraries have been busy ordering heaps of new titles to add to our collections.

It's always exciting and interesting seeing what is coming out; a new book by a favourite author, a sequel you've been waiting absolutely ages for or a title that sounds and looks intriguing that you just have to add it to your holds lists.

That Sugar Guide  ---  The Girl Who Fell ---  Wink Poppy Midnight  ---  What's For Dinner  ---  At The Edge Of The Orchard  ---  See Me  ---  The Ice Child  ---  Crow of Mist and Fury  --- Six of Crows  ---  The Glittering Court

And it's not just new books that we order but new music CD's, DVDs, AudioBooks, ebooks and eaudio, magazines and a host of other things, all to enhance our collection.

We find a lot of our new titles by looking through magazines and newspapers, websites, blogs, Twitter, Facebook.... you name it and our selectors are looking through it.

Of course we miss things too, mostly because there is just so much information for us to look through.  We is why we rely on you, our customers, to let us know if we have missed something.

Water or Gold  ---  Harmony House  ---  Lukas Graham  ---  Mind of Mine  ---  Telluric  ---  I'll Forget 17  ---  Blues of Desperation  ---  Beautiful Lies  ---  Know-it-all  ---  The Narrows

Many of our new titles are from customer suggestions which is just awesome - would you believe we get around 900 suggestions for purchase a week.

Now that is pretty wonderful.

So check out some of the new titles in our collection and maybe make a few suggestions of your own.

Spotlight  ---  The Dressmaker  ---  Human Universe  ---  Suffragette  ---  Brooklyn  ---  The Night Manager  ---  In The Heart Of The Sea  ---  The Peanuts Movie  ---  iZombie  ---  Ripper Street

Just a little out there...

This post celebrates the quirks and queernesses of today's literature, with some of the oddest titles and concepts in print. These can give us a laugh on a quiet day in the office - hope they bring a grin to your face too.

You've all heard of Pig Tits and Parsley Sauce (and if not, where have you been?) It's a guide to scrimping and saving in these tough times, and generally using baking soda for everything short of contact lens solution. The book is proving very popular - which just goes to show the power of a what the _?! title.

Now let me introduce one for the kids: The Perplexing Pineapple. It's actually short for The Cryptic Casebook of Coco Carlomagno and Alberta: The Perplexing Pineapple. Try squeezing that on the spine of a book with just 68 pages. While I'm intrigued by the idea of a perplexing piece of fruit, I'm rather at a loss. I mean, what's wrong with it? Is it a purple perplexing pineapple? Does it tap dance across the table? Out next year - The Loquacious Loquat, featuring a fruit that won't shut up. Followed by The Irritable Bowl.

For non-fiction nuts, here's The Nazi Occult. It's all about the crazy experiments Hitler
encouraged into things like werewolves, mythical spears that make you invincible, the Holy Grail and the like. Because watching Disney's Snow White every day wasn't lala enough.

Now for the title that I liked best: I Know What You Did Last Supper. Regardless of your views on the Bible, it's a fabulous concept, and a great cover too. Judas receives a note shortly after the crucifixion of Christ saying I KNOW WHAT YOU DID. With the note is an eye, and a tooth. As his friends are murdered in mysterious - and extremely gruesome - ways, Judas must find a way to atone, and track down the killer. Not recommended for those with weak stomachs.

Or if you want to live a gluten-free life, there's Gluten is My Bitch, featuring wit and recipes for coeliacs. Who said health books can't have a sense of humour?

Last but not least, here's a book I found on the prescribed reading list for my trends in children's literature paper:
Brains for Lunch: A Zombie Novel in Haiku. It details a school where zombies, humans and chupacabras are forced to co-exist. All in three-line verse.

Rejoice, all - for creativity is undead.

Keeping up-to-date with Auckland Libraries

Want to know what's been added to our collections recently?

Make sure that you bookmark our New Titles page, which gives you a full rundown on all the new material (books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks) that has been added to the collection.

There's also lists of titles which have been added to our community language collections - from Dutch to Punjabi, from Tamil to Korean.

You can sign up to our NextReads newsletters for a selection of reading suggestions on a variety of topics - from Nature & Science books to Romance Fiction, from Tween reads to Popular Culture.

Happy browsing.