I am KILLING it with these posts! WOO!
Then again, we still have about 57.5 days of school left, so plenty of time for me to forget again.
Let's just celebrate the small moments, shall we?
So, like I said in a previous post, the company I order from takes awhile to get my stuff to me, so, yea, we're still waiting on the remainder of that last order I placed. In the meantime, I just placed ANOTHER order, a.k.a. The Final Order (of the year). I'll list all those at the bottom of this post. They should all be in by the end of the year.
Hopefully.
Among other newness in this place, if you haven't noticed, there's been a lot of books...like, a whole lot of books...that have gone bye bye. Rest assured, we are not closing the library down, nor are we running out of money. No kids, what I'm doing, is called 'weeding', and it's been sorely neglected over the years. In a nutshell, I'm getting rid of old books, or books that haven't been checked out in awhile. There are other factors involved too, but that's the simplified tldr (too long, didn't read) of it. I have plans for the library, and it requires MORE SPACE! Granted, my plans also require a lot of other factors, but if there's one thing I've learned, if you don't start planning for the future, you're in for a world of hurt when it matters, and thus, here I find myself, faced with decisions such as:
"Should I purchase replacements for Frankenstein and Dracula? I mean...they're classics, but no one has checked them out in like...15 years."
"This book was published in 1980. Looks like we got it in 1985. It was checked out last year, but the only other time it was checked out, was 1986. Should I still keep it?"
"Is Twilight REALLY a keeper, or has it had it's shiney moment of fame and now I can dump it?"
According to library lore, if you weed a book that hasn't circulated in 5-10 years, the chances of someone coming and asking for it after you weeded it, are slim to none.
It's happened to me TWICE. In TWO YEARS.
So, you can imagine that I think long and carefully about every book I weed.
Usually.
I mean, there's a lot of books in here and at some point, you just have to say, "Whatever", and weed like the books are on fire. Which is what I've been doing over the past few weeks. I apologize in advance if I had a book you want, in the future, but I weeded it out in the present.
Seriously though, take the books that I weeded, or else I have to load them all into my car and haul them off to Goodwill and that's an hour long trip one way and a LOT of heavy lifting and carrying and walking and....I mean, I like my exercise, but not that much.
NEW BOOKS COMING SOON TO YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL LIBRARY!
Graphic Novels
Amulet - Book 3 - The Cloud Searchers
Bone - Book 8 - Treasure Hunters
Castle in the Stars - Book 1 - The Space Race of 1869
Castle in the STars - Book 2 - The Moon-King
Fullmetal Alchemist - Omnibus 10-12
Fullmetal Alchemist - Omnibus 13-15
Les Miserables - Luciano Saracino
Series
Trapped in Battle Royale - Book 2 - Battle for Loot Lake
Trapped in Battle Royale - Book 3 - Betrayal at Salty Springs
The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers - Book 3 - Dead of Night
The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers - Book 1 - The Medusa Plot
Dog Man - Book 3 - A Tale of Two Kitties
Dog Man - Book 4 - Cat Kid
Dog Man - Book 5 - Lord of the Fleas
Dog Man - Book 6 - Brawl of the Wild
The Selection - Book 2 - The Elite
The Selection - Book 1 - Selection
Daughter of Smoke & Bone - Book 2.5 - Night of Cake and Puppets
Renegades - Book 1
Miradore - Book 1 - Bluescreen
Miradore - Book 2 - Ones and Zeroes
School for Good and Evil - Book 2 - A World Without Princes
School for Good and Evil - Book 3 - The Last Ever After
School for Good and Evil - Book 4 - Quests for Glory
Half-Bad - Book 3 - Half Lost (I swear book 2 is coming...)
Classics
Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe (obviously)
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories - Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Plays
Arsenic and Old Lace - Joseph Kesselring
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Teahouse of the August Moon - John Patrick
Comedy
Harvey - Mary Chase
YARP
Flight #116 is Down - Caroline B Cooney
Letters From the Inside - John Marsden
Nothing But the Truth - Avi
Winger - Andrew Smith
Zane and the Hurricane - Rodman Philbrick
Dumplin - Julie Murphy
Non-Fiction
Funny, You Don't Look Autistic: A Comedian's Guide to Life - Michael McCreary
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow - Susan Campbe Bartoletti
Making Bombs for Hitler - Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Secret Agent and Other Spy Kids - Allan Zullo
World of Lore - Dreadful Places - Aaron Mahnke
World War II Heroes - Allan Zullo
Young Civil Rights Heroes - Allan Zullo
100 Weekend Projects Anyone Can Do - The Family Handyman
50 Knots You Need to Know - Marty Allen
The History of Video Games in 64 Objects - World Video Game Hall of Fame
Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust - Planaria Price
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat who Touched The World - Vicki Myron
Future Presence: How Virtual Reality is Changing Human Connection, Intimacy, and the Limits of Ordinary Life - Peter Rubin
Instant Pot Cookbook
The Art of Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom
The Distraction Addiction - Alex Soojung
The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853 - Edward Dolnick