New to Motueka High School Library
September 2015
The Martian
'Gravity meets Robinson Crusoe'
I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I'll eventually run out of food and starve to death. So yeah. I'm screwed.
The girl in the spider's web
Go set a watchman
Review: Watchman is for grown-ups. It asks serious questions about what racism is. And it comes at a time when America desperately needs a grown-up conversation about race.
Fiction
The sacred lies of Minnow Bly
And when she rebelled, they took away her hands, too.
Now their Prophet has been murdered and their camp set aflame, and it's clear that Minnow knows something—but she's not talking. As she languishes in juvenile detention, she struggles to un-learn everything she has been taught to believe, adjusting to a life behind bars and recounting the events that led up to her incarceration. But when an FBI detective approaches her about making a deal, Minnow sees she can have the freedom she always dreamed of—if she’s willing to part with the terrible secrets of her past.
The unlikely hero of Room 13B
Off the page
Lies we tell ourselves
Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily.
Linda Hairston is the daughter of one of the town's most vocal opponents of school integration. She has been taught all her life that the races should be kept separate but equal.
Forced to work together on a school project, Sarah and Linda must confront harsh truths about race, power and how they really feel about one another
I'll give you the sun
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.
Simon versus the homo sapiens agenda
Non Fiction
New Zealand Mountaineering History
NZ Mountaineering History
Over 200 fantastic photos in a large format book,
capturing NZ’s mountaineering past and present,
from the 1800s to today
- tells the stories and celebrates the characters of this country’s mountaineering past
- packed with photographs, many not published before
- informative text and captions by well-known researcher and writer, and sometime climber, John Wilson (now based in Arthur’s Pass)
- reflects the special relationship New Zealanders have with their mountains
The best of shed
After the flood
Lonely Planet: Europe
The history of the rugby World Cup
Letters of note
Women's Weekly all-time favourites
Discover New York City
Lonely Planet: the big trip
So, you know you want to experience that ultimate overseas adventure – but where do you start? Right here, with the one-stop guide to planning the trip of a lifetime.
The Big Trip is your ticket to all this and more:
- Essential pre-trip planning: health, safety, kit costs, tickets, etc
- Volunteering and working abroad: from fruit picking to teaching, yacht-crewing and au pairing
- Regional overviews, maps and a diverse range of road-tested itineraries
- Tips and stories from travelers and experts
A dog's life
Motueka High School Library
Email: michele.ayres@motuekahigh.school.nz
Website: www.motuekahigh.school.nz
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