AUTHOR VISIT - FEB 1

Zombies Are Coming!

Zombies will be attacking HCMS on Friday, February 1.

BE PREPARED!

Catch up on your zombie reading today! 

 Swing by the library to check out one of our many zombie books.

Check out our virtual GoodReads shelf 

to see what zombie books we have in stock.

HCMS's bookshelf: zombies

Flesh and Bone

by Jefferson Bass

The Reapers Are the Angels

by Alden Bell

Ashes

by Ilsa J. Bick

Shadows

by Ilsa J. Bick

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

by Max Brooks

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

by Max Brooks

Rise of the Corpses

by Ty Drago

Z

by Michael Thomas Ford

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Seth Grahame-Smith

The Enemy

by Charlie Higson

The Dead

by Charlie Higson

Zombie Blondes

by Brian James

You Are So Undead to Me

by Stacey Jay

Undead Much

by Stacey Jay

Infamous

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Gravediggers: Mountain of Bones

by Christopher Krovatin

Rot and Ruin

by Jonathan Maberry

Dust and Decay

by Jonathan Maberry

Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains

by Ryan Mecum

Zombie Tag

by Hannah Moskowitz

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

by Carrie Ryan

The Dark and Hollow Places

by Carrie Ryan

I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It

by Adam Selzer

Zom-B Underground

by Darren Shan

Zom-B

by Darren Shan

Alice in Zombieland

by Gena Showalter

The Boy Who Couldn't Die

by William Sleator

This is Not a Test

by Courtney Summers

Generation Dead

by Daniel Waters

Kiss of Life

by Daniel Waters

Passing Strange

by Daniel Waters

NEW BOOKS!

We just added a lot of new books!  Come check one out today.  Our Shelfari shelf displays a few of our new books.

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

New Audiobooks in the Library!

Check out an iPod Touch to listen to some of our Audiobooks!

CHESS TOURNAMENT FUN

HCMS Library hosted a chess tournament last Thursday. 

We had a great time!  

Stay tuned for our next tournament...

TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL

The Texas Book Festival is next weekend!

October 27 & 28

We're going, are you?
Click here to see our schedule

Here are some of the amazing authors we're excited about seeing:
Kristen Cashore  - Graceling series
Jenny Han - The Summer I Turned Pretty series & Burn for Burn 
Marie Lu - Legend 
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl - Beautiful Creatures series 
Maureen Johnson - The Name of the Star & 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Gary Schmidt - Okay for Now (a Lone Star book this year)
Maggie Stiefvater - The Scorpio Races
Cinda Williams Chima - Demon King series & Warrior series 
John Scieszka - True Story of the Three Little Pigs & Guys Read

www.texasbookfestival.org

HALLOWEEN at WESTBANK LIBRARIES

Check out these upcoming Halloween events at the Westbank Libraries:

Zombie Madness

Monday, October 22nd at Laura's, 7pm

Wedesday, October 24th at Westbank, 7pm

For Zombie enthusiasts of all ages (adults, too!), come see film & television clips of zombie-lore throughout modern history & test your knowledge with zombie trivia.   

Scream-In

Thursday, October 25th at Laura's, 4:30pm

Join us for a fun after-school program with snacks, crafts, & games.  The Scream-In is geared toward middle-young people.

http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-internet-monk-annual-halloween-rant-2

BANNED BOOKS WEEK

Celebrate Your Freedom To Read!

Celebrate Banned Books Week with us by coming to the library and checking out a banned or challenged book.  

Take this Banned Books Week Poll:

RICK RIORDAN @ BOOKPEOPLE

Meet Rick Riordan 
OCTOBER 8, 2012 @ 2pm

BookPeople Parking Lot

BookPeople's HUGE Parking Lot Party!

Celebrate the release of The Mark of Athena

More info: http://www.bookpeople.com/event/rick-riordan-mark-athena 

  

Austin Teen Book Fest - Success

The Austin Teen Book Fest was this Saturday and was a huge success!
Check out what went on:  http://austinteenbookfestival.com/?page_id=772
and  http://atbfpress.blogspot.com/

Authors Strike A Pose:  Sarah Rees Brennan, Libba Bray, and Leigh Bardugo