Cyber Week Book Sales

This week is Cyber Week for all you shopping junkies and that means great online deals for some of your favorite titles like the one shown on the left for the Hunger Games.  Websites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble have many of the hottest books on sale for great prices.  They also have steep discounts on popular eReaders like the Kindle and Nook.  Buy someone a book for Christmas!  

Happy Thanksgiving from the LHS Media Center.  Enjoy the holiday and take a few minutes to remember to be grateful for the blessings you have in your life.  

Checkout Audiobooks!

We've recently added some new downloadable audiobooks to our collection thanks to a program called "Catalist Digital."  For the next month, I invite you to take this new program out for a spin.  Visit CatalistDigital.com and use the username: lorenahs (replace the "hs" with "ms" "es" or "ps" for other campus collections) and the password: leopards to access these audiobooks.

You can listen to the book online, but you'll also find that you can download these audiobooks to your iPod touch, iPhone, iPad, or your Android phone or tablet.  The free app is available in the App Store and GooglePlay.  This is a great way to listen to your books on the go, and a major help to students who are struggling with understanding difficult texts. 

If you decide you like the program, we'll be happy to make you a free student account.  You can request one by filling out the Contact form on the blog or by speaking with me or any of the media assistants.  (Be sure to include the name of your English or Reading teacher if you use the contact form.)

Anthony Horowitz - Author of the Month

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anthonyhorowitz.com

Our author of the month for November is Anthony Horowitz.  Horowitz is a British author with a diverse writing skill set.  He has authored young adult fiction (like the extremely popular Alex Rider series), adult fiction, television series, movie scripts, and plays in addition to writing articles for newspapers and magazines.

Though the Alex Rider series is about a teen spy whose life is filled with fast action and thrills, not all his books fall under that genre.  For example, the Power of Five series is an apocalyptic set of novels, and he was also commissioned by the Conan Doyle estate to pen a new Sherlock Holmes book which was released last year - The House of Silk.

His latest book Oblivion (the final installment of the Power of Five series) was recently released.  You can get a glimpse at the first chapter of the book in addition to a pretty awesome video describing his trip to Antarctica to research the setting of the novel on Horowitz's website.

As always with our authors of the month, you can find a display of Anthony Horowitz books in the fiction section of the library media center, and if you'd like to contact him, you can reach him through Twitter @anthonyhorowitz .