Māpuna Library’s: Neurodiversity Week 2023!

Our first display of the year is to support and celebrate Neurodiversity Week, with posters showing famous people who have become successful who are neurodiverse. We have a range of great titles that include non-fiction, self-help books, to biographies and fiction with characters that are neurologically different and explore stories that show the challenges and trying to break away from the stereotypes associated with being … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Neurodiversity Week 2023!

Māpuna Library’s Display: TIME Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of all time!

The most recent display in our library is to promote the TIME Magazine’s curated list of their voted ‘100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time’! We were impressed that in our library we have quite a number of these “100 best” books! #TIMEMagazine100BestYABooks We had help from our Library staff and a group of student librarian’s who collected and displayed the books and covers. … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: TIME Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of all time!

Book Review: Five Feet Apart

Author: Rachael Lippincott   Published: 2018 Genres: Romance, YA By: Zoe C Star Rating: 4.5/5 stars Five Feet Apart is a genuine, compelling, and heart-wrenching novel. It follows the relationship between teens Stella Grant and Will Newman, who are both suffering from Cystic Fibrosis (CF). This chronic, inherited disease damages and severely impacts the lungs and digestive system, often resulting in malnutrition, frequent respiratory infections, and a shorter life expectancy. Unfortunately, … Continue reading Book Review: Five Feet Apart

Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid   Published: 2017 Genres: Historical fiction, Romance, LGBT+ By: Mia The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was written by talented author Taylor Jenkins Reid, and published in June 2017. This fictional romance novel is a wild ride and is a fascinating story with a unique style of writing that is hard not to love.   In this tale, famed Hollywood actress Evelyn Hugo, now 79 and ready to … Continue reading Book Review: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Māpuna Library’s: #BookTok Display

The most recent display in our library was to follow the hype that is #BookTok and to jump on that trend band-wagon! Tiktok seems to be the newest platform that has taken the publishing world to new heights. Tiktok is where we’re all looking for the next new thing, or in a lot of BookTok sensation cases, where you might meet you next best read! … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: #BookTok Display

Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Author: Holly Jackson   Published: 2019 Genres: Murder Mystery, YA, Contemporary, Crime Series: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #1 By: Isabella Star Rating: 4.5/5 stars Have you ever wanted to solve a crime? Get down into the nitty gritty details and piece together, bit by bit the complex puzzle until you have every piece in its place? Well, if so, A Good Girls Guide to Murder is the perfect book … Continue reading Book Review: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea

Author: T.J. Klune   Published: 2020 Genres: Supernatural Fiction, LGBTQ, Fantasy By: Maya Star Rating: 5/5 stars From the moment I saw the front cover to when I read the last chapter TJ Klune painted an atmosphere allowing the reader to dive into the story that is The House in the Cerulean Sea. This book tops the charts in a feel-good factor way and creates a wonderfully warm story, which all fantasy lovers … Continue reading Book Review: The House in the Cerulean Sea

Book Review: Cemetery Boys

Author: Aiden Thomas   Published: 2020 Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, YA, Fantasy, Fiction By: Zoe C Star Rating: 5/5 stars Within reading the first chapter of Cemetery Boys I knew I was going to enjoy it. Each character had incredible development and was beautifully written, I fell in love with them immediately. The book did an amazing job when discussing several types of representation and showing issues that people in certain minorities … Continue reading Book Review: Cemetery Boys

Book Review: Girl On The Train

Author: Paula Hawkins    Published: 2015 Star Rating: 5/5 stars Genres: Drama, Psychological fiction, Suspense, Thriller By: Nicole You don’t know her.But she knows you.Every morning, Rachel catches the train to work.Her favourite thing to do is to look at the houses the train passes by. Now she even feels like she knows the couple who lives in one of the houses. She calls them ‘Jess and Jason’, the perfect … Continue reading Book Review: Girl On The Train