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Teen Read Week

Teen Read Week is held each year during the third week of October to encourage reading.

Teen Read Week 2012 will be October 14-20, 2012

Yancey 

Join us at our Monster Bash to hear award winning Monstrumologist Author Rick Yancey present MONSTERS – ARE THEY REAL? THE SCIENCE AND RESEARCH.

He’ll also be signing books and posing for pictures. Afterwards you can “build your own monster” and enjoy refreshments. Registration is limited. To register call 330-744-8636 or register online by clicking the link below.

Austintown Library, 12 p.m., Tuesday, October 16  •  register online 

Poland Library, 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 16 •  register online 

monstrumologist  Wendigo  Isle of Blood 
THE MONSTRUMOLOGIST

These are the secrets I have kept.
This is the trust I never betrayed.
But he is dead now and has been for more than forty years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets.
The one who saved me...and the one who cursed me.

So begins the journal of Will Henry, orphaned assistant to Dr. Pellinore War throp, a man with a most unusual specialty: monstrumology, the study of monsters. In his time with the doctor, Will has met many a mysterious late-night visitor, and seen things he never imagined were real. But when a grave robber comes calling in the middle of the night with a grueso me find, he brings with him their most deadly case yet.

Critically acclaimed author Rick Yancey has written a gothic tour de force that explores the darkest heart of man and monster and asks the question: When does a man become the very thing he hunts?		 THE CURSE OF THE WENDIGO

While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fiancÉ to rescue her husband from the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh, which has snatched him in the Canadian wilderness.

Although Warthrop also considers the Wendigo to be fictitious, he relents and rescues her husband from death and starvation, and then sees the man transform into a Wendigo. Can the doctor and Will Henry hunt down the ultimate predator, who, like the legendary vampire, is neither living nor dead, whose hunger for human flesh is never satisfied? This second book in The Monstrumologist series explores the line between myth and reality, love and hate, genius and madness. 		 THE ISLE OF BLOOD

An old friend of Dr. Warthrop’s comes asking for help to track down Warthrop’s colleague, the sociopathic Dr. John Kearns. At first, Warthrop is reluctant to help—until he learns that Kearns may possess information leading to a creature widely regarded as the Holy Grail of monstrumology: an organism so rare and elusive that it has never been killed, captured, or even observed in the wild.

Dr. Warthrop can’t resist the challenge, and soon he and Will Henry are off on another hellish quest, this time to the bizarre island of Socotra, home to some of the strangest flora and fauna in the world. And it’s on Socotra that Will Henry comes face-to-face with the most horrific creature yet—and he just may pay the ultimate price for his master’s ambition.

 

Monstrous Art Contest

First read the books, then bring them to life! 

The Monstrumologist author Rick Yancey will be coming to the library on October 16th, and to coincide with his visit we invite you to illustrate your favorite character or scene from any of the Monstrumologist series of books for our 2012 art contest!

Isle of BloodAny visual medium is welcome. You can submit your drawing, painting, sketch, photograph, computer-generated art, etc. on paper no larger than 11” x 17” to any library in Mahoning County. Be sure to put your name, telephone number, school and grade on the back of your artwork. Entries will be judged in two groups (grades 7-9 and grades 10-12) and prizes will be awarded to one winner and one runner up from each group. Prizes include dinner with the author, a signed copy of The Monstrumologist and a monetary award.

Contest begins September 1st and entries must be received by no later than October 6th, 2012. For teens in grades 7-12.