UVic VILSC Booksmack titles 2024

UVic's recommendations via Booksmark 2024 at the Vancouver Island Library Staff Conference.

Updated April 24, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries Tina Bebbington, History and Newspaper Librarian, UVic
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Stroud, Jonathan.
Presenting a thrilling new voice in children's literature-a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hotshot wizard named Simon...
Redwall
Jacques, Brian
Soon to be a Netflix original movie! One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time   The book that inspired a legend--the first novel in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga. Welcome to Mossflower Wood,...
Burning down the Haus : punk rock, revolution, and the fall of the Berlin Wall
Mohr, Tim
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY  Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon *  Rough Trade Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence "[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany." -...
Snow crash
Stephenson, Neal.
The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the...
The graveyard book
Gaiman, Neil
The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.  Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place--he's the only living...

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