5/3: New at the library this week

Audiobooks:

The mists of Avalon / Marion Zimmer Bradley
(cassettes; abridged)

“Q” is for quarry / Sue Grafton
She was a “Jane Doe,” an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California’s Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff’s Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were mulitple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the case remained unsolved. (cassettes; abridged)

Small engine manuals, free and online

Just in time for spring tuneups, check out the free online Small Engine Repair Reference Center. This contains repair manuals for ATVs, generators & small engines, snow machines, boat motors, etc. in the full set of small engine repair manuals from Clymer.

These manuals contain thousands of accurate and concise step-by-step maintenance and repair instructions for hundreds of small engine machines and their supporting components.

Find it online by going to http://sled.alaska.edu.

Click on ‘Digital Pipeline: Information from magazines, journals, newspapers and selected reference sources’

Click on ‘MORE’ under the list of ‘Categories’ - and scroll down to ‘Small Engine Repair Reference Center’

- OR -

from  http://sled.alaska.edu

Look at the ‘Resources A-Z’

Go directly to the titles beginning with ‘S’ and scroll down to ‘Small Engine Repair Reference Center’

And there you are!

This is another great service from your Alaska State Library.

4/26: New at the library this week

Movies:

Miracle Dogs (videotape)

Books:

A watery grave / Joan Druett
The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists, and the sailors charged with getting them around the world, the “Ex. Ex.” is finally underway, with much fanfare. Aboard the convoy as ship’s linguist is Wiki Coffin. Half New Zealand Maori and half American, Wiki speaks numerous languages and is expected to help the crew navigate the Pacific islands that are his native heritage. But just before departure Wiki, subject to the unfortunate bigotry of the time, is arrested for a vicious murder he didn’t commit.

4/19: New at the library this week

Movies:

Then & now : The Alaska oil spill at 20 - Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (dvd)

Books:

Oil! / Upton Sinclair
Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair’s story of a genial independent oil developer and his son, whose sympathy with the oilfield workers and socialist organizers fuels a running debate with his father. Senators, small investors, oil magnates, a Hollywood film star, and a crusading evangelist people the pages of this lively novel.

4/12: New at the library this week

Movies

Wildthings (dvd)

Books

Buckingham Palace gardens / Anne Perry
Pitt investigates the murder of a maid at Buckingham Palace, narrowing his group of suspects down to several house guests who are meeting with the Prince of Wales to discuss the funding of a huge project: the Cape to Cairo railway. While the Prince might overlook the unfortunate loss of a maid, the Queen, who is due back soon, will likely veto any Royal support in the scheme if she finds out. (read a sample chapter)

My old man and the sea : a father and son sail around Cape Horn / David Hays
Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Some play baseball. David and Daniel Hays decided to sail a tiny boat 17,000 miles to Cape Horn and back. This is the often hilarious account of how two men overcame the unforgiving forces of the oceans to accomplish what few had done before them. More importantly, it is a moving story of how father and son overcame the distance between them to find a deeper love and respect for each other. (read an exerpt)

4/5: New at the library this week

Audiobooks:

The final warning / James Patterson (CD)
This time, the US government wants to keep the Flock under observation, offering a safe haven and schooling in return. But after their incredible adventures in books 1-3, Max and Flock have grown to love freedom- -after all, haven’t grown-ups always found a way to ruin their lives? After escaping the control of the feds, they are surprised to find themselves allied with a group of environmental scientists who just might be trustworthy. Besides, what enemy could find them in one of the remotest locations on earth–Antarctica–on an expedition studying the effects of global warming up close?
(Age Range: Young Adult; Maximum Ride Series, #4)

A cat named Brat / Lydia Adamson (cassette)
New York actress and cat-sitting sleuth Alice Nestleton sets out to solve the murder of a nightlife journalist.
(Alice Nestleton Series, #20)

2008-09 Battle of the Books

Congratulations to everyone who read and competed this year! A list of  statewide winners is posted at the Battle of the Books website.

Next year’s preliminary title list is now available for download in pdf format.  The final list, which usually contains a few changes from the early version, will be available in August. We’ll be posting a list of the titles we have in our collection soon, in the comments to this post. As usual, we’ll also be emailing a copy of that list to the school office, so they can help you find additional copies if the ones in their library are all checked out.

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3/15: New at the library this week

Audiobooks:

J.D. Robb collection 5: Seduction in death, Reunion in death, Purity in death / J. D.Robb (cassettes)
Seduction in Death: Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few hours later, she was dead. Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - he hadn’t intended to kill her.

Reunion in Death: At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, “surprise!” At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead. The woman’s name is Julie Dockport. Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well.

Purity in Death: Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. When someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging… The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. When a second man dies under nearly identical circumstances, Detective Eve Dallas starts racking her brain for answers and for courage to face the impossible…that this might be a computer virus able to spread from machine to man…

Genealogy Center closed

The Genealogy Center will be closed Saturday March 15 and March 22. It will reopen as usual the following week.