Ad-Lib Archive
A list of books that have been reviewed by staff members in the
weekly Ad-Lib column of the Ketchikan Daily News.
| Date | Title, author |
|---|---|
| January 28, 2012 | A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead |
| January 21, 2012 | SoulSpace: Transform Your
Home, Transform Your Life — Creating a Home That is Free of Clutter, Full of Beauty and Inspired by
You by Xorin Balbes Geography of home: Writings on Where We Live by Akiko Busch A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder — How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place by Eric Abrahamson Throw Out Fifty Things: Clear the Clutter, Find Your Life by Gail Blanke It's All Too Much, So Get It Together by Peter Walsh Organizing From the Inside Out by Pete Lentine Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui by Karen Kingston Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home to Change Your Life by Kirsten M. Lagatree |
| January 14, 2012 | KPL Online Services: Gale LegalForms (call the Library for the password) Digital Pipeline Mango Languages ListenAlaska, which provides access to free ebooks, audiobooks and music for a wide variety of devices, including Kindles and iPads Tutor.com, an Apple device app from Live Homework Help |
| January 7, 2012 | The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin A People’s History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons |
| December 31, 2011 | The Googlization of Everything (and why we should worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan. |
| December 17, 2011 | The Reconstruction of Mark
Twain: How a Confederate Bushwhacker Became the Lincoln of Our
Literature by Joe B. Fulton Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them by Scott T. Allison and George R. Goethals The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-first Century by Alex Prud’homme Harold of Orange - a new DVD College Success Guaranteed: 5 Rules to Make it Happen by Malcolm Gauld |
| December 10, 2011 | Holiday Book List - suggestions for book gifts including: A Butterfly is Patient by Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long The Man in the Moon by William Joyce Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Tumtum and Nutmeg: The Rose Cottage Tales by Emily Bearn Faithful by Janet Fox to The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater, Trapped by Michael Northrup Girl in Translationby Jean Kwok |
| December 3, 2011 | Going Home:
Finding Peace When Pets Die by Jon Katz Straight From the Horse's Mouth: How to Talk to Animals and Get Answers by Amelia Kinkade The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving: How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Mourning the Loss of a Pet by Arden Moore When a Pet Dies by Fred Rogers The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human by Pat Shipman |
| November 19, 2011 | Habibi by Craig Thompson |
| November 11, 2011 | Ketchikan Correctional Center library has new books including: 12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs are Gone by Allen Berger |
| October 29, 2011 | Babies in the Rain: promoting play, exploration and discovery with infants and toddlers by Jeff A. Johnson |
| October 22, 2011 | Gang of One: Memories of a Red Guard by Fan Shen |
| October 15, 2011 | King Whisperers by Kerwin Swint |
| October 8, 2011 | Just My Type: a book about fonts by Simon Garfield |
| October 1, 2011 | Doc by Mary Doria Russell The Long Hitch by Michael Zimmer |
| September 24, 2011 | Peggy Shumaker, Alaska Writer Laureate |
| September 17, 2011 | NEW POETRY: The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert Core Samples from the World by Forrest Gander |
| September 10, 2011 | Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes |
| September 3, 2011 | TERC: Testing and Education Reference Center on Digital Pipeline |
| August 27, 2011 | Cascadia’s Fault: The coming earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America by Jerry Thompson |
| August 20, 2011 | Paris to the Past: traveling through French history by train by Ina Caro Dawn of the Belle Epoque: the Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, DeBussy, Clemenceau and their friends by Mary McAuliffe When the World Spoke French by Marc Fumaroli |
| August 13, 2011 | Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton Touched by an Alien by Gini Koch |
| July 30, 2011 | The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey |
| July 16, 2011 | Close to Famous by Joan Bauer What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen Stay by Deb Caletti Trapped by Michael Northrup Annexed by Sharon Dodger Selling Hope by Kristin O’Donnell Tubb |
| July 9, 2011 | Drinking with Miss Dutchie: A
memoir by Ed Breslin Bad Dog (A Love Story) by Martin Kihn |
| July 2, 2011 | The Civil War: A visual history by S m i t h s o n i a n
Museum &
DK Publishers Discovering the Civil War published by the Foundation for the National Archives, The Longest Night: A military history of the Civil War by David Eicher The Dogs of War: 1861 by Emory Thomas This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s triumph, 1862-1863 by Jeffrey Wert The Civil War: The first year told by those who lived it edited by Brooks D. Simpson et al The Union War by Gary Gallagher America Aflame: How the Civil War created a nation by David Goldfield |
| June 25, 2011 | Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls |
| June 18, 2011 | The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who
Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb by Allen M. Hornblum |
| June 11, 2011 | New Large Print Books: Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carre My Father At 100 by Ron Reagan Even Silence Has An End by Ingrid Betancourt |
| June 4, 2011 | Library summer program to start: Reading Takes You Places!, What a Wonderful World, and You Are Here: Teen Summer Program |
| May 28, 2011 | Theodor Seuss Geisel: Lives and Legacies by Donald E. Pease |
| May 21, 2011 | The Invisible Line: three American families and the secret journey from black to white by Daniel J. Sharfstein |
| May 14, 2011 | Merchant Kings: When companies ruled the world, 1600-1900 by
Stephen R. Bown Perilous Fight: America’s intrepid war with Britain on the high seas, 1812-1815 by Stephen Budiansky Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the 17th century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood |
| May 7, 2011 | Forensic Science: A Very Short
Introduction by Jim Fraser The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction by Donald A. Ritchie Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction by Robin Le Poidevin |
| April 30, 2011 | My Schizophrenic Life: The road to recovery from mental illness by Sandra Yuen MacKay |
| April 23, 2011 | Green Fields: Crime, Punishment and a Boyhood Between by Bob Cowser, Jr. |
| April 16, 2011 | American Library Association Book Awards Newbery Medal: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool; Newbery Honor: Dark Emperor and Other Poems of Night by Joyce Sidman; Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus; One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia; Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm Caldecott Medal: A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead, illus. by Erin E. Stead; Caldecott Honor Books: Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill and illus. by Bryan Collier; and Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein Geisel Award: Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illus. by Tony Fucile; Geisel Honor Books: Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same by Grace Lin; We Are In A Book! by Mo Willems |
| April 9, 2011 | Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike by Charlotte Gray |
| April 2, 2011 | Spousonomics: Using economics to master love, marriage and the
dirty dishes by Paula Szuchman
and Jenny Anderson The Squeaky Wheel: Complaining the right way to get results, improve relationships, enhance self esteem by Guy Winch |
| March 26, 2011 | Late
For Tea at the Deer Palace by Tamara Chalabi The Good Daughter: A memoir of my mother’s hidden life by Jasmin Darznik |
| March 19, 2011 | The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Facebook by Joe Kraynak and Mikal E. Bellcove |
| March 12, 2011 | Little Princes: one man's promise to bring home the lost children of Nepal by Conor Grennan |
| February 26, 2011 | Blockhead: The
Life of Fibonacci by Joseph D’Agnese Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature by Sarah C. Campbell The Rabbit Problem by Emily Gravett |
| February 19, 2011 | Government Documents at the UAS-Ketchikan Library include: The State and Metropolitan Area Data Book; the Statistical Abstract of the United States; and the County and City Data Book; Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station General Technical reports; Coast Pilot with online updates; The Queenstown Patrol, 1917 - the Diary of Commander Joseph Knefler Taussig, U.S. Navy; The Battle for Khe Sanh; America’s Naval Heritage: A Catalog of Early Imprints from the Navy Department Library; The Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book |
| February 12, 2011 | Debt-Free U: How I paid for an outstanding college education without loans, scholarships, or mooching off my parents by Zac Bissonnette |
| February 5, 2011 | The Quiet World: Saving
Alaska’s wilderness kingdom, 1879 -
1960 by
Douglas Brinkley Alaska’s Place in the West: From the last frontier to the last great wilderness by Roxanne Willis Tongass Timber: A history of logging and timber utilization in Southeast Alaska by James Mackovjak |
| January 29, 2011 | Nigella Kitchen: Recipes From the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson; How Easy is That: Fabulous Recipes and Easy Tips by Ina Garten; The Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family by Christy Jordan; Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers by Pam Anderson; Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan; As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis Devoto: Food, Friendship and the Making of a masterpiece edited by Joan Reardon |
| January 22, 2011 | Echoes of Chongqing, Women in Wartime China by Danke Li |
| January 15, 2011 | Marathon: How One Battle Changed Western Civilization by Richard A. Billows |
| January 8, 2011 | Different Learners: Identifying, Preventing, and Treating Your Child’s Learning Problems by Jane Healy |
