7/31: New at the library this week

Videos:

• Curtain call

DVDs:

• Stay
• Iron Monkey 2
• The phantom of the opera
• A sound of thunder
• Be cool

Books:

• At risk / Stella Rimington — An announcement is made at a meeting of the BritishIntelligence Joint Counter-Terrorist group: "The opposition may be about to deploy an invisible." Intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has had to prove herself in countless ways as she's come up through the ranks of the traditionally all-male world of Britain's Security Service, MI5. But this announcement marks the start of an operation that will test all her hard-won knowledge and experience-and her intelligence and courage-as nothing has before.
• Before I wake / Anne Frasier — Anne Frasier delivers a new blockbuster about a one-time criminal profiler who will risk everything-even her own sanity-to lure out of hiding the madman who murdered her family. Even if it means she becomes the number-one suspect.
• The house on the point : a tribute to Franklin W. Dixon and the Hardy Boys / Benjamin Hoff — Hoff sets this recast story, based on the original Hardy Boys The House on the Cliff, in 1947, when the Swing Era was giving way to the Baby Boom, and gives it a plot involving a post-war smuggling racket, a young newcomer to town who may have something to hide, and a police chief who's in no hurry to investigate. And he does so with a greater attention to detail, more fully developed characters, and a modern ear for dialogue.
• The road to Inconceivable / J. M. DeMatteis — Kate's little brother Matt is missing, and Kate thinks she will never see him again. But then she finds out that Matt is trapped in the world of Abadazad. Will Kate have the courage to look for her brother? And if she leaves home -- will she ever return? (Abadazad, #1; age range: 9 to 12)
• The dream thief / J. M. DeMatteis — Kate needs all the help she can get when she encounters the Lanky Man. He's mean and heartless, and he wants to steal children's dreams. Everyone seems to be against her -- which only makes her more determined to find her brother. And Matt is getting closer -- isn't he? (Abadazad, #2; age range: 9 to 12)
• The vacation / Polly Horvath — When his mother decides on a whim to be a missionary in Africa and drags his unwilling father with her, Henry is left in the care of his Aunts Magnolia and Pigg. Henry's sure they dislike him and he's trying to keep his distance, but that becomes more difficult when Mag decides they should take a destination-less road trip. (Age range: 12 and up)
• The touch / Colleen McCullough — When Alexander Kinross -- remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and godless rebel -- summons his bride Elizabeth Drummond to Australia, his Scottish relatives realize that Kinross has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with. (Large print edition)

Thank you, Peggy and Everett Boscacci!

The library would like to thank Peggy and Everett Boscacci for their kind donation of materials to our collection.

7/22: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• Doom

Audiobooks:

• Finding paradise / Michele Ashman Bell
• Forget me not / Michele Ashman Bell
• Double cross / Betsy Brannon Green

Books:

• Semi-homemade cooking 2 / Sandra Lee — Family-friendly recipes for every palate and mood, created from an inspired pairing of fresh and convenience products. Recipes feature ethnic flavors, barbecue, comfort food, slow cooker creations, and everyday and special occasion meals.
• The happy hooker : stitch 'n bitch crochet / Debbie Stoller —Written in the author's cheeky chick style, this heavily illustrated book--featuring four-color photographs and instructional illustrations throughout -- is chock-full of instruction, inspiration, and to-die-for designs, from a Fishnet Skullcap to a lacy evening wrap. For knitters and new crafters exploring the hook comes the primer: the advantages of crochet and the ways in which knitters (and nonknitters) benefit by learning this sister craft; a discussion of tools; all the cool yarns available, and what the different gauges mean; plus basic techniques and stitch patterns--including the chain stitch, picot, flowers, filet crochet, changing yarns, and finishing.
• Susannah's garden / Debbie Macomber — When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, her parents sent her to school abroad. She said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake -- and never saw him again. She never saw her brother again, either; Doug died in a car accident while she was away. Now, at fifty, she finds herself regretting the paths not taken.
• Sullivan's evidence / Nancy Taylor Rosenberg — Ten years ago, Carolyn Sullivan recommended a forty-four year sentence for vicious murderer and serial rapist Carl Holden. Cold, cunning, and without remorse, Holden was the kind of criminal the death penalty was made for, and the forensic evidence had him nailed – or so everyone thought. But when the evidence is discredited, Holden is a free man again, and Carolyn is his assigned parole officer.
• Borrowed time / Robert Goddard — It is a golden evening of high summer. Walking a ridge on the Welsh Borders, Robin Timariot meets by chance an elegant middle-aged woman who seems strangely out of place. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later Timariot learns from the newpapers that, just hours after their meeting, the woman was raped and murdered.
• The winemaker's daughter / Timothy Egan — Brunella Cartolano is passionate and high-spirited, an accomplished architect and a daughter of the American West who tends to fall in love with lost causes. While she is trying to protect the Seattle waterfront from development, she also finds her father’s vineyard east of the Cascade Mountains enduring the worst drought in history. Water is the base ingredient of winemaking, and for people who believe in the transformative power of wine, water has become the new petroleum—hoarded and stolen, the target of greed and the source of treachery, even among friends.
• Critical mass / Steve Martini — Jocelyn "Joss" Cole, a burned-out public defender from L.A., has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington state. Joss has no significant clients other than a group of commercial fishermen suffering from a strange and serious illness, a condition doctors cannot diagnose, which Joss believes has an industrial cause. Then into her office comes Dean Belden, a well-heeled client in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business in the islands.
• Killing critics / Carol O'Connell — NYPD sergeant Kathleen Mallory, a wild child turned policewoman, possessed of a ferocious intelligence and a unique inner compass of right and wrong, is about to be sorely tested. Killing Critics begins with a discreet murder - the almost unnoticed death of a hack artist at a gallery opening - but quickly connects with a much more brutal crime - a twelve-year-old double homicide and dismemberment originally investigated by Mallory's now deceased adoptive father, Louis Markowitz. (Kathleen Mallory Series, #3)
• Deadly pleasures / P. D. James — Contains: The black tower, Death of an expert witness, The skull beneath the skin
• The three little pigs buy the White House / Dan Piraro — In the fine tradition of scorched earth, take no prisoners political satire, The Three Little Pigs Buy the White House pokes fun at a certain trio of Republican politicians who are living high on the hog. Watch out: these little pigs have no problem replacing brick with straw when it comes to your nation's security.
• Best of the best from Alaska cookbook : selected recipes from Alaska's favorite cookbooks / Gwen McKee — Discover the wonder of Alaska...one delicious dish at a time...one fascinating fact at a time. How and what Alaska cooks is incredibly unique! This outstanding new cookbook is a comprehensive collection of the state's most popular recipes, surrounded by the history, customs, grandeur, and enormity that is Alaska.
• Arctic dance : the Mardy Murie story / Charles Craighead — Based on the critically acclaimed documentary film, Arctic Dance: The Ml Murie Story tells the story of one ordinary woman who accomplished extraordinary things. This remarkable biographic photo-essay features photos from Murie's personal collection, excerpts from her letters and journals, along with a concise essay detailing her life story.

7/15: New at the library this week

Books:

• The book thief / Markus Zusak — Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. Age Range: 12 and up
• Rusty nail / Joe Konrath —"Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels of the Chicago Police Department is back, and once again she's up to her Armani in murder. Someone is sending Jack snuff videos. The victims are people she knows, and they share a common trait - each was involved in one of Jack's previous cases.
• Can't wait to get to heaven / Fannie Flagg —Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?
• Cooking 'round the clock : Rachael Ray's 30-minute meals / Rachael Ray —This latest collection of recipes, a companion book to her show, will feature flexible menus for cooking great meals 24/7.
• The sins of the wolf / Anne Perry —Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well-suited for the position: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady with delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hester's simple job takes a grave turn when the woman dies during the night (William Monk Series, #5)
• Then came heaven / LaVyrle Spencer —Late summer, Browerville, Minnesota, 1950: Life is just about perfect for Eddie Olczak. A man of unshakable faith, he derives intense pleasure from the life he's built as devoted husband and father to his beloved wife, Krystyna, and their daughters, Anne and Lucy, and as the dedicated handyman for St. Joseph's, the Catholic church that is the cornerstone of Browerville life. But when a tragic accident cuts Krystyna's life short, Eddie is sure his heart is broken forever.
• The year of pleasures / Elizabeth Berg —The story of a woman who refuses to let widowhood define her, and goes about recreating a happy and meaningful life.
• To have and to hold / Fern Michaels —It is 1970 and Kate Starr is the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect housekeeper. But soon after her husband Patrick departs for a tour of duty in Vietnam, he is listed as MIA. Suddenly, Kate must raise their two daughters by herself, learn how to earn a living, and struggle with the U.S. government to get news of her husband.
• Pirates / Linda Lael Miller —Phoebe Turlow needs to get out of Seattle and forget about the man she just divorced, her dwindling finances, and the lonely nights that stretch ahead of her. Duncan Rourke is known to historians as "the pirate patriot." He's been dead for two centuries — or at least he's supposed to be, until Phoebe Turlow steps out of a van, into a run-down island hotel, and into his world.
• Pigtown / William J. Caunitz —The turf of Detective Lieutenant Matthew Stuart and his squad of fellow cops includes a little Brooklyn enclave called Pigtown. When the corpse of a Mafia wiseguy turns up there, the ensuing investigation of the hit opens up a volcanic fissure in the NYPD that puts Stuart and his cops in mortal danger.
• The complete Yorkshire terrier / Joan B. Gordon —Step-by-step illustrations give total clarity to techniques for washing, oiling, wrapping, timming, brushing, feeding, preparing and equipping for shows, travel, training and socializing.
• An accidental murder / Robert Rosenberg —Someone wants to kill Cohen - or so it seems - possibly because of something he wrote in his memoir about his year as an avenger assassinating Nazis after his long-ago liberation from the Dachau concentration camp. But then his longtime protege Nissim Levy is found murdered on the road to Eilat.
• The hanging garden / Ian Rankin —Detective Inspector John Rebus is buried under a pile of paperwork generated by his investigations into a suspected war criminal, and his immediate supervisors are more than happy to have him tucked away in a quiet backwater for several months. However, the escalating dispute between upstart Tommy Telford and Big Ger Cafferty's gang soon gives Rebus an escape clause. (Inspector John Rebus Series, #9)
• The Armchair detective book of lists / Kate Stine
• Mystery and crime : the New York Public Library book of answers / Jay Pearsall
• Dr. Susan Love's breast book / Susan M. Love —The standard reference on its subject. Dr. Love has now revised her book to reflect every new development in breast care, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and research. Every chapter has been brought up to date, including new information on silicone implants, imaging techniques, genetics, risk factors and prevention, hormone use, bone marrow transplants, tamoxifen, immediate reconstruction, and treatment for metastatic breast cancer.
• The high blood pressure solution : a scientifically proven program for preventing strokes and heart disease / Richard, M.D. Moore —High blood pressure is entirely preventable, without reliance on synthetic drugs. Dr. Moore's approach is simple: by maintaining the proper ratio of potassium to sodium in the diet, blood pressure can be regulated at the cellular level, preventing the development of hypertension and the high incidence of strokes and heart attacks associated with it. Dr. Moore updates this edition with a new preface reporting on the latest scientific research in support of his program.
• Popular mechanics home appliance repair manual / Allen D. Bragdon
• The jury / Fern Michaels —The women of the Sisterhood know life isn't fair, but that doesn't mean they have to like it - or let it pass. Instead, these best friends share their joys, troubles, triumphs, heartaches and one collective mission: to right wrongs and bring justice where it is desperately needed. Even reeling from the loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new friend. (Sisterhood Series, #4)
• Safe harbor : a murder in Nantucket / Brian (Brian Vincent) McDonald —Elizabeth Lochtefeld was a glowing, charismatic, and driven woman who'd built a million-dollar fortune in Manhattan. When Lochtefeld met thirty-seven-year-old Thomas E. Toolan III, she thought she'd found the man she hoped for. But soon she saw past the Golden Boy facade, finding a deeply troubled man with a history of erratic behavior. After telling her brother of a terrifying night held captive in Toolan's apartment, Lochtefeld broke off the relationship and fled to the one place she had always felt protected by family and friends: the island of Nantucket. What she didn't know was that time was already running out.
• The husband / Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz —We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he’s standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
• The devil wears Prada / Lauren Weisberger —Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenecks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child.
• Three Fates / Nora Roberts —There's "a treasure hunt, romance, [and] danger" (Charleston Post and Courier) in this unforgettable tale of luck and love in which friendships and fortunes depend on a simple twist of fate.
• Dead midnight / Marcia Muller —Sharon McCone has decided to throw herself into work so she can get past her brother's suicide, but the wrongful-death suit she is working on hits too close to home. It's a civil case in which the family of a young 'zine em-ployee claims his suicide was the result of his company's treatment of him. In his final journal entry, Roger Nagasawa describes his fatal plunge from the San Francisco Bridge as being "swept away from sadness." ( Sharon McCone Series, #22)
• Stone quarry / S. J. Rozan —Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen items--six paintings which could reveal Eve's highly guarded thirty-year-old secret--he caves.
• Second sight / Philip R. Craig —Veteran mystery novelists and longtime fishing buddies Craig and Tapply are back with their second joint novel. Filled with charming vignettes of Martha's Vineyard, Second Sight is a page turning novel of suspense. (Martha's Vineyard Series)
• Superstition / Karen Robards —A new thriller about a female journalist investigating the unsolved murder of a teenage girl that occurred fifteen years before. But another murder soon proves that the killer has unfinished business-and secrets to keep hidden.
• The last place / Laura Lippman —Five lives in the Baltimore area have been brutally destroyed over the past six years — five unsolved homicides, seemingly unconnected except for the suspicion that each death was the result of domestic violence. In hot legal water — and court-ordered therapy — Tess Monaghan accepts an assignment with a local nonprofit organization, agreeing to review police documents on each case for inconsistencies and investigative blunders. But curiosity is leading the disgraced P.I. off the paper trail as she follows scant leads and intuitions into the most remote corners of Maryland — where a psychopath can hide as easily in the fabric of a tiny fishing community as in the alleys and shadows of Charm City. Because a single common thread to five senseless murders is beginning to emerge with shocking clarity to tie the loose ends together into one bloody knot — and the link is Tess Monaghan herself. ( Tess Monaghan Series, #7)
• The lethal partner / Jake Page —The discovery of seven previously unknown Georgia O'Keeffe paintings sets not only Santa Fe, but the entire international art world, buzzing with excitement. Elijah Potts, successful author, skilled seducer, and shrewd owner of the Southwest Creations gallery, knows that this cache of canvases will be the crowning glory of his career - and the key to the fortune that he has always craved. But before the new O'Keeffes can be authenticated, the suave, elegant world of Elijah Potts starts to unravel. (Mo Bowdre Series, #4)
• Scoop / Evelyn Waugh —In Scoop, surreptitiously dubbed a "newspaper adventure," Evelyn Waugh flays Fleet Street and the social pastimes of its war correspondents. He tells how William Boot became the star of British super-journalism and how, leaving the part of his shirt in the claws of the lovely Katchen, he returned from Ishmaeilia to London as the Daily Beast's most accoladed overseas reporter.

Battle of the Books 06-07

Several enterprising young readers (good for them!) have contacted us about getting a head start on reading this year's Battle of the Book selections. You can download the full provisional list from the Battle website, but it's important to remember that a title or two may change in that list before the final list is approved some time in the fall.

At the moment, we have in our collection the following titles:

• Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library (3-4)
• Seldovia Sam and the Blueberry Bear (3-4)
• Long Way from Chicago (5-6)
• Mississippi Bridge (5-6)
• Voyage of the Dawn Treader (5-6)
• My Sister's Keeper (HS)
• Old Man and the Sea (HS)

There are several titles that we are also considering adding to the collection from the list, so watch this website for updates.

Thank you, Deborah Ivy!

The library would like to thank Deborah Ivy for her generous funding donation in memory of her mother. Donations like Mrs. Ivy's help the library augment the limited state grant funds that provide for our major operating expenses.

Thank you as well to all of those who stopped by the library book sale on the Fourth of July. Not only did you help us find homes for a lot of great books, but you helped us raise money we'll put right back into our collection.

Seldovia has an estraordinarily good collection for a community its size, and your support is part of what makes this happen.

7/10: New at the library this week

DVDs:

• King Kong
• Casanova
• Crash

Books:

• Shining water / Kim Andrew Buchman — poetry by a former Seldovian
• Kachemak Bay years : an Alaska homesteader's memoir / Elsa Pedersen
• Strong women, strong bones : everything you need to know to prevent, treat, and beat osteoporosis / Miriam E. Nelson — Increasingly, women know that it's so important to maintain their bones as they get older, but they're uncertain about the best strategy to follow. I decided to write this book so I could pull together all the information women - and men - need to beat this terrible disease.
• A hunt for justice : the true story of a woman undercover wildlife agent /Lucinda Delaney — For thirty years, Lucinda Delaney Schroeder held an unusual government position: she was one of the handful of women special agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her job: to investigate crimes against wildlife. Unlike the majority of hunters who respect both their prey and the laws, evidence was piling up against an unscrupulous outfitter who was decimating populations of big game in Alaska's Brooks Range. In August 1992, she accepted an assignment that forever changed--and endangered--her life. She left her husband and seven-year-old daughter behind in Wisconsin and posed as a big-game hunter in Alaska in order to infiltrate an international ring of poachers out to kill the biggest and best of that state's wildlife.
• Niagara Falls, or does it? / Henry Winkler — Inspired by his own experiences with undiagnosed dyslexia, actor/director Henry Winkler presents this new series about the high-spirited and funny adventures of a fourth-grader with learning differences. When Hank Zipzer has to write an essay on what he did over the summer, he decides instead to "show" what he did.
• Summer school! : what genius thought that up? / Henry Winkler — Summer school are two words in the English language that Hank Zipzerdoesn't want to learn. But there's no getting out of this one for Hank—summer school, here he comes! Will Hank have to spend the summer bored to death inside a sweltering classroom, or will he actually learn a cool lesson or two?
• I got a "D" in salami / Henry Winkler — After getting three Ds on his report card, a panicked Hank and his friends go to his mom's deli. His report card winds up in the meat grinder, and Hank watches as his Ds are ground into a big salami--and this particular salami is being made for a very important client. How will Hank get out of this one?
• Help! Somebody get me out of fourth grade! / Henry Winkler — Fearing that he may be failing fourth grade, Hank enlists the help of his friends, and even his annoying younger sister, in an effort to prevent his parents from attending a parent-teacher conference.
• The night I flunked my field trip / Henry Winkler — Fourth-grader Hank, while on a field trip aboard "The Pilgrim Spirit," tries to learn knot tying in his own unique way, which causes unforeseen problems.
• James and the volcano / Hannah C. Watkins — Emergency preparation written for children by a Kenai Central High School student
• Mr. Whitekeys' Alaska bizarre : direct from the Whale Fat Follies Revue in Anchorage / Mr. Whitekeys — The lowfalutin' look at the biggest, wildest state in the Union, from the originator of the Fly By Night Club's zany musicomedy show.
• Learning to Quilt / Lori Yetmar Smith
• The illustrated biographical encyclopedia of artists of the American West / Peggy Samuels
• Criminal intent / William Bernhardt — When a priest with radical ideas and a parish council with traditional values lock horns over the beliefs they hold most sacred, there's bound to be controversy—and consequences. But murder crosses the line between committing a sin and committing a crime, turning a battle over faith into a battle for justice.
• Those who walk in darkness / John Ridley — "Officer Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark loathes her nickname - and the notoriety it represents. She didn't join L.A.P.D.'s elite M-Tac squad to fight the Brass or make rookie cops idolize her. She joined M-Tac to kill freaks." "Freaks, muties, metanormals - back in the day, they were called superheroes. They had amazing powers, lurid costumes, and snappy names: Nightshift, Civil Warrior, Nubian Princess, The Giggler. They seemed to be saviors and gods. But where there are heroes, there are villains.

Upcoming event: Fourth of July book sale

Just a reminder that the library will be closed during its regular hours on Tuesday, July 4 in celebration of the holiday.

We will, however, be holding a book sale on the library steps with lots of books you may not have seen yet that have been removed from our collection or donated. Prices will be $.50 for adult books (3/$1), $.10 each for children's books, and videos for $1 each. Or, you know, pick out a bunch and make an offer: we want these books to go to good homes because this is their last chance before they have to take that *cough* one-way drive up Rocky St.

We'll be setting up in time for you to browse when you visit the pancake breakfast and will stay around into the afternoon, so stop by to pick up some of these great books.

7/1: New at the library this week

Books:

• Twelve sharp / Janet Evanovich — In the natural order of things, New Jersey bounty hunters do not enjoy high status. But whatever her place in the universe is, Stephanie Plum knows that maintaining it is a crazy full-time job; whether she's tracking down menacing, lowlife fugitives or attempting to reconstitute her sporadic love life and dysfunction family.
• Fire and ice / Dana Stabenow — Newenham, Alaska, is a long way from the big-city comforts of Anchorage, where Sergeant Liam Campbell was an up-and-coming state trooper with everything going his way. But that was before his life unraveled...before five people died on his watch and a drunk driver killed his son and put his wife into a coma.
• Marked man / William Lashner — All Victor Carl knows is that he's just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesn't remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair.
• Our man in Washington / Roy Hoopes — Hoopes's first work of fiction is a historical novel featuring James M. Cain, later the master of "hard-boiled" mystery novels, and H. L. Mencken, the famous iconoclastic journalist, as amateur detectives. Two Baltimore reporters (friends at that time and later in real life), they are investigating the deaths and sex scandals in the Harding administration in 1923, just before the big Teapot Dome scandal breaks.
• Timepiece / Richard Paul Evans — The bestselling author of The Christmas Box now provides readers with an inspirational message which reminds them about the gifts they pass on to their children. Timepiece traces the poignant love story of MaryAnne and David Parkin as they struggle to learn the lessons of love, loyalty, and forgiveness in the face of tragedy.
• Sailing fundamentals : the official learn-to-sail manual of the American Sailing Association / Gary Jobson— Unlike most introductory sailing books, which reflect the biases and idiosyncrasies of their authors, Sailing Fundamentals has been extensively pretested by ASA professional instructors to ensure that it offers the fastest, easiest, most systematic way to learn basic sailing and basic coastal cruising. This book covers every aspect of beginning sailing — from hoisting sail to docking and anchoring — and specifically prepares the learner to qualify for sailing certification according to international standards.
• Pleasure boating : sail and power / Crescent Books