McConnell Library
Adult Adopt-A-Book List 2012 ~ Sydney
AF = Adult Fiction
ANF = Adult Non-fiction
JF = Junior Non-fiction
JNF = Junior non-fiction
Author |
Title |
Cost |
Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abrams, Dan | Man Down: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt That Women are Better | $22 | ANF |
| Aronson, Marc | Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners From 2000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert | $20 | ANF |
| Calloway, Libby | American Pickers: Guide to Picking | $30 | ANF |
| Bahadur, Jay | Deadly Waters | $28 | AF |
| Bannister, Joe | Death in High Places | $30 | AF |
| Bidini, Dave | Writing Gordon Lightfoot: The Man, The Music, and the World in 1972 | $30 | ANF |
| Blake, Jennifer | Luke | $39 | AF |
| Burden, Dr. Arnold | The Dramatic Life of a Country Doctor: Fifty Years of Disasters and Diagnoses | $17 | ANF |
| Byrd, Sandra | To Die For | $17 | AF |
| Chiaverini, Jennifer | The Wedding Quilt | $30 | AF |
| Chin, Katie | 300 Best Rice Cooker Recipes | $28 | ANF |
| Clark, Cassandra | The Law of Angels | $30 | AF |
| Conran, Terence | Essential Children’s Rooms | $24 | ANF |
| Daheim, Mary | The Alpine Vengeance | $29 | AF |
| Dodrenski, Rob | Notes: On and Off the Couch | $27 | ANF |
| XXX | Do-It-Yourself Kitchens | $24 | ANF |
| Drury, Rebecca | The Printed Pattern | $32 | ANF |
| Dunmore, Helen | The Betrayal | $18 | AF |
| Finlayson, Judith & Jordan Wagman | 750 Best Appetizers | $28 | ANF |
| Fitzgerald, Conor | The Fatal Touch | $31 | AF |
| Gunn, Robin Jones | Canary Island Song | $17 | AF |
| Hancock, Maureen | The Medium Next Door: Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer | $19 | ANF |
| Harvey, John | In a True Light | $19 | AF |
| Heffernan, Margaret | Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril | $33 | ANF |
| Henderson, Paul | How Hockey Explains Canada | $42 | ANF |
| Henry, Patti Callahan | Coming Up for Air | $30 | AF |
| Hood, Sarah | We Sure Can! How Jams and Pickles are Reviving the Lure and Lore of Local Food | $25 | ANF |
| Horwood, Harold | Plunder & Pillage: Atlantic Canada’s Brutal & Bloodthirsty Pirates & Privateers | $20 | ANF |
| XXX | How to Draw Animals in Simple Steps | $22 | ANF |
| Hunt, Gregory | Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night: What to do When God Won’t Answer | $21 | ANF |
| Hunt, James Patrick | Get Maitland | $33 | AF |
| Hunt, James Patrick | Police and Thieves | $34 | AF |
| King, Heather | Shirt of Flame: A Year of Saint Therese of Lisieux | $22 | ANF |
| Krentz, Jayne Ann | The Waiting Game | $39 | AF |
| Kussin, Steven | Doctor, the Patient Will See You Now: Gaining the Upper Hand in Your Medical Care | $44 | ANF |
| Laker, Rosalind | The House by the Fjord | $18 | AF |
| Leach, Penelope | Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five | $29 | ANF |
| Levy, Robyn Michele | Most of Me: Surviving My Medical Meltdown | $22 | ANF |
| Lorayne, Harry | The Complete Guide to Memory Mastery | $23 | ANF |
| Lowell, Elizabeth | Chain Lightening | $39 | AF |
| Lucado, Max | God’s Story, Your Story | $30 | ANF |
| McCrumb, Sharyn | The Ballad of Tom Dooley | $30 | AF |
| MacDonald, Malcolm | The Dower House | $39 | AF |
| McInnes, Betty | Lady on the Loch | $39 | AF |
| MacKinnon, A.J. | The Well at the World’s End: The Epic True Story of One Man's Search for the Secret of Eternal Youth | $30 | ANF |
| Mackie, B. Allan | Building With Logs | $25 | AF |
| Magnier-Moreno, Marianne | My Cooking Class: Middle Eastern Basics | $25 | ANF |
| Magnini, R. Michael | Honey Plants of Eastern Canada | $28 | ANF |
| Marche, Stephen | How Shakespeare Changed Everything | $25 | ANF |
| Marlantes, Karl | What It Is Like To Go To War | $30 | ANF |
| Matheson, Richard | Steel and Other Stories | $17 | AF |
| Moore, Kathy & Roxanne Wyss | 175 Best Babycakes: Cupcake Maker Recipes | $28 | ANF |
| Moreno, Jillian | More Big Girl Knits | $28 | ANF |
| Mornu, Nathalie | Dozens of Ways to Repurpose Scarves | $24 | ANF |
| Murray, Colin | No Hearts, No Roses | $39 | AF |
| Murray, Melanie | For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier | $30 | ANF |
| O’Connell, Jaff | Sugar Nation: The Hidden Truth Behind America’s Deadliest Habit and the Simple Way to Beat It | $28 | ANF |
| Parkes, Clara | The Knitters Book of Socks | $34 | ANF |
| Proteau, Adam | Fighting the Good Fight: Why On-Ice Violence is Killing Hockey | $27 | ANF |
| Rawn, Melanie | The Diviner | $30 | AF |
| Rayne, Sarah | Property of a Lady | $39 | AF |
| Reilly, Matthew | Scarecrow Returns | $30 | AF |
| Sacheri, Eduardo | The Secret in Their Eyes | $20 | AF |
| Saulsbury, Camilla | Piece of Cake! One-Bowl, No-Fuss, From-Scratch Cakes | $30 | ANF |
| Scott, A.D. | A Double Death on the Black Isle | $17 | AF |
| Sierra, Javier | The Lost Angel | $30 | AF |
| Snider, Jill | Bake Something Great! 400 Bars, Squares & Cookies | $30 | ANF |
| Spencer, Sally | Backlash | $39 | AF |
| Stanley, Kelli | City of Secrets | $29 | AF |
| Steinberg, Jacques | You Are an Ironman | $32 | ANF |
| Stewart, Martha | Handmade Holiday Crafts | $28 | ANF |
| Strachan, Al | Why the Leafs Still Suck and How They can be Fixed | $20 | ANF |
| Summers, Anthony | The Eleventh Hour: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden | $34 | ANF |
| Sylvester, John | The Little Book of Prince Edward Island | $17 | ANF |
| Ussery, Harvey | The Small-Scale Poultry Flock | $44 | ANF |
| Vance, Jonathan | Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars | $30 | ANF |
| Washburn, Donna & Heatehr Butt | The Gluten-Free Baking Book | $28 | ANF |
| Webb, Katherine | The Legacy | $18 | AF |
| Weber, David | A Beautiful Friendship | $22 | AF |
| Weiner, Jack | The Mathematics Survival Kit | $22 | ANF |
| Wolitzer, Hilma | An Available Man | $30 | AF |
| Wright, John C. | Count to a Trillion | $30 | AF |
| Zolf, Larry | The Dialectical Dancer | $30 | ANF |
Children's Adopt-A-Book List ~ Sydney
Lilly’s Big Day| Author | Title | Cost | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey, Gerry | Pteranodon | $10 | JNF |
| Barnhill, Kelly | The Mostly True Story of Jack | $18 | JF |
| Beck, Andrea | Pierre in the Air! | $20 | JF |
| Berenstain, Jan & Mike | The Berenstain Bears Come Clean for School | Adpt | JF |
| Berenstain, Jan & Mike | The Berenstain Bears’ Winter Wonderland | Adpt | JF |
| Biniok, Janice | Adopting a Pet | $35 | JNF |
| Claybourne, Anna | Sick at Sea? Cure It or Cut It Off | $26 | JNF |
| Dillon, Patrick | The Story of Britain | $40 | JNF |
| DiPrimio, Pete | The Sphinx | $38 | JNF |
| Doyle, Bill | Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie | $15 | JF |
| Elish, Dan | The School for the Insanely Gifted | $19 | JF |
| Flack, Sophie | Bunheads | $21 | JF |
| Gay, Marie-Louise | Caramba and Henry | $18 | JF |
| Graham, Ian | Superstructures: Tremendous Tunnels | $25 | JNF |
| Greenwald, Tommy | Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading | $17 | JF |
| Guillain, Charlotte | My First Sleepover | $25 | JNF |
| Hale, Sarah Josepha | Mary Had a Little Lamb | $15 | JF |
| Hare, Lucinda | The Dragon Whisperer | $14 | JF |
| Henkes, Kevin | Lilly’s Big Day | $20 | JF |
| Isop, Laurie | How Do You Hug a Porcupine? | Adpt | JF |
| Killen, Nicola | Not Me! | $14 | JF |
| Kimura, Ken | 999 Tadpoles | $20 | JF |
| LaFave, Kim | Fishing With Gubby | $25 | JF |
| Larson, Jeanette | Hummingbirds: Facts and Folklore from the Americas | $22 | JNF |
| Lewis, Patrick | Tugg and Teeny | $12 | JF |
| Long, Loren | Otis and the Tornado | $21 | JF |
| MacDonald, Hugh | Chung Lee Loves Lobster | $10 | JF |
| Mackintosh, Samantha | Lula Does the Hula | $14 | JF |
| Martin, Ann M. | Ten Rules for Living With My Sister | $19 | JF |
| Martin, Bill | Ten Little Caterpillars | $20 | JF |
| Mitchell, Joni | The Circle Game | $20 | JF |
| Murray, Laura | The Gingerbread Man: Loose in the School | $19 | JF |
| Oldland, Nicholas | The Bust Beaver | $17 | JF |
| Orloff, Karen Kaufman | Talk, Oscar, Please! | $18 | JF |
| Patron, Susan | Lucky for Good | $20 | JF |
| Pennypacker, Sara | Clementine and the Family Meeting | $18 | JF |
| Reid, Barbara | Picture a Tree | $20 | JF |
| Riley, Peter | Electricity | $28 | JNF |
| Rinker, Sherri Duskey | Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site | $19 | JF |
| Ritchie, Scot | Look at That Building! A First Book of Structures | $17 | JNF |
| Rosenthal, Amy Krouse | Alpha’s Bet | $21 | JF |
| Sis, Peter | Fire Truck | $22 | JF |
| Sones, Sonya | What My Mother Doesn’t Know | $26 | JF |
| Steig, William | Shrek! | $20 | JF |
| Stern, Steven | Scary Places: Cursed Grounds | $32 | JNF |
| Stewart, Joel | Tree Soup | $11 | JF |
| Suen, Anastasia | Road Work Ahead | $19 | JF |
| Suzuki, David | You are the Earth | $22 | JNF |
| Symes, Ruth | Little Rex and the Big Roar | $16 | JF |
| Tsiang, Sarah | Dogs Don’t Eat Jam and Other Things Big Kids Know | Adpt | JF |
| Twist, Clint | Ripley’s Believe It or Not: Extreme Earth | $27 | JNF |
| XXX | Ultimate Weird But True: 1,000 Wild & Wacky Facts & Photos! | $23 | JNF |
| Viva, Frank | Along a Long Road | $20 | JF |
| Watts, Irene | Munsch at Play: Eight Stage Adaptations for Young Performers | $25 | JNF |
| XXX | What Do You Believe? Religion and Faith in the World Today | $19 | JNF |
| Wick, Walter | Can You See What I See? Toyland Express | $16 | JNF |
| Wilson, Karma | Hogwash! | $19 | JF |
| Winston, Robert | What Goes on in My Head? | $24 | JNF |
| Wiseman, Blaine | Sporting Championships: Stanley Cup | $27 | JNF |
| Wright, Johanna | Bandits | $19 | JF |
| Yoo, David | The Detention Club | $19 | JF |
| Young, Karen Romano | Science Fair Winners: Experiments to do on Your Family | $15 | JNF |