Dear Booksharian Friends,
I’m mailing books for scanners to scan and keep later today. Let me know if you
are willing to scan any of the following and I’ll get them out to you in
today’s mail. No strings, just hoping to get more books into willing scanners’
hands.
1. Claimed. Yay
2. Women’s Work a novel by Anne Tolstoi Wallach – Successful advertising
executive is unable to garner equal positions as her male co-workers 342 pages.
3. Women of Darkness II edited by Kathryn Ptacek - 18 short horror stories
by women writers 260 pages
4. When They Took Away The Man in the Moon by Kate Lehrer – 243 pages – novel
about childhood memories, family roots and unrealistic expectations for our
modern lives.
5. Claimed
6. Unofficial Verdicts The Central Park Jogger Trials by Timothy Sullivan –
nonfiction - 314 – some complex pages (end matter) may be skipped. otherwise
easy scan
7. The Imperfect Mirror Inside Stories of Television Newswomen nonfiction by
Daniel Painsner 256 pages excluding double column index which can be skipped.
Nice wide margins.
8. claimed
9. Courage to be Myself by Carlos G. Valles, S.J. – Looks like a good self
help book or memoir 228 pages, great margins, non yellowing, great for scanning
10. Royal Service my Twelve years as valet to prince Charles by Stephen P.
Barry – 244 pages
11. Rising Sun Victorious the alternate history of how the japanese won the
pacific war edited by Peter G. Tsouras about 2550 pages
12 Claimed
13. Rootie Kazootie a Novel by Lawrence Naumoff – 273 pages – About the
meaning of love. A love triangle between a married couple and the other woman
who lives next door.
14. claimed
15. The Sunset Grille by Will Cunningham – 272 pages – young girl is murdered
and a minister’s brother is a suspect with good and evil battling for his soul.
There are seamy happenings in the basement of the Grille the victim’s parents
own.
16. Alan Mendelsohn is a Martian by Daniel M. Pinkwater, 250 pages, outcast
junior high kid, especially after sitting on someone’s ice cream bar in the
school yard, makes an interesting friend.
17. Perilous Weekend by Arlene Hale – mass market romantic suspense, 204
pages, some yellowing around the margins, Bridal party turns into a nightmare...
18. Montana Legacy by R. C. Ryan, 296 pages, mass market but very new, no
yellowing, romance, forever Press, Woman who broke rancher’s heart returns
offering help...
19. Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith, an arkady Renko Novel, 245 pages, a
suspense story set on a passenger train, one of my y kinds of mysteries, these
are set in Russia, The cop is observant, intuitive, Ironic, fights not only
wrongdoers but the corrupt state apparatus as well. It’s not that I’m ultra
politically entrenched here, but I love reading these books both for the fine
mystery and the interesting perspective on a country on the other side of the
world where I’ll never go. Of course, I still like reading about Ireland best!
20. Do You Sometimes Feel Like Nobody? Tim Stafford (Campus Life) – 156
pages, nice self help, I think says things on back cover like: Learn to love
yourself, accept the love of others, stop hiding insecurities, get past guilty
feelings, see yourself as God sees you...
21. We’re Never Alone, A Woman’s Look at our Modern World, Eileen Guder,
148, mass market but absolutely no yellowing so should be a great scan. women’s
issues
22. Google Eyes, Anne Fine, Large print, a scanner’s dream to scan, 219
pages, Two girls talk about the problems when there are new men in their
mother’s lives, I think Google eyes is what one girl calls the guy courting her
mom with chocolates, etc.
23. The Ghost Child by Sonya Hartnett, 176, lovely, wide margins, I think
this is a fantasy about a girl who falls in love with a wild kind of boy called
Feather. They live happily by the sea for years and then Feather doesn’t come
home and Maddy goes on a fantastic journey across the sea in search of him.
24. The Process of Excelling, practical how to guide for managers and
supervisors, by Roger E. Herman, 172 pages, wide margins
25. Whatever! by Sarah Snyder, oversized paperback, High school girl is in
shock when she has to move and enter school where she’s nobody and doesn’t know
anyone, says it’s like being electrocuted! 422, has a vocabulary list at the
end of the novel to help kids bone up for the S A Tees, looks very chatty, very
social, all about common high school issues, drinking, the prom...
If you don’t make the mailing on February 16th, we mail almost every week on
Thursday, so take your time perusing. Please consider helping add one or more
of these books.
Always with love and hope,
Lissi
