[bksvol-discuss] 38 new books for submittors or to request on wish list
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:46:11 -0400
Dear Booksharian Submittors, and Booksharians at Large,
Here is a totally new list of books which, at last check, weren't in the
collection. I'll mail them to submittors who will scan them carefully and
get them to step one. These are books I don't expect to validate which, as
of my last check, weren't in the collection.
If you aren't a submittor but see books here that interest you, you could
add the titles to the wish list or offer to validate them which might
inspire a scanner to request the book knowing an eager reader is waiting to
validate or read it.
One section of the list contains teen and juvenile books. Because of its
grant, Bookshare especially needs to add books for young readers, so please
consider requesting a couple of these books to help in this important
effort.
I'll update the list numbering the subject line so you'll know there are
changes. I'll remove numbers of books that are spoken for and add numbers
for new books, so check at the bottom of the list for new additions. I have
more books but am out of steam to write them up today.
My usual terms apply.
1. The books are free
2. It's fine to request more books if you still have some from other
mailings as long as you're making progress on them.
3. First come, first served.
4. Please request books by name and number, by number alone works fine, too.
I just get to be lazier if you ask for them by both name and number.
5. I'll pay the postage to mail them to you.
6. Ask for what you want off list contacting me at airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
7. you'll know what's been taken because those books and their numbers will
be removed. I don't tell the list or anyone else who asked for and got which
books.
8. Please don't return the books to me. Once they are in the collection, do
whatever you like with them.
9. I don't expect you to keep me posted on your progress. Once the book has
left my house its fate is completely in your hands. This is the honor
system. I trust you and am busy with my own validating and scanning. Trust
me, for every book I pass along to submittors, there are probably ten books
in stacks in my computer room and hall which I unrealistically think I'll
eventually either scan or validate.
10. Usually I ship media mail which is often slow but I'll be mailing by
Thursday or Friday of next week.
11. No strings attached. This is the fourth or fifth time I've distributed
extra books I've picked up at sales this way. Don't worry that I'll be
bugging you. I'll only use your information to send the books.
12. A few people who have scanned books from me have written to tell me
they've submitted a book or that it's been approved. Naturally I enjoy
getting that kind of good news, so thanks!
13. Unclaimed books are mailed to the Bookshare office where the busy staff
decides which ones to chop and scan and which to move along in the used
books pipeline. I'm having company by April 7th so all books on this list
will be on their way to you or to Bookshare before then.
Juvenile or teen books
1. Olive's Ocean by Kevin Hinkes, hardcover, 218 pages, Martha and Olive
could have been friends. They were in the same grade and without knowing it,
they kept the same secret. Olive has been killed by a car while riding her
bike. Martha, spending the summer on Cape Cod, can't stop thinking about
her.
2. Sandpiper by Ellen Wittlinger, author of Heart on my Sleeve, hardcover
about 225 pages, Teen romance
3. The Unprotected Witness by James Stevenson, sequel to The Bones in the
Cliff, Hardcover, 170 pages, for Teens, I'm guessing, Pete and his best
friend Bootie are on the run again from the Tenements of N. Y. City to the
wild rivers of Missouri to New England. They wrongly believe Pete's criminal
father is safely hidden away in a Federal Witness protection program. An
alliance with a weird kid with no friends saves their lives and results in a
three way friendship.
4. To Walk The Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, hardcover 144 pages,
story of modern Seminole Indians in the Florida Keys
5. The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown by Betsy Byars, Teens, maybe
preteens, Bingo asks many questions of his favorite teacher, an English
teacher like, has there ever been a successful person with freckles, will
his life ever be calm, will he ever be ready for a real mixed sex
conversation. His questions lead to more questions. His English teacher has
girlfriend problems and Bingo wants to help, but Bingo has problems of his
own. Something happens and Bingo wonders if he could have stopped it.
6. Time's Memory by Julius Lester, hardcover, 230 pages, teens, A young
African woman is stolen by slave traders from her village. At home her
people took care of dead spirits so they wouldn't become destructive forces.
Now amid the chaos of slave trading, this need isn't being met. She has a
son with magic powers. Contains a very short African word glossary
7. Blood Gold by Michael Cadnum, hardcover 209 pages, 18 year old William
makes the dangerous journey to the California gold fields, taking what is
called the Jungle route across the Isthmus of Panama, braving Cholera,
bandits, and the steamy city of Panama,.He is looking for the man who
abandoned his friend, Elizabeth. In California he encounters murder and
revenge.
8. Haters by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, hardcover, 350 pages, Teen romance and
the damaging force of the rich, ethnically diverse, and well connected kids
in high school who call themselves the Haters.
9. Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi, hardcover, 250 pages, historic
fiction for teens involving the various loyalties and the confusion and
heartache they cause before and during the American Revelation.
10. Orphea Proud by Sharon Dennis Wyeth, hardcover, 188 pages, teens,
lyrically and dramatically told explanation of a girl's coming to terms with
being gay.
11. Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark, hardback, Cusi an Indian boy is
told words about magic circles and goes from his mountain valley home
hearding the precious llamas to the Spanish world in hopes of learning the
meaning of those words. The past of the Incas is described.
12. Secrets of Tut's Tomb and the Pyramids, by Stephanie Ann Reiff
hardback, 48 pages, concise factual book for young readers, looks
interesting and easy to scan. There are pictures with captions but they are
either full page or half page. The text has standard margins and is clear.
13. Mystery of the Melted Diamonds, Carol Farley, Paperback, 96 pages,
Ghosts? Thieves, Who or what was hiding in the old Morgansterne House?
During a storm a Jewelry store is robbed. After the storm two robbers are
found but not the jewels.
Adult books.
14. Campbell's Kingdom by Hammond Innes, Hardback, large print, 344 pages, A
man inherits land and an old oil rig in the Rockies. There's a buyer for it,
but the man works on the land and searches for something though he only has
six months to live. The author is know for his breathtaking descriptions of
nature, the mountains, the wildflowers, etc.
15. The Archivist, by Martha Cooley, Hardcover, 326 pages, a haunting novel
about marriage, poetry and Madness. An aged librarian recalls his romance of
decades ago when he married an emotional, outgoing woman very different from
himself. They had love of poetry and jazz in common.
16. Lace by Shirley Couran, hardcover, 592 pages, 4 extremely successful
women in their forties are called to meet the famous young, temperamental
actress, Lili. All of the women have reasons to hate Lili and they are
surprised to see each other because they were friends long ago in school.
17. The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green, hardback, 494 pages, has no dust
jacket and I don't know what it's about. I know there's a doctor character
and a character who speaks broken English. There's a woman named Sarah whose
husband is away during part of the story, a male character who enjoys
baiting her, and a LaSalle car like a long black hearse, I bet it was a gas
guzzler!
18. The Room-Mating Season by Rona Jaffe, Hardcover, 326 pages, 4 young
women sharing an apartment in Manhattan which is so small that a table and
chairs won't fit in the little kitchen are excited about the adventure of
life. This is about their time together and what happens because of their
decisions as time changes their world. I may have 2 copies of this if the
validator wants a copy.
19. Gold By Gemini by Jonathan Gash, hardcover, 184 pages, British thriller
about antiques. Lovejoy is wickedly delightful. He says he is the only
antiques dealer who can be trusted, but he can't be trusted at all with
antiques or with other mens' wives. He is successful in business but always
needs money. Roman coins are stolen from a museum and he becomes involved.
He's good at danger and that's a good thing.
20. Juice by Robert Campbell, hardback book with no dust jacket so I know
nothing about this 270 pages. Some characters don't use standard grammar.
21. Worldly Goods by Michael Horda, hardcover 372 pages, story of family and
crime, of wealth and power struggles, of a central European banking family,
of a tycoon who can't escape his past and the woman he loves whose past is
connected to his past. There are billion dollar deals, betrayals and
intrigues.
22. And Miles to go, the biography of a great Arabian Horse, Witez Iiby
Linel Smith, hardcover, 230 pages, contains many foreign words with a
pronunciation guide at the end which might discourage some of you, I just
wanted to give you as much info as I can about the book. This horse suffered
hardships during WWII and then came to the United States and founded a
dynasty. Well researched.
23. The Almighty by Irving Wallace, Hardback 369 pages, a man must meet
harsh requirements to inherit his father's communications empire. He is
ruthless and uses terror to reach his goals and two women suspect the depths
of his ambition.
24. La Presidenta by Lois Gould, hardback 300 pages, imaginary, lush Latin
country of suspense and eroticism where political corruption and the cult of
the virgin exist side by side. Shows how illusion is made to create legend
and how legend can be more important than true history.
25. Faith of our Fathers, African American men reflect on Fatherhood, edited
by Andre Willis, hardcover, about 230 pages, Contains about a dozen essays
on fatherhood.
26. Leonardo Dicaprio Modern-Day Romeo by Grace Catalano, small paperback,
about 125 pages, biography with filmography and list of TV shows including,
of Course, The Titanic, he was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting
actor when he was nineteen. 8 page insert in the middle of photos with
captions which could be skipped if they don't scan.
27. The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum 598 pages hardback, needs a BSO,
Bookshare's copy is only rated fair. A woman is gunned down running along a
beach as her lover, a government worker, sadly watches. Then, months later
he sees her again in a train station in Rome. Tale of international
espionage by the author of The Bourne Identity. A Czzeck boy is planted in
the U. S. at age 12, gets a degree at Princeton and is close to the
Secretary of State.
28. Rose Madder by Stephen King, needs a BSO, Bookshare's copy is only good,
hardcover, 420 pages, in the same category as Delores Claiborne, I know I've
spelled it wrong, A woman escapes her abusive policeman husband after 14
years of suffering. Just as she begins to gain confidence and make a good
life for herself, he tracks her down.
29. Recovering, Journal by May Sarton, paperback, 246 pages, nonfiction, an
older lady writes about finding hope after a long-standing relationship
comes to an end and she has a mastectomy.
30. Final Warning, averting disaster in the new age of terrorism, Copyright
1989, by Robert Kupperman and Jeff Kamen, - hardback, 250 pages, I don't
know much about the content of this book but it's interesting the authors
were so deeply concerned long before 9-11
31. Scruples Two by Judith Krantz, hardback, 464 pages, glitzy romance in
the world of the rich and beautiful, famous and infamous in the glamour
industry.
32. Chernevog by C. J Cherryh, hardcover, 325 pages, fantasy set in the
forest north of Kiev, there are ghosts, forest guardians, a father who
sacrifices to restore his daughter, and more which I don't understand enough
to summarize. I may have 2 copies of this in case the validator wants a
copy.
33. The New Game Plan for Recovery Rediscovering the Positive Power of Play,
by Tobin Quereau and Tom Zimmermann, paperback 282 pages, about how adults
can derive Joy and serenity from play. How play can motivate people to
adjust to healthy living after illness.
34. The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead author of The White Nile, hardback, 507
pages about the exploration of Africa with sections like, The French in
Egypt,
The British in Ethiopia, Appointment at Magdala, An Easter Death. The author
is described as being stirring, a master of research and prose, bringing
ghosts of the past to life.
35. Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe248 page hardcover, A role playing game
is involved in real life murder.
36. The Devil is Loose by Antonine Maillet, new, hardcover, perfect
condition, 310 pages. translated to English, Story of the last rum runners
from Arcadia on the East coast of Canada in the dirty Thirties when there
was still prohibition in the U.S. High adventure and romance, defeats and
triumphs. A beautiful blue-eyed blonde is involved.
38. Dummy by Ernest Tidyman, hardback 277 pages,great condition, worn dust
jacket, author of the Shaft series and French Connection, about a man deaf
mute who doesn't read or write or know sign language or lip reading accused
of murdering a prostitute, because he can't communicate, it is difficult to
try him. The lawyer appointed to defend him really cares, a dizzying complex
tale which cycles between evidence gathering, to courtroom conflict, to
mental ward to prison.
Always with love,
Lissi
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