[bksvol-discuss] Re: Hoped Safe To Scan And Good Books to Boot List, Books 1-100
- From: "Susan Lumpkin" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:43:21 -0500
Hi Judy,
Thanks so much for your post and sending the list our way! Was good to get
to know you further today!
Susan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Hoped Safe To Scan And Good Books to Boot List,
Books 1-100
This is a super long post, but I hope it's helpful for some of our
frustrated scanners. smile.
At the volunteer telephone meeting this morning one of the topics discussed
briefly was the challenge in finding books to scan that would be good
additions to the collection but are at the same time unlikely to be replaced
by publisher quality scans. I mentioned that over the last five years I've
complied a list of books that I thought would make good additions to the
collection. They are books I read in printed form, back when I could, that I
thought were good, or are books that have been recommended to me by various
sources (friends, librarians, through old book reviews and the like) that I
couldn't find on Bookshare. I had no idea this could be helpful to anyone
else, but I found out this morning that it might be. smile. So I'll be
slowly posting, one hundred books at a time, my personal "Hoped Safe To Scan
And Good Books to Boot List." I'd post the sections faster, but I want to
include a short synopsis of each one, and make sure none of them are already
in the collection as well. That takes some time. If anyone wants to help
with that, contact me off list, as I'd love some help with it. smile.
These are not books that I'm requesting to go on the wish list. That list is
for books that members requested that they specifically want to read
themselves. Instead these books are purely suggestions to scanners for
anyone who is interested, based on the following:
1. I can't guarantee that they won't be replaced by a PQ book, but I think
it's highly unlikely that they will ever be given to Bookshare in a
publisher quality format, even if they were originally printed by a
publisher that currently gives books to Bookshare.
2. They are older books, mostly published from 1990 back through the early
1950s, most likely to be found used or in a public library.
3. They're a hodge podge of genres, and reading levels range from children's
to adult.
4. While everyone has different tastes and opinions for what makes a good
book, I or someone whose opinion in books I respect thought they were good
reads. But that doesn't mean that they'll be liked by anyone else.
5. They're biased in topics towards stuff I find most interesting, so this
is by no means a balanced list. Some genres aren't on it at all. The
completely missing ones are horror, erotica and romance novels. There is
only a handful of nonfiction religious books, and a smattering of Christian
fiction as well. Those genres that are missing aren't on this list because
they're not my taste in reading. It's not a commentary at all on whether or
not those genres are full of good books as well.
6. If these first 100 don't appeal, wait for the next list as it will
probably be a totally different mix of types of books. This first list, for
example, is very heavy on children's horse-themed books. That's because I'm
going alphabetically through the first section, and and certain authors like
C.W. Anderson wrote a whole lot a good quality horse-themed books in the
1950s and 1960s for children and middle-school readers. Bear with me!
smile. My master list of Hoped Safe To Scan And Good Books to Boot at this
point includes well over 1,000 titles. One entire section includes a list
complied by friends and acquaintances that serve in the military, including
one of Top Gun's former top officers and a recently retired nuclear aircraft
carrier chief operations officer, on the books they thought were the best
ever written about the military, both fiction and nonfiction. Trust me,
there isn't a horse-themed book to be found in that entire section of my
list! grin.
7. I've checked to make sure these books are not in the collection, but I
make mistakes. Also, I haven't checked them against any of the other lists
like the "being scanned" list. So please double-check all the usual places
to avoid getting burned any time you use this or future lists.
8. Each book is listed as follows: Author, Title, Category, Synopsis. The
categories are Fiction, Nonfiction, children's, middleschool, YA for young
adult, SF for science fiction, fantasy, biography, western, and probably a
few more.
9. I have my original list in a spreadsheet. However, the consensus from us
volunteers was that spreadsheets are often such a pain to open across all
our different software that a document is better. I'll attach each list as
RTF document, and I'll paste the list at the bottom of the email in text,
too. If you'd like a spreadsheet version, contact me privately and I'll send
it to you in that form.
Whew. That's it! smile.
Judy s.
Hoped Safe To Scan And Good Books to Boot List, Books 1-100
(from Judy s.), August 1, 2012
1. Aardema, Verna, The Riddle of the Drum, Children's, Children's story set
in Mexico. To keep his daughter from marrying, a king says suitors must
guess the kind of leather used in a wizard's drum.
2. Aardema, Verna, What's So Funny Ketu?, Children's, After he saves a
snake, Ketu gets rewarded by being able to hear animals think.
3. Adams, Julia Davis, Mountains are Free, Childrens, Fictionalized story of
William Tell.
4. Adams, Julia Davis, Vaino A Boy of Finland, Children's, The story,
underlaid with the folklore of Finland, of a Finnish student during the WWI
revolution that freed Finland from Russian rule.
5. Adler, Bill Jr, Outwitting Critters, Nonfiction, Outwitting critters that
have become pests in your yard or garden.
6. Adler, Bill Jr, Outwitting Squirrels, Nonfiction, Outwitting Squirrels
that have become pests in your yard or garden.
7. Agee, James, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Fiction, During the Great
Depression, the author and and photographer Walker Evans went to Alabama and
spent several months living with three tenant farmers to paint a portrait of
their lives.
8. Ainslie, Tom, Body Language of Horses, Nonfiction, How horses communicate
via their body language.
9. Anderson, Ann Kiemel, And With the Gift Came Laughter, Middleschool,
Biography of a Christian wife and mother who adopted two boys under special
circumstances after having multiple miscarriages.
10. Anderson, C. W., A Filly for Joan, YA, Joan gets a Thoroughbred filly
for her birthday because she had outgrown her pony, and the filly Gallant
Lady grows up to be fast enough for the racetrack.
11. Anderson, C. W., Favorite Horse Stories, YA, Favorite Horse Stories.
12. Anderson, C. W., Great Heart, YA, When Dan acquires a new jumper, he
shortens its name to G.H. instead of Great Heart just in case it can't win,
but Great Heart lives up to his name after Dan has a serious accident.
13. Anderson, C. W., High Courage, YA, A Maryland girl trains her horse for
the steeplechase.
14. Anderson, C. W., Phantom, Son of the Grey Ghost, YA, A young girl gives
her horse the love and confidence needed to make him a champion.
15. Anderson, C. W., The Horse of Hurricane Hill, YA, Stephen Slade is given
an unbroke colt to train when he finds the colt after it escaped from a barn
fire.
16. Anderson, Libby, A New Horse for Marny, YA, Written by international
dressage judge, the story follows 16-year-old Marny after she loses her
horse following a tragedy.
17. Anderson, Margaret J., The Brain on Quartz Mountain, Middleschool,
Dave's father, Professor Botti's, experiments with growing chicken brain
cells, which secretly help Dave become a whiz kid. Dave is thrilled with
the attention and perks, until the brain becomes malevolent.
18. Anderson, Poul, Beyond the Beyond, SF, Short stories.
19. Anderson, Poul, Explorations, SF, Short stories.
20. Anderson, Poul, Fire Time, SF, The alien culture of a planet with a
widely elliptical orbit intersects with the arrival of humans who don't
understand what it means.
21. Anderson, Poul, Guardians of Time, SF, A set of four stories from the
author's "Time Patrol" series.
22. Anderson, Poul, Planet of No Return, SF, Humans need room to expand in
the universe--but should they?.
23. Anderson, Poul, Tau Zero, SF, When the ship Christina attains
light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external
time becomes almost impossibly great as the crew speed into the unknown.
24. Anderson, Poul, The Circus of Hells, SF, Lt Flandry series book.
25. Anderson, Poul, The Dancer from Atlantis, SF, Four strangers from
different ages and lands are snatched up by an out of control time machine
and stranded in 1400 B.C.
26. Anderson, Poul, The Earth Book of Stormgate, SF, Chronicle from the
winged Ythri of mankind's encounters with their civilization over 4000
years.
27. Anderson, Poul, Time and Stars, SF, Short stories.
28. Anderson, Poul, Trader to the Stars, SF, Wily old Trader Nicholas van
Rijn ran a wide empire, but sometimes even his backing and experience didn't
stop inhabitants of certain planets from getting out of hand.
29. Angelo, Valenti, Nino, Fiction, A 1938 story set in Tuscany of the
childhood of an artist.
30. Anno, Mitsumasa, The King's Flower, Children's, There was once a king
who had to have everything bigger and better than anything else...
31. Ardizzone, Edward, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, Children's, A
stowaway boy's adventures as he gains the trust of captain and crew and
survives a violent storm.
32. Arkin, Alan, The Lemming Condition, Childrren's, Bubber can't figure out
why his fellow lemmings are so eager to rush off of a cliff to their
deaths... Is it his fate, and what motives all the lemmings to do it?.
33. Arnold, Alan, Once Upon a Galaxy, Nonfiction, Making of the Empire
Strikes Back.
34. Bahr, Robert, Blizzard at the Zoo, Children's, All about how the Buffalo
zoo kept the animals alive and fed during the blizzard of 1977, one of the
worst snowstorms in American history.
35. Balch, Glenn, Indian Paint, Children's, When his pinto pony disappears
with a wild herd, a young Indian boy sets out to find him.
36. Balch, Glenn, Tiger Roan, Children's, Hugh Darnell finds and tames an
escaped rodeo bronc, but must find a way to keep the horse from being
returned to rodeo life after Hugh is sent to prison.
37. Balch, Glenn, White Ruff, Children's, A smart valuable collie, a skilled
ranch sheep dog, is stolen and tries to find his way back home.
38. Balch, Glenn, Wild Horse Tamer, Children's, When Ben and Dixie see a
black horse on a rodeo newsreel, they are certain it is their missing ranch
horse King, but don't know what to do.
39. Balzao, Honore de, Le Pere Goriot, Fiction, Set in Paris in 1819, the
story follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting
Goriot; a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin; and a naive law
student named Eugène de Rastignac.
40. Barich, Bill, Laughing in the Hills, Nonfiction, Bill Barich's inside
account of the in-track world of thoroughbred racing. .
41. Bartholomew, Barbara, Mirror Image, YA, To escape being in her twin
sister's shadow, Brooke spends the summer on her aunt's farm in Oklahoma,
where she falls for handsome Brett, and helps a frightened rodeo horse.
42. Bawden, Nina, The Peppermint Pig, YA, During a particularly hard spot,
the antics of a runt "peppermint" pig keep two children going.
43. Beach, Edward L., Cold is the Sea, Fiction, The USS Cushing encounters a
Russian sub during a secret mission to the Arctic Ocean to determine whether
her nuclear missiles are effective when fired from beneath the ice.
44. Beach, Edward L., Dust on the Sea, Fiction, Sequel to Run Silent, Run
Deep. The most destructive subs in the U.S. Navy are dispatched to Bungo
Suido in the Yellow Sea to harass and destroy enemy troop ships--a
near-suicide mission in the very heart of Japan's home waters.
45. Beach, Edward L., Run Silent, Run Deep, Fiction, Considered by many
submariners the best book ever written on USN submarine operations in the
Pacific in WWII. A U.S. submarine commander becomes obsessed with sinking a
specific Japanese ship.
46. Bechdolt, Jack, Trusty, The Story of a Police Horse, YA, After Trusty is
frightened by an incident on the city streets he is bought by the Mounted
Police who rehabilitate him .
47. Bemelmans, Ludwig, Golden Basket, Children's, Newbery honor book 1936.
Two sisters stay at the Bruges Golden Basket hotel in Belgium.
48. Benedict, Diana, Horse Trivia, Nonfiction, Horse trivia.
49. Bennett, Jill, Days Are Where We Live and Other Poems, Poetry,
Children's poetry.
50. Bennett, John, Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo, Children's, 1929 Newbery honor
book. 18 fairy-tale type stories and poems.
51. Berger, Terry, Ben's ABC Day, Children's, A small boy is carries out
activities that each begin with a letter of the alphabet.
52. Berry, Erik, Winged Girl of Knossos, Middleschool, Newbery book. A
reimagining of the escape of Theseus from the Labrinth and the Minataur, who
is assisted by the book's main characgter, a tomboy celebrated for her skill
in bull-vaulting.
53. Best, Herbert, Garram the Hunter: A Boy of the Hill Tribes, Children's,
1931 Newbery honor book. Set in Africa. Garram must go into exile to protect
his father.
54. Besterman, Cathrine, Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, The
Shoe King's Son, Children's, The story, based on a Polish fairy tale, of a
shoe king's son who outwits fierce animals and is sent on a quest for gold
and seven-league boots by a cat.
55. Bialk, Elisa, Jill's Victory, Middleschool, A 1950s story about an
expert young equestrian, Jill, who learns about the underpinnings of the 4-H
program when goes on a summer stay at the farm of her 4-H club member
cousins, Cissie and Jack.
56. Bianco, Margery Williams, Winterbound, Middleschool, Newbery honor book,
by the author of the Velveteen Rabbit. Two girls, still in their teenage
years, are called upon to assume adult responsibilities in caring for their
young siblings, when the parents have to go away suddenly.
57. Bielfeld, Horst, Guinea Pigs, Nonfiction, Excellent book on guinea pigs
and their care.
58. Bishop, Claire Huchet, Pancakes-Paris, Children's, Newbery honor book
When Charles is given a box of pancake mix by 2 American GIs for helping
them find their way in Paris, he is determined to find a way to understand
the directions so that he can his family crepes and bring back a shimmer of
the hope of pre-World War II Paris.
59. Blixen, Karen, Seven Gothic Tales, Fiction, Seven Gothic mysteries, in
the tradition of writers such as Goethe, Hoffmann, and Poe.
60. Bodker, C. Silas, Silas and the Black Mare, Middleschool, A fiercely
independent 19th century thirteen-year-old boy over comes several problems
to keep a black mare he won from a greedy horse trainer.
61. Bond, Ann Sharpless, Adam & Noah and the Cops, Children's, Adam and Noah
become mixed up in an adventure that includes a stolen boat, drug smugglers,
a runaway horse, and a woman about to give birth on the top of a
twenty-story building with a broken elevator.
62. Bond, Nancy, A Place to Come Back To, Middleschool, After Oliver's life
is shattered by the death of his guardian, he turns to his friend Charlotte
with urgent demands she finds herself unprepared to meet.
63. Borge, Victor, My Favorite Intermissions, Biography, Victor Borge's
autobiography.
64. Bowman, James Cloud, Pecos Bill, Children's, 1938 Newberry Honor Book. A
compilation of Pecos Bill stories. .
65. Bradford, Richard, So Far from Heaven, Fiction, The adventures of a
disillusioned executive who flees his life in the city for a New Mexico
cattle ranch.
66. Brand, Max, Devil Horse, Fiction, Big Red was the only man who could
handle a horse than hated men. 1922 Western.
67. Brandeth, Gyles, Famous Last Words and Tombstone Humor, Nonfiction,
Slightly twisted take on gravestone humor and last words that linger.
68. Bridgers, Sue Ellen, All Together Now, YA, A young girl befriends a
special man who had the mind of a child over the summer months.
69. Bridgers, Sue Ellen, Home Before Dark, YA, A coming-of-age novel named
the "New York Times" Outstanding Book of the Year and American Library Assn.
"Best Book for Young Adults," this is about Stella Willis, who has spent
most of her 14 years living out of a station wagon as her family loops from
one picking station to another, following the crops.
70. Bridgers, Sue Ellen, Notes for Another Life, YA, Tom Jackson's mental
illness is difficult for his entire family, especially for his
sixteen-year-old son Kevin who wonders if he has the same affliction.
71. Bridgers, Sue Ellen, Permanent Connections, YA, Rob is forced to spend a
semester helping relatives in rural North Carolina, partially to move him
away from his drug and alcohol laden life.
72. Bridgers, Sue Ellen, Sara Will, YA, A North Carolina woman living in the
mountains struggles against the "powers that be" to get a bridge built to an
island that was created by the construction of the Fontana Dam which happens
to contain her family cemetary. .
73. Brooks, Bruce, The Moves Make the Man, YA, Black basketball player
Jerome Foxworthy moves to an all white school and builds a close friendship
with Bix, a white natural athlete and excellent baseball player whom Jerome
secretly teaches to play basketball. .
74. Brown, Dee, Creek Mary's Blood, Fiction, Novel by the author of Bury My
Heart At Wounded Knee about a Creek/Cherokee woman and her descendants, set
from the Revolutionary War through to Wounded Knee.
75. Brown, Diana, The Emerald Necklace, Fiction, Leonora is married against
her will to save her father from debts to Etienne. For his part, Etienne is
very much in love with his wife and tries to please her but Leonora is a
childish and selfish young girl, unable to find any contentment in her
marriage despite the fact that she does have an attractive and attentive
husband.
76. Brown, Evelyn M., Kateri Tekakwitha, Religion, The life of Kateri
Tekakwitha, the first Native American who will be canonized in the Catholic
Church, which will happen in October of 2012.
77. Brown, Marc & Krensky, Stephen, Dinosaurs, Beware!, Children's, Sixty
safety tips are demonstrated by dinosaurs for home, meals, camping, in the
car, and other places.
78. Buff, Mary & Buff, Conrad, Big Tree, Children's, 1947 Newbery Honor
book. A giant five-thousand-year-old Sequoia called Wa-No-Na tells its life
story.
79. Bulla, Clyde Robert, Old Charlie, Children's, Two young brothers save an
old horse from being sent to the factory to be made into cat food.
80. Burglon, Nora, Children of the Soil, Children's, An early Newbery Honor
Book. The story of two Swedish children and their folk beliefs.
81. Burton, Philip, You, My Brother, Children's, Colorful historical novel
based on the life of William Shakespeare and his younger brother Edmund.
82. Butler, Beverly, A Girl Named Wendy, YA, A young Indian girl is torn
between her heritage and life as a white American.
83. Butler, Beverly, Song of the Voyageur, YA, Fifteen-year-old Diane
exchanges the comfort and security of her Massachusetts home for a one-room
log cabin in the wilderness that was Wisconsin in the early 1830s.
84. Byars, Betsy, The Winged Colt of Casa Mia, Children's, Uncle Coot had
been a hero in the movies, but he refused to play that part in real life.
Charles had nothing in common with his uncle, until a mysterious colt with
wings is born that they must help together.
85. Caffrey, Nancy, Lost Pony (aka Somebody's Pony), Children's, Two
children find a pony and convince their parents to let them keep him until
they find his owner.
86. Calvert, Patricia, Money Creek Mare, YA, Fifteen-year-old Ella Rae
Carmody has been trying to hold her family together since her mother left.
When her father brings home a crippled racing mare, Ella decides to steal a
breeding to her neighbor's prize stallion and sell the foal. When caught,
Ella faces some suprising consequences and choices from the aftermath of
what she's done.
87. Calvert, Patricia, Snowbird, YA, Following the murder of her parents
Willanna faces an uncertain future. She and her younger brother move from
Tennessee in 1883 to the Dakota Territory where she trains her first horse.
88. Calvert, Patricia, Yesterday's Daughter, YA, Sixteen-year-old Leenie is
bitterly determined not to let the mother who left her as an infant back
into her life, but a tentative friendship with a young photographer helps
her see the situation from a new perspective.
89. Campbell, Stu, Let it Rot, Gardening, How to compost.
90. Carr, Jayge, Leviathan's Deep, SF, A novel woven out of the conflict
that occurs when humans encounter an alien species on a world where the
females are taller, stronger, fiercer and more intellectually developed than
the males.
91. Carter, Forrest, Gone to Texas, Western, The Union Army killed Josey
Wales family and tricked his friends into a deadly trap. The Civil War is
over, but Josey is just starting his own personal war against those who took
the lives of his loved ones.
92. Carter, Forrest, The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, Western, The sequel
to Gone to Texas.
93. Carter, Forrest, Watch for Me on the Mountain, Western, A novelization
of the life of the Apache leader Geronimo.
94. Cavanna, Betty, Spurs for Suzanna, Middleschool, With an ill father, and
a working Mother, Sue's summer stretches ahead of her in Philadelphia. After
her mother's old friend invites Sue for a month on her horse farm, Sue
discovers that perhaps the country mouse isn't the one who needs to learn
manners and that a work ethic isn't to be sneered at after all.
95. Chambers, John W., The Colonel and Me, YA, Gussie's unwanted summer
riding lessons from Colonel Meslenko change her whole approach to living.
96. Chant, Joy, Red Moon, Black Mountain, Fantasy, Three children are drawn
into another world where a fierce conflict for power is waging.
97. Cherryh, C. J., Rimrunners, SF, Loki, a mercenary ship and bounty
hunter, becomes the site of a cat and mouse hunt for Bet Yeager, an elite
Earth Company Marine whose side lost.
98. Cherryh, C. J., Heavy Time, SF, Amnesiac pilot Paul Dekker is accused of
murdering his crew, and must get help from renegade miner Morris Bird to
find the truth.
99. Christopher, John, Empty World, YA, Apocalyptic novel following a
teenaged boy trying to survive in an empty England after a deadly virus
kills off most of the world's population.
100. Christopher, John, The Guardians, YA, England has evolved into two
distinct cultures: the modern, overpopulated "Conurbs" and the aristocratic
"County" who model their life after 19th century aristocrats. Rob, a young
conurb, becomes part of both worlds and must choose which--if either--is
right.
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