[bksvol-discuss] Updated march give away list
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:05:42 -0400
Dear Booksharian friends,
Please contact me off list at
airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
to tell me which of the following books you'd like me to mail to you free to
scan and keep. Feel free to contact me if you'd like any of these to be
added to the wish list or if you are offering to validate.
The missing numbers show which books on the first list have been requested
and mailed.
In late April I'll send more titles of books for younger readers and more
titles of books for adults, too.
Please help if you can fit any of these in your scanning schedules.
Always with love,
Lissi
Juvenile or teen books
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.
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.
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
herding 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.
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!
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. Shelley, did you say you were going to scan this.
I may have missed your message.
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.
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 Czech boy is planted in
the U. S. at age 12, gets a degree at Princeton and is close to the
Secretary of State.
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 have 2 copies of this in case the validator wants a copy.
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.
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.
37 A Love Divine by Alexandria Ripley hardcover 712 pages, A massive
historic novel by the author of Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind.
This is the story of Joseph of Aramethea, the Jew who loved the sea and
Sarah promised to another in a forced marriage. He survives the Roman
occupation of Palestine, and travels to Rome and ancient Britain, has a
crippled daughter and eventually meets Jesus. Meets Amber W's criterion as a
chunkster.
39 Secrets Volumes 1 and II The best in Women's Sensual Fiction Hardcover
by various authors 214 pages and 208 pages totaling 422 in one volume. It
says it's for the adventurous, sensuous, daring woman.
40 Pretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana Hardcover 444 pages,
Fictionalized bio of the famous robber, a young smiling country boy who
starts his criminal career in 1925 in St. Louis, robbing armored cars. He's
a charmer to almost everyone but his victims and the Federal agents who are
after him.
41. The Heartbreaker Carley Phillips Hardcover 275 pages, asks the question
can a heartbreaker become a good husband? Chase, the Heartbreaker falls for
a Senator's daughter, with secrets which can put them both in danger, and he
finds himself falling in love and even thinking marriage.
42. Likely To Die Linda Fairstein Hardcover, 393 pages, a Sex crimes
prosecutor deals with a devastating case of murder in a medical center. A
hospital, Medical School and Psychiatric center are built over a maze of
tunnels whose homeless inhabitants can put on white coats and scrubs and
roam the hospital at will, so there are too many suspects making the murder
more difficult to solve.
43. The Lives and Times of Bonnie and Clyde by E R Milner Hardcover includes
index 187 pages, carefully researched using primary source material, legend
is separated from fact. Bonnie and Clyde committed murders in at least 4
states, policemen, a prison guard, a Sheriff, and citizens were killed.
Bonnie and Clyde were finally ambushed on may 23 1934.
44. The Theban Mysteries, Paperback Amanda Cross, 191 pages, a woman comes
back to her alma mater, an exclusive girls' school in New York City to tach
about Antigone which has relevance to these sophisticated girls in a world
of sex, drugs and shrinks. Then a student's mother is found dead, killed by
fright.
45. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elizabeth
Robinson, Hardcover 327 pages, Olivia's Hollywood life is a wreck. Her last
movie failed and she was fired, her boyfriend dumped her and her blonde hair
is coming in dark. Then she faces a problem which matters more. Her beloved
sister is seriously ill, her sister who lives in the town where they grew up
married to her high-school sweetheart.
46 Light in the Shadow by Jayne Ann Krentz hardcover 369 pages, Psychic
interior decorator Zoe helps her clients rebuild their lives. She hires a
detective to investigate a client she senses has dark secrets. As he
investigates the client, he begins to find out too much about Zoe and her
past. Romance
47. Winnie the Pooh on Management by Roger E. Allen hardcover 161 pages,
another take on management analogies. One of the chapter names, paraphrasesd
is III In Which Stranger, Pooh and Rabbit discuss how to set goals and
organize and Pooh forgets to sing his manager song.
48. Clouds of Witness the Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy
Sayers hardcover, 409 pages, classic mystery in which the dandyish amateur
detective, Lord Peter, while vacationing in France, helps his brother who is
being held for the murder of their sister's fiancé.
49. The Fourth Perimeter by Tim Green hardcover large print 469 pages, Kurt,
a retired federal agent who raised his son alone after his wife died, is
notified, years later that his son who has become an agent like his father
was assigned to guard the president and committed suicide. Kurt refuses to
believe it was suicide and investigates.
50. Surrogate Sister by E Bunting, Hardcover 215 pages, 16 year old Cassie
is made fun of at high school because her widowed mother is pregnant with a
stranger's child and is a surrogate mother. The kids say, "Cassie's mother
does it with strangers for money."
51. Running Scared, by Elizabeth Lowell 552 pages Large Print, set in Las
Vegas, acquiring a Celtic gold piece is at the center of a novel of suspense
and passion.
52. Six weeks by Fred Mustard Stewart hardcover 184 pages, no dust cover. I
don't know what this book is about.
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