[bksvol-discuss] last chance, please help me move free books to submittors!
- From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:02:49 -0400
Dear Booksharian submittors and validators,
These books have been sent to volunteers to be scanned
Au81. Sexual Values Opposing Viewpoints
Au82. Vlad the Undead,
Au84. Warrior Marks:
Au87. The Divine Sarah:
Au88. Secret Sanction
Au89. Blowing my Cover, My Life as a CIA Spy by Lindsay Moran
Au811. Showa The Age of Hirohito
Au815. Bittersweet Revenge
Au816. Gladys Aylward: Adventure of a Lifetime,
Au818. The Age of Terror America and the World after 'September 11, edited
by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda,
Au819. The Far Sands
Au823. Russia's Heroes 1941-1945,
Au825. The Nixon Recession Caper
Au827. A Girl Named Disaster
Au828. Straight talk about prejudice
Au836. The Last Days of Eugene Meltsner
Au837. Jim The Boy
Au839. Getting Dumped and Getting Over it
Au841. The Million Dollar Shot
11 more books have been mailed free to volunteers. If I know what you like,
I can let you know off list if I come across books I think could float your
boat.
I still have scads of books to offer, mystery, espionage, Christian, kids
and teens, SF, fantasy, biography, and more. I was stunned nobody was
interested in scanning the bios of Eric Clapton and Tennassee Williams. If
nobody takes it, I might rescue Tennassee, as I love bios of writers.
I also have other books I'd send to scanners who would be willing to let me
validate. For example I'm looking for a scanner for a book called Horns in
the High Country about wild mountain sheep, and Parrallellities by Alan Dean
Foster Passenger to Nowhere, and The House of Dolls. By Barbara Comyns. I
wouldn't be ready to validate them for about a month, give or take so there
would be no pressure. Let me know if you would be willing to scan and let me
validate. I'm not interested in the books I'm listing below for giveaway
which follow the list of books already chosen.
Here is what is left on my list from this month's selection and last May's.
If nobody is interested they go to Paperback Swap or to a library book sale
from whence most of them came ing the first place.
Please contact me at airadil@earthlink. Net and a huge thank you to the to
the 7 submittors who have packages in the mail from me of books to scan!
Isn't networking grand?
Adults
Au83. Ava's Men: The Private Life of Ava Gardner by Jane Ellen Wayne,
hardback, 268 pages. A sharecropper's daughter she became one of Hollywood's
last love goddesses. Her fame brought her joy and sorrow. Her southern drawl
was so thick Louis B. Mayer couldn't understand her. She was given intensive
diction lessons. She had her pick of handsome men, but her third husband,
Frank Sinatra, was the love of her life. Etc. etc.
Au85. Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery by Peter King,
Hardcover, 249 pages. The detective is sent to find the best chef in Italy
and
given a beautiful guide. He's being distracted in his delicious task by
Buffalo,
and airplanes trying to run him down and by the discovery of the body of an
agricultural magnate floating in a swimming pool.
Au86. Sign of Chaos, the new Amber Novel by Roger Zelazny, hardback,
214 pages. Sequel to Blood of Amber, for SF fans. It is set in a world
where\
technology doesn't work, but magic does. The princes and Princesses can
move magically between worlds.
Au810. Senator for Sale: An Unauthorized Biography of Bob Doyle by
Stanley G. Hilton, Hardcover, 300 pages. Disturbing portrait of Doyle by a
Senatorial aide. He makes the case that Doyle curries favor and brokers with
Special interest groups for power, that he flip flops on issues and that he
Helped construct the two most expensive tax bills in American history. This
one that could either be considered outdated or historic.
Au812. The Survivor by Tim Champlin, in the collection as good so a BSO
Could upgrade it Large print hardback, 300 pages, about 200 pages in regular
print. Marcel was a prisoner in the French prison in Guiana. His eighth
escape attempt succeeds but he's arrested again and imprisoned in California
where he escapes and hides in a deserted mission. French cutthroat
mercenaries are sent to capture him and destroy his manuscript which reveals
secrets about the French foreign legion. He and McGraw from Wells Fargo,
flee to New York with the book. Suspense novel.
Au813 In My Father's House the years before "The Hiding Place by Corrie ten
Boom, hardcover, about 195 pages, Bookshare has a book by the same name but
I think it's by a different author. Tells of her first 50 years. She was
born in 1892 and lived in Holand over a watch shop. She was materially well
off. Her family sheltered and hid foster children and hunted jews. She tells
of the people who shaped her life, her wise father, her aunt who came to
visit and stayed for 40 years and Jesus who was like a member of the
family..
Au814 Playing with Cobras by Craig Thomas Hardcover 319 pages Hyde who has
retired from the secret service and is coaxed to help with the case of an
agent who saved his life being held by the Italian government for the brutal
murder of his mistress.
Au817. Safe Encounters: How women can say yes to pleasure and no to unsafe
sex by Beverly Whipple PH.D., R.N. hardcover 219 pages, by the co-author of
the G spot. Balanced approach to safe sex
Au821. McNally's Trial by Lawrence Sanders, hardcover, new, about 310 pages,
is in the collection but only rated good. Archy and fuzzy headed helper
Binky are told by the beautiful treasurer of a funeral home that there's too
much turnover lately. He's attracted to her and gets the know the family who
own the business, the dying wife, the doting husband and the smooth and silk
salesman son, Oliver. A volunteer has asked to validate this book so you'll
get it in the collection fast if you pick it.
Au822. Beyond The Stars by David William Ross, hardcover, 430 pages, like
new, Bookshare has Eye of the Hawk by this author. Western, tale of 3 men's
search for treasure against the war torn territory of the declining Indian
nations..
Au824. Do I Stand Alone? Going to the mat against political pawns and media
jackals, By Jessie Ventura, Hardcover, 262 pages, Ventura warns against
expecting too little of our elected officials.
Au826. Hemingway's Notebook, the new November Man Novel, by Bill Granger,
Hardcover, 247 pages, November and his lover Rita are lured to an island by
a blackmailing mercinary who wants them to discover if a revolution is
brewing in the mountains there. They meet an American agent who claims to
have a notebook kept by Hemingway during the Bay of Pigs.
Au829 Giovanni's Gift a Novel by Bradford Morrow, hardback, 324 pages, The
print isn't fancy, but it's too light and small. I can't read the text or
the flaps, so there's no description for this one. In an oval on the front
cover is a woman's face. She has a rose in her hair, but I can't tell how
she looks otherwise. Anybody daring?
Au831 The Body in Cadiz Bay: A Superintendant Bernal novel by David Serafin,
hardcover, 192 pages, Bernal is a portly Spanish investigator. He and his
wife are in Cadiz for Holy week. While his wife contemplates the divorce he
has asked of her, he is drawn to the investigation of the body of a
foreigner found in the water, dead but not by drowning. This is a police
procedural in a setting not often written about.
Au832 Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed, Hardcover, 225 pages, Campus
intrigue at Jack London University where a young, black professor hopes to
attain tenure by adopting popular opinions. He is failing as the school
plans to give the position he wants to a feminist newcomer. The tutor
teaching him Japanese is suddenly made school president when Japan buys the
university and campus surprises continue.
Au833. The Humanoid Touch by Jack Williamson, Hardback, 210 pages, The
collection needs a BSO. The copy Bookshare is rated only good with no
synopsis. About one of Williams' classic topics, the final conflict between
men and machines. Keith, discovers a force which can defeat the invading
machines which try to manipulate man's every belief. sometimes with the help
of his discredited father, he is trying to awaken people to their proximity
to disaster. I'd be willing to validate this if you needed a validator.
Au842 Hannah More and her circle by Mary Alden Hopkins, hardcover, 266
pages, very charming looking older book, Copyright 1947, First Edition.
Hannah lived in England during the last part of the 18th century and first
part of the ninteenth century. She was a dramatist, fiction and non fiction
writer, author of light verse and religious tracts. She became wealthy from
her writing and the author feels Hannah has a lively personality.
Au843 The Cold Truth by Jonathan Stone, hardcover, 276 pages, no dust jacket
but in great condition. From what I can read, which is little, as I muddle
as little print as possible, this is a police proceedural. It does start out
with an exclamation of bad language so it's not for the cozy mystery fans,
more gritty cop stuff and suspense.
Kids and Teens
Au830. Thomas Edison The Great American Inventor by Louise Egan, oversized
old but clear paperback, 165 pages. For 12 and 13 year old readers, nto
inspire and entertain, from the Profiles in Science for Young People Series.
Au834. The allegiance: Becoming Beka Book 2, by Sarah Anne Sumpolec,
oversized paperback, 240 pages. When she goes back to school, she has tough
choices. In the drama club, Gretchen who has the lead part and is most
popular, takes an interest in Beka and she enjoys the popularity at the
price of joining in the smear campaign against Beka's Christian friend,
Lori. Mark wants to spend more time with Beka behind her father's back.
Au835. The Leftovers Use Their Heads # 3 by Tristan Howard, paperback,
78 pages, Reading level 2.7. Catherine, Matt and Lucy expect soccer to be
Easy because they are stars of their baseball team. They are shocked to find
They really stink at soccer!
Au838. Joel and the Great Merlini by Eloise Jarvis, winner of two Newberry
awards, hardback, 59 pages. When he's nine, Joel who's hobby is learning
and doing magic tricks, somehow conjures an overenthusiastic genie and
learns his own real magic is best.
Au840. Bionicle Challenge of the Hordika by Greg Farshtey, paperback,
128 pages, all text,for upperelementary kids based on characters of Leggo
building toys.
Au842. Islam Opposing Viewpoints Jennifer A. Hurley book editor, hardcover,
154 pages with Bibliographies etc at the end which aren't required if they
are a problem to scan.
Books left from May
5. Horace Splattly: The Cupcaked Crusader, When Second Graders Attack, Book
2, by Lawrence David, trade paperback 154 pages. All the food in town has
been replaced with bad-tasting snoodles, and kids are throwing gravy snack
cup-bombs.
6. Tale of the Unfinished Masterpiece, book 4 of The Rugrats Files, A Time
Travel Adventure, by Maria Rosado, trade paperback, 139 pages, ages 8-12.
The rugrats go to sixteenth-century Florence, Italy, looking for a palace
and Leonardo da Vinci and hoping to fix their broken flying machine.
7. The Big Bang Theory, Butt-Ugly Martians, book 1, by Gerry Bailey, trade
paperback, 84 pages. Martians--Doo-wah Diddy, 2-T-Fru-T, and B,Bop-A-Luna
are sent to conquer the Earth, but they love fast food, video games, rock
music and humans, so they befriend three kids.
10. Invasion of the Appleheads, Deadtime Stories, book 2 of 10, by A. G.
Cascone, paperback, 128 pages. Their parents are turned into shrunken old
applehead dolls, the witches and ghouls look real, can Robin and Andy stop
something rotten in Appleton?
11. Blast Off If You Dare: Stories from Space Mountain, by Cathy East
Dubowski, trade paperback, 88 pages. Aliens, mosters and spaceships gallore.
12. The Otterbury Incident, by C. Day Lewis, paperback, 190 pages. An
imaginative novel about young kids playing football.
13. We Wish You A Scary Christmas, by M. T. Coffin, #16 in the Spinetinglers
series, paperback, 135 pages. Santa may be gone for good. Strange people
have a prisoner in their basement. You may be captured too, if you help him.
16. Nighty-Nightmare, by James Howe, sequel to Bunnicula, paperback, 121
pages. Bunnicula's friends have adventures staying in the woods overnight.
Ages 8-12.
18. The Skeleton on the Skateboard, number 2 in the Graveyard School series,
paperback, 120 pages. Skate and Vickie want to learn secrets from a new
skateboarder to beat mean Eddie in a contest, but may have to make deadly
moves in return.
20. Starbright and the Dream Eater, by Joy Cowley, hardcover, 139 pages. Why
is the twon worried about a mysterious sickness, that Starbright thinks is a
media scare? Then Mark, her best friend, falls asleep and won't wake up.
23. The Worm Tunnel: A Finnegan Zwake Mystery, by Michael Dahl, paperback,
163 pages. Thirteen-year-old Zwake, and his uncle, a mystery writer, are
digging for dinosaur eggs and dig up murder. Zwakes parents are missing as
well.
24. Laggan Lard Butts, by Eric Walters, paperback, 108 pages. High interest,
low vocabulary. A quitter never wins, and a Lard Butt never quits.
26. Mucho Madness: Spy Kids Adventures Number 3, by Elizabeth Linhard,
paperback, 136 pages. Going to visit Nana in Spain, the kids are told to
stop a crazy architect using a chemical to make everyone extra sleepy.
27. OSS Wilderness: Spy Kids Adventures Number 4, by Elizabeth Lenhard,
paperback, 128 pages, ages 8-12. Carmen and Juni go to OSS for camp for
training and fun. The director is hypnotizing campers to take over the
world.
28. Superstar Spies: Spy Kids Adventures Number 7, by Elizabeth Linhard,
paperback, 139 pages. The kids are sent a rock star whose talent comes from
a jewel that gives power to the owner.
32. The Haunted Trail: Phantom Rider Book 2, by Janni Lee Simner, RL 5, ages
10-12, paperback, 139 pages. Star is chasing Pepper, who throws Callie.
Callie wonders if her horse, Pepper, really loves her before the world goes
dark.
33. Ghost Vision: Phantom Rider Book 4, by Janni Lee Simner, RL 5, ages
10-12, paperback, 137 pages. Callie helps to clear the land for their new
house and pool to earn horseback riding lessons.
34. Trial by Fire: Bionicle Adventures Number 2, by Greg Farshtey,
paperback, 136 pages. The Toa are searching for the Disks of Power to defeat
Morbuzakh.
35. Escape to Deer Island: Twin Adventure Escape, by Jeanette Windle,
paperback, 125 pages. Justin is in danger alone in the freezing wilderness
at night.
Adult Books
40. Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton, by Michael Schumacher,
hardcover, about 385 pages, with discography 1964-94, timeline and index.
41. The Purification Ceremony, by Mark T. Sullivan, hardcover, 335 pages.
Diana is at home in the Maine wilderness. She goes with seven hunters to
British Columbia to track white tailed deer and resolve issues in her past.
43. Bad Medicine: An Ella Clah Novel, by Aimee and David Thurlo, hardcover,
350 pages. Former FBI agent, Ella, has returned to the reservation and
investigates a politically sensitive case while protecting a dear friend
from unjust persecution.
45. Tennessee: Cry of the Heart by Dotson Rader hardcover, 348 pages. Friend
of Tennessee Williams writes memoir of the playwright's final years.
Includes hundreds of anecdotes, some feature famous people like Marlon
Brando, Norman Mailer, Castro and Elizabeth Taylor.
49. The Love-Powered Diet: When Will Power Is Not Enough, by Victoria Moran,
hardcover, 309 pages. Includes menus, about 30 recipes, a short index and
bibliography.
51. A Case of Curiosities, by Allen Kurzweil, like new hardcover, 358 pages.
Curiosities found in Paris after two centuries trace adventures of a young
man destined to be France's most gifted inventor, begins when Claude is ten
years old.
Thanks for hanging in and reading all of the lists.
Always with love,
Lissi
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