Going to a special booksale on Friday...

Hi,

I'll be making a trip into one of our local booksales to raise money for the diabetes associations on Friday. If it's the same sale as last year, they allow you bring in two reusable grocery bags and charge you five dollars for each and it's up to you what books you put in it.

Because I've been a whiner lately, far more than I'm comfortable with, I was hoping that I could get some ideas from you guys re: things on your wishlist that I could look for. Last year there were tons of New Age, Zombie, Fantasy and Science Fiction novels but as I don't read them, I don't know what's good or not. I want to turn over a new leaf and be a more positive force her and perhaps maybe on BookMooch when I calm down. My aunt wants to beef up her account and have more sending out books before she starts mooching!

I'll be away for a couple of days - we are going down to the new house that's almost finished having work done to it so we want to take some pictures.

I love book sales. Can you tell me where it is being held

Oooh, Elizabeth - book sale + trip to new house. :)

I am looking for a very hard-to-find book by Barry Hughart - The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox which is all three in one or The Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen if separate. I have the first but cannot even find the others to buy at a reasonable price.

And one other Blood Pact by Tanya Huff. Apparently I'm not looking for this one - see #5 (naughty!)

I don't like leaving huge lists so will leave it at those two (four).
Don't expect much luck finding them, doesn't matter either, but I hope YOU have a good time. :)

BTW, I wouldn't be so down on yourself... I don't think you mean to be anything but responsive. :)

#3 Lman is NOT looking for a copy of Blood Pact and ALWAYS ruins surprises grrr :D

Oh?

O' kayyy...

# 3 & 5 But I am :-)

I am trying to complete several series, and would be happy to mooch any books from them that I haven't got already.

Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe Series
Tanya Huff's Blood Series (as noted above :-))
Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series

Books for Keeps would happily mooch any Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld, the Captain Underpants series, the Junie B. Jones series, etc....

Ok, you guys honestly made me laugh out loud! Lman, you are hysterical - you remind me so much of my father - he will give me a list of old movies that he would like to receive for Christmas and I'll tell my mother which ones I've got. Then they travel to Edmonton to the BIG MALL (as my twins still call it even though it's been 5 years since they have been there) and my mother says she literally has to follow my father around HMV or whatever store they are in and rip things out of his hands. And don't get me started on books - he does the same thing.

>2 Gerri007: I can't remember the little town where it's held because it's been a couple of years since I've been there - back in the days of having three children instead of four. You drive from Port Hope north on Hwy 28 I think and the church in Bewdley (from what my husband is telling me). The sale runs Wed-Fri and so I'll be there on the last day... I hope I can still find things! But it's mostly children's books, mysteries, romances and science fiction. They don't go much for the bestseller list.

I will do my best! Everyone (my aunt, my parents-in-law, my sister-in-law) has given me a list to look for so I will not be bored!

Most Zombie books will find a home! I am putting some together and I know a couple other bookmoochers on Librarything who are as well :)

I am keeping an eye out for:
Blackbird singing: Poems and lyrics 1965-1999
Any Food Storage books or cookbooks, cookbooks for beans/lentils/rice/dry goods
Night of the Triffids (Which is the sequel to Day of the Triffids)

The Best Laid Plains
Essex County or any subset of (Canadian Graphic Novel).

Good luck!!! :) And have tons of fun, book sales are great things.

FYI: to the group regarding zombie books & parodies.

I came across a new one: Jane Slayre a parody of Jane Eyre which I love... and I don't normally look for parodies of this type, but saw this & will give it a try.

I just acquired a zombie book today! Not sure if I will want to read it, but it is about a zombie falling in love with a live person or something.

Books!

- You cannot go wrong with Terry Pratchett. See a Pratchett, pick it up!
- Also Doctor Who/Torchwood/Sarah Jane Adventures books. One of us will want it.
- I have been looking for Lee Edward Fodi's Kendra Kandlestar books. They are for children. He's Canadian!
- Ummm anything to do with Due South (the 90s TV show)

>12 chelonianmobile: Agreed, any Pratchett will go quickly!

Also any Scott Westerfeld, not just the Uglies series. I'm particularly looking for one of his old, out of print books called Evolution's Darling.

Another out-of-printer I've been unable to find is Robin's Country by Monica Furlong - this will probably be with the kids/YA books.

Patricia C. Wrede, Jo Walton, and Margo Lanagan are fantasy writers that have more than one book on my wishlist.

Thanks for looking!

I am still looking for many of the Dear Canada, Dear America and Royal Diaries books from Scholastic. They are all YA books, all hardbacks. The series are quite popular on BM, so if you find any, they are sure to go.

Thank you for thinking of us! :)

Oh, yes I agree Dr. Who!!! Even in exlibrary condition I will take them if I don't have them yet.

I'm always looking for books by Nigel Tranter (very hard to find in the US), but since I already have 54 of his books, there are only a handful I don't have! These are the ones I am particularly desirous of obtaining:

Triple Alliance
Trespass
Hope Endures
Fair Game
Harsh Heritage

Edited to correct touchstones

Elizabeth thanks so much for considering us!

I'm looking for HC versions (with DJ if possiable) of Tamora Pierce's older books, The Lioness Quartet (Alanna the first Adventure, In the Hands of the Goddess, The Woman Who Rides like a Man, Lioness Rampent), The Immortals Quartet (Wild Magic, Wold Speaker, The Emporer Mage, The Realms of the Gods), Page (Protector of the Small Quartet), Trickster's Queen, Her Short Story Collection Young Warriors and Jack Dann's and Gardner Dozois's The Dragon Book (ISBN: 9780441017645). I collect HCs so I'm looking to complete collections with these.

Softcover or mass markets for Tamora Pierce's Terrier, Bloodhound, Melting Stones and The Will of the Empress would also be nice (I use these to read so my HCs don't get damaged).

I'm also looking for a few Rick Riordan's books The Sea of Monsters and The Titan's Curse in HC with DJ. I would also like to have The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian in softcover.

I could give you a longer list but I'd rather leave that to others. Honestly those two authors should be snapped up rather quickly so picking them up wouldn't be a bad thing. If no one mooches them in a week I'd be suprised.

~ Missy

Did someone mention zombies?!!? I'm looking for the following zombie related books:

Eve of the Dead by Nathan Tucker
Plague of the Dead: The Morningstar Saga by Z.A. Recht
Domain of the Dead by Iain McKinnon
Apocalypse of the Dead by Joe McKinney
The Dead by Charlie Higson
The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology by Christopher Golden
Kings of the Dead by Tony Faville
Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen
The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks

Thank you so much for the offer! I will be extremely happy if you find any of the above mentioned books :D

I really doubt it, but I might as well put these out there, since you are being so thoughtful:

Rage: A Love Story and Grl2Grl by Julie Anne Peters

The Truth About Dracula by Gabriel Ronay
The Bloody Countess by Valentine Penrose
Countess Dracula by Michel Parry
Dracula Was a Woman by Raymond McNally

(sensing a theme? lol I have little hope of ever finding these, so I list them whenever someone might possibly stumble across them)

# 16

I LOVE Nigel Tranter. I am still missing so many of his books. I have to start catching up at some point :-)

#20

He is one of my favorites! It took me a loooong time to acquire 54 of his books in the US! I would offer to let you mooch them, but I know I will never let them go! ;-)

I had some duplicates I put up for mooch way back when I started with BookMooch, but they went quickly. If I ever come across any others, I will definitely let you know!

Oh, and I thought of another book I would love to have, since you so kindly offered!

The Mystic Rose by Stephen R Lawhead

I have the first two in the Celtic Crusade trilogy, but I won't read it until I have all three! I'm weird like that!

# 21 Hell no, I wouldn't dream of letting go of my Tranter's eaither, you never know when you might want to re-read them. Don't asl me how often I have read the Bruce trilogy.

(And sorry for hijacking this thread :-))

If you find any, I'd like to have newer knitting books, anything that isn't dated. There are a lot of knitters on BookMooch, and knitting books don't come up that often!

Looking for some obscure stuff:

anything by David Foster Wallace
Daring Spectacle:Adventures in Deviant Journalism by Mark Morford
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
anything by Edward Whittemore
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

Thanks for looking...

Well, we didn't end up going to the book sale because my husband got worried about the pending snow tomorrow morning (although they are saying now it will only be 5-10 centimetres)... however, I found a used bookstore in Cobourg that I will be living at when we move! I got some Bernard Cornwell books, alanna the first adventure but in paperback, and two mysteries by margaret frazier that I wrongly assumed my aunt might like. I've listed them all under her name since we're trying to make the change.

Shucks, the Touchstone feature is not working.

I could not find a single book by Terry Prachett! Now is that not weird? Maybe everyone in Cobourg is a fan?

>26 momtorghj: Not that weird, really. Most people tend to keep Sir Terry. :)

Yaaaaaay a used bookstore!

Ooh,oooh, Margaret Frazer books???
What's your aunt's BM name???

Noice - love used book stores!

>25 karenmarie: MAN. I wish I'd known you were looking for the Partly Cloudy Patriot a few weeks ago. A Borders in town was closing down, and they had about ninety-billion remaindered copies for about $2 apiece. :(

>28 Lman: My aunt's id is auntjento7 but I think they've been asked for... But now that I know you are looking for them, I'm going to Value Village here in Newmarket this week and I KNOW I saw a bunch of them the last time I was there. I should've known she wouldn't want to read them because she's dismissed similarly written series like Peter Tremayne etc.

>30 momtorghj:
Elizabeth, that's so sweet - thank you!

#29 MsCellphone - wah! I really like reading Sarah Vowell. Oh, well, maybe another time.