What are you looking for? Upcoming Library book sale!

Our local library book sale is Friday July 9th - what would you like me to keep an eye out for?

I'm not at all familiar with sci-fi, romance, etc so I'll be going strictly by author's in those sections.

I know I'll be scouring in depth: Children's fiction and non-fiction, parenting, history, education, cooking, and religion. Anything outside of those I'll cover if I can.

and they will be shipped either this month or the next - I know it says delayed on my BM profile but I'm shipping now as USPS wants to raise the rates again, and I'm trying to bank credits before they do so.

Ack! Raising rates again? *whines*

children's books I've had on my wishlist for awhile:
A Pony to the Rescue by Lois K. Szymanski
More Than a Horse by Carole S. Adler
We Go In A Circle by Peggy Perry Anderson
My Sister is Different by Betty Ren Wright

I would be ecstatic if you came across any of these!

hey dakota,

While you are in the cookbook area would you mind?

Pressure Cooker cooking
Canning

(I make large amounts of soups and some would keep better if not frozen.)

Also if any are heavier I will gladly mooch you extra points. I am looking for something fairly updated.

My search for Flowers for Algernon continues as well.

Thank you for looking.

As always, I'm mostly looking for science fiction and fantasy, but I'll list everything with authors:
C. J. Cherryh:
Heavy Time
Merchanter's Luck
Tripoint
Cuckoo's Egg
Brothers of Earth
Hunter of Worlds
Alternate Realities

Marion Zimmer Bradley
Red Sun of Darkover
Snows of Darkover
Towers of Darkover

Sheri S. Tepper:
Marianne, the Madame and the Momentary Gods
Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse

Octavia E. Butler:
Survivor

Maria V. Snyder:
Fire Study

Thanks for offering to help us look, dakotamidnight!

Any books by :

(Romance)

Anne Gracie
Jeaniene Frost
Lisa Kleypas
Nalini Singh
Kerrelyn Sparks

(Young Fiction)

John Flanagan
Kristin Cashore

Thanks again :D

I am looking for

Scifi/Fantasy
Ellen Datlow - Ill take anything
Marion Zimmer Bradley - Sword and Sorceress Series
ANYTHING Doctor Who :)

Young Adult
Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The Van Alen Legacy - Melissa De La Cruz
Hunted - P.C. Cast
Tempted - P.C. Cast
Burned - P.C. Cast

Thanks so much for looking!!

Yes, if you find any Dr. Who we want to hear about it! :P

For upcoming books in a reading challenge I would love to have:

Le Petit Prince The little prince in either English or French.(Children's book)
Short and sweet 101 very short poems
Oranges are not the only fruit
The brothers Lionheart (Another Children's)

Also looking for:
Champagne and polar bears: Romance in the Arctic
Any cookbooks dealing with dried goods/Food storage (Beans, grains, and the like).
Any Charlie Brown/Snoopy/ Family Circus/Hagar/Wizard of Id/ BC/etc in FRENCH! :)

Thank you so much for looking! :)

Thanks for checking :) :)

If you happen to find Wee Free Men and Hat Full Of Sky by Terry Pratchett that would be awesome!

Any more requests?

Today is the last day to get them in as I'll make my list up tonight.

Those looking for Dr. Who books - can you link to them so I get an idea what they look like for cover designs? It's often quite crowded at this sale and you have to grab fast.

Here are a few examples of the hardbacks...

Night of the Humans
Snowglobe 7
Monsters Inside

a few examples of the earlier paperbacks...

Doctor Who and the Daleks
Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion
Doctor Who and the Cybermen

and a few examples of the later paperbacks...

The Eight Doctors
Zeta Major
Amorality Tale

Thanks!

**edited because one didn't have a picture

Essentially' they almost always have "Doctor Who" displayed pretty largely on the cover.

If you wanted to know specific authors, some of them are...

Terrance Dicks
Justin Richards
Stephen Cole
Barry Letts
Gary Russell
Keith Topping
Malcolm Hulke
Kate Orman

just to name a few. :)

Thanks for looking for us!

Put me on the list for any Doctor Who Books!! :D

Thanks!

Adding a couple popular authors

Neil Gaiman
Robin McKinley
Cory Doctorow
Dianna Wynne Jones
Diane Duane
Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Anything by those will go fast.

Death in the Haymarket is very high on my wish list if you get to the history section.

Our library sale is the end of the month so I am watching the wants closely.

Thanks for doing this again!

More popular authors:
Terry Pratchett
Scott Westerfeld
Justine Larbalestier
Garth Nix (I am looking for Superior Saturday and Lord Sunday)

In history, if there's anything about China up through the Ming Dynasty (until 1644) that looks interesting? Any dynasty but the Qing, basically. You might like the stuff about the Jesuits in the Ming Dynasty. :)

I am mostly looking for comic book collections such as:
Owly (volumes 1, 4, & 5, by Andy Runton)
The Marvel Adventures line (multiple authors, but the covers say "Marvel Adventures" on them)
They would (hopefully!) be in the children's section, and are basically child-sized.

Also:
Blue Beetle
Gotham Central
The Spirit
NEXTWAVE
Manhunter
Anything whatsoever by Darwyn Cooke.
They should all have those titles on the cover.

Um, and I know Belladonna and Weelass have asked first about the Doctor Who books, but if there do happen to be any DW books, and there are several, and there's anything that says "Eighth Doctor" on the back, would anybody mind my looking first? *puppy eyes of horrific shamelessness*

My father is a romance book junkie. He has over 500 romance novels in his room but he is always looking for;

Montana Mavericks: http://www.fictiondb.com/series/montana-mavericks~13419.htm

or

The Westmorland's Series: http://www.brendajackson.net/page/westmoreland-series

He wants to read them all. So if you see any please pick them up. He keeps getting rid of the ones he has already read and then picking them up at the charity shop he donates them to. Thanks,
Missy

I'm going to go ahead and post mine, since it seems this is the library sale season for others as well.

I'm looking for:

Anything by Mary Fabyan Windeatt {This will be stories about Saints mostly}
Let's Read and Find Out Titles {children's science}
Catholic Stories for Boys And Girls all Volumes
Little Flower's Girls Club member books and leader and craft guides for Wreath's II-IV
Missals - Especially vintage
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
Worms Eat My Garbage
Smithsonian Backyard and Oceanic Titles
Anything by Ann Ball {these will all be related to Catholicism and crafts}
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum: A Guide to Catholic Home Education
Anything by Inos Biffi
The Five Chinese Brothers
Who Lives in This Meadow? A Story of Animal Life
Angel Food for Boys and Girls
The Father Brown Reader: Stories From Chesterton
Anything by Mary Ann Budnik
Anything by Thornton Burgess
Know Your Mass
751334::The Little Apostle On Crutches
Most books by Tomie DePaola
167086::Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons
253087::The Carrot Seed
McGee & Stuckey's the Bountiful Container
MCP Mathematics student and teacher's books
2703579::Crops in Pots
The Adventures of Sister Regina Marie A Worker for Jesus

Magic School Bus {MSB} Titles:
8633943::Magic School Bus Visits the Planets
610634::MSB Sleeps For the Winter
4812078::MSB Gets Crabby
MSB Inside Your Mouth
MSB To the Rescue: Flood
MSB And the Science Fair Expedition
MSB Gets All Fired Up
MSB In The Rain Forest
MSB Flies From The Nest
MSB Inside the Human Body Teaching Guide
MSB Weathers the Storm
MSB Arctic Adventure
MSB To the Rescue Earthquake
MSB Color Day Relay
MSB In the Bat Cave
MSB Adventures in the Food Chain
MSB Fact Finder: Whales
MSB Fishy Field Trip
MSB Wild Leaf Ride
MSB Rocky Road Trip
MSB Under Water
MSB To The Rescue Forest Fire
MSB Get's Cold Feet

And just about anything vintage Catholicism - I love vintage books.

Bcteagirl - Found a Copy of The Little Prince ISBN 0156528207 in English. Older copy, but honestly I don't think it was ever read. Can you find an angel to get it to you in Canada?

There was no Dr. Who sorry folks. The cookbooks were picked bare. Didn't see any of the requested Sci-fi, but I did see some best of sci-fi from the 80's if anyone would like me to go back for them.

Children's books were picked pretty bare too - I did find lots of science and reference titles, but that's about it.

I'm planning on going back either tomorrow or Sunday {or Both} as this sale is HUGE since they had an online bookseller donate their entire inventory - all 10,000 books! That had only brought out about half as they simply didn't have room.

And I remember someone was looking for The Royal Diaries books - I had one off your list and found two more today - Cleopatra and Eleanor. Both are pretty beat up hardbacks with library stickers, etc and corner wear.

Thanks so much for looking!!

17> I can send The Little Prince to Bcteagirl. You could just add it to the other two books I am already mooching from you, if you like.

That would be great Belladonna1975! I will message Dakota to reserve it for you! :)

Thanks for looking, dakota!

I'm going to the bookstore to trade in some books that have multiple copies already listed on BM, hopefully tomorrow. I'm not *planning* on getting anything for myself, but we all know how that goes. I'll definitely keep a lookout for what's listed in this thread!

Anyone interested in Mooching girlie magazine's like Teen Vogue, Cosmo, Rolling Stone, Self, Shape, etc. I'm doing a 3-for-1 special to clean out my shelves. Also I have previously used shipping envelopes different shapes and sizes, some padded, some not, but ALL able to ship books. I ship 6 envelopes for one point :)
http://bookmooch.com/m/inventory/drea3132

Hey all,
Sale starts tomorrow. I'm going on Fri for sure in the morning and then Sat in the morning and I may go on Sun too. All final requestes please have them in by tomorrow night.

Thanks,
~ Missy

Hey all,
Sale starts tomorrow. I'm going on Fri for sure in the morning and then Sat in the morning and I may go on Sun too. All final requestes please have them in by tomorrow night.

Thanks,
~ Missy

Ohhh....I wish I was going too...sighhhh

I'm looking for any hardcover copies of these Dresden books by Jim Butcher:

Storm Front
Fool Moon
Summer Knight
Grave Peril
Blood Rites
Death Masks
Dead Beat
Proven Guilty

I'd also love a hardcover copy of Lover Mine by J.R. Ward.

My youngest son is looking for hardcover copies of Warriors: The Power of Three number 4 and up by Erin Hunter and paperback Beast Quest books numbered 13 and up by Adam Blade.

My older son would like a copy of Ranger's Apprentice #8 by John Flanagan.

Thanks so much for offering to look!

Oh, I should probably ask that you not get more than three of the books I've listed if you find them. I only have 5 points and usually like to keep a couple in reserve.

If you find any copies of:

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series
The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore series
The Realms of Fantasy magazine (issues)

I would love to mooch them!

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Since all my favorite rivals have called dibs already, I'm going to go the non-fiction route because you mentioned there were science & reference books?

I do love hard science of all kinds. The nerdier the better. Not looking for textbooks, though, as this is for recreational reading. Chemistry would be awesome but biology, neuropsychology, cognitive science, math & physics are great too. Also books on all manner of linguistics, writing systems, history of language - stuff like that. If it looks like it should belong to a person with a pocket protector, I'm interested :)

Oh, all aspects of vision science too (which is covered under the above disciplines, but these in particular) especially on the matter of color.

Edit for reading comprehension fail on the dates *doh!* But still applies if anyone else has nerd stuff they'd like to unload.

hey, mac, you're describing my library!! and my pocket!!

>29 macsbrains: We must have a number of books in common then. I normally eschew pockets entirely because they are so hard to keep clean, what with my nerdity and all ;) A fortune in pocket protectors!

>29 macsbrains: and >30 skittles: - skittles and macsbrains, my library looks a little like that too! So now I know who to offer my moochable science books to. With my education being partly in math and partly in library science, I have to keep two separate sections of books on my shelves - the fiction section and the non-fiction (mostly science). Oh, I forgot the biographies, they also have their own section.

I don't have any pocket protectors but somewhere I have a working slide rule, and beware, I know how to use it! ;)

Both of you!

Where are your copies of the CRC Math book??

http://www.librarything.com/work/247122

No math library is complete without it!!!

(although, since calculators supplanted the tables & the formulas are all available online... I suppose you don't really need it)

>33 skittles: Oh, now I have to tell the sad story. My absolutely ancient CRC was in the basement with my old college textbooks and all my choir music, and we had a really bad flood, and...

*sniff*

I lost the CRC and four! full scores of Handel's Messiah! Not to mention a Mozert Requiem score and

*I can't go on*

> 29 to 34

Ahhh... the CRC Handbook... although mine was the CRC handbook of chemistry and physics. I worked in a research library for over ten years, and that was a favourite reference work.

I love science books too, especially geology, but also chemistry, genetics, biology, etc.

I just can't imagine, mlnelson01, how awful it must be to lose books in a flood (or any other disaster), but especially ones that are close to your heart.

Getting back on topic:
I'm still trying to gather together all of the Darkover series, by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

I have accumulated quite a few, but I am still looking for:
"The Heirs of Hammerfell"
"Falcons of Narabedla"
"The Planet Savers"
"Exile's Song"

I would also appreciate any vegetarian (or vegan) cookbooks that you might be able to find.

Thanks for being willing to look!

>32 mlnelson01: Seriously, I love my slide rule. Always have. I found it in the house when I was a kid and I adopted it. No one in school ever knew what it was. I even used to play with it with my toys (made a wonderful extending bridge). Poor thing sits on my bookshelf now unutilized. Lonely slide rule.

>33 skittles: Book pretty! I never had a copy, but now I would like to see if I can find one. We had lots of reference material in the house growing up but mom got to keep them when I moved out. As a child, this is what I could find on the bookshelf: Dr. Seuss books, an encyclopedia, a PDR, medical reference texts, the occasional cell biology book, and a reverse dictionary (I did take this one with me). Mom was obviously not a believer in fiction. My dad had the golden age sci-fi, but I was a teenager by the time I raided his shelves (and then I took them all with me when I subsequently moved out of his place.)

>34 mlnelson01: That is a hearbreaking story :( I love Baroque music. I attended a concert of Mozart's Requiem as a kid in Carnegie Hall - it was difficult, trying to find someone willing to sit there with me. Such a loss :( *sympathizes*

Oh ouch! I still have some books stored in a basement, and live in fear of something like that happening :(

I have some neuro type books, you guys are getting me motivated to start reading them again.

ps- Statistics ftw!!

#37: get those books OFF THE FLOOR.. even a few inches. I've lost books to a flood, too... plus the cement will wick water into the box & the books!!!

Even putting them on a wooden warehouse pallet would be better.. two pallets high is great, too.

and, yes, some will say that if you get them 5" off the floor, it will guarantee a 6" or more flood!! But I doubt it.

>37 Bcteagirl: - Skittles is right! Books in the basement need to be off the floor. But my books were on a shelf 5" off the floor, when the bad flood came. Now everything (at least what is still down there) is on the second or third shelf. I went to the local Home Depot and bought those plastic shelves that come all taken apart - they are light but strong, and easily moved. Now everything is way up off the floor. My really valuable stuff is in big rubbermaid bins, up on the shelves.

Sorry everyone, to be way off-topic. Skittles, should we start a "book disaster" thread? Or would that be too depressing?

#39: There have been a few on the LT talk threads/groups.

One LT member actually lost all of his books in a fire & only had the list on LT to prove what he actually owned... and can now rebuild it...

We could call it "How to try & prevent book disasters"... not that you could really totally prevent them, but suggestions on what you could do to prevent certain problems.

But a thread like that belongs in the Book Talk thread or in the Bookshelves thread: Build it and they will fill....

and there are more stories....

39: They are all on the second shelf or higher, that is the best I can do at the moment.

40: Reminds me of a story of an acquaintance of mine.. she was almost done her thesis, she had a copy on her computer, a copy printed out, and a copy on hard disk (Now called floppy disk for some reason.. those small plastic square ones.. hopefully you remember that real floppy disks were much larger). Anyway, she made the mistake of storing them all in one place, and where her apt. building caught on fire *all* copies were destroyed.

She managed to rewrite most of it.. but it took a while. Don't put all your books/eggs/back up copies in one place!