books for cheap.

[subjective]

i sorted my books tonight to see which ones i absolutely must ship to california & which i can let go. i tried to be ruthless.

if you're interested in any of these, i'll send them to you for the cost of shipping (you boston locals are in luck). i was just going to donate them anyway. (hey amy, can you tell me the protocol for donating to the prison book project? do i have to drop them somewhere or will they come pick them up?) leave a comment if you want any of them, please.



children's/chapter/YA books
that was then this is now (s.e. hinton)
higgelty piggelty pop! (maurice sendak)
true north (kathryn lasky)
the summer of the swans (betsy byars)
one-eyed cat (paula fox)
fourth grade celebrity (patricia reilly giff)
the secret of nimh (robert o'brien)
the thief (megan whalen turner)
alice in wonderland (lewis carroll) -- hardcover, brand new, gorgeous
letters to judy: what your kids wish they could tell you (judy blume) -- hardcover
klippity klop (ed emberley) -- hardcover picture book
the giving tree (shel silverstein) -- hardcover, brand new
lily's crossing (patricia reilly giff)

fiction
stranger in a strange land (robert heinlein)
the crown of columbus (louise erdrich & michael dorris)
a thousand acres (jane smiley)
kiss of the spider woman (manuel puig)
woman on the edge of time (marge piercy)
the beet queen (louise erdrich)
neverwhere (neil gaiman) -- missing the front cover
brown girl, brownstones (paule marshall)
boys like her (taste this)
wise blood (flannery o'connor)
a tree grows in brooklyn (betty smith)
dessa rose (sherley anne williams)
emma (jane austen)
rubyfruit jungle (rita mae brown)
big blonde & other stories (dorothy parker) -- very slim volume of her short stories

non-fiction
simon & schuster handbook for writers, 3rd ed. -- hardcover
reviving ophelia (mary pipher)
anatomy of hatha yoga (h.david coulter) -- hardcover, brand new, i had two
between east & west (luce irigaray)
don't know much about history (kenneth davis)
yoga & the quest for the true self (stephen cope)
wounds of passion (bell hooks) -- hardcover
bitch (elizabeth wurtzel)
eleanor roosevelt (blanche w. cook) -- biography, volume 1
the bell jar (sylvia plath)
ariel (sylvia plath)
gather together in my name (maya angelou)
reasonable creatures (katha pollitt)
discontents: new queer writers (ed. by dennis cooper)
a woman's guide to martial arts (monica cardoza)
wild mind: living the writer's life (natalie goldberg)
the night trilogy (elie wiesel)

vegetarian/cooking
vegetarian times cookbook
this good food: contemporary french vegetarian recipes
simply vegan cookbook
the inner art of vegetarianism (carol j. adams)
living among meat eaters (carol j. adams)

plays/scripts
arcadia (tom stoppard)
who's afraid of virginia woolf (edward albee)

x-files related
unofficial x-files companion (n.e.genge) -- seasons 1 & 2
scully x-posed -- my mom sent me this for my birthday, it's biographical stuff about gillian anderson & scully
the nitpicker's guide for x-philes (phil farrand) -- seasons 1-4
x-files short novels series:
* darkness falls (#2)
* tiger, tiger (#3)
* squeeze (#4)

magazines
bitch #12: bell hooks, lynda barry, guerrilla girls
bitch #13: sarah dyer/action girl, ann powers, paula kamen, karen eng
punk planet #37: lance from j church, stella marrs, q & not u, "crime & justice" issue
punk planet #38: "voices of the new left" incl chomsky, biafra, queer to the left, ruckus society
the progressive apr 2001: interview w/arundhati roy, health benefits
the progressive may 2001: cali public schools, amber hollibaugh, robert reich
the progressive june 2001: quebec city protests, interview w/jesse jackson jr
the progressive july 2001: kids & mental health care, interview w/george carlin
the progressive aug 2001: bush's "global gag rule," nuclear warfare, amartya sen

Comments

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

tobesters,

i would like to claim: higglety pigglety pop and brown girl.

re: donations: you can pretty much bring them by any night that people are packing up books (which is usually tuesdays and thursday from 6-9:30, altho sometimes they open late.)

the more obvious thing to me is that it doesn't seem like your particular collection of books is what prisoners usually ask for (i.e. they're likely to sit around for a long time on the shelf). i don't know if it's too much work, but you might want to look into other places to donate ... maybe an elementary school that's under-libraried (isn't that all of them?!?!) or a college LGBT resource center, or a women's center or something.

[subjective.livejournal.com]

yeah i was thinking about that when i was sorting through. it looks like kelli is gonna take the rest of leftovers anyway. thanks for the info though! shall we meet in davis sq some time this weekend so i can give you the two you want?

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

yay! yes! that would be an excellent idea. i can give you the letter i wrote to you and never mailed and that way it will at least feel like *something* of a trade :)

maybe early morning on saturday? you like early mornings, oui?