Share the Love! Tell Us What You Donated! (2006 Drive)

I spent a number of years living in Mississippi, and during that time, my parents spent a number of hours in Gulfport, gambling on the riverboats. So this one’s for Dad.

I sent books to a place that took his cash, but I sent them my favorite books — ones that often end up on banned lists. So I’m even more impressed with Gulfport. They’re starting with some great titles.

This is why there are five copies of The Catcher in the Rye [School and Library Binding], five copies of Animal Farm [School and Library Binding], and two copies of Brave New World [Library Binding] on their way. Those books made me think differently about myself and my place in the world.

And, like Dave, I just want to thank everyone in advance for helping out again this year with another book drive. It’s been fun watching this thing grow. Have I mentioned before the good Karma? People get good luck from donating to the book drive. It’s true. I’ve heard stories of good dates, tests passed, promotions landed — all from sending a book to a library. It’s like a pricey wishing well. Toss in a book and see what happens!

We added an order from Biloxi Library’s Wish List in honor of Tara Ariano and Jacob Clifton, for being so generous in every way and such kick-ass writers, to boot.

In Tara and Jacob’s honor, Biloxi Libary will be receiving The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry (Hardcover) and, fittingly, Anatomy of Wonder : A Critical Guide to Science Fiction Fifth Edition (Hardcover)

I couldn’t resist the allure of giving books to those in need — not that I tried to.

I sent Story of a Storm: A Book about Hurricane Katrina (Hardcover) and Your Pregnancy & Newborn Journey: A Guide for Pregnant Teens (Teen Pregnancy and Parenting series) (Paperback) to Margaret Sherry Library.

We just checked out the Biloxi wish list and saw that they lost all of the children’s section. So in honor of M. Small and his love of books, we also sent:

Elmer’s Weather (Vietnamese- English)
Brian Wildsmith’s Farm Animals (Vietnamese edition)
Brian Wildsmith’s Animals To Count (Vietnamese edition)
Animal Colors (Vietnamese Edition)

We can’t have kids with nothing to read. We simply can’t.

Another TWoP ‘Scaper who couldn’t resist donating some children’s books to the Saucier Library. I sent:

The Hello, Goodbye Window
Whittington
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

I sent two books to the Gulfport Library: Lord of the Flies and The Grapes of Wrath. Thanks Pamie and Glark!

The Gulfport Library will soon be getting:

Catch-22
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (book 4)
and
Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (book 5)

because I love both the absurd and the magical. A

Time to give back to the public library system after taking so, so much. The Children’s and Young Adult Literature Handbook is on its way to the Boloxi Library. Pamie and Glark, way to be awesome.

Every library should have a great children’s section, so the Biloxi Library will soon be getting a slew of kids books.

[Thanks, Vicki. Do you mind telling us what you sent, or at least how many books? It helps with our tally. -- pamie]

I sent 1984 to Biloxi.
Thanks for the opportunity to make this donation :)

I bought three books for the Saucier library branch.

Oh, David!

Good Boy, Fergus

Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!

Thanks so much!

Well drat. I didn’t cut-n-paste the books off the Biloxi Library’s wish list before I finished the transaction, and no they’re gone from the list. That’ll teach me to be efficient.

Anyway, one for the kids: The Seven Magic Brothers: and a couple to help with getting folks back into livable houses: Survival Spanish for Construction and Easy to Learn Construction Spanish. Last time I checked, most “learn Spanish quick” programs and books didn’t include words like “spackle,” “drywall,” “footing,” “tarpaper,” or “2-by-6.”

Incidentally, Glark and Pamie, and everyone else, Saucier and Pass Christian libraries have both had their wish lists completely cleared, as of 11:00 AM, June 11th. Here’s hoping that they add new items soon, so the generosity may continue unabated.

I’ll be sending the Dewey Donation page to a couple of mailing lists that I know are populated by readers.

Glad I was able to help again this year. I decided to spread my donation across multiple branches and age groups as follows:

Margaret Sherry Library:

Toot & Puddle: Top of the World
Toot & Puddle (Toot & Puddle)
Gossamer
Through Georgia’s Eyes

Pass Christian Library:

Good Boy, Fergus

Orange Grove Library:

Size 12 is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog
Queen of Babble : A Novel

DIberville Library:

Dirty Blonde
Gone

I donated in honor of Jacob and his awesome Battlestar Galactica recaps:

The Discoveries : Great Breakthroughs in 20th-century Science, Including the Original Papers by Alan Lightman, because science education is important, and reading the original papers is a great way to learn how science is done.

Star Wars Trilogy (Widescreen Edition with Bonus Disc) because it makes me smile and I hope it will bring someone else joy, too.

I’m a librarian, and the idea of a library without new books makes me wanna cry. Thanks for the opportunity to not cry!

To Margaret Sherry Library, a fun teen fic trilogy:
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Specials by Scott Westerfeld

To West Biloxi, nonfiction:
Successful small game hunting (I may have an irrational fear of squirrels)
Kids draw manga
Build your own home on a shoestring

From their wish list, Biloxi Library received “Dead Watch” by John Sandford, as well as the DVD “How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way” by Stan Lee. (The comic geek in me could not resist.)

I plan to dontae more soon! Thanks,you guys, for doing this!

Shannon
Las Vegas,Nevada

You all are amazing! I’m so glad to be able to participate in something like this.

In honor of my 2006 quest to read the classics that I somehow missed during my years as an English major, I purchased Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (Vintage International) and Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea (Scribner Classics) for the Gulfport Library.

Then I threw in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition) for good measure, because everyone needs a little magic in their lives. :)

Kat

You guys rock and we’re thrilled to have an opportunity to participate this year.

I’m a Food Scientist by training (and I am sympathetic to Pamie’s plight) so West Biloxi is getting these two books:

“Let’s Eat Out!: Your Passport to Living Gluten And Allergy Free ” by: Kim Koeller; and

“Celiac Disease : A Hidden Epidemic” by: Peter H.R. Green.

Since it has such an awesome title, we also sent West Biloxi:

“Choosing Civility : The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct” by: P. M. Forni.

Thanks again for organizing this!

The Book Drive is my favorite time of year! I’m a librarian, so I’ve been quite concerned about the libraries in Louisiana and Mississippi. This is a great selection for the beneficiary of this years drive.

I sent two William Faulkner books, Absalom Absalom & Light in Augut, to the Gulfport Library. I don’t like Faulkner, but as a Librarian I’m bound to defend other people’s rights to read what they want. :)

[Now that's a cool librarian. -- pamie]

For Margaret Sherry Memorial: one practical book and one for the kids:

Lilly’s Big Day

Building an Affordable House : Trade Secrets for High-Value, Low-Cost Construction

I just sent a copy of Rebel Angels over to Margaret Sherry. Because that book was good and should be shared with others.

I am a nerdy genealogist, so I ordered a bunch of genealogy books for the Biloxi library:

Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, Third Edition, Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records, Family Tree Guide to Finding Your Ellis Island Ancestors, The Family Tree Problem Solver: Proven Methods for Scaling the Inevitable Brick Wall, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy, 2nd Edition, Walking With Your Ancestors: A Genealogist’s Guide To Using Maps And Geography, and Everything Family Tree Book: Research and Preserve Your Family History.

I donated Whittington by Alan Armstrong and Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson to the Pass Christian Library.

I love the library book drive! I sent the following three books to the Pass Christian Library:

Each Little Bird That Sings
Honey… Honey… Lion!
Princess Academy

I sent the following to the Saucier Library:

Pirate–DK Eyewitness Book (because pirates ROCK!)
Angelina and Alice–Angelina Ballerina
Rhymes and Riddles to Rattle your Reason

I sent some things off the Amazon Wishlist to the Biloxi Library

My dear little brother died last year – the day Katrina hit (in no way related to the Hurricane). To honor him, a few of his favorite books from when he was a kid are headed to Pass Christian. He really loved The Giving Tree and really loved to be read to.

The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein (It’s so good I sent 2)
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Jon Scieszka
Love You Forever – Robert N. Munsch
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs – Jon Scieszka
Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book 2) – Peggy Parish
Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping (I Can Read Book 2) – Amelia Bedelia Helps Out (I Can Read Book 2) – Peggy Parish
Come Back, Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book 2) – Peggy Parish

Yaaaay, I have been waiting for this year’s drive. Congrats on the website – what an amazing undertaking.

I donated to the Saucier Library:
How I Became a Pirate – because “gaaaarrrrrr”
Dinosaurs – in memory of my brother
Ivy and Bean – gotta get the free shipping

Thanks for coordinating!

Um, that’s the Margaret Sherry library and I donated:

Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late
Crouching Father, Hidden Toddler
Blue Girl
Conquering Postpartum Depression

I have tons of extended family in New Orleans and near the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and though thankfully none of them were physically harmed during the hurricanes, some of them did lose homes and businesses. I love Mississippi and Louisiana, spent many a summer there as a child, and I’m so glad Pamie and Glark set up this website to get the word out and give us a way to donate.

I donated these books to Saucier Library:

Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems (’cause the little ones need something to read, too)
Sand Dollar Summer by Kimberly K. Jones

I spent so much time at the Vernon Township Public Library during my childhood and adolescence, reading Lowry and others, and I think YA novels are crucial for bookish kids who need an outlet. Yay for donating!

I sent some of my favorite books to the Gulfport Library.

The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Thanks for the link on 50 Books Doppelganger!

I sent A Tale of Two Cities to the Biloxi Library.

I sent 3 CDs to the Biloxi Library:

Hairspray
Little Shop of Horrors
The Drowsy Chaperone

howdy: what a great idea this is! i donated the following books to the orange grove library, but i bought used instead of new, so that i could buy more. so these items have not disappeared off the wishlist yet. you might want to remove them, unless you want duplicates :)

The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
The Scarlet Letter (Everyman’s Library (Cloth)) – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Pigs in Heaven – Barbara Kingsolver

(oops – I sent my books to West Biloxi)
sssh!

I bought a CD of The Lion King – a bit of light relief is probably needed.

This drive is a great idea – thanks for thinking of it!

I donated 4 books to the Saucier library in Biloxi: “Luck (Outdoor Adventures)” by
Jean Craighead George, “Oink?” by Margie Palatini, “Please, Puppy, Please” by Spike Lee and “The Rabbit Who Couldn’t Find His Daddy” by Lilian Edvall.

Three books, to the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library. Judging by the wishlist, you must have a fabulous YA librarian — I’m going to have to check out Stolarz myself. :-)

Just Listen – Sarah Dessen;
Blue Is For Nightmares – Laurie Faria Stolarz; and
Drywall : Professional Techniques for Great Results – Myron R. Ferguson

For the Biloxi Library:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Big Book of Children’s Reading Lists
Renovation: Completely Revised and Updated

Something classic, something useful for the library, and something useful for everyone.

I, Claudius and To Catch a Thief (DVD) are on their way to Gulfport Library (http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html/squishy/103-7659916-8 641405?%5Fencoding=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=E9ME412E0OL1)

I haven’t bought a book of my own in years because of the excellent collection in my local libary collection. Libraries Rock!

I sent the West Biloxi Library Harvey Girls (love that movie), and Stephen Hawking’s a Briefer History of Time.

Thanks for organizing such a fantastic campaign.

As a TWoP member I can’t pass up the opportunity to help out with anything that Glark and Co. ask for if I can.

Books were (and are) such an important part of my life and of my childhood that I felt compelled to donate a few items from the Saucier Library Wish list. I’m sending them:

“The Little Fir Tree”
“The First Day of Winter”
“Ruby and Bubbles”

What a wonderful thing this is you are all doing for our libraries – I thank you so very much on behalf of all our staff who have worked so hard to restore service to our patrons. Your generosity is very inspiring and will be an enduring gift, helping to get our libraries back to serving the needs of our communities for a brighter future. Thank you.

I’m a Librarian and I can attest that there is nothing more irritating than having lovely new books and not being able to put them on the shelf because you can’t finish processing them.

So I’ve given the Margaret Sherry Library their last two requested rolls of book tape and their laser labels. With 5000 labels in a box that should keep you going for a while!

Hey hey!

I donated The Giver, Bridge to Terabithia, and A Wrinkle in Time because I loved them growing up, and they really sparked my imagniation. I also donated The Sound and the Fury
because it was on the Wish List and is a classic. All of these books went to Gulfport. Also, got you some free press. Glad I could help!!

I’m sending Prodigal Summer and The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver to the Gulport Library…because I loved them! I’ll spend the rest of the day with a little smile on my face…I love donating books. Thanks for making it so easy.

I sent:
Knuffle Bunny : A Cautionary Tale
Cheep! Cheep!
Sesame Street – The Best of Elmo
to the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library in honor of my dad (Father’s Day) and mom (60th birthday), who taught me to love reading.

A very wise, lovely old man once told me, “I believe our treasure is in Heaven; but if you’re going to build up a treasure on Earth, make it books.”

I donated John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America) (Hardcover)
, Writers of the American South : Their Literary Landscapes (Hardcover)
, and Creators : From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney (Hardcover) to the Gulfport Library. Even though I’m not personally enamored with Southern Writers, I thought it was only appropriate that the people of Mississippi have access to writers from their own region.

Thanks to Doppelganger for sharing this opportunity with her readers! I plan to mention it to my own (tiny) readership.

P.S. Pamie & Glark: I couldn’t figure out how to add myself to the donation map, so if you wouldn’t mind adding a “Gina” to southwest (Boise) Idaho, I’d appreciate it.

I sent:
Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
and The Wizard of Oz (Two-Disc Special Edition)
to West Biloxi.

I can’t afford to do much right now, but I couldn’t resist helping a library in need. I hate to think that children in the Gulf Cost region would not have access to an institution that was so important to my childhood.

I donated to the Gulfport library. There weren’t too many books left, but there was a movie from my childhood (sort of): Star Wars Revenge of the Sith — the best of the prequel movies IMHO.

OK, you got me. I just cam back from the library with my three kids and thought of how lucky we are to live in a city with such a great children’s library.
I ordered two books from the Saucier Library’s Wish List:

Picasso (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists)

I Am Not Sleepy and I Will Not Go to Bed (Charlie and Lola)

Thank you to M. Giant for sending me over! I sent 5 books to the Pass Christian Library, since they need kids books and the wish list is empty. How can I not share the book love when I have enjoyed such reading love about M. Small?

Anyway, I sent Moo Cow, in honor of M. Small, and a bunch of touch and feel books.

I sent the Pass Christian Library a copy of Cesar Millan’s “Cesar’s Way,” which was the last one they had available on the Amazon wish list.

I went down to Mississippi after the hurricane to volunteer for a month and I had the opportunity to visit Biloxi. I could not believe the devastation I saw. It would have been overwhelming to me, but the residents there were determined to rebuild.

I chose Kiplinger’s Buying and Selling a Home and Udo Schmidt’s Building Kitchen Cabinets from the Biloxi Library’s wishlist. I figured many people would be buying homes and fixing damaged kitchens. When I was a kid, my parents remodeled our entire house using fix-it-yourself books and it’s a wonderful house.

Thanks to Glark and Pamie for setting this up. You do a lot of good.

It just plain makes me happy to think of folks using the West Biloxi library having access to two movies I loved last year, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Junebug. I hope they enjoy them as much as I did.

I’m proud to support this great campaign another year. Keep on keepin’ on, guys.

In honor of librarians everywhere, Biloxi Library has a copy of Bonte’s Wuthering Heights on its way.

No one should ever be deprived of Heathcliff, Hareton and the Catherines’ antics!

I gave Susannah’s Garden by Debbie Macomber to the D’Iberville Library and Meg Cabor’s Size 12 is not Fat and Queen of Babble to the Orange Grove Library.

I hope this helps.

Dabney

I sent Fawlty Towers to West Biloxi Library

I sent a copy of Cracking the GED, 2007 Edition (Test Prep) to the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library. I also sent Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition) to the Biloxi Library. Thanks for organizing this Pamie!

“The Little Red Hen” and “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” to Saucier Library

Two books I remember from my childhood – the ladybird version of the little red hen is the very first book I can remember reading.

When I approached my local library about getting books to Katrina stricken libraries, I was told I could only donate books to my library, which would sell them through Friends of the Library and “a portion of” the proceeds would be sent to the affected areas. Thank you to everyone involved in this effort for making helping libraries directly possible – and much more rewarding.

I sure hope there are some strong backs amongst the HCLS staff, because round 2 (which will ship tomorrow) contains:

The Poisonwood Bible (not purchased through Amazon, so if only one copy is sought, someone may wish to update the entry manually)
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Trial and Error: The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution
American Psycho
The Cat Who Cried for Help
A Treasury of Modern Mysteries
The Empiricists: Locke, Berkley, Hume
Mystery (Peter Straub)
Hearts in Atlantis
The First Immortal
The Power of One
Foundation (Asimov)
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Time and Again (Finney)
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles
Murder Gone Mad
Rose Madder
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Cider House Rules
From a Buick 8
The Age of Reason
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Merry Devils
Playtraining Your Dog

I hope these books bring the patrons as much pleasure as they have me. I could ramble on about each, but that would take time away from scouring the shelves and storage locker for more books that would benefit the library more than they will me.

[Wow. There's a Stephen-King loving dog owner in Harrison County who just jumped up and down in joy. Thank you! -pamie]

“Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “The Threepenny Opera” for Biloxi Public Library.

“Babbitt” and “The Awakening and Selected Short Stories” for Gulfport.

Gulfport will be receiving “Main Street”, in honor of my small-town Minnesota upbringing.

So I’m reading through all the fun DVDs everyone has sent and keep getting a twinge of…is it sender-envy? A fever? Some kind of bookdrive-itis? Whatever it is, I’ve got it bad! So I decided to send a second helping – this time to Gulfport.

From their wishlist:

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Sound of Music

And courtesy of the impulse shopping gene I got from my Mom:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Complete Fifth Season*
Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Complete Sixth Season
All of Me
All That Jazz
Grease
Quills
The Goonies
The Virgin Suicides

Another thing I got from my Mom was the luxury of spending as much time as I wanted in the library and the permission to haul home a paper grocery sack full of books every week. She’s not a reader – but she sure raised one.

* FWIW All the Buffy Slim Set DVDs are currently on sale for $19.95 @ amazon

[Allie just sent the majority of my DVD collection. Thanks for spreading the Goonies love! - pamie]

I sent the book on Van Gogh from the Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists Seriesto the Saucier Library. We used these books in my elementary school, and I absolutely loved them.

I found my way here via John Scalzi’s blog.

I sent “Lake of Skulls” and “The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine” to the Margaret Sherry Library. I chose “The Scavenger’s Guide” because I read the description and thought, “Dang…I want to read that!” Then I added “Lake of Skulls” to the order because that made it $25 and I got free shipping from Amazon. :-D

This is an awesome idea, and I was really happy to have the opportunity to participate.

I bought one of my all-time favorites, “The Great Gatsby,” off of the wishlist for West Biloxi. Hope it helps!

Back for round two. On their way to the Saucier:

From my daughter, Eldest by Paolini.
From my son, Little Grunt and the Big Egg by Tommie dePaola (who came to his school and was way cool!)

And from me, a book on da Vinci, so that someone else can do a biography on him for English class and be truly amazed at his greatness.

Hugs to all the “Marion the Librarians” in Mississippi who get to process and shelve all the goodies! (The Music Man was in our first shipment to Gulfport.)

And thanks, TWoP, for pointing us here.

What a great idea and a great site. I sent a how to knit video to Biloxi (in honor of Mom, my Aunts, and grandmothers) and two videos to Gulfport.

I’ll be back.

I’ve added:

Among the Hidden
Among the Imposters
Among the Betrayed

mostly because that type of book frames most of my excellent childhood memories. Brilliant idea, awesome charity, and can’t wait for some kids to enjoy cracking the spines on those volumes and getting a heady whiff of that fresh-book smell.

I noticed in the Margaret Sherry wishlist that children’s magazine subscriptions were high priority because they were all cancelled due to a lack of funds, so I decided to help out again by donating subscriptions to “Nickelodeon”, “National Geographic Kids”, and “Sports Illustrated for Kids”.

I sent An American in Paris and Dr. Strangelove to the Gulfport Library. No one should ever be without these amazing movies. I only wish I had more to give.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004RF9F/qid=1150292747/sr=8-1/ref= pd_bbs_1/002-2428614-4988842?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000055Y0X/qid=1150292824/sr=1-1/ref= sr_1_1/002-2428614-4988842?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130

The Margaret Sherry library is getting a copy of The Devil Wears Prada — and hopefully a chance to escape the stress of daily life, which is why I love this kind of book!

I am a librarian so I couldn’t resist. This is a great fundraiser. I purchased the children’s book “The Most Perfect Spot” for the Saucier Library.

Thanks for the opportunity to do this!

Saucier Library is getting my favorite L.M. Montgomery books:
The ever popular Anne series
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of the Island
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne’s House of Dreams
Anne of Ingleside
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside

and the lesser known
Pat of Silver Bush
Mistress Pat

In addition, off their wishlist, they’re getting
“Charlie and Lola: But Excuse Me That is My Book” b/c even though I’m 24, I watch this in the mornings as i’m getting ready for work b/c it’s the best show ever.

What a great idea. Looking throug the lists, I really wanted to give something I knew would be enjoyed. On the Margaret Sherry Library list there they were: Richard Scarry’s Best Videos Ever! (Learning Songs, ABCs, and Counting) They were such a hit at my house that the tapes are worn out, so the kids in Biloxi should have a great time with the DVDs. I also got Elmo’s World and Sesame Street Songs too, just to spread the love a little.

I donated 12 months each of National Geographic for Kids and Sports Illustrated for Kids to the West Biloxi library. I was sad to see they had to cut the subscriptions, because magazines are great for reluctant or slow readers – short, interesting articles, lots of pix, and new stuff every month!

I also pimped your site on my kidlit blog and my library school’s student organization blog. Thanks for doing this – it’s so great.

Gulfport Library got 2001: A Space Odyssey

https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/summary/edit.html/102-5960518-4534517?%5 Fencoding=UTF8&orderID=104-4467887-1211916

Enjoy, Gulfport!

What a wonderful cause! I wish I could do more!

I bought from Orange Grove’s wishlist. I donated ‘Fahrenheit 451′ and ‘1984′ because those are classics I think everyone ought to read in their lifetime.

I donated ‘The Penderwicks : A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy’ and ‘Duck and Goose’ because, as a preschool teacher, I think every child deserves a wealth of books to read.

And finally, ‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel because after reading that book and having the opportunity to hear a lecture from Wiesel himself, my life will be forever changed.

I sent the West Biloxi library 3 books from their wishlist on women’s health:

Do You Really Need Surgery? A Sensible Guide to Hysterectomy and Other Procedures for Women

The Yeast Connection and Women’s Health

100 Questions & Answers About Migraine

One of my favorite things about libraries is how they give people free access to information on all kinds of topics, so that people are better able to make informed choices. I hope these three books will help women feel more confident about discussing their bodies and any medical issues they might have.

I’m back again today, because I can, and because I can’t help it. A kid needs a book? You had me at “hello”.

Going to the Orange Grove library, chosen because my daughter has enjoyed them all:

Time Warp Trio Box Set, Books 1-4 (4 BOOKS HERE, PEOPLE)
Hoot
Olivia’s Opposites

Being both a clerk at a bookstore AND a NASCAR fan, I donated a copy of NASCAR (from DK”s Eyewitness series) to the Saucier Library.

Random TWoPer here. The Biloxi Library is getting The Martian Chronicles, and the three-book Asimov Foundation series becuase they were on the library’s wishlist and I just happen to be reading both right now. Whoo hoo for books during summer re-runs!

I ordered three of my favorites for the Biloxi Library: Frankenstein, Time and Again, and The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide.

I hope it helps!

Ok, I couldn’t resist buying more books! I’ve decided that I’ll check books out of my library this month instead of buying for me. So … for round two:

West Biloxi is getting: Drywall – Pro Tips for Hanging; and Decks – Dream it, Plan it, Build it

Margaret Sherry is getting: My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman (I love her!); and The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

The Doodle and I donated three great books to Saucier Library: Saint Francis and the Wolf, Wildest Brother, and Teeny Weeny Bop. Hopefully, after the next paycheck, we can decide on another library to donate to. Thanks for yet another wonderful opportunity!

Hi – for Mom, I sent the book about Celiac, as she has this disease. What a great idea this drive is!!! Glad to be able to participate….

Just sent the West Biloxi Library the following:
- Drywall: Professional Techniques for Great Results
- Building an Affordable House : Trade Secrets for High-Value, Low-Cost Construction

because I hope that they can help a family repair or build their home.

I’ve been reading pamie.com and Television Without Pity for years. Thanks for all the laughs and for organizing such great charity events.

I donated a copy of Lord of the Flies http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399501487/ref=wl_it_dp/104-4097085-1 684765?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=30I209BRKV5Z0&coliid=I2Y0XJWBAY57BK&v=gl ance&n=283155
to the Orange Grove Library in place of giving my Dad a Father’s Day gift. He was a College English Professor and I know he will appreciate this more than a gift on Sunday.

As a wannabe librarian and a mom of a six year old I was thrilled to send two kids’ books to the Orange Grove Library (http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/30I209BRKV5Z0/ref=ord_cart _shr/102-5451821-7548964). I chose The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane & Inkspell because they looked like books I would have loved as a kid. Thank you for bringing this wonderful way to help to my attention.

I was thrilled to be able to give two books of poetry to the Biloxi Library – the newest work by Donald Hall, our new National Poet Laureate, and an anthology of American War Poetry.

Books are a window, an escape, a reminder, a record. Books keep us from being lonely, books expand the soul as well as the brain. Books are the best material thing to share.

Thank you all so much for putting together this wonderful System and letting us be a part of it. You rock!

I wanted to donate some books for the children. I know how much I love reading with my son and I thought that others would enjoy this too. I ordered:
A color of his own

Chester’s Way

Goodnight My Duckling

These books are going to the Saucier Library.

Pass Christian updated their wishlist, so they’re getting Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me by Maya Angelou.

What a fantastic idea – there’s no way on earth I could skip a chance to rebuild a library! I ordered two books for Biloxi, Siddhartha and The Red Badge of Courage. I hope that some kid will enjoy them as much as I did. God bless everybody who is taking part in this.

I HAD to donate the Sister Wendy DVD set to Biloxi – because Sister Wendy cracks my sh*t up!

I sent the following books (sorry, I’m not good with links)
To Biloxi:
The Odyssey
Dune

and to Saucier:
Ellington Was Not a Street
Julius, The Baby of the World
To Every Thing There is a Season
Her Stories
A Weekend With Wendell

This time last year, I was teaching English at the University of Southern Mississippi’s campus in Long Beach. I had an apartment about three miles down Hwy 90 from the Pass Christian branch, and I often checked out fun books to read on a bench on the Long Beach city pier. I left Long Beach on August 27 and never went back — there was nothing left to go back to — but I am happy to be able to do something for my former students and colleagues still trying to make a go of it on the Coast.

The pier may be gone, but maybe someone can take T.C. Boyle’s Talk Talk and a folding chair down to the beach and forget FEMA, insurance, and the new hurricane season for a few hours.

I picked from the Biloxi Library list, and sent:

Madeleine L’Engle’s
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Many Waters

and

That Hideous Strength from C.S. Lewis
The Pool of Fire – John Christopher
The Sheep Look Up – John Brunner
Barns, Sheds and Outbuildings: Plan, Design, Build – John D. Wagner

I was hoping to go to MS in May to help with rebuilding, but the trip fell through. So I’m happy to be doing this small part to help. And libraries, can’t live without ‘em!

Like others before me, I wasn’t planning on buying anything, but scanning the wishlists, I felt the tug at my heart. I can’t imagine life without Boynton books – I’m a recent college graduate who can still recite my favorite lines from them, so the Margaret Sherry Library is getting Boynton’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 and Boynton’s Greatest Hits: Volume 2 from me.
Thanks for all your great work!

As a TWoP SciFi’er and a huge fan of Max the Bunny -
(“Shh! Boat!”, said Max)…

To the Saucier Library:

God Bless the Child,
AIDA,
Frederick,
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book,
Many Thousand Gone : African Americans from Slavery to Freedom,
The Girl Who Spun Gold,
Bunny Party,
Bunny Cakes,
Ruby’s Beauty Shop (Max and Ruby),
Bunny Money

My son and I sent some of our favorite books to the Pass Christian library.

The Scrambled States of America
So You Want To Be President?
Roxaboxen
Night of the Moonjellies

And because my son says, “All kids should be able to learn about science,” we also sent My Big Science Book.

Because I like the ancient Greeks, I sent the Biloxi Library “The Theban Plays” by Sophocles. And because I love Audrey Hepburn, I sent the Gulfport Library “Paris When It Sizzles.”

I was born in Biloxi and I’m a librarian, so with that combination in mind my husband forwarded this website to me knowing that I couldn’t possibly resist. I purchased the three-volume “New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture” for the Biloxi Library from Amazon…and it looks like such a great title I’ll probably buy it for my library as well!

Best of luck to you!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679600124/ref=wl_it_dp/002-9835794-5 544013?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=29EOX41WSQDCE&coliid=IPWWYP5X7XQBO&v=gla nce&n=283155 is on its way to Biloxi Library– because who doesn’t like a little Victor Hugo?

For the Saucier Library:
The Most Perfect Spot [Hardcover]
By: Diane Goode

Saint Francis and the Wolf [Hardcover]
By: Richard Egielski

All Aboard the Dinotrain [Hardcover]
By: Deborah Lund, Howard Fine

I sent Gulfport Library the Pamela Dean trilogy – The Secret Country, The Hidden Land, and The Whim of the Dragon. I discovered them in high school and still re-read them to this day, over 20 years later. And I also sent them the DVD of my favorite movie, Reservoir Dogs.

As a native Mississippian and librarian, I cannot thank you guys enough for the Dewey Donation System. Pass Christian (Images of America) and Maritime Biloxi (Images of America) are on their way to the Biloxi Library.

Books and music – two fuels for the soul and spirit…that is why Biloxi Library is receiving The Invisible Man and The Time Machine by HG Wells, Giant Steps by John Coltrane and Original Delta Blues by Son House. All classics of their respective genres; all food for the soul, imagination and spirit.

I am a firm believer that all children should have access to the wisdom of Calvin&Hobbes. Those books certainly shaped my childhood.

So, I sent the Orange Grove library:
Something Under the Bed is Drooling
Weirdos from Another Planet
The Revenge of the Baby-sat
Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons

Mine is a mix – The Watsons go to Birmingham (good book), Don’ let the Pigeon drive the Bus (just sounded fun for the kids), Courthouse research for family historians (I’m a passionate genealogist, so don’t want them left out), The hardest Deal of All, the Battle over school integration in Mississippi (interesting book). These are all going to the Biloxi Library, in honor of a friend who was living there at the time.

I was born in Biloxi – my dad was stationed at Keesler AFB – so when I saw the ad on TWOP, I wanted to do something. The Biloxi branch’s wish list has a lot of SF books on it, so I picked a few: Platinum Pohl: The Collected Best Stories, Speaker For The Dead, Dandelion Wine, The City of Gold and Lead, and The Rediscovery of Man: Complete Short SF Of Cordwainer Smith.” Hopefully they’ll get the Biloxi branch reopened soon!

Doh! The linkage in my above post didn’t work. Those titles are, in order:

- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Leonardo the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

I will endeavour to do better linking in the future.

Just sent the Margaret Sherry Library a copy of Watership Down and Capote.

My library was my refuge as a child. Thanks for this opportunity to help.

From the Biloxi Library wish list, I purchased
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394810406/002-7287664-9576055?v=glan ce&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067167949X/002-7287664-9576055?v=glan ce&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786837462/002-7287664-9576055?v=glan ce&n=283155

For the Orange Grove Library, I got a couple for the grownups:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060987103/002-7287664-9576055?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060987529/002-7287664-9576055?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

And another copy of http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786837462/002-7287664-9576055?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 for the kiddies. (Mo Willems ROCKS!)

I missed the San Diego County Library book drive two years ago, but I grew up in nearby El Cajon and spent many hours in our public library as a kid. In recognition of Father’s Day,and as a thanks to my father, who spent many school nights taking me to the library, I’m donating the following to the Saucier library:

Nancy Drew Boxed Set 1-6
Nancy’s Mysterious Letter
Password to Larkspur Lane
The Clue of the Broken Locket
The Message in the Hollow Oak

Yes, I did love Nancy Drew as a kid.

Thanks for the opportunity to help again this year.

Sara

When I lived in Biloxi I was just starting out reading, with the Richard Scary books I think.

I’m sending the Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson, because I liked it and my local library doesn’t carry cool books like that. Go Biloxi!

I bought three books for the Orange Grove Library:

“How I Became a Pirate (Irma S and James H Black Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature (Awards))”
“Do Pirates Take Baths?”
“The Days are Just Packed: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection”

Hooray for Father’s Day! In honor of my dad I sent two “Little House” books: The Long Winter and On the Banks of Plum Creek, (because he read them to me as a kid) and Calvin and Hobbes (because I know he loves them) to Orange Grove Library. I hope they enjoy them.

I sent two of my favorites to the Saucier Children’s Library. Blueberries for Sal was one of my favorite books as a kid because it reminded me of vacations in Maine. Matilda Bone was a book I used to recommend for girls when I was a children’s librarian.

Thanks for organizing this!

I practically grew up at the Pass Christian Library because my mom worked there. I loved it there, and probably wouldn’t be as avid a reader I am today without their summer reading programs. I’m glad to be able to give something back to them.

I donated The Wrong Hostage by Elizabeth Lowell and The Man From Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller.

I donated these in memory of my mother, Pamela Carlin and also in thanks to all the lovely ladies that work(ed) at the Pass Christian Library.

To Orange Grove Library:
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor. This is one of my favorite books of all time. Not even a horrific oral presentation on “characterization” and “thematic elements” during fifth grade English class could change that. I wish the Orange Grove patrons many happy hours with the book, and may you not invoke the ire of your English teacher.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014034893X/002-4936665-5624028?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

To Margaret Sherry Library:
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. I have a love/hate relationship with Rand. She writes really well, but I’m not really a fan of her ideas. The Fountainhead has met my wall on numerous occasions. I picked this out in case there is a fellow bitter philosophy student in the area who needs wall chucking material, or maybe because everyone should be exposed to a little Rand.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452286751/002-4936665-5624028?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Brave Irene
Bunny Money
The Keeping Quilt Tenth Anniversary Edition
Vicksburg (Images of America)
Ten Mice for Tet!
The World of Null-A
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy

to Biloxi Library

To the Biloxi library, from each of the members of our family…

From the 19-month-old:
Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, because he loved turning the pages in the copy we borrowed from our library. Gorgeous illustrations.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689828845/qid=1150629360/sr=1-1/ref= sr_1_1/102-5218829-9898515?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

From the six-year-old:
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr, because she thought kids would enjoy it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689858817/qid=1150629665/sr=1-1/ref= sr_1_1/102-5218829-9898515?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

From dh, music lover:
His Best- Sonny Boy Williamson
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000005KQN/qid=1150629846/sr=1-1/ref= sr_1_1/102-5218829-9898515?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

From me, family history researcher:
Roots Recovered!: The How to Guide for Tracing African-American and West Indian Roots Back to Africa and Going There for Free or on a Shoestring Budget by James E. White Esq
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159113465X/qid=1150629514/sr=1-1/ref= sr_1_1/102-5218829-9898515?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

What fun this was! Thank you for doing this.

I gave three picture books–Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and two Alexanders–to Gulfport.

I ordered these:

For Biloxi:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0448416719/ref=wl_it_dp/102-6760860-5 528922?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=29EOX41WSQDCE&coliid=I1PKCTFAWT333F&v=gl ance&n=283155

Hardy Boys box set 1-6

For West Biloxi:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399529209/ref=wl_it_dp/102-6760860-5 528922?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=2HSBX0RQNY3WU&coliid=I297MSRPJ2S3XV&v=gl ance&n=283155

Lord of the Flies

For Margaret Sherry:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689852053/ref=wl_it_dp/102-6760860-5 528922?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=31QSC3OA2DHBZ&coliid=I1E7GWITF0UA1Y&v=gl ance&n=283155

Pop Princess

For Pass Christian:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743289420/ref=wl_it_dp/102-6760860-5 528922?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=12XPV4HRRZ21H&coliid=I1D2B31VMKW3A8&v=gl ance&n=283155

Hitched

Why? Because libraries need books, it’s as simple as that. I’ll be back for the other libraries as soon as I get paid.

Thanks for doing this.

This is a wonderful thing you all are doing, and I’m grateful to have the opportunity to take part in it. I’m spreading my donations around because I picked out an item in honor of important people in my life:

Gulfport will be getting Gigi in honor of my mom, because this is one of her favorite movies.

West Biloxi will be getting The Longest Day in honor of my dad, who, as the son of a WWII vet, likes all war movies, including this one.

Orange Grove will be getting How Come I’m Always Luigi (A Fox Trot Collection) because he loves Sunday comics, and Fox Trot in particular.

And finally, West Biloxi will also be getting The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science because science and discovery have really shaped my life.

(I hope everything gets shipped to the right address!)

It just seemed like a really good idea. This wasn’t something I could miss getting involved in.

I sent Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse, Chester’s Way (both by Kevin Henkes) and Dr. DeSoto (by William Steig), because I loved these books as a kid and I know someone else will too.

I donated the audio book Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander Mcall Smith and the novel Penumbra by Carolyn Haines to the Pass Christian Library. This is a great idea and I’m glad my daughter passed the website on to me.
Marian

To Margaret Sherry, I’ve donated two things I dislike, namely, Stranger in a Strange Land and the Memoirs of a Geisha DVD. I figure, there were plenty of things I’d love for a child to discover, plenty of interests I would share with someone picking up a genealogy book – but isn’t librarianship also being able to recommend that which is personally annoying but suitable nonetheless?

I donated “Let the Circle be Unbroken” and “The Road to Memphis” by Mildred Taylor as well as Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles to the Biloxi Library.

We sent:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591582032/002-9315874-5 195256?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

Being librarians, we had to give a reference book!

Since http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/12XPV4HRRZ21H/ref=cm_wl_sor tbar_v_page_2/104-5878874-9150332?%5Fencoding=UTF8&page=2 was the last on the list of libraries, I was worried that they’d get the shaft for donations. So I purchased a soon-to-be-printed book for them because nothing’s more frustrating than reading about a new book in the paper and the local library not having a copy yet.

I also purchased By the Shores of Silver Lake for http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html/squishy/104-5878874-91 50332?%5Fencoding=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=30I209BRKV5Z0 because it’s criminal that any library not have the complete Laura Ingalls Wilder collection. When I was a kid, the library was my refuge and I took out a Little House book every week until I was done with the series. Now it’s time for me to return the favor.

Libraries and the free exchange of information are the hallmark of all great free societies–something those in power should be keeping in mind during this time of rebuilding in all disaster areas all over the world.

The Saucier Library will be getting:

Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers : How a First Lady Changed America, Piggies in a Polka and Town Mouse Country Mouse. Because kids need books! Thanks, pamie!

I got http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067088720X/104-7510055-7690361?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670887072/104-7510055-7690361?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 for the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library.

I bought “How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?”, “How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?”, “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America”, and “Natchez: Landmarks, Lifestyles, and Leisure (Images of America: Mississippi)” for the Biloxi Library.

Wow…what a great idea!

I just donated:

The Swiss Family Robinson (a childhood favorite of mine)

Mrs. Dalloway (gotta love a library that has TWO Virginia Woolf books on their shortlist)

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (my sophomore year HS English teacher’s favorite novel…this one’s for you, Mrs. Corpis!)

A copy of Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday for the Biloxi Library.

I’m so inspired by you guys! I recently moved to a small town (360 people) and have renewed my childhood love affair with the library. The library here is only open a couple of hours a day, and is in an old church (the book return box is through an old arch-shaped window). But it has become my centre as I renew my sense of my community. I met my new neighbours at the library! And it has brought back wonderful memories of spending hours and hours in the library as a child.

I wanted to try and donate some books that were relevant to Mississippi – try and keep it local, so to speak. So, to the Biloxi library, I sent The Land by Coretta Scott King, as well as Cajun folktales by J.J. Reneaux off their wishlist. I hope they enjoy them!

Thanks for the inspiration, folks!

Thanks for organizing this!
For Biloxi: The Bread Bible (It has the banana bread recipe I use) and ‘Salem’s Lot (When I read this as a teen I wore a cross for weeks)
For Orange Grove my nephews and niece dictated the choices with a little Joss thrown in by me.
I, Freddy (I, Freddy), The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too!, Artemis Fowl: The Criminal Mastermind, Magic Tree House: Books 17-24 (Magic Tree House Collection), Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted, Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2: Dangerous

In honor of my step-father, I just donated Good Old Boy, by Willie Morris, and two Dick Francis novels. He loves libraries more than just about anyone I know, and some of my best childhood memories are of the two of us going on a Saturday morning to borrow some books. Much love to you, NF.

For Biloxi:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507906/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7941014-4 944825?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=29EOX41WSQDCE&coliid=IV6053IESRDA5&v=gla nce&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590171586/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7941014-4 944825?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=29EOX41WSQDCE&coliid=I17VQIFJCPS2KN&v=gl ance&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803705395/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7941014-4 944825?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=29EOX41WSQDCE&coliid=IYX8OKWYC7889&v=gla nce&n=283155
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689832338/ref=wl_it_dp/002-7941014-4 944825?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=29EOX41WSQDCE&coliid=I2DDLIMOQTUDIP&v=gl ance&n=283155

Because libraries and books were so important to both me and my husband while growing up. They still are.

It’s not much, but I sent “The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom” and “Wives Behaving Badly” to the Pass Christian Library. I spend too many great vacations on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast while growing up in Louisiana to miss out on a chance to provide the ladies there some good chick lit…

I purchased some of my favorite Cajun children’s stories for the Biloxi Library. I spent many hours in the Biloxi library when I was younger and I’m donating these in honor of my grandmother who longs to rebuild and return to east Biloxi. I hope they bring many hours of joy!

Clovis Crawfish and His Friends (The Clovis Crawfish Series)
There Was an Ol’ Cajun
Lapin Plays Possum: Trickster Tales From the Louisiana Bayou

I read about this on John Scalzi’s blog – what a neat idea. I donated “Gone (Alex Delaware Novels)” by Jonathon Kellerman in honor of my dad. Read on!

Janiece

For the Saucier Library:
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey – I grew up in Boston and this book reminds me of home
Shrek! by William Steig – You’re never too young to learn that the book is always better than the movie

To the Saucier Library, I sent:

The Keeping Quilt (from their wishlist), because I enjoy quilting, because I think family history is important, and because seeing it in the wishlist made me think that perhaps I can challenge the ladies in my quilting exchange to donate books as well.

I also sent:

The Hedgehog: A guide to a healthy & happy pet which is generally regarded by folks in my hedgehog rescue group (www.hedgehogwelfare.org) to be one of the best and most accurate books out there, and in the hopes that others from that group will send additional copies to additional libraries in the HCLS.

Then three books from an author from my home state– good chapter-a-night books for kids my nieces’ ages, and good reading for everyone up to my age.
The Goose Girl
Enna Burning
River Secrets

These are books of the type I’ve loved from age ten to the present. And although neither I or Emily has had a chance to read Enna Burning yet because we’re waiting for the paperback, I’m sending it on to the Gulf Coast hoping someone there will enjoy it on our behalf!

River Secrets doesn’t release until September of this year, but I’m sure the HCLS will be glad to get a brand-new book in the fall, when they’ve already catalogued & shelved all the generosity of the summer book drive.

Consider sending a not-yet-released book– I bet they’ll love you later!

Yay! The latest round of Stuffed Tubeys netted another $500 for the Saucier Kids library! Many thanks to all the bidders at TWoP and to Pwuellerstorfi for making the goods!

I donated “Angels Fall” by Nora Roberts, which will be published next month. I like that they’re getting lots of books now, but they’ll need more over time, so I figured I’d get a future release for them. Keep the love coming, doncha know.

I just sent two books to the Gulfport Library: War of the Worlds and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

Thank you all for doing this. I’m a big supporter of libraries, and it’s wonderful to see so many people willing to help.

Kid’s books for Biloxi library:
Please Puppy Please by Spike Lee
Davy by Edgar Pangborn

In honor of my husband (Chris) who grew up in Gulport, we have donated some of our kids’ favorite books to the Gulfport Library:

Love You Forever
The Runaway Bunny
Where the Wild Things Are
Guess How Much I Love You

I am from Long Beach Mississippi, though I haven’t lived there for fifteen years, and my whole family went through Katrina. There are so many things that remain to be done to get people’s lives back to normal; mostly I contribute to personal efforts among my family and friends. But this book drive is a wonderful idea and I’m sending a couple of kids’ books from the Margaret Sherry Wish List (How do Dinosaur’s Clean their Rooms? by Yolen and Babushka’s Doll by Polacco) because these are some of my own small children’s favorite books. Children on the coast need everything they can get to make life normal, such as books to expand their world beyond the pretty challenging environment they face right now. Also I sent one of my own teenage favorites, The Subterraneans by Kerouac, for someone like me to enjoy.
Thanks to you for choosing Harrison County and for organizing this wonderful effort.

In honor of my dad for belated Father’s Day I sent:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394809149/102-9669869-2941761?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

A beautiful book.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061303449X/102-9669869-2941761?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Books from this series were some of the first I read on my own.

And:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0448089114/102-9669869-2941761?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0448089130/102-9669869-2941761?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Because Dad had a big Hardy Boys collection.

Thanks Dad for all the times you read to us.

I spotted several favorites on the Gulfport Library’s wishlist so I sent ‘em:
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy

Winging their way to the Gulfport library are Heart of Darkness, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Call of the Wild, and Best Short Stories of Jack London.

I love reading Jack London, and live near Wolf House in Sonoma County, CA! The others are also favorites that I was forced to read in school, and revisit occasionally because I love them.

Ok, I’m so excited it got over 1000. I came back, and the Saucier Library will receive:

Bubba and Beau Meet the Relatives (Bubba And Beau) – Kathi Appelt
In honor of my relatives Skeeter, Beans, Goober and his other brother Two-thumb Goober

The Paper Crane – Molly Bang
In honor of my Japanese in-laws

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (Aladdin Picture Books)

I ordered Big Sur, Desolation Angels, and A Clockwork Orange for the Gulfport Library. Thanks to Pamie and Dave for putting this together!

Hi Pamie, Dewey et al.:

Long time reader of Pamie.com and TWoP and donor to the annual book drive. Every summer I try to re-read a couple of books by Jane Austen. Truly, she is the perfect beach/pool/cabin/airplane/train/stuck in line waiting for tickets author. Since I’m sure there’s probably many other Austen fans in Mississippi who are jonesin’ for a Jane fix as well, the Gulfport Library is receiving:

Emma
Sense & Sensibility
Pride & Prejudice

(They weren’t on the library wishlist, but I might just send them Persuasion,Northanger Abby and Mansfield Park for the hell of it later.)

Thanks for this yearly reminder of what’s important, appreciation for what we have and rededication to a cool and underappreciated resource — libraries! As ever, Pamie et al, you rock!

As a longtime lover of libraries and a librarian, I can never resist the annual book drive! This time around the following librares are getting:

Gulfport:
Bullitt – a local tribute and the best car chase ever!

Orange Grove:
File folders – god I love office supplies

Saucier:
Manners – more than office supplies, I love children with manners

West Biloxi:
Military Transition to Civilian Success – this seems like a very practical title and a good goal for all our former servicepeople.

Oh, good, Pass Christian’s wish list was empty the last time I looked, but their staff has been busy, and I was able to get them a few of their desired adult fiction items:

Darkness & Light: A Frank Elder Mystery
Orbit: A Novel – John Harvey
False Impression – Jeffrey Archer
Vanished – Karen Robards
The Betrayed – David Hosp
Kingdom Come – Tim Green

I picked titles that were in stock so that they’d arrive quickly. I was glad to see lots of mystery/crime fiction titles, since that’s a genre for which I have special fondness.

I particularly wanted to donate to Pass Christian because of a memorable vacation I had there with someone very dear to me. It was such a lovely town and one of the areas that most broke my heart when I saw the destruction. Take heart, library people, and good luck with the rebuilding effort.

I’m back for a third time. Went to Powells.com to get myself something, and decided it could wait. Instead, the following are going to the Orange Grove Library:

These Happy Golden Years (Little House) – Laura Ingalls Wilder (my favorite series as a child)

Julius, the Baby of the World – Kevin Henkes (because my daughter loves Kevin Henkes)

National Lampoon’s Animal House (Widescreen Double Secret Probation Edition) (just because it’s Animal House!)

This year I decided to give to the Gulfport library because I almost moved to Gulfport about a month before Katrina. We decided to stay in the more hurricane-prone state of Florida, but several friends were not so lucky (they lost their homes). Anyway, I sent them the anniversary edition of The Color Purple, and then had to get the free shipping, so I added Time Quake (I think?) by Kurt Vonnegut. I don’t have to like all the books I send! I sent books on irrigation to the California drive. Plus, I’ll just that one was my husband’s book. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

I donated a few books from the Biloxi wish list

Snowie Rolie (Rolie Polie Olie)
Miss Spider’s Wedding (Miss Spider)
Miss Spider’s New Car (Miss Spider)

I love kids books.

Well I sent a copy of Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible to Gulfporthttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1417618760/ref=olp_product_de tails/102-3231365-9064137?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 . I think Kingsolver is an amazing female writer, and I only wish I could have done tons more.

I sent the Biloxi Library a young adult book that I loved:
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

and a book that I would love to have:
Baking Illustrated from Cook’s Illustrated

Read on, Mississippi!

To the Orange Grove Library:

The New Kid On The Book by Jack Prelutzky

Something Big Has Been Here by Jack Prelutzky

Jessica by Kevin Henkes

I felt guilty that I only ordered for Biloxi, so I went back to Gulfport’s Amazon wish list and ordered two DVDs from their list and I loved. Via Amazon’s wonderful Free Shipping, they’ll be getting:
The Great Race

Dr Zhivago

Watch on!

HI. AS A DISPLACED PERSON COMPLIMENTS OF KATRINA NOW BACK HOME, I AM ONLY TO HAPPY TO HELP OUT, AND WHAT BETTER WAY THEN HELPING OUT THE BILOXI LIBRARY (NOT TO FAR FROM WHERE WE NOW LIVE)
TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED US, TO ANYONE THINKING ABOUT IT, THANK YOU. MY DAUGHTER AND I WERE BLESSED AND WHEN SHE WAS GROWING UP SHE LOVED THESE BOOKS:
THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE
MR POPPERS PENQUINS
CARNIVAL AT CANDLELIGHT
SHE LOVED THEM AND I AM JUST TICKLED WE COULD HELP AND SHARE OUR LOVE OF GREAT BOOKS.

Not having books to read is a possibility I do not want to think about. Every kid, big or small, should have a book to read. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525469273/104-6631884-1074341?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 and http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525469303/104-6631884-1074341?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 are on their way to the Biloxi Library. My mum read through the Fudge series to both my older brother (while I lay at the head of his bed) and then to me again when he got old enough to read on his own. I’m happy to pass these along.

As someone who read through complete libraries growing up, married to someone who did the same thing, we’re sending some classics to the Biloxi Library:

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

and my favorite book:

Rascal, by Sterling North

Had to hold off on donating until a job situation was resolved, but now the hub’s raise is Harrison County’s gain! I haev sent the Gulfport Library copies of “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand and “Angle of Repose” by Wallace Stegner–no special reason, they were just at the top of the list.

From the Biloxi library wishlist, I sent:

Three Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books, because I loved them as a kid.
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t, because every library should have Judy Blume.
Where’s My Teddy, because it looked cute.
and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, because it’s a classic.

I hope to give more soon!

In honor of my visit with Sharon yesterday at ALA, I decided to go Amazon shopping again … I sent rubber cement (who doesn’t love shopping for office supplies!) and Raising the Sensory Child (a request from one of their customers – it must be hard not to be able to buy books you know someone specific needs).

1 of: Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
1 of: The Way of All Flesh
to Gulfport Library

I’m sending in a check for $30 for the Biloxi Library tomorrow.

Good idea guys!

Unfortunately, being a broke recent college graduate means I can’t do as much as I would like, but I did buy the Biloxi Library a copy of The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, because 1) I loved it when I was a little girl and 2) children have to have books. I don’t know what I would have done without my public library when I was a child, and it breaks my heart to think of the kids in Mississippi with nothing to read.

Just heard about the system and donated right away. Biloxi – you have Ramona the Brave and Froggy Gets Dressed coming your way!

I have no sentimental reason for donating except that I spend far too much money on silly things for myself and not enough on others in need.

Oh, here’s that linky thing: https://www.amazon.com/gp/css/history/view.html/ref=cm_sp_summ/102-277 6930-4304115?orderFilter=days-30

As a contract author for KidHaven Press in San Diego, I’ve always wanted to give back to my local library with a complimentary copy of my latest title. When I read about the Harrison library system on this web site, I wondered why I’d never thought of Mississippi libraries before. So, knowing nothing about Pamie or the Dewey drive, I went straight to the library web site and asked Sharon if she would like any of the extra copies of my books. It feels a bit like bragging, but she was happy to be offered them! I sent one or more copies of 11 books just yesterday. I feel good, and even though I didn’t go through the Dewey site to do it, you get any the credit that is due. Thanks!

Hi,

The library staff are populating the wish lists themselves so they are adding library binding for some, regular for others depending on their ends.

That said I would suggest emailing Sharon at HCLS if you think they simply didn’t know there was a better version of it and you’d like to donate that. :)

Her address is s.davis@harrison.lib.ms.us

A wonderful idea. I sent:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394535979/103-0503412-0051831?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155 and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679405798/103-0503412-0 051831?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance

to D’Iberville and Margaret Sherry libraries.

Hi – I’m new to the bookdrive and I just had to help out.

I may live at the bottom of the planet, Perth, Australia (as seen on the last season of The Amazing Race!). But as soon as I spotted Wives and Daughters and Walk the Line (both DVD’s) I knew that I had to buy them for the Pass Christian Library.

I know every bit helps and knowing that someone on the otherside of the world is watching two movies that I love, means the world to me.

I couldn’t resist making around of donations.

Since their wishlist indicated these are high-circulation books, Margaret Sherry Library will be receiving:
More How To Draw Manga Vol 1: The Basics of Character Drawing
More How to Draw Manga Vol 2: Penning Characters
More How to Draw Manga Vol 3: Enhancing a Character’s Sense of Presence

Also wanted to help boost D’Iberville’s count, so I sent them:

Goodnight Nobody: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

D’Iberville gets Deception Point http://tinyurl.com/kkf3n
Gulfport gets Eudora Welty, A Biography
http://tinyurl.com/zh59x
Orange Grove gets GED for Dummies
http://tinyurl.com/hz842
Saucier gets Chasing Vermeer
http://tinyurl.com/gb45d

I applied for a promotion and I promised myself that if I got the promotion I’d give once more because of all the good karma.

As thanks the Biloxi Library is getting:

-Conrad’s Fate
-Minerva Louise and The Red Truck
-Taps: A Novel
-The Life of Samuel Johnson
-Ghosts of Medgar Evers, The : A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood
-Victorian Children of Natchez
-The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
-Jenny Giraffe’s Mardi Gras Ride
-My Mississippi

I noticed that Gulfport has added a lot of new items to its wishlist, including lots of great movies. I’ve only been sending books so far, so I thought I’d mix things up and send a few of our favourite movies:

:: Annie Hall
:: Philadelphia Story
:: Mr. Roberts

We own all these films ourselves, and I hope they give others the same enjoyment they give us.

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has donated to HCLS. I have never been so happy to write thank you notes in my life. I have also been so moved by everyone’s comments.

to Elizabeth & Alfred Garcia – next time you are on your way to TX or FL, the Cajun’s Fried Chicken on Pass Road in Gulfport is open!

Sent Blood Meridian to the D’Iberville Library.

For D’Iberville Library:

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

No particular reason except that I enjoyed reading all three of these and I hope others will, too!

Hi all,

SUCH a great idea – kudos for your giving spirit and for your moxie in spreading the word.

I sent some childrens’ books to the Pass Christian library: from their wish list, I Remember Miss Perry; and two of my personal favorites, Are You My Mother? and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

I chose Pass Christian because it’s the hometown of Robin Roberts (from ABC News) and I was impressed with the very personal but non-exploitative reporting she did from there, post-Katrina.

I’m really beginning to believe there is bookdrive karma – just like the San Diego bookdrive two years, I received an award at work today for a patent idea I submitted over 3 years ago. To celebrate, I’ve sent the following items to Gulfport.

Gilmore Girls – The Complete First Season DVD

Veronica Mars – The Complete First Season DVD

Why Moms Are Weird by Pamela Ribon

Gilmore Girls is the reason I discovered TWoP in the first place while Veronica Mars is one of my current favorite shows which has a strong TWoP connection. Why Moms Are Weird was not on their wishlist, but I figured Pamie deserves at least one book sale for helping organize this.

I realized I’d used the word “excited” to describe how great this book drive is about a million times already, then racked my brain for a while trying to come up with a better word until I remembered–”Duh, I’m a librarian, use the thesaurus.” So, culling out the words that were a bit too, well, just plain weird, here goes:

We’re stirred, delighted, moved, inspired, enthusiastic, glowing, and hyped up!

It really is like Christmas every day, for us and our patrons. Many of the books are already on the shelves and checking out!

To Biloxi –

Alligator Sue
Insomnia (Stephen King)
The Heaven of Mercury

Because my boss gave me a raise and I figured it was due to the good karma I’d generated here!

Pass Christian received from their wish list:

Superman – The Movie (Special Edition)

And because I’m a scifi geek and want to help all the scifi geeks in Mississippi:

Betrayal (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, Book 1)
Tatooine Ghost (Star Wars)

“Jane Austen’s Emma” (Kate Beckinsale version) and “Pride & Prejudice” (Keira Knightley version) to Pass Christian Library.

We donated to the Biloxi library:
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White
“Bridge to Terabitha” by Katherine Paterson
“The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis
“Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak
“Amelia Bedelia” by Peggy Parish
“Hungry, Hungry Sharks” by Joanna Cole
“Whales: the Gentle Giants” by Joyce Milton
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle
“Olivia” by Ian Falconer

Thank you for this opportunity to share some of our favorites with the children of New Orleans.

To the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library:

1 8oz. bottle of Goo Gone
1 12-pack of Sharpies
1 1-lb. box of rubber bands

The titles didn’t come over, so here they are:
Abigale the Happy whale
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
The New Girl… and Me
Cold Moon (A Lincoln Rhyme novel)
Myths, Lies and Stupidity…. John Stossel
The Constant Gardener DVD
Good Night, and Good Luck DVD
Lonesome Dove DVD
Munich DVD

In honor of my parents, I gave “The Impressionists – The Other French Revolution” to the Biloxi Library, as well as a copy of “The American Red Cross First Aid and Safety Handbook” in honor of all the Medical Reserve Corps volunteers that assisted their communities during hurricane season last year.

I also gave audiobooks of two of my favorite books from my childhood “The BFG” and “A Wrinkle in Time” to the Orange Grove Library in Gulfport.

I heart these book drives!

To the Orange Grove Library, from their wish list, some children’s books by my favorite picture book authors and one of my favorite films:
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786818697/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786852941/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

The Pigeon Loves Things That Go! by Mo Willems
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786836512/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Alice The Fairy by David Shannon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439490251/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Beauty and The Beast – Criterion Collection, directed by Jean Cocteau
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007L4I6/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=130

To the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library, also from its wish list: some female-centric books in honor of its female founder; an inspirational writing book by the inspiring Bob Mayer; one of my favorite YA novels; a great Southern first novel; and some picture books.

Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0152020470/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

The Serpent Slayer: and Other Stories of Strong Women
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316387010/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

The Novel Writer’s Toolkit: A Guide to Writing Novels and Getting Published by Bob Mayer
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582972613/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

The Boyfriend List: (15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver)by E. Lockhart
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385732066/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446524190/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Frederick by Leo Lionni
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394810406/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Pezzettino by Leo Lionni
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039483156X/103-6950933-5933448?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

Today I was inspired to send a couple of personal favorites to Biloxi. So, like it or not, they’re getting a copy of “A Little Princess,” which was my favorite when I was a girl, and Paula Danziger’s “The Pistachio Perscription,” which was one of my favorites when I was an angst-filled pre-teen.

I also forwarded this site address to the “Friends of the Library” group I belong to for my town, in hopes that some of the members will be similarly inspired to help out these libraries in need.

Keep it up everyone! Yay libraries!!

I sent The Cake Bible, because cake makes everything better.

Feeling a bit down today and figured one way to feel better was to send a box of books to Biloxi. That’s better than buying a bunch of stuff I don’t have room for anyway right? So I sent:

Forever Barbie : The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll – M. G. Lord;

Hello Kitty Hello USA! : A Celebration of All Fifty States – Higashi Glaser;

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak;

Beauty – Sheri S. Tepper;

Dreamland (P.S.) – Kevin Baker

PostSecret : Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives – Frank Warren;

Meltdown! – Justin Roberts;

Cakes (Maida Heatter’s Classic Library) – Maida Heatter; (from their wishlist)

For D’Iberville Library.

- Blue Shoes and Happiness :(No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency)

- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

- World Almanac and Book of Facts (2006)

- Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons

I’m a librarian, so I love, love, love that a mainstream television snark site would push such a great book drive! “Dewey” has never looked quite so cool. The ALA should license the image (you can find info on copyright in the 344s).

I just randomly chose items on the main library’s wish list. I figure the librarians there know what their members read and like.

Okay! So, I had trouble finding books that I could actually send (I had to buy from amazon.co.uk and so a lot of the titles weren’t there, or weren’t there in hardcover or weren’t there for six weeks..!) but even so, I managed to get something together:

Saucier Library is getting The Wright 3 by Blue Balliet http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439693675/ref=wl_it_dp/102-1418849-7 008905?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=1Z0619ZL108BR&coliid=I31KLBBLCLIWNH&v=gl ance&n=283155
Which was on their wishlist. And still is, because I believe I have just bought a book that came from the US, was shipped to the UK, and is now getting shipped to the US again. Which amuses me greatly!

And also, Araminta Spook: The Sword in the Grotto and Araminta Spook: My Haunted House by Angie Sage because they are LOVELY.

For Orange Grove Library, I sent Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, because a prettier book I am yet to see, and Pride and Prejudice (which is in honour of the lovely Sharon Davis who took time out of her day to answer my enquiry).

And then I got excited and went back to the Saucier Library, and pre-ordered them Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer and The Murder of Bindy MacKenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty. Bindy Mackenzie is one of the best books I’ve read this year. I would have loved it when I was 13, and I love it now.

I donated all of those to thank the ladies at my local library (Solihull Central) who were there in my childhood and spent time out of their days every Saturday to talk to this shy kid who loved books.

Sorry it’s taken me so long to get around to donating, but it will be worth the wait for the Saucier Library, who are getting William Steig’s “Brave Irene”, Bill Peet’s “Chester the Worldly Pig”, and Joan Aiken’s “Stolen Lake”!

It took me ages to get around to it, but in honour of my little local library Broomhill Library in Ipswich, UK who sated my ginormous reading habit as a child and teenager – i felt constrained at the 4 books a week that i was allowed to borrow, luckily they are just up my road for fast turnaround! – and opened up my world, i donated

“Hug” to Margaret Sherry

Because its one of the loveliest books in the world and makes me smile whenever I see it.

And because libraries have always greatly assisted me as a poor student in need of viewing for a film education, i donated

“It Happened One Night” to Gulfport

Because it _always_ makes me giggle

Great job to everyone involved in this endeavor.

I sent the Biloxi Library:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803718500/103-4593551-0663040?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1886778345/103-4593551-0663040?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

D’Iberville is getting Winter’s Tale from their wish list, because this is one of my very favorite books, and I enjoy foisting my taste off on others. They’re also getting Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks from A-Z so I can avail myself of Amazon’s free shipping. Plus, I love me some Lowly Worm.

Because I told Sharon I wanted to send office products, I just sent Margaret Sherry the Goo Gone and Sharpies that were on their wish list. :)

I got The Twelve Days of Christmas by Jan Brett, Aesop’s Fables, and Andersen’s Fairy Tales for the Biloxi library.

This is a great cause. Good luck.

Oh, I guess I forgot to say what I donated:

Animal Farm
Draw Manga
A Separate Peace

Sharon’s mom got to me, too. Biloxi’s getting:

Something Special for Me – Vera B. Williams
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen
Pickles To Pittsburgh – Judi Barrett
Henry and Mudge and the Tumbling Trip – Cynthia Rylant
Stella Louella’s Runaway Book – Lisa Campbell Ernst
Alabama & Mississippi Gardener’s Guide
and
Next Stop Grand Central – Maira Kalman (which I had in my shopping cart for something else and accidentally sent with this batch of books. Since Maira Kalman’s books are fabulous, I hope they enjoy this non-requested bonus)

Inspired by the mom story, I gave Maisy Goes to the Library to the Biloxi Library.

I decided to enter the contest at 50books.blogspot.com by sending 2 more books to Margaret Sherry.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl – The Definitive Edition
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

For the West Biloxi Library, I bought To Kill a Mockingbird, Duma and The World’s Fastest Indian from their wish list. Good luck with your campaign.

I donated The Story of Ferdinand (who didn’t love this book?) and A Real American Breakfast (because I love looking at all the beautiful cookbooks at the library) for the Biloxi Library.

For the Biloxi Library in MS:
1)Book!Book!Book!-Deborah Bruss, for the littl’uns
2)The Unseen – Zilpha Snyder, for ‘tweens
3)How Green Was My Valley – R. Llewellyn (I loved this classic.)
4)A to Zoo: Subject Access, etc. – C. Lima, for the librarians (it’s a great resource.)
5&6)Cook’s Illustrated Guide to Grilling and Barbecue, etc. & Good Housekeeping Great Baking: 600 Recipes for Cakes, etc. (the easiest way to cheer people up in bad times is through good cooking, in my experience…)

I have loved libraries since I discovered them at around age 6, now work for one, and I have always done what I could to share the love.
-Shauna

In honor of Mary Elizabeth, the soon-to-be daughter of Josh & Lucilla I’ve donated:

You’re All My Favorites

to the Orange Grove Library.

Heard about the drive on 43things. Ordered Jessica by Kevin Henkes and Prisoners of War by Steve Yarbrough for Biloxi Library – hope that helps! :)

What an amazing thing this is! The library was my favorite destination when I was a kid, and it makes me so sad to think that the kids (and adults) of Biloxi are without all of the books they need and should have. From their wish list, I donated:

Communicating in Sign
Bailey Goes Camping
Sheila Rae, The Brave
Julius, the Baby of the World
Kingdom of the Dead (Voyages through Time)
Ancient Greece (Voyages through Time)
Da Vinci and His Times
Origami Activities
Sign Language for Kids

Thanks for doing this, guys!

Amanda

I spent hours and hours in our public libraries as a kid and young adult, so this is payback.

I sent Cook-a-Doodle-Doo, Hedgie Blasts Off, and Big Red from the Biloxi wish list.

I noticed on the West Biloxi wishlist that 2 copies of “A Separate Peace” by John Knowles were highest priority because it is required summer reading for one of the schools. The mass paperback edition that they requested is unavailable so I ordered 2 copies of the regular paperback edition instead – so they may want to remove this item from their wishlist manually.
Finally to get free shipping, I also ordered “Complete Guide to Quilting (Better Homes and Gardens Creative Collection”.

Dude. So busted was I by Pamie’s entry today. (Shamefaced.) Hope this makes up for it. I have no excuse — I lived in Biloxi for six months and made it through Hurricane Elena while I was there.

Anyway, here’s what’s wot:

Biloxi Library.

Books:

The Truth About Cajuns (That they’re delicious)

Memories of St. Martinville (SEE: “Delicious Cajuns”)

Scattered to the Wind (A tale of delicious, light Cajun crumbs.)

The Canary Islanders of Louisiana (I have no joke for this one.)

Yay Dewey!

I sent two things to the West Biloxi Public Library: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, because I borrowed it from my local library at age 13, and it became the first hefty classic novel I read. Also, the DVD of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, because no town on the planet should be deprived of the greatness of Newman and Redford!

I headed towards the end of the list of libraries, guessing that the ones at the top might be getting a larger share of donations, and sent the following to the Pass Christian Library in Gulfport:

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (which also has an excellent blog at http://longtail.typepad.com) – a book I’d recommend to anyone and everyone

Espresso Tales by Alexander McCall Smith (I haven’t read it, but I remember Pamie’s encounter with him at a signing, and I have many friends who says his books are great escape material)

I’m fortunate enough to have a job where I get to teach kids to read everyday. It’s so fulfilling to see my kids enjoy reading when just weeks before they couldn’t recognize the letters of the alphabet. I’m hoping the kids of the Margaret Sherry Library will get the same enjoyment out of these two books:

“The Stolen Child”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385516169/102-4956205-4979302?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

“Mabel O’Leary Put Peas in Her Ear-y”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316135062/102-4956205-4979302?%5Fenc oding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155

I donated The Phantom Tollbooth and the DK book Cars to the Biloxi Library. Thanks for providing the avenue to do this!

I sent the Biloxi Library Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook. To me, Martha embodies some wonderful qualities — having a dream, she’s dedicated to working hard to reaching her goals, and she has made a wonderful comeback in the last year, showing grace under a great deal of scrutiny. Love her or no, I find her to be inspiring. Baking is where she started, and I find baking to be an enjoyable and even peaceful past-time. My hope is that this book perhaps inspires, and brings joy to people.

Grabbed Schindler’s List and The Sting for Gulfport Library because the thought of people lacking access to the Redford-Newman team-up chills me to my bones.

Paying some good things in my life forward to Pass Christian. No particular reason, just picked off their list:

Lethal Weapon 2 (Director’s Cut) – Richard Donner
One Last Breath – Stephen Booth
Deal Breaker – Harlan Coben
Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel – Jeremy Blachman
Bones of the Barbary Coast – Daniel Hecht
Vanishing Point – Richard C. Sarafian
Coronado: Stories – Dennis Lehane

We sent a copy of Taxi Driver http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767830555/ref=wl_it_dp/002-5816387-1 484867?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=E9ME412E0OL1&coliid=I30ZZJ0UTY1HDS&v=gla nce&n=130 to the Gulfport library.

Chris decided that Taxi Driver had the most entertainment value (out of the small list I proposed). Gulfport is close to our hearts since Chris used to have the Gulfport County Clerk’s office as one of his clients.

What a great idea. I spent many happy hours with books from my neighborhood libary. I loved the library so much so I worked there part-time during high school :-) I wouldn’t want people to be without the opportunity to read (or watch movies).

I donated to three libaries:

Pass Christian Library
“Dark Side of the Moon (A Dark-Hunter Novel)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon; Audio CD; $12.97

Biloxi Library
“Natural Disasters (DK Eyewitness Books)”
Claire Watts; Hardcover; $11.19
“Romeo & Juliet”
Franco Zeffirelli; DVD; $9.98
“Danger At The Zoo: A Kit Mystery (American Girl Mysteries)”
Kathleen Ernst; Hardcover; $8.76

Gulfport Library
“The Birth of a Nation”
Lillian Gish; DVD; $14.99
“Spider-Man (Widescreen Special Edition)”
Tobey Maguire; DVD; $9.47
“Men in Black II (Widescreen Special Edition)”
Tommy Lee Jones; DVD; $17.99
“Men in Black (Deluxe Edition)”
Barry Sonnenfeld; DVD; $10.99
“Independence Day (Limited Edition)”
Roland Emmerich; DVD; $14.99

Three of my favorite movies of all time, to Gulfport Library:

–Cool Hand Luke
–To Kill a Mockingbird
–Bonnie and Clyde

From my friend Ali:

Hi Pam!

I hadn’t been to your site lately, and today I was instantly guilted
into donating books via Dewey.

I bought C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, and Norman Maclean’s audio CD of A River Runs Through It.

I chose the Pass Christian library, because I used to get telephone orders from that town when I worked at the JCPenney catalog center in the 1990s, where I first met Catherine Zarate’s husband, who also worked there, who also happened to know you, and then I met you at IBM… and so it’s that whole Kevin Bacon loop. Not only that, but Chuy rhymes with Dewey.

I sent the following to the Biloxi library:

- Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives
- The Great Voyages of Zheng He: English/Vietnamese

I selected the English/Vietnamese book because I know there’s a large Vietnamese community in the heavily affected areas of Biloxi.

I selected the other because it sounded like an interesteding read.

I’ve been to this area and have an idea of what they’re dealing with down there. Thanks for putting this drive together, Glark!

This year’s book drive donation went to the Biloxi Library:

Cheaper by the Dozen
Boom and Bust: American Cinema in the 1940s
Blanche on the Lam
Spy Goddess, Book One: Live and Let Shop
Atomic Renaissance: Woman Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s

I just sent the Biloxi library two books by Elenor Estes, Rufus M., and The Middle Mofat.

I’m a library school student in Edmonton, Canada, so the devestation suffered by libraries from natural disasters hits really close to home. Thanks for giving me a chance to do something.

I donated to the Pass Christian library:
The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (I know, I’m a big nerd, but librarians love properly formatted citations!)
and Cross Country: Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a lot of bad motels, a moving van, Emily Post, … kids, and enough coffee to kill an elephant, Just because it had a cool looking cover.

I donated 2 teen titles: Magyck and Flyte by Sage from the Orange Grove Library’s wish list. I also added a copy of the board book Blankie by Patricelli.

Our book group sent these books to the Pass Christian Library:

“End in Tears: A Wexford Novel” by Ruth Rendell

“The Dead Hour: A Novel” by Denise Mina

“The Sempster’s Tale” by Margaret Frazer

“The Art of Detection” by Laurie R. King

“The Merlot Murders: A Wine Country Mystery” by Ellen Crosby

“The Crimes of Jordan Wise: A Novel” by Bill Pronzini

“Vanishing Point” by Marcia Muller

One of our members, Anna, lost her battle with cancer earlier this year and the books (all mysteries – one of her favorite genres) were given in her memory.

I sent two books to the Pass Christian Library and three to the Biloxi Library. It really feels good. I think I am going to make a habit of donating a book every time I buy one for myself!

I ordered This is the Teacher, Wolves, and What if You Met a Pirate? to the Biloxi Library.

All children should know what to do if they meet a pirate.

I donated the following to the Biloxi Library:
Mercy Watson to the Rescue (Mercy Watson) [Hardcover]
By: Kate Dicamillo, Chris Van Dusen (Illustrator)

Longtime fan of TWoP, Pamie, and all other DHAK sites. Happy to finally to be able to donate. Yay payday!

“The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915 (History of the American Cinema, Vol 2)”
Eileen Bowser

“The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931 (History of the American Cinema, 4)”
Donald Crafton

Thanks for providing this wonderful opportunity!!

um, I went a little crazy. I love books myself, and want kids and adults alike to have access to some great stuff to turn their minds on! The Biloxi Library got these items:

“Sweetwater” Laurence Yep
“The Oxford Companion to Philosophy New Edition” Ted Honderich
“Comet’s Nine Lives” Jan Brett
“The Hat” Jan Brett
“Music, Music for Everyone” Vera B. Williams
“Freedom Summer (Anne Schwartz Books)” Deborah Wiles
“The Green Mile : The Complete Serial Novel” Stephen King
“Well Done, Little Bear (Big Bear & Little Bear)” Martin Waddell
“From Generation to Generation : How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History” Arthur Kurzweil
“Best of Fritz Leiber”
“Cajun Night Before Christmas (Night Before Christmas Series)” Trosclair
“Historical Fiction : A Guide to the Genre (Genreflecting Advisory Series)” Sarah L. Johnson

music cd’s:
“Alligator Stomp, Vol. 2″ Various Artists
“Alligator Stomp, Vol. 1″ Various Artists

I work as a children’s Collection Development Specialist in a public library so I was thrilled to be able to purchase a few books for Orange Grove Library in Gulfport.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/30I209BRKV5Z0/ref=cm_wl_sor tbar_v_page_1/103-9535945-8283052?ie=UTF8&page=1

I purchased “What Are You So Grumpy About?” since it is one of my most favorite books, “Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (so does May!)”,….I love her so much I named my kitties Junie B. & Lucille, as well as “What Color is It?”/Que Color Es Este?”.

I hope the children of Gulfport enjoy their new books!

I just sent Gulfport “Very Good, Jeeves!” by P.G. Wodehouse, as well as season one of Arrested Development, because laughter is always important.

To Biloxi: “Dig, Plant, Grow: A Kid’s Guide to Gardening” and “Vanished Mississippi Gulf Coast”

Thanks for organizing such a wonderful book drive. Living in Germany, I first stumbled across Pamie’s recaps when Gilmore girls started airing two years ago. I can’t imagine not having books to read (I seem to have spent most of my childhood reading), so I thought I’d donate 2 children’s books to Biloxi Library:
Duck and Goose – by Tad Hills
High Rhulain (Redwall) – by Brian Jacques

-Kate

[Thanks, Kate! -- pamie]

Hi, I donated to the Orange Grove Library the following books:

“Molly Moon’s Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure (Molly Moon)” Georgia Byng;

“The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo (Yearling Book)” Judy Blume

“How Do I Feel?/Como me siento? (Good Beginnings)”
Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries

“Better Spelling in 5 Minutes a Day: Fun Spelling Activities for Kids and Parents on the Go Intermediate Grades (5 Minutes a Day)” Mark Pennington

Thanks for organizing this!

I decided to send Gulfport Library one of P.G. Wodehouse’s books (Joy in the Morning) and also a DVD copy of The Shining. I found your book drive through TWoP. I am a graduate student in Library Sciences and I am always in favor of raising the profile of libraries and archives, since I know first hand how cash-poor and forgotten they can be! I really, really appreciate what you all are doing, as a user and supporer of all things library-related. Thanks.

The freelance work is coming in fast and furious, so I thought I would stop by for one last donation before the drive closes. I sent the Gulfport Library the following:
- Ring for Jeeves (Because everyone needs lots of Jeeves and Wooster)
- Charada (one of my all-time favorite movies)
- Icebergs (a great new novel by a friend)
- Moonspinners (to remind me of my middle-school gothic-novel-reading phase and one of my childhood idols, Hayley Mills).

I have to say that this is some of the most fun I’ve had for a charity!

Hello! I wrote into Pamie this week as well to let her know that my office will be donating en masse. We have a monthly program for “casual Friday” where we can dress in jeans and tees on Fridays for a minimum donation of $10 to the monthly charity. We began this last year with The Red Cross efforts after Hurricane Katrina and have continued it ever since. It has been a wonderful way to talk our boss into a casual Friday as well as encourage philanthropy in our little office. I know the book drive ends today but I will be sending in all our checks on Monday. Great cause and I’m happy I was able to convince my co-workers to make it this month’s charity.

[don't worry, lisapete. we'll keep the door open for your donation. we're stoked your office chose to help us out. -- pamie]

Thank you for this beautiful site! As a visitor from Finland, when I found about this site from a local magazine, this was something I had to do. About 3 years ago I visited the coastal region of Mississippi and Louisiana with my husband and friend from Alabama. I never forget it.

I purchased the following books for Margaret Sherry Memorial Library:

1 of: The Berenstain Bears and the Baby Chipmunk (I Can Read Book 1)
1 of: Sushi: Taste and Techniques

Sushi because I’m fan of Japanese culture, and Bears because it’s very important to encourage children to read – and use libraries. This is a good cause, please do not stop the site running.

I’ve missed the deadline but I’m hoping the Gulfport Library can still use
Life at Blandings (Omnibus) by P.G. Wodehouse
Life with Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor
Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy by Mary Stewart
Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Gilmore Girls, 2nd season (DVD)
Buffalo Bill, 1st & 2nd season (DVD)
Arrested Development, 2nd season (DVD)

All of these donations are inspired by my mother, Mary Ann, a librarian in California.

I sent Meg Cabot’s “How to Be Popular” to the Biloxi library.

Always happy to spread girly book joy! :)

My family and I sent the following books to the Biloxi Library in memory of Lorraine Katz:

George and Martha One Fine Day – James Marshall
George and Martha Round and Round – James Marshall
Puss in Boots – Charles Perrault
All-of-a-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Jack and the Beanstalk – Steven Kellogg
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
Library Lion – Michelle Knudsen
Fox on Stage – James Marshall
Fox at School – Edward Marshall

Most are from the wish list, but I added a couple of classics about New York (where Lorraine lived and was a librarian), and one about a very smart girl. I figured there can never be too many copies of A Wrinkle in Time!

I’m sending the Samantha Story Collection (from the American Girls books) to the Biloxi Library. I always loved the American Girls stories when I was little, and Samantha was my favorite, so I’m happy to have a chance to share them.

Since our parents, Don and Maureen, do not want us to buy them Christmas gifts, we decided to donate books in their name to the Biloxi Library. They actually lived the first years of their married life in Biloxi while our father was in the service, so the city will always have a special place in their hearts. Moreover, no one taught us to appreciate the love of reading and libraries more than the two of them.

We have donated the following in their names:

Kirsten’s Story Collection: for Mom, especially, because she always drove us to the bookstore to get the newest release in whatever series we were reading at the time

Blandings Castle: for Dad, especially, because no one loves Jeeves and Wooster more

Games, How to Play, and How to Win: for both of them, because of the countless hours they spent playing cards, Memory, Yahtzee, Racko, Sorry, Scrabble, (and every other game in the basement) with us over the years

I purchased from Amazon.

For Diberville Library
c/o Harrison County Libary

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Saving Fish from Drowning by: Amy Tan
Suite Francaise by: Irene Nemirovsky
Water for Elephants by: Sara Gruen