WE ESPECIALLY NEED:
Books in Spanish, any subjects
Dictionaries, and selected other reference books
New York
City history, and Staten Island history and lore
COOKING, HEALING, MOVEMENT:
Selected cookbooks: vegetarian and vegan cooking, raw foods, The
Joy of Cooking
Alternative medicine and healing, meditation, eastern religions,
yoga, dance, astrology, dream analysis, herbs, alternative science, alternative history...
Best-selling self-help/spiritual, e.g. The Secret, Seat
of the Soul, The Celestine
Prophecy, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior,
Books
by authors Deepak Chopra, Kahlil Gibran, Alan Watts, Madame Blavatsky, Carlos Casteneda
Philosophy-
selected classic works
INSTRUCTIONAL:
ESL (learning English), A.S.L. (American Sign Language), GED preparation
Learning to play musical instruments
Learning Spanish, and also beginning books for any language
Writing, grammar (beginning level best)
Learning to draw and paint
Beginning knitting and crochet books
Basic math skills: arithmetic, algebra, geometry
A.S.L. (American
Sign Language)
Organic gardening
Survival skills, alternative building techniques, alternative energy
Community building
Bike repair
FICTION:
Selected recent (this year’s) best-selling
fiction, EXCEPT mystery/suspense and romance novels
Recent best-selling non-fiction
(from the last year)
Fiction
or non-fiction by African-American authors
Selected authors:
Kurt Vonnegut, Leo Tolstoy, Octavia Butler, Shel Silverstein, Philip K. Dick, Charles Dickens (many titles), Anais Nin, John Steinbeck, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Robert Anton Wilson, others...
Selected
classics, such as The Bell Jar, Little Women, Catcher In the Rye, War
and Peace, To Kill
A Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm, Stranger
In A Strange Land, A Clockwork Orange, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Alice in
Wonderland, The Little Prince (in English
or French) , Romeo And Juliet, and other classic books
FICTION, CHILDREN'S:
Children's popular series, such as Dr. Suess books, Harry Potter series, Chronicles
of Narnia, Clifford the Dog, Dora the Explorer, If
You Give A Mouse A Cookie, The Wizard Of Oz, etc.
+ Thank-you!!
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