A Book Search Among Friends: May and June 2012

A day early, but I thought I'd start a new thread.

I'm looking for the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich - starting with Four to Score and ending up at the most recent, Smokin' Seventeen. Hardcover or paperback, doesn't matter. I'd prefer to mooch domestically from the US since I don't have too many points.

Thanks!

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>1 karenmarie:

For the older books, you may want to look at paperbackswap. four to Score in paperback is available

>1 karenmarie: I have #12 listed on Changobooks if you have credits over there.

Thanks ZoeyEve and rxtheresa - I have an account on paperbackswap but have never used it and haven't even heard of Changobooks.

I'm looking for Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series, specifically the following titles:

The Deeds of the Disturber. 1988. #5
The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog. 1992. #7
Seeing a Large Cat. 1997. #9
The Falcon at the Portal. 1999. #11
Tomb of the Golden Bird. 2006. #18
A River in the Sky. 2010. #19

I know a couple of these are available on PBS, but I'm out of points over there, alas! Anyone have copies they would like to part with via Bookmooch?

I have the earlier books in paperback that I will be posting at some point in the near future (my grandmother is borrowing them right now) if you would be interested. I can post them and reserve them for you until later if you want.

>5 karenmarie: karenmarie - Georgia M. on Paperbackswap has 2 for 1 from her bookshelf on Janet Evanovich today! I just saw her posting in the book bazaar. Her bookshelf is: http://www.paperbackswap.com/book/members_books.php?m=UXpjV2dQL2pidFE9 She says select the ones you want and PM her for the free ones.

7 - at large in the world - that would be great! Just let me know whenever you're ready to post them to the site!

#9 by @valkylee> I posted and reserved them for you. The first one should be ready to send out pretty soon (I think she's on #3 or #4 now) and I will keep you posted about the ship time of the others. If you find one sooner than I can mail it, just let me know- there won't be any hard feelings.

Does anybody have Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower? I can only mooch from the U.S.

I am looking for paperback copies of three books by Miklos Banffy
They were Counted
They were Found Wanting and
They were Divided

I would really like to find this edition of
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Piper edition (published in England? But also distributed in Australia, to schools at least), mass market paperback with this cover:

It's the edition I initially read (and my favourite cover), probably 1991 publishing. It has proved very difficult to find! I think it is ISBN 0330310453. Unfortunately it has been reprinted with a different cover... I tried asking a seller who had that cover shown on their listing but it was actually a different edition (and the cover shown had been the default, without them checking and noting it was different). Please keep an eye out for this in ex-library school sales, or wherever it may show up, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!!

I'm looking for quite a few Japanese manga to complete my series, but if you happen to have some just ask or look at my wishlist on Bookmooch.
I'm looking for the following English books:

The Witches of Willowmere - Allison Baird
The Warding of Willowmere - Allison Baird
The Wyrd of Willowmere - Allison Baird
On her Majesty's wizardly service - Diane Duane
The shelters of stone - Jean M. Auel (pocket paperback, colored cover with image like the rest: http://www.librarything.nl/catalog/mene&tag=Earth%2527s%2BChildren )
The land of painted caves - Jean M. Auel (pocket paperback, colored cover with image like the rest: http://www.librarything.nl/catalog/mene&tag=Earth%2527s%2BChildren )

I'm also looking for the Russian Tanya Grotter books #5 and higher.

Buffy/Angel-series:
(I don't care about editions)
Vengeance - Scott Ciencin
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Richie Tankersley Cusick
Blackout - Keith R.A. DeCandido
Bad Bargain - Diana G. Gallagher
The Wisdom of War - Christopher Golden
Heat - Nancy Holder
These Our Actors - Dori Koogler
The Suicide King - Robert Joseph Levy
Solitary Man - Jeff Mariotte
Bruja - Mel Odom
Seven Crows - John Vornholt

Tarzan-series (author Edgar Rice Burroughs):
(don't pay attention to the numbers, only to the title. I don't care about editions. I know most are available as e-book but I like reading on paper better.)
16 - Tarzan and the City of Gold
17 - Tarzan and the Lion Man
18 - Tarzan and the leopard Men
20 - Tarzan and the Forbidden City
22 - Tarzan and the Foreign Legion
23 - Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins
24 - Tarzan and the Madman

I'm looking for the following books for my book club's 2012-2013 schedule:

State of Wonder by ann Patchett need mid-July at latest
Twelve by Twelve by William Powers need mid-August at latest
Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett need mid-September at latest
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy and Ann Patchett also need mid-September at latest
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami need mid-November at latest
The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew need mid-January at latest
Then Again by Diane Keaton need mid-February at latest
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes need beginning of March at latest - my book so I need extra prep time!
Accidental Birds of the Carolinas by Marjorie Hudson need mid-April at latest
Searoad by Ursula K. LeGuin need mid-May at latest

Thanks in advance to anybody who can help.

When do you need State of Wonder?

Hi Miela - I need it sometime early to mid-July for our August 5th bookclub meeting.

I'll modify my message above to say when I need each book.

I might be able to provide you with a copy of A Sense of An Ending. Let me get back to you in a few weeks.

I can provide a copy of State of wonder, that's why I asked.

>15 karenmarie:, I am amazed your bookclub has decided the next 12 books you are reading? I have belonged to a bookclub for 10 years now and I think half the fun is figuring out what book to read next.

Paperbackswap (if you are in the USA) might have some of the books you want.

Thanks so much, Miela and RidgewayGirl! I'll look forward to hearing from you both.

ZoeyEve - we really enjoy our annual book-selection meeting. All of us are quite busy and like to have things scheduled with no surprises. Sometimes things get re-arranged, but most of the time we know what we're reading when. I know other book clubs do things differently.

We have quite a few very strong (read opinionated and bossy) women who would take over if things weren't arranged the way they are. We've been in business since 1997, so at least for us we're doing things right. Each of us gets a book of her choice. If we come to the meeting with only one suggestion, then that's the book. If we come with several choices it means we're allowing the group to help us decide. This cycle we had 3 people who only brought one book. One of us had two to choose from, most 3, and several brought 5 or 6 books to choose from. We're all pretty happy with the choices, although I've already read two that I didn't put on that list - Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and Year of Wonders.

I'll check out Paperbackswap - I joined a long time ago but loved BM so much I didn't want to have two going. But maybe now's the time.....

Does anyone in the US have a copy of The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri they'd be willing to send? Or any of Camilleri's Montalbano books?

There is one available on PBS, The Smell of the Night. I can grab it but I'm not on BM but I'm on Changobooks.

#22 bostonbibliophile - I have The Shape of Water in paperback, isbn#0-14-200239-9, Penguin Books if you want it.

karenmarie, thanks but i have the shape of water- the only one i have. thanks though :-)

23, i'm not on either but thank you :)

My Mom is looking for the following mysteries for her summer reading (I'm in Canada):

Colin Cotterell: Slash and Burn
William Boyd: Waiting for Sunrise
Will Ferguson: 419
Qiu Xiaolong: Don't Cry, Tai Lake
Mark Mills: Amagansett
Lee Child: The Affair
Wolf Haas: Brenner and God
any by Mo Hayder (check with me on these ones, I have an angel request and "ask first" on the go for some).

thanks for anyone who can help.

Hi I am looking for the second book in the Millennium Trilogy The Girl Who Played With Fire if anyone can help me out, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you :)

carod I may have some by Mo Hayder, I will check my shelves and get back to you....

>28 Veritas_: There are lots of copies of The Girl Who Played with Fire on PBS, you may want to have someone who is on both grab it and post it to you on Bookmooch or you may want to join PBS. I'm currently on the Wishlist for the audio version on PBS and they estimate about 6 weeks for that but there are a lot of text copies.

I'm looking for the following:
As God Commands by Niccolo Ammaniti
Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
The Fugitive by Massimo Carlotto
The Calligrapher by Edward Docx
the Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen
The Condition and/or Faith by Jennifer Haigh
The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
Let it be Morning by Sayed Kashua
Shades of Milk and Honeyby Mary Robinette Kowal
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

and a bunch more but if you have any of these you're willing to send, and you're in the US, I'm mariekat on bookmooch and would love to hear from you! I'm not on changobooks or pbs, just bookmooch fyi!

Are you in a hurry for The Condition? I have it on my TBR and would be glad to read it in July. It's a hardcover that I picked up as a remainder at B&N.

I've read Borstal Boy and can only assure you that it's well worth reading!

RidgewayGirl, thanks for offering to do that. you don't have to . i'm really looking for a paperback.
I tried reading Borstal Boy once but I spilled a container of yogurt on it and it had to be trashed :-(

More things I'm looking for:
The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
The Gallery by John Horne Burns
Death in August by Marco Vichi
Farewell, Shanghai by Angel Wagenstein
Daniel stein, Translator by Ludmilla Ulitskaya
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
Lots of books by Robert Rankin
Lots of books by Angela Thirkell
Thanks for checking!

>34 bostonbibliophile: Are you on PBS

I found a copy of
The Gallery by John Horne Burns

I did not check your whole list but there may be more.

I am not on PBS, thanks.

#34 - I have The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni as an ARC. LMK if you would still want it.