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
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
Philosophy-
selected classic works
INSTRUCTIONAL:
GED preparation
ESL (learning English)
Learning to play musical instruments
Learning Spanish
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
Bike repair
Community building
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:
Leo Tolstoy, Octavia Butler, Shel Silverstein
Selected
classics, e.g. Catcher In the Rye, To Kill
A Mockingbird, 1984, Animal Farm, Stranger
In A Strange Land, A Clockwork Orange, War
and Peace, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Alice in
Wonderland, The Little Prince (in English
or French), etc.
FICTION, CHILDREN'S:
Children's popular series, e.g. Dr. Suess books, Harry Potter series, Chronicles
of Narnia, Clifford the Dog, Dora the Explorer, If
You Give A Mouse A Cookie, etc.
+ Thank-you!!
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