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!!