Library Donations Wish List

Have you read a great new book lately that you’d like to share? The library would love to help you do that. We’re looking for copies of thought provoking titles such as David Sheff’s Beautiful Boy and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. We also want books that aren’t quite so new, but still in demand such as Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, and Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner. And there are classics and older titles that we can’t seem to keep enough copies of, like Shakespeare’s Hamlet and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman. Help us update the collections our students use to write their papers and do their homework! Below is a list of some of our most needed topics and most in demand titles.

You can also help us by becoming a member of the Friends of the Library or making a tax-deductible donation. http://www.ccsf.edu/Organizations/Friends_of_the_Library/join.htm

To donate books from this wish list please contact Joao Barretto (jbarrett@ccsf.edu, 452-5441) or Karen Saginor (ksaginor@ccsf.edu, 452-5522). Get information about book donations in general from the Friends of the Library.

Topics needed include:
Newer dictionaries and grammar books, especially for English, Spanish and French.
Essays – how to write essays for English classes, college applications, and visual arts.
Computer applications (must be up-to-date)
Criticism of Hamlet and Othello, as well as copies of those plays.
Literature for ESL students
Literature for students of the French language
Monologs (theatre)
Health conditions, especially about anxiety, stress, diabetes, self esteem, cholesterol, eating disorders and weight issues (current information)
Review guides for Algebra, Calculus, Business Math, Accounting, Chemistry, Physics, Spanish and French.
Up-to-date test preparation guides (such as TOEFL, CBEST, NCLEX-RN
Resume and job search books
Stars (astronomy)
Web applications (must be up-to-date)
Yoga

Specific titles that we need (more) copies of include:

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free.
Baird, Robert and Stuart E. Rosenbaum (eds.). Same-Sex Marriage.
Bedford Handbook. 5th edition or later.
Beebe, Steven and John Masterson. Communicating in Small Groups. 6th ed.
Belton, John. American Cinema.
Benshoof-Holler, Margaret. Burning of the Marriage Hat.
Biggs, Barton. Wealth, War and Wisdom.
Blume, Judy. Forever.
Brooks, Geraldine. People of the Book.
Brownell, Kelly and Katherine Horgen. Food Fight.
Campos, Paul. The Obesity Myth.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
Canada, Geoffrey. Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun.
Carrasco, David. Religions of Mesoamerica.
Chopin, Kate. The awakening and selected stories.
Coerr, Eleanor. Mieko and the Fifth Treasure.
Dal Co, Francesco and Kurt Forster. Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works.
DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (4th ed. or later)
Diamond, Jared. Collapse.
Diamond, Jared M. Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl.
Dubus, Andre. House of Sand and Fog.
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.
Fong, Timothy. The Contemporary Asian American Experience.
Gladwell Malcolm. The Tipping Point .
Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love.
Hokusai : Prints and Drawings.
Fricke, Jim and Charlie Ahearn. Yes Yes Y'all.
Friedman, Thomas. The World Is Flat.
Gardner's Art through the Ages. (11th ed. or later)
Garfinkle, Robert. Star-Hopping.
Giles, Elmore, Jr. Becoming: as Truth is and as Love Does.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink.
Gray, John. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun also Rises.
Hersh, Seymour. Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy. Am I Thin Enough Yet?
Hill, Julia Butterfly. The Legacy of Luna.
Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner.
Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns

Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. The Woman that Never Evolved.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.
Janson, H. W. History of Art. (5th ed. or later)
Jin, Ha. War trash.
Kerman, Joseph. Listen.
King, James. The Biology of Race.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation.
Kornfield, Jack. Buddha's Little Instruction Book.
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth.
Lasater, Judith. Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times
Levine, Stephen. A Gradual Awakening.
Levitt, Steven and Stephen Dubner. Freakonomics.
Lin, Mike. Drawing and Designing with Confidence.
Longman Language Activator.
Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon. Sweatshop Warriors.
Marsden, John. So Much to Tell You.
Massing, Michael. The Fix: Solving the Nation's Drug Problem.
McBride James. The Color of Water.
McMinn's Color Atlas of Human Anatomy (4th ed. or later)
Montagu, Ashley. The Nature of Human Aggression.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved.
Obama, Barack. The Audacity of Hope.
Orwell, George. 1984.
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma.>
Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food
Postman, Neil and Steve Powers. How to Watch TV News.
Roach, Mary. Bonk.
Rosenthal, Ed and Steve Kubby. Why Marijuana Should be Legal.
Ruiz, Miguel. The Four Agreements.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation.
Schlosser, Eric. Reefer Madness.
Sedaris, David. Me Talk Pretty One Day.
Sheff, David. Beautiful Boy.
Sheff, Nic. Tweak.
States, Bert. Hamlet and the Concept of Character.
Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and, Civil Disobedience.
Uddin, M. Saleh. Composite Drawing.
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.
Wolfson, Evan. Why Marriage Matters.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own.
Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States.

Last updated 23 April 2008