Re: Request for books

I'll stick a couple in the mail tomorrow. Good luck to you and the Literacy
Network of Greater
Cincinnati.

Joan



"Beth Tindall" <(myfirstname)@(mycity).com> wrote in message
news:43de7afc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> hi, remember me? ;-)
>
> Not to worry, all is well, I'm just really busy. I'm still doing author
> websites, reading a lot of books, and being my usual goofball. So, of
> course, I took on a new challenge recently. I'll paste my whole "appeal"
in
> here, but the bottom line is I'm hoping to get a book or two from some
> RAMmers to go to a good cause. Gently used, brand new, paperback,
hardback,
> mystery, general fiction, signed or not -- we'll find a home for all of
> them!
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Thursday, March 16, 2006 at
> The Cincinnati Museum Center
> Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati
> 16th Annual Scripps Spelling Bee for Literacy
>
> Donations of books are needed to be given away at the Spelling Bee as
prizes
> for contestants, sponsors, audience members and volunteers. We will look
for
> groupings of books (for example: historical mystery authors, autographed
> books published in 2005, a complete set of books by a particular author,
> etc....) that we can bundle for prizes, in addition to giving away
> individual books as door prizes.
>
> Spelling Bee participants are from corporate teams from companies like
P&G,
> Chiquita, General Electric, and University of Cincinnati. The Spelling Bee
> is one of the largest fundraisers for the Literacy Network of Greater
> Cincinnati.
>
> The Literacy Network acts as an umbrella agency for over 60 sites in
Greater
> Cincinnati where adults may go to improve their basic education and
literacy
> skills. The Network provides free Adult and Children's Basic Reading
> Classes for people with profound reading disabilities and a Tutor Training
> program for volunteers interested in working with adults. Also, the
Literacy
> Network offers the Cincinnati Reads program, which recruits and trains
> reading tutors to work one-on-one with K-4th grade students in the
> Cincinnati Public Schools.
>
> Additional books not given away at the Spelling Bee will be used as
> Appreciation gifts for the volunteer tutors. Contacts are being made with
> local bookstores for additional book donations to be arranged year-round.
>
> Local mystery author Jeffrey Marks and mystery author website specialist
> Beth Tindall of CincinnatiMedia are arranging autographed book donations
> from within the national mystery community. Donated books will have a
label
> on the inside of the book which state "Book donated by the author."
>
> To donate, send books (autographed or not, fiction/nonfiction,
> adult/YA/juvenile, ones you've written or ones you've read!) to:
>
> LNGC
> ATTN: KIM
> 635 WEST SEVENTH STREET, SUITE 103
> CINCINNATI, OH 45203
>
> Books for the Spelling Bee should be sent before March 1st, 2006. Books
are
> appreciated and welcomed other times of year, though!
>
> http://www.lngc.org/
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks Ramily!
>
> Beth
>
>


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