Offer up a book whose title or author (first or last name) starts with the next letter of the alphabet. If the relay stalls for a long period of time on one letter, skip to the next letter!


I'll start with "A".........

A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve

OOH I've been wanting to read that. I accept the relay and will offer

Bubbles Ablaze

Yup, you hit my wishlist!

I'll take Bubbles and offer up

The Chatham School Affair

(this book was recommended to me by mystery writer Rochelle Krich! My copy was never hers, though, as far as I know)

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I will take the Chatham School Affair and offer

Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

I will take Day of the Jackal and revive this relay with Escardy Gap by Peter Crowther and James Lovegrove.

I will take Escardy Gap and offer Fall On Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald

Okay, I'll offer one more book, this is a TBR, but it shouldn't take long...
The Flaming Luau of Death, a Culinary Mystery

or, a yet to be bookcrossed book called:
Fletch's Fortune (Gregory McDonald wrote it, and they based the Chevy Chase books on his films).

I'll take The Flaming Luau of Death. And offer these two choices. Both are TBR but it shouldn't take long to read them.

Guilty as Sin by Tami Hoag
Glass Houses by Stella Cameron

Refreshing. Other choices are still available.

Gettysburg by by Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen
Crazy Eights by Elizabeth Gunn
His Betrothed by Gayle Callen

I'll take "Gettysburg" and offer up a choice of the following H's:

Headcrash - Bruce Bethke
The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
His Immortal Embrace - Hannah Howell, Lynsay Sands, Sara Blayne & Kate Huntington (editors)

Pick one and email or pm me...

No longer have "Headcrash" available - here's some more H's

The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
The Homing by John Saul.

Hope someone finds something they like!

I will take The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock and offer Idaho Snapshots by Rick Just.

Here are more from the letter I.

I Hate to Cook Almanac
If I Should Die
If Tomorrow Comes
Image of Josephine
Imaginative Still Life
In the Hall of the Dragon King
In the Spotlight: Listening to Animals
Incredible Light and Texture in Watercolor
Indirections for Those Who Want to Write
Invisible Man
Iron John
It

Taking "In the Hall of the Dragon King" and offering up the following J's -


Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein
Jog Rummage by Grahame Wright

Jog Rummage sounds cool jennymidget.

Here are my offers with some restrictions:

Kidnapped by Robert Loius Stevenson (TBR) :pirate:
Kill Devil Hill - Story of the Wright Bros. (Australia Only for this one unfortunately, because it is a brick!)
The Kingdom where nobody dies - Kimberly Starr (TBR)

Any of the above three or King Solomon's Mines

I will take King Solomon's Mines and offer one of the following:

Ladder of Years
Land of the Torreones
Last Bus to Woodstock
Last of the Breed
Let Me Tell You How I Died
Life on the Mississippi
Listen to the Warm
Lives of the Circus Animals
Liza's England
Local Rites
Locked in Time
Lord of the Dance
Lorna Doone

I will take Ladder of Years and offer up one of the following:

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4749428 - Malice
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4128803 - Men and Angels
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2514862 - Millenium
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4533129 - Miracle of Love
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4925144 - Mirror Image
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5232257 - My Beloved Son
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4533130 - My Gallant Enemy

I'd like to take Millenium off your hands please :)

and I offer one of the following:

- The Number Of The Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
- No Future by Paul Cornell (a Doctor Who novel)

...and I'll dig up some TBRs and add them to this post shortly...

:whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

...and here they are:

- Never the Bride by Paul Magrs [TBR]
- Nightseer by Laurell K. Hamilton [TBR]
- Now You See Me by Jean Bedford [TBR]

(TBRs will take me a couple of months at least to read and send off :blush: )

Freelunch can I take "Nightseer" when you're done with it? I don't mind waiting :lol: heaven knows I have enough to read at the moment anyway!

My "O" offerings are:

Once and Future King - T H White
Our Children's Children - Clifford D Simak

I'd like Our Children's Children please!

My "P" offerings (all TBR):

Pandora's Clock
Peel My Love Like an Onion
The Pride of Chanur
The Puppet Masters

Will accept The Puppet Master please.

And offer the only Q book on my shelf:
Q's Guide to the Continuum (TBR but QTR)

If no one wants this within a week to 10 days, and I haven't located any other 'Q' books in the meantime, I'll be skipping to 'R' ... sound good? :D

Ooh I'll take Q's Guide! :D

Let's see what I have to offer starting with "R"... a choice from:

Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon
Random Winds by Belva Plain
Red by Erica Spindler
Rekindling the Romance: Loving the Love of Your Life by Dennis & Barbara Rainey
Remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Rite of Spring by Andrew M. Greeley
Room at the Top: The Success Stories of Some of America's Leading Businesswomen by Mary Kay
Royal Passion by Jennifer Blake

These are all Available... if no-one is interested in any of these after a couple days, I'll see what else I can dig up to add to the list!

I'll take the Sheldon book and offer one of these TBRs

Sally's Shoulders
Sam
Searching for Caleb
Seeing a Large Cat
Shiva 3000
Sister Carrie
Six Months Off
So Thick the Fog

Here are some more S choices

Sense and Sensibility
Serpent
Seven Worlds
Shadow over Nordmaar
Shadowland
Ship of Fools

I'll take the Elizabeth Peters book.

And offer these:
Talk Before Sleep
The Awakening, and Selected Stories
Too Much Temptation
Tracking Time
The Tenth Justice
Twice Loved
Twilight of Heroes
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag

I will take Talk Before Sleep, macewoman!

I have only one "U" at the moment -- hopefully someone will be interested?!

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. (U.S. only -- sorry!)

indygo88, I'll accept Uglies and offer:

Vampyrrhic by Simon Clark

or TBRs :reading: (I can read one or the other pretty quickly to get it sent out):

Victims by Shaun Hutson
Visions of Terror by William Katz

Grabbing "Vampyrrhic" and replacing with some W's -

Without a Hero - T.Coraghessan Boyle
Wizard of Linn - A E Van Vogt
White's Pipes - Nancy Kress

May we skip "X"?

I'd say wait a bit see if anyone comes up with X.. :) I do have one that starts with X...

Just in case it got lost in there somewhere:

Grabbing "Vampyrrhic" and replacing with some W's -

Without a Hero -T. Coraghessan Boyle
Wizard of Linn - A E Van Vogt
Whites Pipes - Nancy Kress

Just giving this a bit of a bump. I'm curious to see if anyone comes up with an "X" to add to the pot.

I have plenty of books/authors with X somewhere in the name or title, but nothing that begins with that letter. :P

Adding some more W's to the mix:

Wrath of Ashar - Angus Wells
Wind Crystal - Diana L Paxson
Waste Lands - Stephen King

Skipping X...

I'll take the Stephen King book and offer:

Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories

Two more:

You Can Negotiate Anything
Young Renny

And a Z:

Zodiac: an Eco-Thriller

On to the letter A. After this I'm going to let the relay die.

Advantage Miss Seeton
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 16 Skeletons from my Closet
All Tomorrow's Parties
American Girls About Town

I'll take American girl's about town and offer one of the following TBRs:

Brimstone by Lincoln Chil and Douglas Preston

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

And just in case you want something in spanish: :shrug:
Braveheart by Randall Wallace

Notice the TBR status: you might have to wait a bit to get your book. :blush: