Seventh Annual Silent Auction (2004)
The Axe Library's Seventh Annual Silent Auction was held on Thursday, March 18th, from 1 PM to 7:30 PM in the Library Browsing Area. Autographed books, works of art, and fine home furnishings were among the things made available for bid. Refreshments were on hand and musical entertainment was provided by harpists DeMaris Herrera and DeMaris Gaines. Proceeds from this Auction goes toward financing the annual Gene DeGruson Memorial Lecture and the Faculty Author Reception, and the furnishings for the new Special Collections Reading Room. The Friends also plan a video library, as well as exploring the possibility of commissioning some special art pieces for the Library's entrance.
The Auctions are open to the public and we invite anyone who would like to know more about the Library and what it has to offer to the community.
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Items Up for Bid:
Children's Literature:
Autographed copies of The Crystal Throne and Agents and Adepts, by Kathryn Sullivan. (For your young sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. 6th grade and up.)
Autographed copies of Escape Underground (fiction about early Christians for middle schoolers) and The Bruce Spruce and the Christmas Goose, by Clint Kelly. (Christmas story for preschoolers to first grade)
Autographed copy of The Firebird, by Jane Yolen, illustrated and signed by Vladimir Vagin. (Great illustrations! Kindergarten to 2nd grade.)
Autographed copy of Baba Yaga's Geese and Other Russian Stories by Bonnie Carey. (Sly foxes, stingy old women, clever soldiers, shrewd peasants and lots of talking animals. Grades 4 to 8)
Autographed copies of Good Luck, Mrs K! (Third Grade teacher takes a year off for cancer treatment) and Fly High! (Story of Bessie Coleman, first black woman to fly), by Louise Borden. (Very touching. 2nd to 6th grade.)
Autographed and beautifully illustrated copies of the following books from Nancy Day's Your Travel Guide Series:
And, also from Nancy Day, Malaria, West Nile, and other Mosquito-Borne Diseases and Killer Superbugs: the Story of Drug-Resistant Diseases. All of the above appropriate for 5th to 10th grade.
Autographed copies of Moses Goes to a Concert, by Isaac Millman. (Young deaf child goes to a concert. Teaches several sign language words. K to 5th grade)
Autographed copies of Dolphin Talk: Whistles, Clicks, and Clapping Jaws, by Wendy Pfeffer. (Great pictures. Very informative. 3rd to 7th grade)
Autographed copy of Osama bin Laden: A War Against the West, by Elaine Laundau. (Good start for parents trying to answer hard questions. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Leonardo's Hand, by Wick Downing. (Ghost story about the return of the great inventor. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Northern Lights, by Anne Colledge. (Stories about the adventures of a hearing impaired child in Northumbria. 4th grade to Middle school.)
Autographed copy of Wishbone, by Janeen Brian. (A dogless little boy finds a bone and buries it while making a wish for a canine companion. Preschool to 2nd grade.)
Autographed copy of Ten Miles from Winnemucca, by Thelma Hatch Wyss. (Growing pains of a teenage runaway. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copies of Jesus Walks on Water and Math Mystery Mini Book #15 by Nancy L. Sanders (Good teaching books for young children. K through 2nd grade)
Autographed copy of The Thief of Venice, by Jane Langton. (Great suspense for all ages. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Clifford Goes to Hollywood with an autographed poster, by Norman Bridwell. (The famous Clifford hits the silver screen. Preschool to 2nd grade.)
Autographed copies of Asteroids, Comets and Meteorites and Marine Geology, by Don Erickson. (A very talented geologist from Colorado wrote these. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copies of Pure Sunshine (Troubled teenagers coming of age in Philadelphia. Middle school to 12th grade.) and Supertwins Meet the Bad Dogs from Space (Superhero twins defeat green poodles from outer space. Kindergarten to 2nd grade.), by Brian James.
Autographed copies of "We've Found a Cannon!", The Sand Clocker and We Own Laurentic, Jack Scoltock, (Jack is a member of the famous City of Derry Sub-Aqua Club, a group of amateur divers and undersea archaeologists who discovered the Spanish Armada ship La Trinidad Valencera in Kinnagoe Bay, County Donegal. High School and Up.)
Five copies of The Girls' Book of Success, edited by Catherine Dee. (Collection of quotations and advice from successful women, past (Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott) and present (Oprah, Condoleezza Rice). Middle school to 12th Grade)
Two Autographed copies of Strike Three! Take Your Base, by Frosty Wooldridge. (Two young baseball prodigies deal with the death of their father; who is also their baseball coach. Middle School to 12th Grade.)
Autographed copy of Hallowed Ground: A Walk at Gettysburg by James McPherson, award winning author of Battle Cry for Freedom. (Middle School and up.)
Autographed copy of The World at Her Fingertips: the Story of Helen Keller, by Joan Dash. (Middle School and up.)
Autographed copies of The Mystery of the Third Seal (post apocalyptic fantasy), Bolton Road Spy Catchers (British kids want to catch spies during WWII) Weekend Territory (surfing adventure in Australia) and Caught in Willaburra (young teacher finds romance in Australian bush school), by Margaret Pearce. (6th to 12th grades)
Autographed copies of The Stolen Lake (Thrilling nautical adventure) and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Evil nanny takes over family estate), by distinguished British author Joan Aiken, daughter of our own Conrad Aiken. (Middle school to 12th grade).
Autographed copy of Quit It, by Marcia Byalick. (7th grader deals with Tourette's syndrome. 6th grade and up.)
Autographed copy of The Barefoot Book of Heroic Children, by Rebecca Hazell. (Remarkable stories of young heroes, well known (Anne Frank) to obscure, but deserving of more fame. (Iqbal Masih, Pakistani crusader against child labor, gunned down by the "Carpet Mafia" at age 12). Beautifully illustrated. 4th to 9th grade.
Autographed copy of Never Sell Yourself Short, by Stephanie Riggs. (Photographic biography of Josh Maudlin, which explains how he deals with being a young man with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. 3rd to 6th grades.)
Autographed copy of Screen Test, by David Klass. (Young teenager gets a chance in Hollywood. Middle School to 12th grade)
Autographed copies of Tingles and Children of Morwena, by Helene Smith with three autographed advertising posters. (Fantasy and mystery from Down Under. Middle school.)
Autographed copy of The Hilltop Mystery, by Deepa Agarwal. (Kids from India get involved in a mystery over summer vacation. 5th to 8th grades.)
Autographed copies of The Dwellers Beneath, Searching for the Green, Baldur's Bones, Lawlor's Revenge and Grimstone's Ghost, by Mary Arrigan. (Irish kids involved in supernatural and/or futuristic adventures. Scary stuff! 7th to 12th grades)
Autographed copy of Dogs, by Bill Condon. (Australian teens from dysfunctional families go into dog racing... and girls. This one won the runner up in the young adult section of the Australian Book of the Year Awards in 2001. 10th to 12 grades)
Autographed copy of Haunted Sister, by Lael Littke. (Chiller about an accident victim who is haunted by her evil twin after a coma. 8th to 12th grades.)
Autographed copy of Crashed, Smashed, and Mashed: a Trip to Junkyard Heaven, by Joyce Slayton Mitchell. (Has your youngster ever asked, "What are they going to do with our old car?" when you took it to the junkyard? Well, now you can tell the little tyke all about it. 2nd to 5th grades)
Autographed copy of The Perfect Pet, by Carol Chataway. (Three young pigs try to adopt a dog, with disastrous results! Preschool to 3rd grade.)
Autographed copy of Mary Smith, by Andrea U'Ren. (How did the English wake up to go to work before alarm clocks were invented? They hired "knocker-ups" like Mary Smith (a real person), to wake them up. Preschool to 3rd grade.)
Adult Literature and Non Fiction:
Autographed copy of Foreigner, by renowned Iranian American author Nahid Rachlin. (Iranian woman tries to make a life for herself in the United States. Ms. Rachlin is the most published Iranian author in the United States.)
Autographed copy of The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community, by Mary Pipher, bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia.
Autographed copy of Voices for Catherine Blake, by Barbara Lachman. (Novel about the marriage of the famous artist and poet William Blake to Catherine Blake, told from the point of view of Catherine, a shadowy figure in literary history.)
Copy of Cry Havoc, by renowned British spy novelist Clive Egleton. (Agent Peter Ashton saves the world from chemical disaster.)
Autographed copy of A Tupolev Too Far, by Brian W. Aldiss. (Collection of science fiction stories by a British master of the genre.)
Autographed copy of Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Woman Who Saved the POLARIS Expedition, by Sheila Nickerson. (Story of the famous "Sacajawea of the Ice" who saved 19 members of the Polaris expedition in the 1870s)
Autographed copy of Mansfield Revisited: A Jane Austen Entertainment, by Joan Aiken. (Continued adventures of the Price and Bertram families.)
Autographed copy of Wobegon Boy, by Garrison Keillor. (More amusing adventures from those transplanted Scandinavians from Minnesota. Very funny.)
Autographed copy of The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War, by James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. (Remarkable story of one of the Black regiments recruited by the Confederacy during the Civil War.)
Autographed copy of Modern Arab Historiography: Historical Discourse and the Nation-State, by Dr. Youssef Choueiri. (Scholarly work from a Reader in Middle Eastern History at the University of Exeter, UK)
Autographed copy of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Resource Management, by Dr. Arthur R. Pell. (A tough subject explained with clarity.)
Autographed copy of Coming into the Country, by John McPhee. (Book about modern Alaska by a staff writer for the New Yorker.)
Autographed copy of The Justification of Johann Gutenberg, by Blake Morrison. (Historical novel based on the tumultuous life of Johann Gutenberg.)
Autographed copy of Tunnel, by Walter Wager. (Lincoln Tunnel is blocked by gang of international criminals posing as Mideast terrorists. Sounds scary.)
Autographed copy of Terrorism, Organized Crime and Social Distress, by Robert J. Kelly and Robert W. Rieber. (A very pertinent and disturbing topic.)
Autographed copy of Air-Bird in the Water: the Life and Works of Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), by Mildred Davis Harding. (Courageous and heart breaking life of author Pearl Craigie, (1867-1906), who wrote under the pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes.)
Two autographed copies of Waking Up in Egypt: A Memoir, by Mildred Davis Harding. (Memoir of the author's sojourn in Egypt in the early 1950's as a college teacher at the American University in Cairo.)
Autographed copy of If the Earth Should Move, by Deepa Agarwal. (Short stories about a woman's life in India.)
Two autographed copies of Give Him Back to God, by Barbara Cronin Harrington. (Murder mystery based on the true life murder of a former Catholic priest in New Port Richey, FL. Gruesome and scary)
Autographed copy of The Dodgers Encyclopedia, by William F. McNeil. (Pittsburg's own Bill Russell is on page 98.)
Autographed copies of Swans of the World and Cranes: the Noblest Flyers, by Alice Lindsay Price. (Beautiful books with lovely pictures and interesting facts.)
Autographed copy of Twenty-Five Yards of War: the Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men in World War II, by Ronald J. Drez. (Great tales of D-Day, The Bulge, Iwo Jima, Midway; we could go on and on)
Autographed copy of The Company of the Future: Meeting the Management Challenges of the Communications Revolution, by Frances Cairncross. (Distinguished writer for The Economist discusses how new mass communications technology will change the way we do business. Sounds fascinating, and a little scary.)
Autographed copy of Tiger's Eye, by Inga Clendinnen. (Memoir by Australian historian who faces up to a devastating bout with liver disease and a transplant.)
Autographed TV script, Navy NCIS, signed by the star Mark Harmon. (Episode #008, entitled "Minimum Security". Mark sent his photo along with it.)
Autographed copy of To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L.A., by Deborah Dash Moore. (A different look at the American Jewish experience.)
Autographed script from the Newhart show, "Attack of the Killer Aunt", November 15, 1989, signed "All the Best, Bob Newhart".
Autographed copies of A Gradual Awakening, and Turning Toward the Mystery, by Steven Levine, teacher of meditation techniques and, for thirty years, counselor to the dying.
Autographed copy of Truth, Justice, and the American Way: The Life and Times of Noel Neill, the Original Lois Lane, by Larry Thomas Ward. (Noel is the actress who played opposite George Reeves in the TV series Superman. She and the author both signed the book. Great shot of her and George on the cover.)
Autographed copies of Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine and When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege, by Raja Shehadeh, distinguised Palestinian lawyer, author and activist for peace.
Autographed copy of Kiss My Left Behind, by Earl Lee, Axe Library's acquisitions librarian and freelance author. (Hysterically funny religious and political satire.)
Autographed copy of The Young Magician and Other Poems, by Arijit Mukherji, Indian poet who died at age 38 in the year 2000. (Gift of the Writers Workshop of Calcutta, who published the manuscript from personal papers preserved by his sister, Kamalika.)
Autographed copy of Popped: A Regan Reilly Mystery, by Carol Higgins Clark. (Daughter of Mary Higgins, and prolific writer in her own right, she has written at least 8 Regan Reilly mysteries as well as act on TV, in movies and on the stage. A brilliant lady.)
Jewelry:
Ann Klein Swiss watch donated by Comeau Jewelry Co. (Rhinestones around the clock face. A knockout!)
Art:
Two art prints of "Wohunks", creatures who can only be seen by people with special powers. Wohunks appear in Tingles, a book by Helene Smith, a writer from Western Australia.
Happy Woodpecker Landing, a photograph by F. Victor Sullivan, 10" x 8". (photo of woodpecker poised in mid-air before alighting on a dead tree. Beautiful shot!)
A Touch of Autumn, a wooden wall sculpture by Gene Curtis, 18" x 29". (Floral sculpture made with pine, mulberry, maple, walnut and oak woods stained in dark and light brown and different shades of rose. Gorgeous!)
Two photographs, Beauty (a lovely floral composition) and Aspirations (close up of red autumn leaves), by Sharon Hudson, both 11" x 14".
Three clay sculptures by distinguished PSU professor and sculptor, Malcolm Kucharski:
Venn in Green, acrylic painting by local artist Rebecca Lomshek, 12" x 24 1/2". (Interlocking Venn diagrams painted in white on a black background with shades of green that get darker where they overlap. Very imaginative.)
Floral Stilllife, with roses, peonies, morning glories, ferns and many other flowers donated by Wallpaper for Less. (Would brighten up any living room!)
Autographed Pictures:
Autographed picture of Clive Barker, actor, painter, executive producer of horror films and writer of the Bucket of Blood series. (A beautiful, kind of off center photo)
Autographed picture of Dom Deluise along with cartoon which he drew by hand. (Picture and drawing are both adorable)
Autographed picture of Gene Wilder, beaming at the camera.
Autographed picture of Janet Leigh. (A young and beautiful Janet.)
Autographed picture of Jeff Goldblum. (Striking a scruffy, macho man pose.)
Autographed picture of the Dalai Lama. (A very large photo in a beautiful folder. He looks wonderful.)
Autographed picture of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders; 2002-03 lineup. (Each one of the buxom babes signed their own image.)
Elegant picture of a lovely Elizabeth Taylor cuddling a small dog. (Very sweet.)
Music:
Autographed CD Mrs. Brady on Broadway, by singer and actress Florence Henderson, along with a beautiful autographed photo. (Highlights from South Pacific, Oklahoma, Fanny and Song of Norway, to name a few.)
Collectibles & Home Furnishings:
Silver tea set donated by Moore's Furniture. (Pot, creamer and sugar bowl. Very beautiful!)
Throw blanket donated by Occasions reporducing a painting of a church by artist Thomas Kindale. (Soft and elegant.)
Flower arrangement donated by Dillon's Floral. Antherium lilies, cattails, wild berries and other beautiful wildflowers. 29" high. (Wow!)
Cut glass vase (7" high x 4" diameter) donated by Little's. (Makes a lovely centerpiece.)
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