Eighth Annual Silent Auction (2005)
The Axe Library's Eighth Annual Silent Auction was held on Tuesday, March 1st, from 5:30 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. Proceeds from this Auction will go toward financing the annual Gene DeGruson Memorial Lecture and the annual Faculty Author Reception. The Friends also plan to purchase a video/dvd library (9 videos have already been purchased), a stained glass window for the Library's entrance and a portable wireless scanning book truck.
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 copy of I'm Going to California (Yo Voy a California) by Mary Dodson Wade. (Beautifully illustrated book about a young person's imaginary vacation in California. Translated into Spanish for the Dora the Explorer crowd. Age 4 to 7.)
Autographed copy of C is for Cowboy: a Wyoming Alphabet, by Eugene Gagliano; illustrated and signed by Susan Guy. (Knock-out illustrations and all kinds of interesting information about Wyoming, the first state to give women the vote. (I just learned that.) Kindergarten and up.
Autographed copies of Who Sees the Lighthouse? and Christmas Lights, by Ann Fearrington. (Both beautifully illustrated. Great authentic scenes of old lighthouses done in paper cut relief by Giles Laroche. Kindergarten to 4th grade.)
Autographed copy of Poetry and Paint by Judy and Ross B. Young. (Lovely poems about nature accompanied by dazzling paintings. 4th grade and up.)
Autographed copy of Author: A True Story, by Helen Lester. (Harriet the Spy meets The Little Prince. Actually, a great book to inspire your young author or illustrator to be. Kindergarten to third grade.)
Autographed copy of Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! by Cari Best. (Heartwarming description of what the author gave her Russian Grandmother on her "NO PRESENT" birthday. Kindergarten to 4th grade.)
Autographed copy of Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris. (A fairy tale comedy. 6th grade and up.)
Four titles illustrated and signed by Jody Wheeler. The last three titles are great for a youngster who asks questions about the weather, especially when tornadoes and hurricanes hit the news a lot. (1st to 6th grade.)
Autographed copy of Henry Works, by D. B. Johnson. (Life and adventures of Henry David Thoreau - in the form of an adorable bear named Henry - for preschool to first grade readers.)
Autographed copy of Journey Home, by Lawrence McKay, Jr.; Illustrated and signed by Dom and Keunhee Lee. (Touching story of a Vietnam war orphan and her daughter who go back to Vietnam to find out what happened to their father and grandfather. 3rd grade to Middle School.)
Autographed copy of Joan of Arc, by Josephine Poole, signed by the illustrator, Angela Barrett. (Gorgeous book with luminous illustrations inspired by Medieval manuscripts. 3rd to 6th grades.)
Autographed copy of Lizzie Logan Gets Married, by Eileen Spinelli. (Third grader tries to plan her Mom's wedding and cure warts ("Toaditis"). All in a days work! 2nd to 6th grades.)
Autographed copy of Circle of Friends, by Giora Carmi. (Story in pictures about a little boy who shares a snack with a homeless man, setting off a series of remarkable events. Preschool to 3rd grade.)
Autographed copy of Niña Bonita, by Ana María Machado. (Very funny story about a mischievous child, a foolish white rabbit and the beauty of living in a mixed race family. In easy Spanish. Kindergarten to 6th grade.)
Autographed copy of The Warlord's Kites, by Virginia Walton Pildegard. Signed and illustrated by Nicholas Debon. (Math lesson concealed inside an exciting adventure in ancient China. Beautiful illustrations. 3rd to 7th grades.)
Autographed copy of The Loudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas, by Marguerite W. Davol. (A young drummer from Kansas drums away a tornado. Kindergarten to 4th grade.)
Autographed copy of My Grandma, My Pen Pal, by Jan Dale Koutsky. (Touching story of a close intergenerational friendship. Preschool to 3rd grade.)
Autographed CD of We're going on a Bear Hunt, written by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, who signed the CD booklet. (Your youngsters will love it. Preschool to 2nd grade).
Autographed copy of The Friendship of Milly and Tug by Dian Curtis Regan. (Set of related stories about an unusual, difficult but loyal friendship between a cat (Milly) and a mouse (Tug). First to fourth grades.)
Autographed copy of Jethro Byrde: Fairy Child by Bob Graham. (Toddler in a busy British city meets with a fairy family. Charming. Kindergarten to 2nd grade.
Autographed copy of Music CDs from Start to Finish, by Mindi Rose Englart. (Everything you wanted to know about recording and producing a music CD. 3rd to 7th grades.)
Autographed copy of Finklehopper Frog, by Irene Livingston. (A frog buys himself a snazzy jogging suit and goes out running; or rather hopping. Beautiful illustrations by Brian Lies. Preschool to 2nd grade.)
Autographed copy of The St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh, by Janet Nolan. (Heartwarming tale of an Irish family and a memento which they brought over from the Emerald Isle. 2nd to 5th grades.)
Autographed copy of Weslandia, by Paul Fleischman; signed by illustrator, Kevin Hawkes. (Wesley spends the summer establishing his own, new civilization. 3rd to 6th grades.)
Autographed copy of Project UltraSwan, written and photographed by Elinor Osborn. (Two men, flying in an adapted hang glider, escort trumpeter swans to their wintering grounds on Chesapeake Bay. Middle School and Up.)
Autographed copy of Jim Bridger's Alarm Clock and Other Tall Tales, by Sid Fleischman. (Jim Bridger competes with Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Pecos Bill as a source of frontier adventure. 3rd to 6th grades.)
Autographed copy of Draw 50 Baby Animals: The Step-By-Step Way to Draw Kittens, Lambs, Chicks, and Other Adorable Offspring, by Lee J. Ames. (If your child likes to draw but doesn't like to read a lot of complicated explanations, this is perfect. 2nd grade and up.)
Autographed copy of It's a Hummingbird's Life, by Irene Kelly. (Many fascinating facts about these remarkable birds. 2nd to 4th grades.)
Autographed copy of Jackalope, by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel; illustrated by Janet Stevens. (Includes two beautiful posters and a CD of storyteller Colleen Salley reading her book Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail, which Janet Stevens also illustrated. Kindergarten to 2nd grade.)
Autographed copy of By Word of Mouse, by Kate Spohn. (Cute story of two sisters who take in a colony of mice. Lovely illustrations by the author. Kindergarten to 2nd grade.)
Autographed copies of Schooner (Shipbuilders in Essex, Massachusetts build a schooner on 19th century models. 3rd to 7th grades.) and The Fattening Hut (Novel about the practice of female circumcision and forced weight gain practiced by brides to be in developing countries.), by Pat Lowery Collins.
Autographed copy of It's Vladimir! by Deborah Noyes. (Young vampire earns his wings after learning some important lessons. 1st to 4th grades.)
Autographed copy of The Wizard Test by Hilari Bell. (Young man learns he has the skills to become a wizard. 5th grade to high school.)
Autographed copy of Kirsten and the Chippewa, by Janet Shaw. (Young Swedish pioneer in Minnesota befriends a young Chippewa teenager. Part of the American Girls Short Stories collection. 2nd grade to Middle school.)
Autographed copy of Me and Uncle Romie, by Claire Hartfield. (North Carolina youngster spends a summer in Manhattan with his uncle Romie, who happens to be the world famous collage artist Romare Bearden. 2nd to 7th grades.)
Autographed copy of A Song of Stars, by Tom Birdseye. (Asian legend of two unhappy lovers. Beautiful illustrations by Ju-Hong Chen. 3rd to 7th grades.)
Autographed copies of Can You Hear A Rainbow?: The Story of a Deaf Boy Named Chris, and Rolling Along: The Story of Taylor and His Wheelchair, by Jamee Riggio Heelan. (Two real life stories of disabled children and how they managed to overcome these disabilities. Written for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Life Center. 2nd to 5th grades.)
Copy of Mugambi's Journey, by John Becker. (Young cheetah goes on a perilous journey to find his missing mother. 2nd to 6th grades.)
Autographed copy of The Sea-Thing Child, by Russell Hoban; Signed by the illustrator, Patrick Benson. (Sweet story of an orphaned sea bird, raised on a beach by a hermit crab, an albatross and an eel. 2nd to 5th grades.)
Autographed copy of Princess, Princess, by Penny Dale. (Charming take on the familiar Sleeping Beauty legend by the illustrator of the book that inspired the movie "Mrs. Doubtfire". Preschool to 2nd grade.)
Autographed copy of What the Little Fir Tree Wore to the Christmas Party, by Satomi Ichikawa. (Beautifully illustrated take on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, with a much happier ending. 1st to 5th grades.)
Autographed copy of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll; Signed by the illustrator, Joel Stewart. (What does a "Jabberwock, with eyes of flame...whiffling through the tulgey wood" look like? Read this book and find out. 2nd grade and up.)
Autographed copy of Prancing, Dancing Lily, by Marsha Diane Arnold. (Lily the cow leaves her Wisconsin home to pursue her vocation as a dancing bell cow. Inspired by the author's father's Ayrshire dairy herd in Kingman, KS. Preschool to 2nd grade.)
Copy of The Hard-Times Jar, by Ethel Footman Smothers. (Young migrant worker saves money in her Mom's jar to buy a "store-bought book", until she goes to school and gets a nice surprise. 2nd to 6th grades.)
Children's Literature - Criticism:
Autographed copy of Declarations of Independence: Empowered Girls in Young Adult Literature, 1990-2001, by Joanne Brown and Nancy St. Clair. (Ever read a book of literary criticism which you just couldn't put down? Here's one.)
Young Adult Literature :
Autographed copy of The Messenger, by Markus Zusak. (Australian cab driver stops a bank robbery which leads him into a surreal adventure. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of George Washington - The Writer, by Carolyn P. Yoder. (Wonderful introduction to George's life and correspondence for a young researcher. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Secret of the Black Widow by Eugene Gagliano. (Mystery surrounding a reclusive turn of the century Wyoming family. 4th to 8th grade.)
Autographed copies of The Cannibals, starring Tiffany Spratt and Kumquat May, I'll Always Love You, by Cynthia D. Grant. (Absorbing novels of teenage angst. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Always and Forever, by Lurlene McDaniel. (Two novels, Too Young to Die and Goodbye Doesn't Mean Forever in one book. Young cancer patient faces death. Middle School and up.)
Autographed copies of College in a Can, The Book of Lists for Teens and The Book of Lists for Kids, by Sandra and Harry Choron. (Packed with interesting facts and loads of good advice. 5th grade and up.)
Autographed copies of Davy Crockett and Not Guilty: Six Times When Justice Failed, by George Sullivan. (Revisionist biography of the renowned frontiersman and introductory text on law and forensic science. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Latin American Folktales, by John Bierhorst. (Collection of folktales from South and Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, etc. Middle School and up.)
Autographed copy of Charlie's Run, by Valerie Hobbs. (Eleven year old Charlie runs away from a broken home and gets a nasty surprise. 3rd to 8th grade)
Autographed copies of The Lost Girl, Playing With Fire and Hand of Fate, by Dotti Enderle. (Three occult adventures from Dotti's Fortune Tellers Club series. 4th to 9th grade.)
Autographed copies of Riding the Flume and Keeper of the Light, by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch. (Novels about brave young women who fulfill their potential. 6th to 12th grade)
Copies of The Cold War: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union and Eleanor Roosevelt, by the late Ted Gottfried. (A very gracious gift from Ted's widow, Harriet Gottfried. 7th to 12th grades)
Autographed copy of The Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger. (Group of gay teenagers form a club to conceal their sexual orientation. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copies of Aftermath of the Holocaust, Survivors of the Holocaust and Life and Death in Hitler's Europe (From Jane Shuter's Holocaust series. Middle School and up.) and Ancient Egypt. (From Jane Shuter's People Who Made History series. Middle School and up.)
Autographed copy of Wrecked, by Robert Swindell. (British teen struggles with a drinking problem. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copies of The Endless Steppe and Riches, by Esther Hautzig. (Steppe is a memoir about forced relocation from the Lithuanian ghetto to Siberia in the 1940s. In Riches a wise rabbi advises an old couple about what to do in their retirement. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of A Stone's Throw from Paradise, by Linda Oatman Hall. (Thirteen year old dealing with her mother's death and a new step family goes to visit her Amish grandmother for the summer. 5th to 9th grades.)
Autographed copy of Plum, by Tony Mitton. (Poetry for the younger set. 5th to 9th grade).
Autographed copy of Spider Boy, by Ralph Fletcher. (Nerdy spider enthusiast victimized by bullies. Middle to high school.)
Autographed copy of The Game of Sunken Places, by M.T. Anderson. (Two teenagers spend a summer in a spooky magic mansion in Vermont. Scary! Middle School to High School.)
Autographed copy of Roivan: Book One of the A'nzarian Chronicle, by Glynne Maclean. (Young girl from a different galaxy intrudes on human space. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Green Boy, by Susan Cooper. (Two children from an island in the Bahamas have a fantasy adventure which saves their island home. Middle School to Senior HS.)
Autographed copies of Lost in the Texas Desert (a back-in-time fantasy) and Bill W.: A Different Kind of Hero, (famed founder of AA) by Tom White. 4th to 8th grades.
Autographed copy of Train to Midnight, by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos. (In this latest installment of her "Dream-Quest Adventure" series, two modern kids find themselves fleeing slavecatchers on the Underground Railroad. 4th grade to HS)
Autographed copy of I Have a Dream, Too!, by Jean Alicia Elster. (Young African American city dweller finds inspiration to go to college when he reads about famed educator Mary McLeod Bethune. 3rd to 8th grades.)
Autographed copies of Chill Wind (Teenage mother needs to find job when her benefits are terminated.) and Spellbound (Young girl from Brooklyn's housing projects wants to go to college.), two books by Janet McDonald. Middle school and up.
Copy of Kevin McDonald's autobiography Project Boy, autographed by his sister Janet McDonald. (Kevin describes his youth in the projects and the difficulties facing life as a young, gay African American man with AIDS. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Madame Squidley and Beanie, by Alice Mead. (Ten year old Beanie takes over family duties when her Mom comes down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. 3rd to 8th grades.)
Autographed copies of Peek!: A Thai Hide and Seek and Hush!: A Thai Lullaby (Beautifully illustrated game song books for youngsters. Preschool to 2nd grade.) and The Stone Goddess (Novel based on the author's experiences as a relief worker for Cambodian refugees during the early eighties. Middle school and up.), by Minfong Ho.
Autographed copy of I Can't Tell You, by Hillary Frank. (Awkward teenager stops talking, communicating only by brief, written notes. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of There He Stands: The Story of Stonewall Jackson, by Bruce L. Brager. (Excellent biography of the famous general, illustrated with vintage photos and paintings. Middle school and up. )
Autographed copy of The Eye of the Stone, by Tom Birdseye. (Thirteen year old gets propelled from a boring life into a terrifying parallel universe. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of Painting the Black, by Carl Deuker. (High school senior who loves baseball suffers a crisis of integrity. Middle school and up.)
Autographed copy of The Last Rainmaker, by Sherry Garland. (Young Native American teenager is raised by relatives who lie to her about her ethnic origins. Middle School and up.)
Autographed copy of Stitches, by Glen Huser. (Young puppeteer and artist is victimized by school bullies. Middle School and up.) (more Huser information)
Autographed copy of The Case of the Stolen Scarab, by Nancy Garden. (Mystery involving two youngsters, 12 and 11, their adoptive mothers, and an Inn they just bought in the Massachusetts countryside. 3rd to 8th grades.)
Adult Literature and Non Fiction:
Autographed copy of High Jinx, by William F. Buckley, Jr. (Renowned editor of the National Review weighs in with his interpretation of the death of Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's right hand man. A Blackford Oakes mystery.)
Autographed copies (2) of The Gates to Witch World, by the legendary writer of science fiction Andre Norton. (Her three novels, Witch World, Web of the Witch World, and Year of the Unicorn published in one book. Ms. Norton is 92 and is publishing her last novel in Spring 2005.)
Autographed copy of Shyla's Initiative, by Barbara Casey. ("An occult romance" Winner of the Independent Publisher's Book Award and the Palm Beach County (FL) Cultural Council's Award for Special Recognition.)
Autographed copy of The Sight of the Stars, by Belva Plain. (Young man from turn of the century New Jersey heads West to make his fortune. One of Belva's family sagas.)
Autographed copy of Leaving the City, by Jeanie Peck. (Good advice for families moving to the country. From food to kids to emergency medical services to plumbing and heating.)
Autographed copy of Beyond the Dance: a Ballerina's Life by Chan Hon Goh; with Cary Fagan. (Autobiography of the first Chinese prima ballerina to dance for the National Ballet of Canada. She also sent us a pair of autographed ballet slippers. A very sweet lady.)
Autographed copy of Blacklist, by Sara Paretsky. (Sara's sharp sleuth, V. I. Warshawski, solves the murder of a young reporter in a mystery stretching back four decades.)
Autographed copies of War Brides and The Florabama Ladies Auxiliary and Sewing Circle, by Lois Battle. (One of our more brilliant, modern Southern writers. Florabama made it to the NYT bestseller list.)
Autographed copy of The Mammoth Hunters, by Jean M. Auel. (Book three of Auel's famed Earth's Children series about life among humans in the Ice Age.)
Autographed copy of Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, by Tom Robbins. (Best selling author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues writes a comedy about international espionnage.)
Autographed copy of Up Country, by Nelson DeMille. (Best selling author DeMille brings back army investigator Paul Brenner (of The General's Daughter fame) to investigate a murder committed during the Vietnam War.)
Art:
Autographed ink jet print from the book Project UltraSwan, by writer and photographer Elinor Osborn.
Photograph, Compassion (a very graceful composition with two daisies), by Sharon Hudson, 11" x 14".
Photograph, Flicker (a very charming little bird), by F. Victor Sullivan, 8 1/2 " x 10 1/2 ".
Poster advertising Jocelyn Reekie's novel The Week of the Horse. (Good to hang up in a young equestrienne's bedroom.) 11" x 15".
Poster by Marla Frazee encouraging children to read in 16 languages. (Not to mention 8 alphabets.) 32" x 25" (Wow!)
Pendant, brass mounting, turquoise and dinosaur bone, created by Joplin sculptor and jeweler M.F. Dahmen. (A beautiful piece.)
Watercolor, Suppertime, by Pittsburg artist Carol Hammerbacher, 18" x 22". (Blue heron wading in a lily pond, fishing for his supper.)
Watercolor, Morning, by anonymous artist, donated by Pittsburg artist Carol Hammerbacher 17" x 21". ( Kansas Scene with an oriental flavor.)
Original cartoon, FoxTrot, by Bill Amend. (Sibling rivalry in the Fox family.)
Bowl, red clay, by PSU faculty member Malcolm Kucharski, 16" in diameter x 4" deep. (Malcolm has been a favorite at several auctions.)
Autographed Pictures:
Autographed picture of Andre Norton, grand dame of Sci Fi & Fantasy.
Poetry:
Autographed copy of The Quiet Woman Wakes Up Shouting, by Pat Lowery Collins. (From the multitalented artist and writer of children's books, some feminist poems.)
Autographed copy of What have you lost?, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye. (Collected poems about loss of possessions, love, status and family, to name a few. Heartbreaking.)
Autographed copy of poem Back in the World, by Marilyn Nelson. "An Armfield Broadside... Issued on the occasion of the poet's reading at UNC-Chapel Hill... 16 November 2004."
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