BOOK DRIVE FOR MT EDEN CORRECTIONS FACILITY - WANTED - PAPERBACKS AND JIGSAW PUZZLES
We hope you had a very Merry Christmas 🎄and have a wonderful New Year 🎆. If you are reorganising or downsizing over the holidays, Mt Eden Rotary would love to have some paperbacks 📚 and jigsaw puzzles 🧩 for the Mt Eden Corrections Facility, as follows:
Wanted – paperbacks only (no hardcovers) in very good condition – which are clean, with no loose pages and no yellowed/stained pages – in the following categories:
Fiction – aimed at a male audience
• Crime
• Thriller
• Historical
• Sci fi & fantasy
• Classic titles
• (currently NO general fiction, romance or books aimed at women please)
Non-Fiction – written for a general audience (as opposed to academic audience/textbooks)
• History (NZ, Māori, war/military, ancient & general)
• Self-help
• Modern biographies & sport biographies
• Cars & motorbikes
• Meditation, yoga & mental wellness
Also wanted –
• Books in a non-English language – especially Te Reo Māori or Portugese (currently NO need for Chinese language books please)
• Dictionaries & thesauri (small or pocket-sized)
• Colourful atlases (particularly small, slim or soft cover versions)
• Jigsaw puzzles (with no missing pieces) – great for keeping restless minds busy
If you have any unwanted paperbacks in the categories listed OR any jigsaw puzzles that you’d like to donate to the Mt Eden Corrections Facility, then to arrange pickup/drop off, please contact:
• mtedenrotary@gmail.com OR
• Frances Loo info@chapter.co.nz 021635027 (c/- Chapter Book and Tea Shop, 442 Mt Eden Rd OR c/- K.C. Loo Fruit Centre, 436 Mt Eden Rd)
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