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The Austin Public Library book budget is not nearly what is needed for a city of Austin's size and status. The Library Foundation's Buy One for the Library campaigns give you a way to help. Buy a book or CD from the Library's wish list, and people all over town will enjoy it for years to come.
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Our current campaign highlights recent titles and albums of great general interest. Choose one and go to our secure page to make your donation. Any difference between your donation and the title's list price will be used to purchase additional titles.

In addition the Austin Public Libraries periodicals budget was cut by 50% this year. This means that the library is falling behind in providing people with up-to-date news and event coverage. With a helpful donation to the Library Foundation Periodicals Campaign we will be able to replace titles such as New York Times, Dallas Morning News, The New Yorker, Men's Health, and National Geographic just to name a few.

A $15 donation will buy one of these CD's:

Flatlanders - Complete Plantation Recordings; Varese $13.98

Martin and Lewis - Live recordings; Empire Comedy $13.98

Tex Williams - On the Air; Country Routes $18.98

King Curtis - Groovin' with the King; Aim Records $15.98

Quincy Jones - Original Jam Sessions 69; Concord Jazz $15.98

Isidro Lopez - La Lumbre; Hacienda $14.98

Juana Molina - Tres Cosas; Domino $13.99

Gram Parson - Cosmic American Music; Sundown Record $17.98

Ian Moore - Live from Austin; Volcano Records $11.98

Various artists - Rough Guide to Afrocuba; World Music Network $14.98.

A $25 donation will buy one of these:

Ernest Adams
Break into the Game Industry: How to Get a Job Making Video Games
$24.99

Herbert Ashbury
All Around the Town: The Sequel to the Gangs of New York
$13.95

Greg Behrman
The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time
$25.00

Jeanine Cummins
A Rip in Heaven: A Memoir of Murder and Its Aftermath
$12.95

Ken Ellingwood
Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border
$25.00

Caroline Kettlewell
Electric Dreams: How a Group of Lost High School Kids Built the Car of the Future
$24.00

Robert Leuci
All the Centurions: A New York City Cop Remembers Hit Years on the Street, 1961-1981
$24.95

Frederick Levy
Short Films 101: How to Make a Short Film And Launch Your Filmmaking Career
$14.95

James Marcus
Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.com Juggernaut
$24.95

Alan Schwarz
The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination with Statistics
$24.95

Jacob Slichter
So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from A Drummer's Life
$21.95

A donation of $50 will buy one of these books:

Zahi A. Hawass
Hidden Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Unearthing the Masterpieces of the Egyptian History
$35.00

Kevin Hedgpeth
Exploring Drawing for Animation
$34.95

Deirdre Imus
The Imus Ranch: Cooking for Kids and Cowboys
$29.95

Davide Mazzanti
Vespa
$29.95

Clara E. Rodriguez
Heroes, Lovers and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood
$26.95

William Rodman Shankle
Preventing Alzheimer's: Prevent, Detect, Diagnose, Treat and Even Halt Alzheimer's Disease and Other Causes of Memory Loss
$25.95

Eli Zaretsky
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
$30.00

Thanks to the people who gave to the Buy One for the Library campaign:

Ann Morse purchased Hot Shots and Heavy Hits: Tales of an Undercover Drug Agent by Paul E. Doyle and The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation about Deficits, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America by Ellen Frank. Suzanne E. Pickens purchased
Humankind: A Brief History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Itsy Bitsy Yoga by Helen Garabedian, How Congress Works and Why You Should Care by Lee H. Hamilton, and Sacred Places Around the World: 108 Destinations by Brad Olsen. Bonni Symington purchased 100 Best Books for Children by Anita Silvey. Thanks also to David Todd, Judith Hall, Dennis Jacobs for their contributions online. And thanks to those who chose to give Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson, Red Card by Daniel Hale, Acceleration by Graham McNamee, and This Too Can Be Yours by Beth Lisick from the Giving Tree at BookPeople.

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