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FROM: ILefkowitz@aol.com
REC'D: 4/17/02, 9:24 AM

Being as how next week is National Volunteer Week, I thought I would put together a quick display of fiction featuring volunteers of one kind or another. Any ideas? TIA. I will compile a list at the end.

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Ilene Lefkowitz
Reference Department Head
Kinnelon Public Library
ILefkowitz@aol.com

FROM: Candice Michalik <cjoy0821@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/17/02, 10:07 AM

Rocking the Babies by Linda Raymond - In a neonatal
intensive care unit, where over half of the premature
infants are suffering from drug addiction, two
middle-aged black women work as part of the volunteer
grandmother program. Although prim, well-educated
Martha and outspoken, overweight Nettie Lee love the
babies, they have little use for each other. But a
crisis involving Baby X, a crack-addicted preemie
abandoned in a Port-a-Potty, draws them together, and
as they sit rocking their tiny charges, they gradually
begin to share their life stories and to forge a
complex, steadfast friendship.


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Candice Michalik
Reference Librarian
Lynchburg Public Library
Lynchburg, VA
cjoy0821@yahoo.com

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FROM: "Melanie C. Duncan" <duncanm@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 4/17/02, 2:32 PM

Meredith Sue Willis, Only Great Changes
Henry Denker, Mrs. Washington and Horowitz Too
Carter Coleman, The Volunteer
Jeanne Betancourt, Not Just Party Girls
Harriet Sirof, Because She's My Friend
Robert Hellenga, The Sixteen Pleasures
Cynthia G. Alwyn, The Scent of Murder
Jerry Kennealy, Beggar's Choice
Faye Sulton, Help Line
Rob Thomas, Doing Time
Caroline Cooney, Burning Up
Deborah Adams, All the Crazy Winters
Gallagher Gray, A Cast of Killers
Barbara Pym, An Academic Question
Colin Thubron, A Cruel Madness
Valerie Wolzien, Murder at the PTA Luncheon
Lurlene McDaniel, If I Should Die Before I Wake

Melanie C. Duncan
Reference/ILL/YA
Washington Memorial Library, Macon, Georgia
Senior Member, GNLIB-L
Christian Fiction Columnist, Library Journal
Editor/Publisher, The Bookdragon Review
(www.bookdragonreview.com)
All opinions expressed are my own.

FROM: "Susan Lohr" <susan@stratford.lib.ct.us>
REC'D: 4/17/02, 3:58 PM

Try " Mrs. Washington and Horowitz, Too" by Henry Denker. It's a very sweet story in which Horowitz volunteers at the hospital, helping to offer care and attention to infants who need TLC.

Susan Lohr
Senior Reference Librarian
Stratford Library Association
2203 Main Street
Stratford, CT 06615
(203)385-4164

>Subject: Volunteer Fiction
>From: <ILefkowitz@aol.com>
>Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:09:47 -0400
>
>Being as how next week is National Volunteer Week, I thought I would put
>together a quick display of fiction featuring volunteers of one kind or
>another. Any ideas? TIA. I will compile a list at the end.
>
>--
>Ilene Lefkowitz
>Reference Department Head
>Kinnelon Public Library
>ILefkowitz@aol.com
>

FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 4/18/02, 12:58 AM

One example is the 1990 Harlequin Superromance, TIGERS BY NIGHT by Sandra
Canfield. In it, a cop volunteers to become a "cuddler" of a preemie baby in
a hospital. The mother of the child is the widow of the man the cop killed
by accident. A splendid book!

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

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