Rio Gringa Silent Auction Fundraiser

Since I'm leaving, since I have amassed quite a large collection of books and a few DVDs, and since I wanted to do something beneficial for the city before I leave, I've decided to hold a silent auction.

100% will go to charity--in fact, you, the reader, get to decide which one! The auction begins on April 16th and ends at 10pm on April 21st. 

Every item has a story: the Harry Potter book I paid a small fortune for at Travessa in Ipanema the day after it came out, Lolita, which I bought at the Rio Bienal and finished in three days, or Cryptonomicon, which I escaped to during parts of my vacation with the in-laws. Then of course there are the two copies of Chicken Soup, which include my story, the first to be published in a book!

See the list and rules after the jump!

Rules

1. Preference given to people located in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

2. You can bid if you live in Brazil, but you will have to pay shipping fees and any fees incurred from money transfer/Paypal.

3. If you want to bid on an item, write the title or the ID# in the comments along with your bid.

4. Bids will only be accepted in the comments section; please do not send bids via email.

5. Item pick-up in Rio will take place between 4/22 and 4/26 to ensure everyone is accommodated.

6. Winners will be notified by email with pick-up date, time, and location. Pick-up will be in several locations in Zona Sul.

7. Rio winners must pay in cash when picking up their items.

Auction Items

Books
Non-fiction

1a. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Getting In...to College Edition, edited by Jack Canfield et al; paperback, 415 pages. [2 copies available] Bid starts at: R$10

1b.The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby; hardcover, 356 pages. Bid starts at: R$15 

1c. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, by Richard A. Clarke; paperback, 317 pages, #1 NYT Bestseller. Bid starts at: R$10

1d. TESOL/TEFL textbook; paperback. Bid starts at: R$10

Fiction

2a. Cryptonomicon, by Neil Stephenson; paperback, 918 pages, NYT Bestseller. Bid starts at: R$15

2b.The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet; paperback, 973 pages, an Oprah's Book Club book. Bid starts at: R$15

2c. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert; paperback, 334 pages, #1 NYT Bestseller. Bid starts at: R$10

2d. Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris; paperback, 385 pages, US Bestseller. Bid starts at: R$10 

2e. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton; paperback, 363 pages, classic. Bid starts at: R$10

2f. Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov; paperback, 361 pages, classic. Bid starts at: R$10

2g. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling; hardcover, 607 pages, bestseller. Bid starts at: R$20

2h. Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos; paperback, 371 pages, US Bestseller. Bid starts at: R$10

2i. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende; paperback, 433 pages, US Bestseller & classic. Bid starts at: R$10

2j. My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult; paperback, 423 pages, #1 NYT Bestseller. Bid starts at: R$10

2k. Slumdog Millionaire (Q & A), by Vikas Swarup; paperback, 318 pages, basis for Academy Award-winning film. Bid starts at: R$10

2l. Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell; paperback, 509 pages, Finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Bid starts at: R$10

2m. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, by J. Maarten Troost; paperback, 272 pages. Bid starts at: R$10

2n. The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak; paperback, 368 pages. Bid starts at: R$10

2o. Sex as a Second Language, by Alisa Kwitney; paperback, 327 pages. Bid starts at: R$10

2p. The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard; hardcover, 216 pages. Bid starts at: R$7

2r. On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan; hardcover, 203 pages. Bid starts at: R$5

Non-English Books

3a. O livro dos manuais, by Paulo Coelho; paperback, Portuguese, 111 pages. Bid starts at: R$5

3b. Noticia de un sequestro, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; paperback, Spanish, 327 pages. Bid starts at: R$10

DVDs

4a. Season 1: 24 (set of 6 DVDs) Bid starts at: R$50

4b. The Best of The Colbert Report (one DVD) Bid starts at: R$15

Comments

[Kenzo]

R$ 15,00 no Colbert Report!

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Ooh! You've read Cryptonomicon! Cool!

You ever read Snow Crash? Long live Hiro Protagonist!

[Mariel]

2c. Eat, Pray, Love.
R$20

Nao moro no Rio, mas pago envio para minha cidade.
Vale lembrar que se enviar pelo Correio como Registro Mòdico sai mais barato do que PAC ou envio normal.

[Rio Gringa]

Valeu pela dica!

[RogerPenna]

Gringa, off topic, but since you are leaving and havent visited Rio Grande do Sul, here are some pictures of Gramado I took this last Eastern. They turned out good, so I thought I could share.

they were posted on this forum, there are photos on page 1 and 2 of the thread
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=167765

hope you like

[Marcela]

2c. Eat, Pray, Love.
R$25 (sorry Mariel :)

Rachel, I am not sure how to pay for it, since I am currently in the US. But if I win the bid we could figure out a way.

By the way, I really recommend wathing the TED talk from Elizabeth Gilbert (author of "Eat, Pray, Love"). TED is a Technology,Entertainment, and Design invitation only conference. A lot of the talks are online and are only 18 minutes long.

Elizabeth's is about "a different way to think about creative genius": http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

[Marcelo]

2i.The House of the Spirits. R$15

I live in Europe, in Portugal. But if you agree I can pay shipping fees and any fees incurred from money transfer/Paypal.

[DeniseKN]

2k. Slumdog Millionaire (Q & A) - R$ 15,00

-Livin' in SP, will pay for shipping :)

BTW, Hi there Rachel!
I've been reading your blog for a while, but never commented. It's nice to see another point of view of the things we brazilian ppl think it's "normal".
Hope I can still read these kind of stuff :)
Congrats for the wedding, and my best wishes!!

[João Marcelo]

OK... I am in for:

10 on the Bastar of Istambul
20 on the Colbert Report DVD
15 on the Cryptonomicon

Ignore the fact I am in Africa :) I´ll pay shipping to Fortaleza :)

[Jim Shattuck]

Sorry to hear you are leaving - good luck back in the States.

I'd like to bid on:

1b.The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby; R$15
1d. TESOL/TEFL textbook; R$10
2p. The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard; R$7

I'm right here in Niteroí and could come by on Friday during the day (I have a student at 6p.m. back in Niteroí)

Jim

[João Marcelo]

Put me up for The Sex Life of Cannibals too... R$ 10!

[Carolina]

Hello there!
Although im following Rio Gringa, i missed this post and just read about the auction!
Do you think that its still possible to get "Then we came to the end" and "Sex as a second language"??
Please, email me! [email protected]
Thanks!
Carol