Sentence examples for requested books from inspiring English sources

In them, she requested books to be sent to her home, Sagamore Hill, near Oyster Bay.

Whirling from child to child, she swiftly pulled volumes off the shelves as third graders requested books on sharks and scary topics.

Soldiers requested books on engineering, the trades, business, farming, and other subjects that would help to establish new careers after their return home.

However, the new £26m books repository, which will eventually hold 8.4m of the least frequently requested books and periodicals, is the key to unlocking a transformation of the Bodleian's famous buildings in Oxford.

Three nights a week, in a tiny basement room below the offices of the New York City AIDS Housing Network, in Brooklyn, volunteers wrap requested books in butcher paper to be mailed to prisons across the United States — first making sure to cut any pictures of naked people out of the art books to beat the nameless prison mailroom censors.

This 1998 book by the popular psychology writer sold 1.2m copies in the US alone and reportedly remains one of the most requested books in American prison libraries, still some way ahead of Little Women and More Tales from the City, I believe.

He and Arunga requested book donations from writer friends, who provided copies of their own work.

"Don Quixote," which Cervantes wrote partially in prison, is the second most requested book at Guantànamo.

On the bright side, "Gomorrah" is reportedly the most requested book in Italian jails.

He wasn't allowed to check out the library's copy of "People's History," its most requested book.

Serious scholars certainly have other work to fill their time while they wait 24 hours for a requested book from off-site storage.