{"id":30203,"date":"2026-02-17T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=30203"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:17:49","slug":"book-drive-for-dc-220-deadline-for-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/book-drive-for-dc-220-deadline-for-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Drive for DC &#8211; 2\/20 Deadline for Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your book donations!!!!! We are still looking for more new or gently-used\u00a0<em>PAPERBACK<\/em>\u00a0books; please drop them in the labeled boxes around campus\u00a0<em>before this Friday, 2\/20\/26<\/em>. Students in the Bonner Leader Program are collecting books for a service project during our spring break trip to Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scan the QR code on the flyer for a list of genres<\/strong>\u00a0or contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:alicia.burns@wilkes.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alicia.burns@wilkes.edu<\/a>\u00a0with questions.<\/p>\n<p>Check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dcbookstoprisoners.org\/donate-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/dcbookstoprisoners.org\/donate-books\/<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about this amazing program and the types of books to donate. Here are a few common requests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>College-level dictionaries \u2014 our #1 request<\/li>\n<li>National Geographic magazines<\/li>\n<li>Introductory (Level 1 or 2 or &#8220;phrase book&#8221;) language instruction and dictionaries for Spanish, American Sign Language (ASL), Hebrew, Latin, Japanese, German, Russian, Arabic, Greek, and various other European, Asian, and African languages<\/li>\n<li>Game\/puzzle books<\/li>\n<li>GED preparation<\/li>\n<li>Science fiction<\/li>\n<li>Mysteries<\/li>\n<li>Memoires and biographies<\/li>\n<li>How to draw<\/li>\n<li>Novels by David Baldacci, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Lee Child, Stephen King, Patricia Cornwall, Harlan Corben, Stuart Woods, Vince Flynn, J.A. Jance, C.J. Box, or Michael Connelly<\/li>\n<li>Novels in Spanish (these can be hardcover or paperback)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your book donations!!!!! We are still looking for more new or gently-used\u00a0PAPERBACK\u00a0books; please drop them in the labeled boxes around campus\u00a0before this Friday, 2\/20\/26. Students in the Bonner Leader Program are collecting books for a service project during our spring break trip to Washington, DC. Scan the QR code on the flyer&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/book-drive-for-dc-220-deadline-for-donations\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Drive for DC &#8211; 2\/20 Deadline for Donations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30206,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions\/30206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}