If you have (second-hand) theological books to throw away, please throw them at ATEN. Before parting with them, please realise that besides the obvious, books have a lot of other uses- pillows for nights in Indian trains, weights to straighten out unwanted creases on trousers, instruments to butcher mosquitoes and flies, missiles against colleagues who start to irritable... If you still want ATEN to benefit from these applications, please follow the following simple guidelines.

1) Books in any department of theology will do- Old Testament, New Testament, Church History, Biography, Church Fathers (writings of Clement, Origen, Jerome, etc); Reformers (works by Martin Luther, John Calvin, etc); Bible Interpretation; Homiletics; Famous Preachers (Spurgeon, Edwards, Lloyd Jones); Mission, and many others which escape me... For commentaries, we prefer those written after 1980 in the hope that the authors will have made use of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some works remain classics no matter how old (but not silver-fish and termites eaten)- send them.

2) The ATEN library keeps four copies, and gives away the rest to smaller libraries of member Bible schools/colleges. So, you may send any book; and we will keep or give away. However, if you want to send only those we DO NOT HAVE and save on the postage, please give us a list through e-mail or fill out the form below; and we will confirm which to omit.

3) Please use regular SEA MAIL or the Post office Mailbags if you happen to live in the US or Canada. Basically by the cheapest medium you can find. Using international couriers mean that the books arrive at the airport. Workers of these companies try to fleece ATEN first. Then the airport-authorities will waste at least a day on paper works and demand duty, charges of various sorts, which happily do not apply to the post office. We have so far lost but one shipment of books, which the senders thought we deserved to lose because most of the theologians writing them were liberal! In other words, we have lost very few books in the mail.

4) To guard against rain, monsoon or perpetual (as in the UK), please enclose the books in plastic before packing them into the cardboard boxes or postal bags (available in the US post offices).

5) Please address the books to

Mr Divya Khanal
ATEN
GPO Box 4368
Kathmandu
Nepal

Please include 'ATEN' in the address because that is the name registered with the government. If the authorities get tough, Divya Khanal then gets to flash our latest registration certificate in their faces; so 'ATEN' should be on the address.It's Mr Divya Khanal's birthright to collect your valued books. He gets better at it each day. Please do not use any other person's name in the address.

6) Please send us an e-mail when you have mailed the books to ATEN. We will confirm when they have reached us. If you do not hear from us even after three months, please send us another e-mail. Please remind us to remind you.

Thanks.

The Form below is optional. You may use it to submit a book list. Please make sure that your e-mail address is correctly entered, otherwise we may not be able to get back to you.