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Old 8th March 2010, 01:07 PM
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The War of the Flowers-Tad Williams (Birthday gift)
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Old 8th March 2010, 07:40 PM
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Always The Sun by Neil Cross
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
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Old 8th March 2010, 08:42 PM
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My latest amazon purchase arrived today!

Invisible, Paul Auster
The Shaking Woman, Siri Hustvedt
Horns, Joe Hill
Dispatches from the Edge, Anderson Cooper
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Old 9th March 2010, 02:37 AM
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The Histories of Middle Earth volume 1-5, by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Old 9th March 2010, 06:14 PM
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The Jukes by R. L. Dugdale

An infamous out-of-print old book that finally appeared from a watch list of mine after a years-long wait.
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Old 12th March 2010, 03:33 PM
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Two by Robert B. Parker, found on sale for .75 cents each at a local library...
Hundred-Dollar Baby
Now & Then


Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Tamar by Mal Peet
The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing
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Old 12th March 2010, 03:46 PM
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Finding Lost, the Unofficial Guide by Nickki Stafford.

Seasons 1-3 so far, from my BB to feed my belated addiction to the series.
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Old 14th March 2010, 10:36 PM
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Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Piccoult
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Paperboy - Pete Dexter
The Cold Six Thousand - James Elroy
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
A Son of the Circus - John Irving
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Old 15th March 2010, 11:24 PM
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Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem. For the TBR pile.
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Old 17th March 2010, 01:30 PM
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
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Old 20th March 2010, 03:33 AM
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The King's English - Betsy Burton
The First Man - Albert Camus
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel - George Meredith
Elizabeth Costello - J. M. Coetzee
Perfume - Patrick Susskind
Night - Elie Wiesel
Relativity - Albert Einstein
Hidden Codes and Grand Designs - Pierre Berloquin
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Old 21st March 2010, 05:17 AM
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From the library:
The Kansas Lawman's Proposal - Carol Finch
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith
Silver Phoenix - Cindy Pon
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Old 22nd March 2010, 12:35 PM
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Ordered Candleland by Martyn Waites & bought a near mint edition hardback of Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy omnibus from Barnados after handing over same books in paperback.
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Old 22nd March 2010, 03:06 PM
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More, from a couple of recent expeditions:

Renascence and Other Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Waste Land and Other Poems - T. S. Eliot
My Name is Sei Shonagon - Jan Blensdorf
The Grass Harp - Truman Capote
Pinocchio in Venice - Robert Coover
The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes - Stephen Marlowe
Treason in the Blood - Anthony Cave Brown
Broca's Brain - Carl Sagan
The Italian Secretary - Cale Carr
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
A Shooting Star - Wallace Stegner
Dark Eagle - John Ensor Scott
Son of Holmes - John Lescroart
The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye - Jonathan Lethem
The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Seems like time to assemble the bookcase that has been sitting packed in a box here in the hall.
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Old 22nd March 2010, 08:37 PM
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The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Kiss Me Again Stranger [eight stories] by Daphne du Maurier
No Good Deed by Manda Scott
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
You, The Owners Manual by Michael F. Roizen, M.D & Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
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