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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

Lie Down With Lions by Ken Follett
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen

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1984 - George Orwell
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Of Mice & Men - John Steinbeck
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
 
For the banned book specials-Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe & What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges. Still can't get enough of watergate, so I also threw in The Haldeman Diaries by H.R. Haldeman.
 
Mr Wroe's Virgins by Jane Rogers
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
The Damned United by David Peace
The Mango Season by Amulya Malladi
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami.

And non fiction:

Mr Blue by Edward Bunker
Waiting for Snow in Havana by Carlos M N Eire.
 
All for school, none for pleasure:

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Gesture Life by Carol Shields

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

The Norton Anthology of Poetry. This collection was edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy.
 
Christine - Stephen King

Fox on the Rhine - Douglas Niles & Michael Dobson

The Soldier in the Wheatfield - Philip Hook

Got these at the library book sale - 50 cents each.
 
Foyles did me again. This time:

Satan in Garay by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Much Obliged, Jeeves - P.G.Wodehouse
The President's Last Love - Andrey Kurkov
Agamemnon's Daughter - Ismail Kadare
The Procedure - Harry Mulisch
 
Plea Of Insanity Jilliane Hoffman
The Burnt House Faye Kellerman
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini {The Kite Runner was fantastic!}
Beggars Banquet Ian Rankin
Marley and Me Josh Grogan
From Baghdad With Love Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman :)
 
Most recent purchases:
- The Infinite Plan, by Isabel Allende
- My Best Friend's Girl, by Dorothy Koomson
- Perfume, by Patrick Süskind

Birthday presents (chosen with my not so subtil hints...):
- Miss Potter, by Richard Maltby, Jr.
- Ines of My Soul, by Isabel Allende
- Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende

I haven't had time to read them all yet, I've only read Miss Potter and loved it.
 
Off Season -Jack Ketchum
Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (my sister in Florida has my other copy, but I couldn't go without having it on hand for when I need a good Poe fix)
 
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