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Recently Purchased/Borrowed

Warriors #6: The Darkest Hour - Erin Hunter
The Dragon King's Palace - Laura Joh Rowland
Sebastian - Anne Bishop
He Shall Thunder in the Sky - Elizabeth Peters
 
A thread on another board was "Name a good book that you're pretty sure no one else has read." From that thread, I bought:

Elleander Morning by Jerry Yulsman
The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant
Freaks Amour by Tom deHaven

While browsing for those at Amazon, I also came away with:

The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
 
I have just recently purchased--

The Shifting Fog (The House At Riverton) by Kate Morton
Fat, Forty and Fired by Nigel Marsh
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling --Better late than never, I guess.
 
- Amorous Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Lev Tolstoi
- Youth by Joseph Conrad
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
- The Portrait of Mr. W. H. by Oscar Wilde
- L'Ingenu by Voltaire
- The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
- The Wife by Anton Tchekov
- The distracted preacher by Thomas Hardy
- The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe
- A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
 
Landslide said:
- Amorous Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Lev Tolstoi
- Youth by Joseph Conrad
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde
- The Portrait of Mr. W. H. by Oscar Wilde
- L'Ingenu by Voltaire
- The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
- The Wife by Anton Tchekov
- The distracted preacher by Thomas Hardy
- The Lost Boy by Thomas Wolfe
- A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
- A Perfect Hoax by Italo Svevo
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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A great slection Lanslide,really.

Today i got Martin Amis-house of meetings,and Virginia Woolf-to the lighthouse and happy bugger i am,Coyote Frontier and coyote rising by Allen Steele(been waiting a long time for those) the sherry on the cake are Conn Iggulden frist two of the serie on Gengis Khan,lord of the bow and birth of an empire.
 
I found this morning in Marrakech a guy selling segond hand books and miracle lot of them in English,for 1,5 euro(2 S) Yyyyiiiiiaaaa

Isabella-Alison Weir

The professor and the madman-Simon Winchester

Micheal tolliver lives-Armistead Maupin

Panic-Jeff Abbott

the Glass palace-Amitav Ghosh

the bookseller of Kabul-Asne Seierstad

The constant Princess-Gregory(for my wife)

the secret life of bees-Sue monk KIdd

The interpreters-Wole Soyinka

The road-Cormac McCarthy(had it in audio)

the tenderness of wolves-Stef Penney

The good doctor-Damon Galgut

The historian-Elisabeth Kostova

The last Empress-Anchee Min

Gods behaving Badly-Marie Philips

The muses is alway half dressed in new-orleans-Andrei Codrescu

The Bal-Nemirovsky

Italien Mysteries-Dino Buzzati(French)

Amazing! In those place you usually find Dick Francis,clive Cussler,...but this guy (big bearded fellow with a canvas roof shop) as nearly only good stuff.He is phoning me when the next moad arrives!
 
Atonement - Ian McEwan
All the Names - Jose Saramago
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
 
Damn it, I missed the day L'Ingenu and A Simple Heart came out :sad:

Anyway, today I got:

Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino
The Nonexistent Knight, Italo Calvino
 
Ordered some stuff from Amazon. :)

Preorder:
  • Alex Kava - Exposed
  • Patricia Cornwell - Scarpetta (yes, I know, don't even say something)

And:

  • Star Trek: Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
  • Dying to live - Kim Paffenroth
  • The Neverending Story - Michael Ende (Christmas reading with the children :) )
 
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne

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