Sunday, June 30, 2013

Recent Acquisitions VIII

For review:
Countdown City by Ben H. Winters (First Look)
Because I loved the first book, reviewed here.
If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan (thanks, Jill at The O.W.L.!)
Wool by Hugh Howey (First Look)

Purchased:
Growing Up Shaker by Frances A. Carr
Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach
Two utopian books in one week! I couldn't help picking up something at the Pleasant Hill Shaker Village (see Carr's book above), and I greatly enjoyed Ecotopia several years ago.
The Princesse de Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant
Letters of a Hindoo Rajah by Elizabeth Hamilton
Grandfather Tales by Richard Chase
Local interest: Appalachian folklore.
The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharon McCrumb
Local interest fiction: Frankie Silver case in Burke County, 19th century.
The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos
The Valley of Shenandoah by George Tucker
I was SO EXCITED to find this, especially since I don't think I'd heard of it before. This is a novel about life in rural Virginia, originally written in 1824. *squee*
The Carolinians by Jane Barry
Local interest historical fiction: Battle of Guilford Courthouse.


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