Monday, January 6, 2014

Recent Acquisitions: Post-Holiday Hauls

For review:
Because, what with the backlog of several months' worth of ARCs from this past semester, I clearly need more. Bring on the review-fest.
The Pomegranate Lady and Her Sons by Goli Taraghi (First Look)
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee (Early Reviewers)
I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe (publisher)
Taking What I Like by Linda Bamber (TLC Book Tours)

Gifts:
Indians of Burke County and Western North Carolina by Larry Richard Clark
A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 by Noeleen McIlvenna
All the Best Rubbish by Ivor Noel Hume
Archaeological Study Bible
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy


I might have gone a bit overboard with purchasing books.

Purchased at Fifth Street Books in Mebane:
*If anyone lives close enough to make a drive there, everything's $0.99 and there's a weekend each month where everything is $0.25! I only had 30 minutes when I went, otherwise I would've bought much more...
Old Creole Days by George Washington Cable
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
King Harald's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
Laxdaela Saga
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
The New Woman and Other Emancipated Woman Plays
Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser
Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan (local interest historical fiction)
Paradise by Toni Morrison

Purchased used from my favorite antique mall:
Notebook of a Colonial Clergyman by Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America, 1580-1640
The Cultural Life of the American Colonies by Louis B. Wright
Six Early American Plays: 1798-1890
The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry ed. by Joan R. Sherman
Translations of French Sentimental Prose Fiction in Late Eighteenth-Century England by Josephine Grieder
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias by Marguerite Young

And, last but not least, purchased used at various other places:
Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937 by Durwood Dunn
Mountain People, Mountain Crafts by Elinor Lander Horwitz
The Power of Six (Lorien Legacies #2) by Pittacus Lore
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Bluebeard: The Life and Crimes of Gilles de Rais by Leonard Wolf
Really, what are the chances that TWO Bluebeard-related books would be on the same bargain shelf at a dinky small-town book exchange?!
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Neandertals: Of Skeletons, Scientists, and Scandal by Erik Trinkaus and Pat Shipman
Zel by Donna Jo Napoli


How were your holidays?

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