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Just picked up Hannibal Rising and Robert Harris' Imperium

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Just recieved "Forbidden Knowledge" in hardcover in the mail. Now I got all of GAP in hardcover :biggrin: (Now, if only I could get I Am Legend and Titus Groan in hardback...)
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Orlion wrote:Just recieved "Forbidden Knowledge" in hardcover in the mail. Now I got all of GAP in hardcover :biggrin: (Now, if only I could get I Am Legend and Titus Groan in hardback...)

Why can't you get Titus Groan in hardback?
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Hmmm... having just found it at Abebooks, I guess not much... except I like to get an entire series in hardcover...and now, using the right search terms, I've found the other two! I know what I'm getting next...
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In retrospect, I spoke too soon... Recently, I just got a couple of Asimov mysteries (can't remember their names) and all of his Lucky Starr novels in a SFBC omnibus edition, both hardcover, of course!

And now I need to raise the money to get a 1st edition I Am Legend... wouldn't want it to fall into the hands of a fan of the movie... :P
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Black Widower short stories? Loved those.

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I wish!!! Turns out to be A Whiff of Death and Murder at the Aba
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Was very very bad today...just spent a tenth of my paycheck buying the 3 missing Pratchett books from my discworld collection, (Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad and Eric), and the 3 Erikson books I'm missing, (Midnight Tides, Bonehunters, and Reapers Gale). Oh indulgence...

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Bah, who needs money for food or rent when you got books, I says.
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:LOLS: I guess I could always build a shack out of my books...

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Watchmen and V for Vendetta.
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Was in the store and saw the name Kelly Link and this cover art, and couldn't resist buying Pretty Monsters, her latest collection.
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Recent History degree addtions:

The age of Charlemagne - Donald Bullough

Unification and Conquest - A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries - Pauline Stafford

The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolinginians 751-987 - Rosamund Mckitterick

Edward I - Michael Prestwich

The 13th century - Sir Maurice Powicke

English politics in the 13th Century - Michael Prestwich

Crown and Nobility - England 1271-1461 - Anthony Tuck

European Warfare 1453-1815 - Ed by Jeremy Black


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The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington, and Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch.
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Redemption Ark, by Alistair Reynolds.
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The Ravenor Omnibus, by Dan Abnett. Anything to feed my rapidly growing Warhammer 40,000 hunger.
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The next three volumes in "The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone" quartet by Greg Keyes. Reading "The Charnel Prince" right now.
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Got Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, First Book Of Swords by Saberhagen, and Alvin Journeyman by Card, which is amusing 'cause just yesterday I was telling Ali I'd never seen it in this country, (she's reading it) and today I found it. :D

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