Mailbox Monday

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Everyone is entitled to a little retail therapy once in awhile and I've had a pretty trying last couple of weeks at the office so off to the bookstores and libraries I went this week.

This weekend I picked up from Barnes & Noble:

• The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
• Haunt me Still by Jennifer Lee Carrell

Even though I can't wait to read those two I was a little disappointed because I was intending to get Diana Gabaldon's Outlandish Companion and the only copy they had in the store had a rip in the dust jacket! I decided to check the Barnes and Noble site when I got home and moseyed on over to the bargain books section while I was surfing. Well, I found some awesome deals there so I ordered:

• The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey
• The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
• Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
• Gwenhwyfar by Mercedes Lackey
• Henry VIII's Last Victim by Jessie Childs
• Revelation by C J Sansom
• Bedlam by Greg Hollingshead
• The Rose of Sebastopol by Katherine McMahon
• Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
• City of God by Beverly Swerling

I went to the Norton Shores Library with the Boy at the beginning of the weekend to return some books he checked out and I checked this out while I was there:

• The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir

In their books for sale area I found:

• Life of Pi by Yan Martel
• Peony in Love by Lisa See
• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier (HC for $2!)

and finally I have one lone book with an incredibly long title from PBS:

• A Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Story of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds by Michael Farquhar

I got all that and I completely FORGOT to order myself a copy of the Outlandish Companion. My whole intent was to get ONE book, I end up with 17 and and none are the one I was after. Sheesh! Well, maybe next week.....