Bunches of new books

Well, my stint on jury duty (at least the sitting-around-and-waiting part of jury duty) is reaping rewards right now. While waiting to be called, I caught up on my backlog of review reading in Booklist and spent a lot of money for the library. Today we had a crate of those new arrivals. Here's a random stack:



I like the juxtaposition of some of these. Among them, English queens, Hollywood movie-making, righteous gentiles during the Holocaust, the history of cigarette smoking in America, and Book 2 of the Obernewtyn Chronicles. It's odd - Books 1, 3, and 4 have been here awhile, but those last two are fairly useless without number 2. Hope no one was biting their nails waiting.