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Subject: Awesome Book Sale
Date Posted: 7/17/2008 9:57 AM ET
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Barnes and Noble is having a big sale on their website, and they have tons of HF for super cheap, for example:

Sword Song- Bernard Cornwell $5.98

The Pale Horseman- Bernard Cornwell $3.99

A Rose for the Crown- Anne Easter Smith $3.99

Abundance- Sena Jeter Naslund $3.99

Pliate's Wife- Antoinette May $3.99

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Date Posted: 7/17/2008 1:21 PM ET
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I thought your post said Amazon, so I went there and bought The Autobiography of Heny VIII by Margaret George.  It was only 5.99, which I think is a great price.  Now I have to go to B&N.

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Date Posted: 7/17/2008 5:44 PM ET
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Thanks, Jennifer! (I think.) ;-)

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Date Posted: 7/21/2008 8:15 AM ET
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I just now decided to check this out and I've found a few books to buy.

They also have The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox! This was the best fiction I've read in a long while. It was a wonderful book! I was wishing I'd kept my copy, and since it's on sale for just $1.99, I just may buy another one. There are quite a few new fiction release's at good prices.

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Date Posted: 7/21/2008 1:51 PM ET
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I was able to show just a bit of self-control and only bought five books. YAY for me! Wanna know what I got? Well, I'm going to tell you anyway! ;-)

I was very excited to see two of Robert Lacey's Great Tales from English History books on sale. I got volume two and volume three, and now I'll buy the rest later. I also got:

  • The Blackest Bird by Joel Rose
  • Caanan  by Donald Mccaig
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

They have the third book in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle for a good price. I've read the first two in the series and really enjoyed both. If you like books that are very detailed with lots of intrigue and adventure, you should try this series. They are a bit more complicated than most fiction, but I found them well worth the time.

They have a few others worth mentioning: The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey, The Garden of Ruth by Eva Etzioni-Halevy, and The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax. I haven't read the last one, but it sounds good. Oh, they also had Misfortune by Wesley Stace; another one that sounds interesting.