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Subject: coming your way
Date Posted: 8/11/2007 12:14 AM ET
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Which books are on their way to you? I have 7 coming to me!!!! This is a good week. :::smiling "big teeth" smile::::

Jesus Land

The Time Traveler’s Wife

The Barracks

Blackbird House

The Path of Minor Planets

The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror

Family History

ETA: Now Broken for You and The Book of Splendor are coming too. I have never had this many in route!!! I am going to need more points if this keeps up!

 



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Date Posted: 8/11/2007 12:18 AM ET
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I have Roots (for a read-a-long here at PBS), The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, a Sylvia Browne book, Dead Doctors Don't Lie by Joel Wallach, Plains of Passage and Shelters of Stone both by Jean M. Auel.  Seems like there's another one, but I can't think at the moment.  LOL  Does that mean I need to cut back on my orders?  LOL  Nah.  LOL

 

ETA: Oh, the other one is Above and Beyond by Sandra Brown.  :)

Heather



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Date Posted: 8/11/2007 12:22 AM ET
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I recently got the five love languages... it's an awesome book--you'll never look at the people you love the same

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Date Posted: 8/11/2007 12:27 AM ET
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Read the first two on your list, Megan! Jesus Land is a book I won't soon forget. I have only the 8th Lemony Snicket book on its way right now... but a nice, healthy TBR pile to tide me over :)

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Date Posted: 8/11/2007 10:26 AM ET
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I currently have three on their way to me:

I Heard That Song Before-Mary Higgins Clark

Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness-Greg Bottoms

The Guy Not Taken- Jennifer Weiner

I am pretty psyched about all of them. I hate it when no books are on their way to me. (doesn't happen often)

Dawn

I agree with those that said Jesus Land was a really good book!!

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Date Posted: 8/11/2007 10:33 AM ET
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I've got on the way

  • One Tuesday Morning
  • Water Witches
  • And the Shofar Blew
  • Rise and Shine
  • The 5th Horseman
  • I have so many books to read already!!

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    Date Posted: 8/11/2007 11:00 AM ET
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    I have the first eight of the Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum series on the way.

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    Date Posted: 8/11/2007 2:09 PM ET
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    On their way to me-----

    THE MEDITERRANEAN VEGAN KITCHEN, (for mom)

    SEE NO EVIL:THE TRUE STORY OF A GROUND SOLDIER IN THE CIA'S WAR ON TERRORISM, (for Geroge)

    DECORATING WITH MOSAICS, (for my niece Leeza)

    THE BEST OF RUSSIAN COOKING (for Natalia)

    GENTLEMEN AND PLAYERS (for me )

    A RESPECTABLE TRADE (another one for me, o'boy!)

    Currently reading-- THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH and YOU'VE GOT TO READ THIS BOOK! by Jack Canfield

    Last read---DEATBEAT by Leo Atkins, A story of a little boy who goes to a private detective in the hopes of finding his father.  A funny and quick read! 

    Previously read--- NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult,  HONKY TONK KAT, ( a good beach book!) by K aren Kijewski,  THE BEST AWFUL, by Carrie Fisher,  JOSHUA, by Joseph Girzone,  THE EDGE OF THE CRAZIES by Jamie Harrison

    Wishing you all the best and happy reading!



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    Date Posted: 8/12/2007 8:18 AM ET
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    The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    At home in the desert: Thriving and surviving for a day, a week or a lifetime (for DH)

    The 22 immutable laws of marketing (for work)

    The Rest of Her Life 

    Songwriters on Songwriting (possibly for my brother) 

    Here comes a bus (for work)


    Then I have another 9 that I've requested but aren't yet in the mail.

    And I recently said, "I'm going to hold off ordering things for a while." That obviously didn't work.

    Megan, I just got a copy Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman, and her Blue Diary is on the not-yet-in-the-mail list. I really enjoy her.



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    On their way:  April Witch: A Novel, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade, Death of an Ordinary Man: A Novel, The Poisonwood Bible, Nine Stories (Salinger), The  Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Requested, but not mailed yet:  The Memory Keeper's Daugther, Paris to the Moon, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor  in the American Black Market, Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth, Book 2)

    I need to get a handle on my ordering.  : )



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    Date Posted: 8/12/2007 1:45 PM ET
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    I've got 9 Robin Paige's cozy mystery books coming to me thanks to a generous deal from a gal who posted in the book bazaar

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    Date Posted: 8/20/2007 2:46 PM ET
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    So, anyone got any good ones coming this week? I have the Kommandant's Daughter, the Russian Concubine, and The Glass Palace in route..

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    Date Posted: 8/20/2007 2:54 PM ET
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    I've got   Witchling by Yasmine Galenorn, #3 in the Stephanie Plum series, and Visions of Sugarplums by Evanovich.  A slow week for me so far!

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    Date Posted: 8/20/2007 3:04 PM ET
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    Hello, I am new here.  I have already mailed a few books, so I am spending my initial credits on the books below.  The first two are for me and the last is for my boyfriend.

     

    The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is As Necessary As Love and Sex The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy Is As Necessary As Love and Sex
    Author: David M. Buss

     

    Forty Words for Sorrow Forty Words for Sorrow
    Author: Giles Blunt

    VitalsVitals
    Author: Greg Bear

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    I spent too much time in the book bazaar last week:

    A Light in the Window (Mitford) By: Jan Karon
    Little Children    by Tom Perrotta
    Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir    by Doris Kearns Goodwin
    Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by  Bebe Moore Campbell
    They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
    Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
    Don't Drink the Water: An E.J. Pugh Mystery by Susan R. Cooper
    Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam (Agatha Raisin Mysteries) by MC Beaton
    Creature Cozies (a compilation)

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    Date Posted: 8/21/2007 2:45 PM ET
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    This week, just today as a matter of fact, I was offered  Surface Tension by Christine Kling and Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz from my WL.



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    Milk Glass Moon and Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani

    Artermis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

     

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    Date Posted: 9/19/2007 12:25 AM ET
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    i dont have any on their way right now cause im waiting to see what more i can post to thin out the books here while i get unpacked :) but i got a bunch of credits to use

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    Date Posted: 9/19/2007 3:43 PM ET
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    I have 2 off my son's class reading list, To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet.  Will read these with him when it's time.  Then I have the Ya Ya series/trilogy coming to me 'cuz I got a great 3 for 1 deal.  (thanks katlw)  Wahoo!!



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    I have on the way to me:

    • Geisha of Gion- Mineko Iwasaki
    • Augusta Gone: A True Story- Martha Tod Dudman
    • Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir- Mary Ann Tirone Smith
    • Breaking the Tongue-Vyvyane Loh
    • Roomates- WhitneyLyles

     

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    Date Posted: 9/19/2007 6:34 PM ET
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    i'm jealous! i have Notes From a Small Island by Bil Bryson for my DH on the way... i think it's going to be lost because it's been 3 weeks..... 3rd lost book this month.......ugh!

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    I have two Lucy Stone mysteries on the way........Mistletoe Magic and New Years Eve magic.  I havent read any of this series..........but there's one for different holidays.  I guess I'll save them and read them around that time of year.

    I've also requested White Chocolate Moments by Lori Wick (sounds yummy!) and 74 Seaside Avenue by Debbie Macomber!

    I have the others in this Macomber series..........was waiting for this one to start the series...........

    The last few weeks I've been overwhelmed with books...........I was actually out of town for a week and 7 arrived while I was gone.  My husband was bringing them in from the mailbox thinking I've gone out of mind.  He asked me when I got home "Is this a book swap thing".....he's finally caught on!  :0)

    I'm sure I'll have a dry spell soon..........but that's okay with almost 120 books on my TBR pile I think I can survive a famine.......for a little while at least.............

     

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    Melody, what is They Came to Bahgdad by Agatha Christie about?  Just caught my interest with our troops over there...........

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    Currently I have coming to me:

    Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (hope this one makes it, it was mailed on 9/5 and no sign of it yet!)

    Stalking Darkness (Nightrunner #2) by Lynn Flewelling

    The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams

    Memoirs of a Medieval Woman by Louise Collis

    Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction by Tom Raabe

    Kockroach by Tyler Knox

    Cheryl

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