New On My Shelves for the Month of October

There is a lot. Bear with me.

For Review

• Casual Vacancy – J. K. Rowling
• Venom – Fiona Paul
• Ironskin – Tina Connelly
• Dark Star – Bethany Frenette
• Undead – Kirsty McKay

• Beta – Rachel Cohn
• Magisterium – Jeff Hirsch
• The Dark Unwinding – Sharon Cameron

Thank you Hachette Canada, Scholastic Canada Penguin Canada and Tor/Forge

Gifted

• Half the Sky – Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn (Thanks Rossi)
• A Walk on the Tundra – Rebecca Hainnu and Anna Ziegler (Thanks Vancouver Children’s Lit. Roundtable)

Purchased

(Signed)

• Seraphina – Rachel Hartman (met her at Word on the Street)
• This Dark Endeavour – Kenneth Oppel (met him at Roundtable event)

Sales etc

- The Ghost Child – Sonya Hartnett
- Midsummer Night – Freda Warrington
- Among Others – Jo Walton

• The Animals in that Country – Margaret Atwood
• Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade – Guy Browning
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
• A Sending of Dragons – Jane Yolen
• Camille – Alexandre Dumas
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding

• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
• The Amber Spyglass – Phillip Pullman
• Words under the Words – Naomi Shihad Nye
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
• The Painted Veil – W. Somerset Maugham

• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
• Godmother – Carolyn Turgeon
• The Cinnamon Peeler – Michael Ondaatje
• Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures – Vincent Lam
• Tales from Firozsha Baag – Rohinton Mistry
• Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch

1. Going Bovine – Libba Bray
2. Elsewhere – Gabrielle Zevin
3. A Curse as Dark As Gold – Elizabeth C. Bunce
4. Frankenstein – Mary Shelle
5. The Year of Secret Assignments – Jaclyn Moriarty
6. To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

• The Black Book – Orhan Pamuk
• Gudrun – Alma Johanna Koenig
• Brightly Woven – Alexandra Bracken
• Fairy Tales of Ludwig Bechstein
• One-Time Dog Market at Buda and Other Hungarian Folk Tales
• Peter and the Shadow Thieves – Dave Barry

• The Last Hero – Rick Riordan
• The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie – Jaclyn Moriarty
• The Ghosts of Ashbury High – Jaclyn Moriarty
• The Wishing Ring – Erich Holle
• Thief Eyes – Jenni Lee Simner
• The Princess Bride – William Goldman

• Room – Emma Donoghue
• Read Aloud Myths and Legends – Various
• Dreams of Joy – Lisa See

Phew! What was your haul?

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