January 2010 Acquisitions
Should have started this at the start of February, but better late than never.
- Cities: The Very Best of Fantasy Comes to Town.
- Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson.
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson.
- A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin.
- A Feast for Crows, ibid.
- Dreamsongs, Volume 1, ibid.
- Dreamsongs, Volume 2, ibid. (Already own almost all the major stories in earlier collections, but it's nice to get them in hc.)
- Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick.
- Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, ibid.
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal. (A different translation from the one I had already; still not Moncrieff's, however.)
- The Knight in History by Frances Gies.
- Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham.
- The Circus of Earth and Air by Brooke Stevens.
- The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural.
- Half the Day is Night by Maureen McHugh.
- Shadows in the Sun by Chad Oliver.
- The Dreaming Dragons by Damien Broderick.
- A Brief History of the Normans by Francois Neveux.
- Marriage and Family in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies.
- Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean.
- H.G. Wells: His Turbulent Life and Times by Lovat Dickinson.