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Despite what you may infer by the following, I did not clean the thrift store out of books.  I actually left a zillion and a half Danielle Steele's and a copy of A Woman's Guide to Yeast Infections.  And then on Friday we drove the hundred miles or so to our "local" used book store here I loaded up on books (mainly anthologies, most for under a buck) and Kitty found the free box.  I've listed the books I got on that trip in color.

• Brian Aldiss, editor, Galactic Empires, Volume One.  Science fiction anthology of fourteen stories.
• Kevin J. Anderson, A Forest of Stars.  Sf novel, Book 2 of The Saga of the Seven Suns.
• Kevin J. Anderson, editor, Blood Lite II:  Overbite.  A Horror Writers Association anthology.  Thirty-one stories.
• Poul Anderson, War of the Gods.  Fantasy.
• Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell, editors, Full Spectrum 3.  Science fiction anthology with twenty-three stories.
• Robert Arthur, The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Green Ghost.  Juvenile mystery.
• Mike Ashley, editor, The Chronicles of the Round Table (twenty-four Arthurian fantasies) and Classical Whodunnits (twenty historical mystery stories, focussing on ancient Greece and Rome).
• Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, editors, Isaac Asimov Presents:  The Best Science Fiction Firsts (twelve stories), Isaac Asimov Presents:  The Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century (fifteen stories), and The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science fiction:  Short Novels of the 1970s.  Ten novellas.
• David Balducci, True Blue.  Thriller.
• M. A. R. Barker, The Man of Gold.  Fantasy .
• John Barnes, Patton's Spaceship.  SF, a Timeline Wars novel.
• George Baxt, The Affair at Royalties and A Queer Kind of Death.  Mysteries, the first a British country house mystery and the second the first Pharoah Love mystery.
• Greg Bear, Quantico.  SF/thriller.James R. Benn, Evil for Evil.  Historical mystery, the fourth Billy Boyle mystery.
• Lawrence Block, editor, Blood on Their Hands.  An MWA anthology with nineteen stories.
• Peter Burden, News of the World?  Fake sheikhs & Royal Trappings.  Nonfiction.  A muck-raking expose of the muckraking Rupert Murdock's media empire, focussing on a certain newspaper that has been in the news lately.  Dirty tricks galore.
• Bill Bryson, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.  Memoir.
• Bruce Campbell, Make Love*  [*the Bruce Campbell Way].  The famous chin and B movie actor wrote a novel.
• Orson Scott Card, editor, Masterpieces:  The Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century.  Twenty-seven familiar stories.
• Terry Carr, editor, Universe 4.  Eight science fiction stories.
• Paul Chafe, Genesis.  Generational spaceship SF novel.
• G. H. Chettle, OBE, FSA, with additions by John Charlton, MVO, FSA, Hamptom Court Palace.  Non-fiction, an illustrated history and guide to the castle.  Published by the British Government.
• Arthur C. Clarke, How the World Was One:  Beyond the Global Village.  Nonfiction.  The story of global communication.
• Manning Coles, Now or Never.  Mystery with spy guy Tommy Hambleton.
• Ralph Compton, Sixguns and Double Eagles.  Western.
• Joshua Corin, While Galileo Preys.  Thiller, an Esme Stuart novel.
• Barbara D'Amato, White Male Infant.  Mystery.  It's been way to long since I read a book by this author.
• Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, editors, Wizards:  Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy.  Eighteen stories.
• Gardner Dozois, editor, One Million A. D.  Science fiction anthology with six novellas.  Also The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (twenty-eight stories from 2006) and The Year's Best Science Fiction, Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (thirty-two stories from 2007).
• David Drake, creator (this means editor), Foreign Legions.  Six novellas set in the world of Drake's novel Ranks of Bronze.
• Thomas Easton, editor, Gedanken Fictions:  Stories on Themes in Science, Technology, and Society.  Science fiction anthology with nineteen stories.
• Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 2011.  Kindly Bill Crider gave a nod to this blog in this issue's Blog Bytes column:  "[E]ach Monday he [That's me, folks!] lists the books that he's received the previous week.  He usually has so many that it makes me feel almost a piker by comparison."  I hope this week's lengthy post won't strain his eyesight.  BTW, Kindly Bill is always kindly -- unless he catches you on his lawn!
• Ken Follett, Jackdaws.  WWII thriller.
• Jonathan Frakes and Dean Wesley Smith, The Abductors:  Conspiracy.  Science fiction.
• Esther Friesner, editor, Witch Way to the Mall.  Fantasy anthology produced with Martin Greenberg's Teckno Books.  Twenty-one stories.
• Jason Goodwin, The Janissary Tree.  Historical mystery, the first featuring the eunuch detective Yashim.  Winner of the 2007 Edgar for Best Novel.
• Heather Graham, The Death Dealer and Nightwalker.  Paranormal mysteries.
• Temple Grandin and Margaret M.Scariano, Emergence:  Labeled Autistic.  Memoir, showing how limiting some labels can be and, in the author's case, cannot be.
• Thomas Greanias, The Atlantis Prophecy.  Conspiracy thriller, second in the Conrad Yeats series.
• Martin H. Greenberg, editor, Lord of the Fantastic:  Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny.  Tribute anthology of twenty-three sf/fantasy stories.
• Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg, and Carol-Lynn Waugh, editors, More Holmes for the Holidays.  Eleven Sherlockian Christmas mystery stories.
• Martin H. Greenberg & Larry Segriff, editors, Far Frontiers.  Thirteen science fiction stories about exploration.
• Zane Grey, Cabin Gulch.  A western, naturally.  A censored version was previously published as The Border Legion; this is the fully restored edition.
• Gary Gygax, Sea of Death.  Gaming tie-in/fantasy novel in the Gord the Rogue series.
• Donald Hamilton, The Ambushers.  A Matt Helm spy guy novel, number seventeen in the series.
• M. John Harrison, Light.  SF novel, winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award.
• Donald Harstad, Eleven Days.  Thriller.
• Patrick Nielson Hayden, editor, New Skies:  An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction.  Seventeen stories packaged for a YA audience.
• James Herbert, Others.  Horror novel.
• Philip E. High, Twin Planets.  Science fiction novel.  
• James P. Hogan, Voyage from Yesteryear.  SF novel.
• Nancy Holder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer:  The Book of Fours.  TV tie-in novel.
• Leslie Horvitz, Causes Unknown.  Thriller,  Another conspiracy, oh my!
• Rich Horton, editor, Science Fiction:  The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition and The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2010 Edition.  Fifteen stories from 2005 and thirty stories from 2009, respectively.
• Geoffrey Household, The Third Hour.  Adventure/thriller.  Household's first novel.
• Robert E. Howard, Marchers of Valhalla.  Fantasy collection of eight stories.  This is a Berkley paperback with a nifty Frazetta wraparound cover; the cover is replicated in a full color fold-out poster.  Introduction by Fritz Leiber.  Scuffed on edges, some wear on the spine, and a fold on the upper right front cover, but still a pretty good copy.  I had read this before, but I couldn't leave this one on the shelf -- I mean, it was 35 cents, sheesh.  I'll gladly give it to the first person who e-mails me with their address ( sorry, U.S. only) at house_jerry@hotmail.com.
• L. Ron Hubbard, Mission Earth, Volumes 1 (The Invaders Plan), 5 (Fortune of Fear), 6 (Death Quest), 7 (Voyage of Vengeanc), 8 (Disaster), and 10 (The Doomed Planet).  Six volumes in the SF series.
• L. Ron Hubbard (?), The Dynamics of Life and Scientology: A History of Man (formerly, What to Audit).  B*llsh*t.
• Maxim Jakubowski, editor, The Best British Mysteries 2005.  Actually, it's twenty-eight stories from 2003.
• Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds:  A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos.  Nifty non-fiction.
• Marvin Kaye, editor, Forbidden Planets.  Science fiction collection of eight novellas.
• Damon Knight, The World and Thorinn.  Fix-up sf novel from three stories originally published in Galaxy in 1968 although not published in novel form until 1981.
• J. A. Konrath, Cherry Bomb.  Mystery, the sixth book in the Jack Daniels series.
• Edward E. Kramer, editor, Dark Destiny:  Proprietors of Fate.  Gaming tie-in anthology with twenty-one stories.
• Geoffrey A. Landis, Mars Crossing.  SF novel.  Locus Award winner for best first novel; Nebula nominee for best novel.
• Joe R. Lansdale, editor, Crucified Dreams.  Urban horror anthology containing nineteen stories.
• Richard Laymon, Body Rides.  Horror.
• Donna Leon, Dressed for Death.  Mystery, a Commissario Brunetti novel.
• Denise Little, editor, A Constellation of Cats.  Fantasy/SF anthology with thirteen stories.  According to the copyright notice, this appears to hasve been produced by Martin Greenberg's Teckno Books.
• George Mann, editor, The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction.  Sixteen stories.
• Cynthia Manson, editor, Mystery Menagerie (sixteen stories) and Women of Mystery (sixteen stories).  Collections from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.
• Cynthia Manson and Charles Ardai, editors, New England Crime Chowder.  Sixteen mysteries.
• Anna Mantzaris, 1001 Things You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know.  Non-fiction.  There's a lot of things I knew and a lot I didn't want to know.  Oh, well.
• Jeff Mariotte, Buffy the Vampire Slayer:  The Xander Years, Vol. 2.  TV tie-in, novelizing three episodes.
• Christine Matthews, editor, Deadly Housewives.  Thirteen stories of domestic un-bliss from women mystery writers.
• Willis E. McNelly and Leon E. Stover, editors, Above the Human Landscape:  A Social Science Fiction Anthology.  Twenty-seven stories and three essays.
• Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan, Popular Writing in America:  The Interaction of Style and Audience.  Non-fiction, with examples from advertising, the press, magazines, best sellers, classics, and scripts.  A great book to dip into.
• Skye Kathleen Moody, Medusa.  A Venus Diamond mystery.
• John Mortimer, The First Rumpole Omnibus.  Contians Rumpole of the Bailey (collection, six stories), The Trials of Rumpole (collection, six stories), and Rumpole's Return (novel).
• Lloyd Motz and Jefferson Hane Weaver, The Story of Physics.  Non-fiction.  Another cool book.
• Warren Murphy, The Destroyer #57:  Date with Death.  Murphy gets sole cover credit here, although Sapir is also listed in the copyright notice.
• Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir, The Destroyer #64:  The Last Alchemist and #65: Lost Yesterday.  Men's adventure novels.
• Eric Nyland, Halo:  First Strike.  Gaming tie-in.
• Joyce Carol Oates, editor, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories.  Look!  It's both an anthology and a doorstop!
• Maxine O'Callaghan, Set-Up.  Mystery in the Delilah West series.  Another underappreciated writer.
• P. J. Parrish, South of Hell.  Mystery/thriller.
• Steve Perry, The Man Who Never Missed.  SF novel.
• Junius Podrug, Harold Robbin's The Shroud.  Novel based on "a rich heritage of novel ideas and works in progress" left behind by Harold Robbins.  Don't know if this book came from an idea or a work in progress.  This one has to with a shroud that supposedly was buried with Christ.
• H. Beam Piper with Michael Kurland, First Cycle.  Incomplete science fiction novel left behind after Piper's death, finished and poplished by Kurland.
• Tim Pratt, editor, Sympathy for the Devil.  Horror anthology with thirty-five stories, along with  a canto from Dante.
• Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, & Keith R. A. DeCandido, editors, The Ultimate Alien.  A themed SF anthology; fifteen stories.
• Douglas Preston, Blasphemy.  Thriller.
• David Pringle, editor, The Best of Interzone.  Twenty-nine stories from the first fifteen years of the British science fiction magazine.
• Chet Raymo, Skeptics and True Believers:  The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion.  Non-fiction by one of our best writers of popular science.
• J. H. Riddell, Night Shivers.  Collection of fifteen of Mrs. Riddell's Victorian ghost stories, selected by David Stuart Davies.
• Chris Robinson, editor, Adventure, Vol. 1.  Seventeen stories of adventure:  Science fiction, mystery, horror, and western.
• Lucia St. Clair Robinson, Walk In My Soul.  Historical novel/western.
• John Ringo, When the Devil Dances.  SF novel, part of the Posleen War series.
• "Dana Fuller Ross",  Outpost!  Volume 3 of the Wagons West*The Frontier Trilogy.  A book packaged by Book Creations Inc., an outfit founded by Lyle Kenyon Engel.  This one has James Reasoner lurking behind the Dana Fuller Ross house name.
• "Marilyn Ross", Shorecliff.  Gothic/supernatural novel from the prolific Dan Ross.  Yes, there's a woman standing in the moonlight with a castle in the background.  And, yes, there's a single light on in the castle.  But, no, she doesn't seem to be running from it.
• Hank Phillippi Ryan, Prime Time.  Mystery novel featuring television reporter Charlotte McNally.
• Jessica Amanda Salmonson, editor, Heroic Visions.  Ten sword and sorcery tales.
• Pamela Sargent, editor, Women of Wonder, The Classic Years:  Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s.  An essential collection of twenty-one stories.
• John Saul, The Devil's Labyrinth.  Horror.
• Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones.  Literary fantasy/mystery novel.
• John Shirley, Aliens:  Steel Egg.  Movie tie-in.
• E. E. "Doc" Smith, Spacehounds of IPC.  Classic space opera circa 1931.
• S. M. Stirling, Dies the Fire and The Protector's War.  Two SF novels in the Change series.
• S. M. Stirling, editor, Drakas!  SF anthology with twelve stories.
• Darwin Teilhet, The Mission of Jeffery Tolamy.  Historical novel.
• Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia.  Alternate history SF novel by a master of the form.
• Harry Turtledove, editor, Alternate Generals.  Science fiction anthology of sixteen stories.
• "Barbara Vine" [Ruth Rendell], The Brimstone Wedding.  Psychological mystery novel.
• Sean Wallace, editor, Best New Fantasy.  Anthology with sixteen stories.  Editorial asssistance provided by Roland Green.
• Patricia S. Warrick, Charles G. Waugh, and Martin H. Greenberg, editors, Science Fiction:  The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology.  Twenty-six stories chosen by members of the SFRA, with critical commentary.
• James Webb, Fields of Fire.  Vietnam War novel by the former Secretary of the Navy, now U.S. Senator, soon to be best-selling author again.
• Irvine Welsh.  Trainspotting.  The novel that became the famous film.
• Ted White, The Secret of the Maurauder Satellite.  Young adult science fiction novel.
• Robert Anton Wilson, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, Volume 1:  The Earth Will Shake and Volume 2:  The Widow's Son.  Fantasy.
• Robin Wilson, editor, Paragons:  Twelve Master Science Fiction Writers Ply Their Craft.  Includes an informative appendix by Bruce Sterling.
• R. D. Wingfield, Hard Frost.  Mystery novel featuring Inspector Frost.
• John C. Wright, Null-A Continuum.  A sequel to A. E. van Vogt's classic SF novel The World of Null-A.
• Roger Zelazny, Changling.  Science fiction novel.

     Kitty was looking for just one specific poetry collection but could not find it.  However, she did find the box labeled FREE BOOKS and picked up twice her bodyweight in books that might interest various family members and friends.  Some of the books she got were:

• Christopher P. Baker, Mi Moto Fidel:  Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba.  Travel.
• Ann Coulter, The Church of Liberalism.  Bitter invective and hateful twaddle.
• Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker:  Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design.  Nonfiction.
• Kathleen DeMarco, Cranberry Queen.  Novel.
• Lori Foster, Just a Hint -- Clint.  Chick lit.
• Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin, Skinny Bitch.  Diet advice.
• Gregory J. P. Godek, 1001 Ways to Be Romantic.  Advice I might need.
• Lisa Hilton, Athenais:  The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress, The Real Queen of France.  Biography.
• Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days.  The classic children's book, best known now for the introduction of the character Flashman, later usurped for a series of very popular novels by George MacDonald Fraser.
• Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun:  At Home in Italy.  Memoir.
• Anne McCaffrey, The Dolphins of Pern.  Science fiction, the thirteenth book in the series.
• Sarah Grace McCandless, The Girl I Wanted to Be.  Young adult novel.
• Marsha Mehran, Pomegranite Soup.  Novel.
• Mitali Perkins, The No-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen (The Sunita Experiment).  YA novel.
• Jane Porter, Flirting with Forty.  Chick lit.
• Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird.  Chick lit.  The title sounds like something my eleven year-old grandson would say.
• Dal Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.  Novel.
• Jen Sincero, Don't Sleep with Your Drummer.  Novel.
• The Smithsonian Institute in association with National Geographic, Forces of Change:  A New View of Nature.  Photo essays.
• Rory Stewart, The Places In Between.  Travel/memoir.
• Susan Wales and Robin Shope, The Chase.  Religious fiction/thriller.

     And I have been lax in listing in listing the books sent my way by my talented, super-smart, wonderful neice.  Some that came in were:

• Harlan Coburn, Caught.  Thriller.
• Trevor Hoyle, The Last Gasp.  Science fiction.
• Kathy Reichs, Devil Bones.  A Temperance Brennan mystery.
• Mary Roach, Bonk:  The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.  Nonfiction.
• Jessie Sholl, Dirty Secret:  A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding.  Memoir.

Phew!  I think I'm done.