. . .although I think I may have come close on my last trip to The Book Barn in Niantic with Costume Imp a few weeks ago.
This was my haul:
Books about Books and Writing:
Hamlet’s Dresser by Bob Smith
Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore by Suzanne Strempek Shea
Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down: A Unique Guide for Writers by Christi Killien and Sheila Bender
A Critic’s Notebook by Irving Howe
Antiquarian Books: An Insider’s Account by Irving Howe
Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography and Autobiography by Michael Holroyd
General Non-Fiction:
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code by Lesley and Roy Adkins
Stork Club: American’s Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society by Ralph Blumenthal
The Big House: A Century in the Life of An American Summer House by George Howe Colt
My Pamet: Cape Cod Chronicle by Tom Kane
W H Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Elizabeth’s Women: Friends, Rivals and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen by Tracy Borman
The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism by Megan Marshall
Deities and Dolphins: The Story of the Nabataeans by Nelson Glueck
The Wolfgang Puck Cookbook by Wolfgang Puck
Gardening:
Natural Affairs: A Botanist Looks at the Attachments Between Plants and People by Peter Bernhardt
The Living Garden: The 400-year History of an English Garden by George Ordish
Hollies by H. Harold Hume
New England Gardner’s Guide by Jacqueline Heiriteau and Holly Hunter Stonehill
The Cottage Gardner’s Companion by The Cottage Garden Society
Creative Garden Features by Roger Sweetinburgh
A Ceiling of Sky: Special Garden Rooms and the People Who Created Them by Pat Ross
Ortho’s All About Container Gardening
A Year in Your Garden (The Essentials Collection)
Gardening: The Complete Guide to Growing America’s FAvorite Fruits and Vegetables by the National Gardening Association.
Fiction:
About Face by Donna Leon
The Girl of His Dreams by Donna Leon
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
The Art Thief by Noah Charney
White as Snow by Tanith Lee
Thunderbird Falls by CE Murphy
Heart of Stone by CE Murphy
Heartlight by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The ShapeChanger’s Wife by Sharon Shinn
Heart of Gold by Sharon Shinn
Fall of Light by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Wolf and the Raven by Diana L. Paxson
Derrskin by Robin McKinley
The Fairy of Ku-She by M. Lucie Chin
Witch and Wombat by Carolyn Cushman
Horse Fantastic, an anthology edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Rosalind M. Greenberg
Hotel Andromeda, an athology editoed by Jack L. Chalker
Rebel Fay by Barb & JC Hendee
Child of a Dead God by Bard & JC Hendee
Esoterica, Spiritual, Herbal:
The Modern Witch’s Book of Herbs and Healing by Sarah Lyddon Morrison
Yearning for the Wind: Celtic Reflections on Nature and the Soul by Tom Cowan
Gossips, Gorgone & Crones: The Fates of the Earth by Jane Caputi
Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent: Celtic Women’s Spirituality by Noragh Jones
. . .I wasn’t kidding when I mentioned in Ink in My Coffee that I needed help getting them to the car!
A Biblio Paradise 