I got 2 books that I had ordered through Borders:

When the Eagle Hunts, by Simon Scarrow, TP
Book 3 of the Eagle series. For some reason not all of them are published in the US, and a couple are still in HC.

Raising the Past, by Jeremy Robinson, TP
Suspect this might be self-published, but I am interested in the premise of an ancient frozen mammoth, with a secret inside.

I used my Borders Rewards holiday cash to buy a history book that interested me:

Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

My non-genre holiday haul:

The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett, PB
I asked for this one because I have read so many good things about it.

The Thrall's Tale, by Judith Lindbergh, TP

I used an Amazon gift certificate to buy The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story by (I forgot already) and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.

I've heard wonderful things about Mitchell. Fingers crossed.

Thanks Auntie Pam, I will have to check out the new Mitchell book too. ;)

I just got a couple more non-gernre:

In the Walled Gardens, by Anahita Firouz, TP
Frangipani, by Celestine Vaite, TP

I had an order from Amazon come in, and I picked up a few books at the local stores.

from Amazon:

The Season of the Hyaena, by Paul Doherty, TP
This is book 2 in a series about Akehenaten and Tut, from the UK, though I ordered it from the US Amazon.

Shadow of the Lords, by Simon Levack, HC


Locally:

Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour, by Laurien Gardner, PB
A Lady Raised High: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, by Laurien Gardner, PB
Whose Bible is it ? , by Jaroslav Pelikan, TP
Old Filth, by Jane Gardam, TP

"The Anarchical System = a study of order in world politics" by Hedley Bull
Published in the mid 80's, bull was a foremost liberal IR theorist, and this is his classic piece......a very academic piece.....for those who are students of politics.


"The Raj Syndrome = a study in imperial perceptions" by Suhash Chakravarty
A book about British perceptions of their colonial holdings in India....good stuff from a heralded history professor in India.



"the myth of sisyphus" by Albert Camus
acctually, I didn't just buy this....but I've reread it recently for the 10th time....best work of philosophy ever.....

I was just at half price books and saw a Linear Algebra text book from 1961....i wanted it so bad, but it cost almost 30 dollars, shame....

um, yeah, I like math, and like looking and buying textbooks (same goes for poli sci textbooks)

however, I did buy the following books=

The Bridge Called my Back ; Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981)

Discrete Mathematics (1987 ; textbook)

Do! It's early to be saying this, but Black Swan Green might be the best thing I'll read all year. I don't want it to end. Don'cha love when that happens?

My general fiction haul from my latest book binge:

Sky Burial, by Xinran, TP
The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell, TP (Thanks Nicba)

Non-Fiction:

Helen of Troy, by Bettany Hughes, TP
Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia, by Stephen Bertman, TP

Blogging, by Biz Stone, TP
The Everything Blogging Book, Aliza Sherman Risdahl, TP

I recently set up a blog, and of course my first instinct is to get a book. So I picked up these 2 as references for technical, design, and philosophical issues.

The Human Stain/Sabbath's Theater -Phillip Roth
The Year of Magical Thinking -Joan Didion
Excelsior, You Fathead! The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepard -Eugene B. Bergman
The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue -Robert Klein

Recent non-genre books:


Red Poppies, by Alai, TP
The Virgin of Flames, by Chris Abani, TP
Beasts of No Nation, by Uzodinma Iweala, TP


Non-Fiction:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, by Paul McFedries, TP (with CD)

Growning Up Absurd -Paul Goodman
The Canterbury Tales-Chaucer
The Secret Agent/Nostromo-Joseph Conrad
Fathers and Sons -Ivan Turgenev
The Plot-The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion -Will Eisner

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Master and the Margerita by Bulgakov
The Collector by John Fowles
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

I've only ever read the prologue in school, and I really wanted to read more of the tales, as I fell in love with reading and speaking the language, its just so rich and vocal.