What did YOU buy today? June 2013

I've apparently gone a little crazy lately, but there have been some great sales.

A few I didn't pay for, but got as ARCs:
* The Skull & the Nightingale by Michael Irwin (historical fiction)
* Love on a Midsummer Night by Christy English (historical romance taking off a Shakespeare play)

* Once Upon a Tartan by Grace Burrowes (historical romance)
* _The Lincoln Deception_ by David O. Stewart (historical thriller set at turn to 20th century)

And the craziness:
* Emma Corbett by Samuel Jackson Pratt (epistolary fiction written during the American Revolution)
* What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online by Mark Emery Bolles & Richard Nelson Bolles (needed, so not as crazy as the rest)

* Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation by Peter L. Bernstein (also needed, for a future book group)
* The Power of Point of View: Make Your Story Come to Life by Alicia Rasley (writing advice)

* Tainted Angel by Anne Cleeland (somebody showed this one to me the same day the next one, which I had been waiting for, arrived)
* Firebird by Susanna Kearsley (slightly paranormal multiple time period novel, autobuy)

* Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal (historical fantasy novel, 3rd book in series of which I own the prior titles)
* River of No Return by Bee Ridgway (paranormal fiction - dead man doesn't stay dead, complete impulse buy)

* Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities by Betty A. Bergland & Lori Ann Lahlum (another title needed for a future book group)
* The Bookman's Tale by Charlie Lovett (yummy, possibly slightly paranormal fiction - how can dead wife's portrait have been painted before she was ever born, complete impulse buy)

I bought on ebay the 1944 Lakeside Classics edition of Growing up with Southern Illinois. From Bookmooch I got Sharpe's Waterloo.

The cover of a book made me think of Montaigne in his tower, so I bought it: Merivel by Rose Tremain.

I've heard for some time that she's good, so when I found out it was a sequel to Restoration, I bought that, too. It *is* possible I already own that one. Somewhere.

Found yesterday on the library sales rack for $1, a book that interested me when it was first published: Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore by Wendy Moore.

Two ARCs and zero purchases (yay!):

* True Spies by Shana Galen (historical romance, Scarlet Pimpernel/True Lies storyline)
* It Takes Two To Tangle by Theresa Romain (historical romance)