What did YOU buy today? May 2024

My folly continues.
From the FoL:
Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg by Christopher Ogden
Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics) by Joshua Slocum Turns out this is another duplicate. Argh!
A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works (Perennial Classics) by Jacques Barzun
From the Early Reviewers:
The Hypnotic Tales of Rafael Sabatini (Hypnotism in Victorian and Edwardian Era… by Donald K. Hartman
From NYRB:
Butterfly of Dinard by Eugenio Montale

One ARC, just published: Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley (speculative fiction).

From the FoL:
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The secrets of Dr. Taverner by Dion Fortune
From alibris:
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Two ARCs:

Middle Grade fantasy debut by Jordan Lees: The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found (coming out late this month)

Young Adult rom-com (& Shakespeare retelling) by Alexene Farol Follmuth: Twelfth Knight (to be published 6/24).

Most of these were free. 🆓 My favorite kind.
The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino
The Buddha in the Attic Pen/Faulkner Award - Fiction) by Julie Otsuka
The Wisdom of the Vedas Theosophical Heritage Classics) by Jagadish Chatterji
Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics) by Graham Greene
The Recently Deflowered Girl by Edward Gorey

Death at Bishop's Keep - part of Robin Paige's Victorian Mystery Series. Seemed like something light to add to summer reading list.