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ALA Haul
My haul this year is significantly smaller than in previous years for two reasons.
1) I was much more selective in what I took since I *do* have to pay shipping to send it home. In previous years, this has cost me between $40-$50, which I tend to consider a small price to pay for nearly 200 books. But this year, I didn't really want to spend that much, so I took less and kept my shipping to around $25.
2) The vendors were much more stingy this year. The economy's hurting us all, I suppose, and the vendors brought fewer books to give away and fewer copies of the ones they did give out (they have to pay shipping too, I guess). There were several vendors who, rather than bringing ARCs to hand out, brought one or two copies of their offerings and allowed you to sign up to have them sent to you. So I'll be getting a few more in the mail eventually, hopefully. These are just the ones I picked up and sent back to myself.
So without further ado, the list:
1. Alex Archer, Rogue Angel: Sacrifice
2. Avi, Murder at Midnight
3. Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth
4. Elizabeth Beckwith, Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation
5. Jan Bozarth, The Fairy Godmother Academy #1: Birdie's Book
6. Gail Carriger, Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate)
7. Kristin Cashore, Fire
8. Ying Chang Compestine, A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts
9. Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
10. Megan Crewe, Give Up the Ghost
11. Simone Elkeles, How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation
12. Deva Fagan, Fortune's Folly
13. Bryan Gruley, Starvation Lake: A Mystery
14. Lise Haines, Girl in the Arena
15. Shannon Hale, Forest Born
16. Nina Hess, A Practical Guide to Monsters
17. Lynne Jonell, The Secret of Zoom
18. Marilyn Kaye, Demon Chick
19. Daniel Kirk, Elf Realm: The High Road
20. Lisa Klein, Lady Macbeth's Daughter
21. Stephanie Kuehnert, Ballads of Suburbia
22. Stephanie Kuehnert, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
23. R. L. LaFevers, Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist #1: Flight of the Phoenix
24. Keith McGowan, The Witch's Guide to Cooking With Children
25. Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps
26. Anna Myers, Time of the Witches
27. Oliver Neubert, Chantel's Quest for the Enchanted Medallion
28. Kimberly Pauley, Sucks to be Me: The all-true confessions of Mina Hamilton, teen vampire (maybe)
29. Thomas Randall, The Waking: Dreams of the Dead
30. Donny Bailey Seagraves, Gone From These Woods
31. Lili St. Crow, Strange Angels
32. Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
33. David Whitley, The Midnight Charter
34. Laurence Yep, City of Fire
1) I was much more selective in what I took since I *do* have to pay shipping to send it home. In previous years, this has cost me between $40-$50, which I tend to consider a small price to pay for nearly 200 books. But this year, I didn't really want to spend that much, so I took less and kept my shipping to around $25.
2) The vendors were much more stingy this year. The economy's hurting us all, I suppose, and the vendors brought fewer books to give away and fewer copies of the ones they did give out (they have to pay shipping too, I guess). There were several vendors who, rather than bringing ARCs to hand out, brought one or two copies of their offerings and allowed you to sign up to have them sent to you. So I'll be getting a few more in the mail eventually, hopefully. These are just the ones I picked up and sent back to myself.
So without further ado, the list:
1. Alex Archer, Rogue Angel: Sacrifice
2. Avi, Murder at Midnight
3. Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth
4. Elizabeth Beckwith, Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation
5. Jan Bozarth, The Fairy Godmother Academy #1: Birdie's Book
6. Gail Carriger, Soulless (The Parasol Protectorate)
7. Kristin Cashore, Fire
8. Ying Chang Compestine, A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts
9. Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow
10. Megan Crewe, Give Up the Ghost
11. Simone Elkeles, How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Reputation
12. Deva Fagan, Fortune's Folly
13. Bryan Gruley, Starvation Lake: A Mystery
14. Lise Haines, Girl in the Arena
15. Shannon Hale, Forest Born
16. Nina Hess, A Practical Guide to Monsters
17. Lynne Jonell, The Secret of Zoom
18. Marilyn Kaye, Demon Chick
19. Daniel Kirk, Elf Realm: The High Road
20. Lisa Klein, Lady Macbeth's Daughter
21. Stephanie Kuehnert, Ballads of Suburbia
22. Stephanie Kuehnert, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
23. R. L. LaFevers, Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist #1: Flight of the Phoenix
24. Keith McGowan, The Witch's Guide to Cooking With Children
25. Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps
26. Anna Myers, Time of the Witches
27. Oliver Neubert, Chantel's Quest for the Enchanted Medallion
28. Kimberly Pauley, Sucks to be Me: The all-true confessions of Mina Hamilton, teen vampire (maybe)
29. Thomas Randall, The Waking: Dreams of the Dead
30. Donny Bailey Seagraves, Gone From These Woods
31. Lili St. Crow, Strange Angels
32. Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
33. David Whitley, The Midnight Charter
34. Laurence Yep, City of Fire
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#3: HarperCollins
#6: Hachette
#15: Bloomsbury
#20: Bloomsbury
#29: Bloomsbury
The Bloomsbury ones were actually on display, not in a pile to be taken. The lady at the booth let me take the ones they had two copies of.