In My Mailbox (7)

I've been slacking lately on my segments so I'll be doing IMM for the month!

It was my birthday at the start of the month so I got so I have more books than usual.

Second-hand Bookshops
Bookshops are failing and it's breaking my heart. However, I've discovered quite a wonderful wellspring of opportunity in second-hand bookshops. I have a lovely Op-shop down the road, and there is a second-hand bookshop on Maling Road, in Canterbury (Victoria) that I love. 

• War and Peace, Volume One, by Leo Tolstoy
• Magician (The Riftwar Saga #1 + 2) by Raymond E. Feist
• Axeman (Wayfarer Redemption #1) by Sara Douglass
• Starman (Wayfarer #3) by Sara Douglass
• Terrier (Beka Cooper #1) by Tamora Pierce

Library

• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Time Machine by H.G Wells
• Stolen: A Letter to my captor by Lucy Christopher

Birthday Gifts!
I'm being a little silly, but I'm including the ARC as a birthday gift because I got it so close to my birthday.

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
• Beowulf
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
• Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier

Pegasus by Robin McKingley

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Publication Date:
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
ISBN: 0399246770
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre:Fantasy
Source: Library
Lootability:***

Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylviianel is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday. The two species coexist peacefully, despite the language barriers separating them. Humans and pegasi both rely on specially trained Speaker magicians as the only means of real communication. But it's different for Sylvi and Ebon. They can understand each other. They quickly grow close-so close that their bond becomes a threat to the status quo-and possibly to the future safety of their two nations.

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

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Publication Date: October 1st, 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN:  015206396X
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Source: Library
Lootability: ****

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug.     When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change. She never expects to become Po’s friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace—or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone. Kristin Cashore has taken an old idea and made it young again in her new fantasy trilogy for young adults.