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So on Saturday, we went to the annual book sale of the Friends of the Central Experimental Farm. I bought 26 books for a total of $36. Here's what I got, in not-quite random order:

7 Ngaio Marsh books, as follows:

Artists in Crime
Death in Ecstasy
Died in the Wool
Nursing Home Murder
Scales of Justice
Singing in the Shrouds
Spinsters in Jeopardy

2 vegan cookbooks (I'm not vegan but I am vegetarian):

The Vegan Diet: True Vegetarian Cookery (Scott & Golding)
125 Best Vegan Recipes (Maxine Effenson Chuck & Beth Gurney)

2 books in German:

Die Märchen der Bruder Grimm (vollständige Ausgabe)
Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod: ein Wegweiser durch den Irrgarten der deutschen Sprache (Bastian Sick)

2 other books on language:

The Languages of the World (Kenneth Katzner)
Western Languages: A.D. 100-1500 (Philippe Wolff)

The Children's Omnibus: A Story Book for Boys and Girls (London: Victor Gollancz, 1932)

The Mabinogion (Translated from 14th century Welsh by Gwyn Jones & Thomas Jones)

Miscellaneous nonfiction:

Let Right be Done: The Life and Times of Bill Simpson (Lynne Cohen)
Speaking out Louder: Ideas that Work for Canadians (Jack Layton)

Mostly fiction:

Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul
Sharon Butala - Perfection of the Morning (memoir)
Zara's Dead (novel)
Katherine V. Forrest - Murder by Tradition
Lisa Genova - Still Alice
Michael Ignatieff - Scar Tissue
Arnaldur Indridason - Strange Shores
Monia Mazigh - Mirrors and Mirages
Susan Vreeland - Girl in Hyacinth Blue

It was a good haul - I'll probably have more to say once I've read them!