Stacking the Shelves (12)

Oh my! After posting last week's Stacking the Shelves, I went crazy buying books. I received the monthly newsletter from Phoenix Pick telling me about this month's free book, The Mutant Season by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber. Along with the freebie was the opportunity to purchase the entire Fire in Winter series at a discount. I took them up on the offer!

The four books of the Fire in Winter series aren't new. The books were released between 1989 and 1992, and have been difficult to find in print. I know that I read at least the first two books many years ago and then re-read The Mutant Season in the summer of 2010. I've had the rest of the books—The Mutant Prime, Mutant Star, and Mutant Legacy—on my wishlist, hoping they'd be released as eBooks. Finally, they were picked up by Phoenix Pick, an imprint of Arc Manor, which is re-printing many classic SF books.

I also took advantage of a couple of Read Now books at NetGalley. So, my queue of read-and-review books has grown a little bit longer. Both of the books I selected are by authors I'm already familiar with. First is The Here and Now by Ann Brashares. The story promises romance, pandemic illness, and time-traveling teens. The other book is The Root of All Evil, a new title in the Hope Street Church mystery series by Ellery Adams and Elizabeth Lockard. I read the first three books in November and December 2010. Now there's a new episode and the original books have been updated and re-released.

So how did you do this week? Any new books? You're invited to tell us all about it by joining the fun at Stacking the Shelves. According to the reviewers at Tynga's Reviews who host the meme:

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!