Due to my book buying addiction I started this  feature on my blog where I post about the book(s) I bought that week. Not something I plan on having every week – though it seems to be turning out that way.  So here’s what I bought this week!

Previous OoMP posts can be found here!

When you're given a 25% off coupon valid only on November 14 & 15, what are you supposed to do? Despite my mega-purchases last week I couldn't let this awesome opportunity pass, now could I? Of course this time around I brought my husband along and even he took advantage of the savings! My main goal was to buy Beautiful Creatures, but alas, it had not been removed from one of the millions of boxes piled in the stock room today (a friend of mine who works there will put one aside for me when it does make it to the floor. They did try and get me a copy, but it was too long to go through all the boxes and the store was crazy-busy. I will just have to return AGAIN this week. Oh, well. ;)).

A Great and Terrible Beautyby Libba Bray

It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to? (amazon.ca)

Yes, I have read this one already, but I had borrowed it from Monkey, and well, she did offer it to me and I said no. But all this time I actually thought I DID own it. So I took advantage of this sale to pick it up for myself so I could complete the series - because I DID buy the third book as well.

The Sweet Far Thingby Libba Bray

It has been a year of change since Gemma Doyle arrived at the foreboding Spence Academy. Her mother murdered, her father alaudanum addict, Gemma has relied on an unsuspected strength and has discovered an ability to travel to an enchanted world called the realms, where dark magic runs wild. Despite certain peril, Gemma has bound the magic to herself and forged unlikely new alliances. Now, as Gemma approaches her London debut, the time has come to test these bonds.

The Order—the mysterious group her mother was once part of—is grappling for control of the realms, as is the Rakshana. Spence's burned East Wing is being rebuilt, but why now? Gemma and her friends see Pippa, but she is not the same. And their friendship faces its gravest trial as Gemma must decide once and for all what role she is meant for. (amazon.ca)

It has been too long of a wait for this book. I should have picked it up ages ago, but I would always choose something else. NOW I have it!

Peter and the Sword of Mercyby Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

The year is 1901 and it's been twenty-three years since Peter and the Lost Boys returned from Rundoon. Since then, nobody on the island has grown a day older, and the Lost Boys continue their friendship with the Mollusk tribe, and their rivalry with Captain Hook. Meanwhile in London, Molly has married George Darling and is raising three children: Wendy, Michael, and John. One night a visitor appears at her door; it's James, one of Peter's original Lost Boys. He is now working for Scotland Yard and suspects that the heir to England's throne, Prince Albert Edward, is under the influence of shadow creatures. These shadow creatures are determined to find a secret cache of startstuff which fell to London many centuries ago. The starstuff is hidden in an underground vault which has only one key: the Sword of Mercy, a legendary weapon kept with the Crown Jewels. Molly is determined to help, but when she suddenly goes missing, it is up to her eleven-year-old daughter, Wendy, to keep the starstuff out of the Others' clutches. She has heard her mother's stories of a flying boy named Peter Pan, and he may be her only hope in saving the world from a shadowy doom... (amazon.ca)

This book was a surprise! I thought there were only 3 in the series. I had to get it!

These were the three books I bought during today's sale. On Thursday I was delighted to see that there was ONE copy of the following book in stock - FINALLY!

Ballad: A Gathering of Faerieby Maggie Stiefvater

In this mesmerizing sequel to "Lament", music prodigy James Morgan has joined his best friend, Deirdre, at a private conservatory for musicians. James' almost unearthly gift for music has attracted the dangerous attentions of Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they die. Composing beautiful music together leads James and Nuala down an unexpected road of mutual admiration ...and love. Haunted by a vision of raging fire and death, James realizes that Deirdre and Nuala are being hunted by the Fey and plunges into a soulscorching battle with the Queen of the Fey to save their lives. (amazon.ca)

ONE copy! Only one! It's the only copy the HUGE store near me received. And I got it! Muahahahahah!! So happy!

You know what? I have so many books to read right now I have no idea what I actually want to read! Gah! Finally reading again and now I am just overwhelmed by the number of books I have to read. *panic* *fret* *chews fingers* I might continue with my Urban Fantasy kick, so I've got a few of those to pick through.