2025 Acquisitions

The Mills of the Gods by Tim Powers

The Bovadium Fragments by J. R. R. Tolkien

The War of the Rohirrim (DVD)

Rackham's Color Illustrations for Wagner's "Ring" by Arthur Rackham

Reframe Your Brain by Scott Adams

The BBC Tudors Collection (DVD)

The Devil Rides Out [Blu-ray]

There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale by Verlyn Flieger

The Poem of the Cid: Dual Language Edition

The Burl Ives Song Book 10

The Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume I

The Gulag Archipelago Three by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Anatomy of Puck by K. M. (Katharine) Briggs

Thomas Aquinas: Selected Writings

The Invisible Woman by James P. Blaylock

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

In Search of Dracula, by Florescu & McNally

The Romance of the Rose, tr. Frances Horgan

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain

Egyptian Myth and Legend by Donald A. Mackenzie 20

Myths of China and Japan by DonaldA. Mackenzie

Myths of Greece and Rome by H. A. Guerber

East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon by George Webbe Dasent

The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner

The Saga of the Volsungs, tr. Jesse L. Byock

The Tain, tr. Ciaran Carson

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

The Latin Letters of C. S. Lewis

Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges 30

The History of the Church by Eusebius

The Shakespeare Apocrypha by ‘William Shakespeare’

The Life of Sir John Falstaff by Robert Barnabas Brough

Early Christian Writings, tr. Maxwell Staniforth

Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen

Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen

Lysistrata/The Archarnians/The Clouds by Aristophanes

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Huckleberry Finn, Classics Illustrated 40

Based on a True Story by Norm Macdonald

The Best of Jules Verne

Selected Works of H. G. Wells

The Obesity Code by Timothy Noakes

The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke

The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain by Mark Twain 

Hollywood Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller Jr. and Ronald L. Davis

Urban Legends by Richard Roeper 

The Grand Miracle: Daily Reflections for the Season of Advent

The Giant Garden of Oz by Eric Shanower 50

A Man for All Seasons: by Robert Bolt 

The Uses of Enchantment  by Bettelheim, Bruno

Letters To Young Churches by J. B. Phillips 53

Only three Tolkien and Tolkien-related items (well, 7 if you count War of the Rohirrim Action figures – and you know we don’t!). Sixteen ‘returns’ from the Shadow Library. Two ‘self-help’ books. Three ‘visual’ (DVD and Blu-ray) additions.  Three new fantasies, by Powers and Blaylock and Clarke. Three C. S. Lewis and Lewis-related items.  A surprising 5 Mark Twain books. Thirteen classics. One new art book. Seven books about myths, legends, and fairy tales.  Five ‘celebrity’ productions. Where would I put Borges Collected Fictions or The Giant Garden of Oz – they’re not new fantasies produced this year, though they're new to me. Again, there is some overlap in all these categories; it’s as scatter-shot as my interests. I've even read some of them. So that’s 53 items for the year, almost one for every week (although many came in clumps, as it were). Barring a visit to the library bookstore, that should be it for 2025.