Books I Will Buy

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This is a list of books I'll DEFINITELY buy. Check it out! 

1. Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce #5) - Alan Bradley
   Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her insufferable sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the five-hundredth anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey is busily preparing to open its patron saint’s tomb. Nobody is more excited to peek inside the crypt than Flavia, yet what she finds will halt the proceedings dead in their tracks: the body of Mr. Collicutt, the church organist, his face grotesquely and inexplicably masked. Who held a vendetta against Mr. Collicutt, and why would they hide him in such a sacred resting place? The irrepressible Flavia decides to find out. And what she unearths will prove there’s never such thing as an open-and-shut case.
2. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches (Flavia de Luce #6) - Alan Bradley
   On a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the train’s arrival in the English village of Bishop’s Lacey, Flavia is approached by a tall stranger who whispers a cryptic message into her ear. Moments later, he is dead, mysteriously pushed under the train by someone in the crowd. Who was this man, what did his words mean, and why were they intended for Flavia? Back home at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ crumbling estate, Flavia puts her sleuthing skills to the test. Following a trail of clues sparked by the discovery of a reel of film stashed away in the attic, she unravels the deepest secrets of the de Luce clan, involving none other than Winston Churchill himself. Surrounded by family, friends, and a famous pathologist from the Home Office—and making spectacular use of Harriet’s beloved Gipsy Moth plane, Blithe Spirit—Flavia will do anything, even take to the skies, to land a killer.
   
   WHAT!!!??? The return of Harriet? MUST. HAVE. The suspense is killing me already!
3. Thankless in Death (in Death #37) - J.D. Robb
   In the latest suspense thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, the year 2060 is drawing to a close in New York City and loved ones are coming together for Thanksgiving. But sometimes the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water…
    
   Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season. Hosting Roarke’s big Irish family for the holiday may be challenging, but it’s a joyful improvement on her own dark childhood.
    
   Other couples aren’t as lucky as Eve and Roarke. The Reinholds, for example, are lying in their home stabbed and bludgeoned almost beyond recognition. Those who knew them are stunned—and heartbroken by the evidence that they were murdered by their own son. Twenty-six-year-old Jerry hadn’t made a great impression on the bosses who fired him or the girlfriend who dumped him—but they didn’t think he was capable of this.
    
   Turns out Jerry is not only capable of brutality but taking a liking to it. With the money he’s stolen from his parents and a long list of grievances, he intends to finally make his mark on the world. Eve and her team already know the who, how, and why of this murder. What they need to pinpoint is where Jerry’s going to strike next.
   
   I've read the excerpt in Calculated in Death and it makes me extremely curious. How can you keep your readers interested when you've revealed the murderer, the method, the motive, and the next victim, all in one excerpt? You make me extremely curious, J.D. Robb.
4. Concealed in Death (in Death #38) - J.D. Robb
   The incomparable J. D. Robb presents the latest moving and suspenseful novel in the #1 New York Times–bestselling Eve Dallas series.
    
   In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, there are two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. He summons his wife immediately—and by the time she’s done with the crime scene, there are twelve murders to be solved.
   
   The place once housed a makeshift shelter for troubled teenagers, back in the mid-2040s, and Eve tracks down the people who ran it. Between their recollections and the work of the force’s new forensic anthropologist, Eve begins to put names and faces to the remains. They are all young girls. A tattooed tough girl who dealt in illegal drugs. The runaway daughter of a pair of well-to-do doctors. They all had their stories. And they all lost their chance for a better life.
   
   Then Eve discovers a connection between the victims and someone she knows. And she grows even more determined to reveal the secrets of the place that was called The Sanctuary—and the evil concealed in one human heart.
   
   Hey, it's J.D. Robb - I don't have any other reason for wanting this book!
5. Snuff (Discworld novel - Sam Vimes) - by Terry PratchettAt long last, Lady Sybil has lured her husband, Sam Vimes, on a well-deserved holiday away from the crime and grime of Ankh-Morpork. But for the commander of the City Watch, a vacation in the country is anything but relaxing. The balls, the teas, the muck—not to mention all that fresh air and birdsong—are more than a bit taxing on a cynical city-born and -bred copper.Yet a policeman will find a crime anywhere if he decides to look hard enough, and it's not long before a body is discovered, and Sam—out of his jurisdiction, out of his element, and out of bacon sandwiches (thanks to his well-meaning wife)—must rely on his instincts, guile, and street smarts to see justice done. As he sets off on the chase, though, he must remember to watch where he steps. . . . This is the countryside, after all, and the streets most definitely are not paved with gold.
   
   It's a Vimes novel, I really want to have it.
6. Raising Steam (Discworld #40 - Moist von Lipwig) - Terry Pratchett
   To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork - a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all the elements: earth, air, fire and water. This being Ankh-Morpork, it's soon drawing astonished crowds, some of whom caught the zeitgeist early and arrive armed with notepads and very sensible rainwear.
   
   Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital... but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse...
   
   Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails...
   
   Good God. Finally, another meeting with our favorite Patrician Lord Vetinari, the incorrigible racketeer Moist von Lipwig, and of course our dearest most adorable character, Adora Belle Dearheart. Looking forward for it!
   
7. Menyemai Harapan - Maria A. Sardjono
   Tumbuh dewasa dalam perkawinan poligami orangtuanya membuat Dewi bertekad takkan membiarkan dirinya bernasib seperti ibunya, yang nrimo begitu saja. Ia tak ingin terombang-ambing mencari jati diri dan martabatnya sebagai perempuan diinjak-injak. Ia bertekad menyejajarkan perannya sebagai perempuan dalam rumah tangganya kelak. Dan kini ia siap menyongsong kehidupan barunya bersama Pujisatriya, yang pasti akan jauh berbeda dari perkawinan orangtuanya.
   
   Namun menjelang hari pernikahan mereka, Dewi malah dikejutkan kabar bahwa calon suaminya itu menikahi perempuan lain. Hanya dalam hitungan jam, nasib dan nama baik keluarga besarnya dipertaruhkan. Dan ketika Puji tetap berniat memenuhi kewajiban untuk melangsungkan pernikahan mereka, Dewi dihadapkan pada dilema: menolak mentah-mentah pria yang telah mengkhianatinya, atau membiarkan sejarah kembali terulang dalam perkawinannya sendiri…
   
   Alasan utama: ini buku Maria A. Sardjono. Alasan kedua: saya ingin melihat bagaimana Maria mengolah isu yang sensitif - poligami - dalam buku ini.

That's all! For foreign books, of course I shall wait for the mass market paperback edition... That's why some titles that had been published a long time ago appeared. The hardcover ones cost me a limb. Oh, not only a limb. Head, torso, and whatnot.

Sorry for no pics! I've not been able to figure out how to arrange them neatly... @_@