More acquisitions

As if the rep breakfast wasn't enough, I've also picked up a few more items this week.

Title: Heroes of the Valley

Author: Jonathan Stroud

ISBN: 9781423109662

Binding: ARC

Publisher: Hyperion

Pub Date: January 2009

Pages: 483 (Amazon claims 496 for the hardcover)

Cost: Free

Obtained from: Freebie case at work

Synopsis: The author of the Bartimaeus Trilogy tackles Norse mythology. Halli Sveinsson, swarthy and stumpy unlike all his siblings, goes too far in playing a prank on Ragnar of the House of Hakonsson and must undertake a hero's quest.

Title: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Author: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780192806949

Binding: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Pub Date: November 2007

Pages: 438

Cost: Free

Obtained from: Freebie case at work

Synopsis: Contains, in addition to the expected work, Dickens' four other Christmas books - The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man.

Title: Jerusalem Fire

Author: R.M. Meluch

ISBN: 0451139232

Binding: Mass market paperback

Publisher: Signet

Pub Date: November 1985

Pages: 331

Cost: $2.50 + tax

Obtained from: Passage Books

Synopsis: Alihad (meaning "he left") has foiled the evil Na'id empire countless times, but now seems to be trapped by a Na'id squadron closing on his ship. The real battle, however, is to be fought not in space but in a world out of time. I bought this one because I've already read and mostly liked Meluch's Tour of the Merrimack series (Romans in Space!). From what I can discern from the badly written jacket blurb, this one is going to be Jews in Space.