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A couple of bookmooches arrived: Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland, Denise Joyce and Nancy Watkins (pictures of children crying on Santa's lap - how could someone get rid of this??) and Mary Baker Eddy, Gillian Gill (biography by the author of the Florence Nightingale biography I liked so much.)

From Santa Cruz used book stores:

• Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor, Tad Friend
  
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
  
• The Complete Works of Saki, H. H. Munro
  
• Irons in the Fire, John McPhee
  
• Death in California: The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State, David Kulczyk
  
• The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum, Rebecca Loncraine
  
• Starstruck: The Luckless, the Abandoned, and Forsaken, Elaine Lee and Michael Wm. Kaluta (graphic novel I think I read in "Heavy Metal" - love the art)
  
  (Damn it, I already had the McPhee and the Sedaris. Me idiot.)