44 New Things #13 - Attend a booksellers trade show

Hey! My 13th new thing happened on Friday the 13th!

Today I was in Portland for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association trade show. Even though I had a non-bookseller name tag (I went as a librarian to see some of the regional publishers) I got quite a haul of free books. I'll be donating most of them to the library, but a few don't really fit our selection policies and are more for me (yes, they knew that when they gave them to me). Many of the authors were there and they were signing the books.

• Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You! An Activist's Guide
• Ricky Gervais presents The World of Karl Pilkington (I'm reading this one first!)
• Spider Kiss (a reprint of a Harlan Ellison novel)
• GreenHee: The Journey of Five by Michele Avanti (a fantasy novel - GreenHee is a dragon); signed by the author
• Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix
• Searching for Murder and Murder Below Zero by Ron Lovell (mysteries set in Oregon); both signed by the author
• KISS Keep it Short and Simple: Easy Steps for Better Writing by Jacquie Ream; signed by the author
• Nri Warriors of Peace by Chikodi Anunobi
• The Golden Age of Asher Witherow by M. Allen Cunningham (a novel set in a coal-mining town in 19th-century California); signed by the author
• Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film
• The Big Book of Girl Stuff by Bart King and his five sisters; signed by the first author
• Gitchi Gummee by Anne Margaret Lewis; illustrated by Kathleen Chaney Fritz (children's book);signed by the author
• Mount Hood: The Heart of Oregon; photographs by Peter Marbach and essay by Janet Cook (coffee table book); signed by the photographer
• Ireland: Standing Stones to Stormont by Tom Quinn Kumpf (coffee table book with gorgeous photographs of Ireland); signed by the author