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Waiting with bated breath for the next Ranger’s Apprentice Book Nine, Halt’s Peril?  Wait no longer!

Many years ago, just by chance, I was browsing by means of Powells Books in Portland, Oregon when I stumbled across a treasure:  John Flanagan’s initial book, Book One in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, “The Ruins of Gorlan.”  (Although I’m middle aged, I confess that I’ve often been really fond of juvenile and young adult fantasy.)  I devoured it, and eagerly searched online for any much more in the series.  I was delighted to discover Book Two “The Burning Bridge”, ready to be ordered from Amazon.  That, too, was rapidly devoured.  Then I started looking online to see when Book 3 was to be released and excellent sadness descended:  it was going to be months, if not years just before I would be able to study number 3!

But wait, wasn’t John Flanagan an Australian author?  Perhaps, just perhaps, his books had been being published earlier in Australia… and then happiness returned!  There I found by looking on the internet, ready to be ordered from an Australian book shop months and even years before Amazon’s American release, Book Three “The Icebound Land”, Book 4 “Oakleaf Bearers” and Book Five in the Ranger’s Apprentice series, “The Sorcerer in the North.”  Oh, and they had a lot much more intriguing covers than the the American editions, although these are significant soft covers, instead of hardbacks.  And so I’ve continued feeding my Ranger’s Apprentice fix to this day:  I don’t bother waiting for the American editions to be published on Amazon, I pay the  additional in cost for the privilege of reading the books months or even years prior to most of my American peers by ordering the books directly from Australian book shops as soon as they are published.  I have ordered Book Six “The Siege of Macindaw”, Book Seven “Erak’s Ransom”, and Book Eight “The Kings of Clonmel” in this way and plan on ordering the most recent volume, Book Nine “Halt’s Peril”(obtainable this November 2009 from Australia) from an Australian book shop, as well.

So, to aid out my fellow Americans who cannot bear to wait months for the next Ranger’s Apprentice volume, I’m such as links below to the property pages of Australian book web sites that are currently listing “Halt’s Peril” for sale.  You will require to use their individual search engines (just sort in “Halt’s Peril” into the title  field if absolutely nothing comes up, attempt “Halts Peril” without having the apostrophe.) to bring up the correct page.  I’m not listing these in any specific order, and could periodically switch the order these are listed, so that each Australian book store has an equal opportunity at an American book getting consumer.

Australian Book Shops that Are Presently Selling Copies of Ranger’s Apprentice #9:  Halt’s Peril by John Flanagan:
Galaxy Bookshop.
Random Residence Australia.
Booktopia.
Infinitas Books.
Borders in Australia.

Blessings!