Book Haul~New Stash and Recently Received

Here's a new crop of books that have come in recently from publishers, and a couple that I've ordered for myself.  Things have slowed down with the publishers since I took a hiatus with my illness, but now that I'm back reviewing...are picking up again.  I'm delighted to be back and able to read again.There's a mixed bag here as you'll see.One I just ordered that came in this week!  I may have already told you about it, but it bears...

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"Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin~The HBO Series!

SUMMARY :Based on the bestselling book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin, this sprawling new HBO Drama is set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and the ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is...

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"The Predator, The Making of a Wiseguy" by Anthony Aqua ~ Going Viral

SUMMARY :He was about to take Julie against her will. Having her body would not be the same as having her heart and mind, but Don didn't realize it at the time.Obsession takes on terrifying form in Anthony V. Aqua's The Predator. This sexually explicit cat-and-mouse game will take readers into the mind of a man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.Don Ricci is handsome, rich...and a psychopath. After a humiliating rejection by Julie, an...

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"What Is Visible" by Kimberly Elkins ~ Fascinating...

SUMMARY :A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller. At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve, Charles Dickens declared her his prime interest...

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Summer Reading~New Books

SUMMER READING BOOKS :This is my newest collection of books I'm planning on reading in August or before.  I'm including below a couple of pictures of more which I don't yet have in earnest, but which I've ordered.  Just about everything has a blue tinge!My head is doing better and it's getting easier to read again, so I'm excited about that.  I'm hoping as the months increase, my eyes will get better and I'll be back to my reading...

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"One Kick" by Chelsea Cain ~ Explosive!

SUMMARY :From the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell thrillers: The first in a nail-biting new series featuring Kick Lannigan, a young woman whose complicated past has given her a very special skill set.Famously kidnapped at age six, Kick captured America’s hearts when she was rescued five years later. Now, twenty-one, she finds herself unexpectedly entangled in a missing child case that...

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"The Matchmaker" by Elin Hilderbrand~A Summer Hit!

SUMMARY :A touching new novel from bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand in which a woman sets out to find love for those closest to her - before it's too late.48-year-old Nantuckter Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but there's no...

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