Book Haul~End of Month!

The end of April and I'm so psyched to have these final beautiful books to read.  This has been a month of awesome books.  I'm so grateful to the publishers who have kept me in the loop with new authors and some of the best of the known authors.  I've also been really impressed with little known authors who've shared their debut books with us.Here are some summaries of the books above.  I have to say that I've started several...

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"Secret Storms" by Julie Mannix von Zerneck and Kathy Hatfield~Adoption Story & Guest Post

SUMMARY :A pregnant, upper class nineteen-year-old Philadelphia Main Line debutante is confined, against her will, to a state mental hospital. She spends her pregnancy surrounded by the mentally challenged and the criminally insane. On April 19, 1964, she gives birth to a child, whom she is forced to give up for adoption. A loving middle-class couple adopts a month-old little girl from Catholic Charities. She is adored and cherished from the...

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"The Mystery Box" (The Mystery Writers of America Presents)~ Edited by Brad Meltzer

SUMMARY :There's nothing more mysterious than a locked box. Whether it's a literal strongbox, an empty coffin, the inner workings of a scientist's mind, or an underground prison cell, there are those who will use any means necessary to unlock the secrets of...THE MYSTERY BOX. With this anthology, bestselling author Brad Meltzer introduces twenty-one original stories from today's most prominent mystery writers. In Laura Lippman's "Waco 1982,"...

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"A Murder At Rosamund's Gate" by Susanna Calkins~New Historical Fiction!

SUMMARY :In Susanna Calkins's atmospheric debut novel, a chambermaid must uncover a murderer in seventeenth-century plague-ridden London. For Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other household chores until a fellow servant is ruthlessly killed, and someone she loves is wrongly...

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Book Haul~Week!

This was a week that was...I was in a slow readers mode but had a very eclectic delivery of books that kept me going.  It's rainy and dreary here in Naples, FL, today, so I thought I would share with you my Weekly Haul to cheer us both up a little.First, a sweet book on CD sent from my favorite place:  Macmillan Audio!!Summary:New York Times bestseller Jane Green delivers a riveting novel about two women whose lives intersect when...

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"Roses Have Thorns" by Sandra Byrd~Historical Fiction Gilded

SUMMARY :From the acclaimed author of To Die For comes a stirring novel told that sheds new light on Elizabeth I and her court.Like Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir, Sandra Byrd has attracted countless fans for evoking the complexity, grandeur, and brutality of the Tudor period. In her latest tour de force, she poses the question: What happens when serving a queen may cost you your marriage--or your life?In 1565, seventeen-year-old Elin von...

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