Monday, April 26, 2010

Mailbox Monday -- April 26th

Thanks to host Marcia at The Printed Page I'm participating in the Mailbox Monday round up. This week I received the following advance review copies:

1) Still Missing by Chevy Stevens. Amazon Product Description. On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a thirty-two year old realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever- patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks it just might be her lucky day after all. Interwoven with the story of the year Annie spent as the captive of psychopath in a remote mountain cabin, which unfolds through sessions with her psychiatrist, is a second narrative recounting events following her escape—her struggle to piece her shattered life back together and the ongoing police investigation into the identity of her captor.

The truth doesn’t always set you free.

Still Missing is that rare debut find--a shocking, visceral, brutal and beautifully crafted debut novel.

Thanks to St. Martin's Press!

2) A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story by Charles Franklin Emery III. Amazon Product Description. "A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story" Second Edition is a humorous stand-alone memoir of Bunkie, the yellow Labrador Retriever wonder dog. This memoir was penned by Bunkie's owner and buddy Charles Frankin Emery III (or just Chuck to those folks that know him). This book deals with the travails and blessings that our furry compatriots impart to our lives.

Thanks to the author!

3) Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka. Amazon Product Description. The perfect combination of the age old experience of holding and pouring over a physical book with newest media technology that kids love!

Michael K. just started fifth grade at a new school. As if that wasn't hard enough, the kids he seems to have made friends with apparently aren't kids at all. They are aliens. Real aliens who have invaded our planet in the form of school children and a hamster. They have a mission to complete: to convince 3,400,001 kids to BE SPHDZ. But with a hamster as their leader, "kids" who talk like walking advertisements, and Michael K as their first convert, will the SPHDZ be able to keep their cover and pull off their assignment?

Thanks to Simon & Schuster!

4) Treading Water Today by Emily Angelica Roldan. Amazon Product Description. This collection is presented from a teen's view of life. From love, to pain, to joy, to loneliness. visit www.treadingwatertoday.com Emily would love to hear from all of her readers!

Thanks to the author!

5) The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker. Publisher's Summary. When Truly Plaice's mother was pregnant, the town of Aberdeen joined together in betting how recordbreakingly huge the baby boy would ultimately be. The girl who proved to be Truly paid the price of her enormity; her father blamed her for her mother's death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her polar opposite sister Serena Jane, the epitome of femine perfection. When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated--Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers.

Serena Jane's beauty proves to be her greatest blessing and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. Though they have long been the pillars of the community, the earliest Robert Morgan married the town witch, Tabitha Dyerson, and the location of her fabled shadow book--containing mysterious secrets for healing and darker powers--has been the subject of town gossip ever since. Bob Bob Morgan, one of Truly's biggest tormentors, does the unthinkable to claim the prize of Serena Jane, and changes the destiny of all Aberdeen from there on.

When Serena Jane flees town and a loveless marriage to Bob Bob, it is Truly who must become the woman of a house that she did not choose and mother to her eight-year-old nephew Bobbie. Truly's brother-in-law is relentless and brutal; he criticizes her physique and the limitations of her health as a result, and degrades her more than any one human could bear. It is only when Truly finds her calling--the ability to heal illness with herbs and naturopathic techniques--hidden within the folds of Robert Morgan's family quilt, that she begins to regain control over her life and herself. Unearthed family secrets, however, will lead to the kind of betrayal that eventually break the Morgan family apart forever, but Truly's reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibility of love in unexpected places.

Thanks to the publicist!

22 comments:

  1. Still Missing sounds so good! I got Spaceheadz the week before last and think it looks adorable. Enjoy your new treasures.

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  2. Now that's a list with variety! Enjoy :)

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  3. You got quite a mix of different books. I wonder what you'll think of The Little Giant. I've read mixed reviews about it. Enjoy your books!

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  4. I like all the books in your mailbox. I bet it's going to be hard which to read first.

    http://readwithtea.blogspot.com

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  5. The Little Giant is everywhere this week! Happy reading. My mailbox is at The Crowded Leaf.

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  6. I've just added Still Missing to my list. It sounds really fascinating.

    Hope you enjoy your books, and thanks for visiting my blog.

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  7. It looks like Little Giant is hitting a bunch of mailboxes again...all except mine! lol
    Enjoy all of your new books.

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  8. So you got Baker, I have seen her around and people tend to enjoy that book

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  9. The Little Giant is making the rounds again. I haven't read it yet either. I'll keep an eye out for your review of it.

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  10. Enjoy all your wonderful books.
    Kelly Bookend Diaries

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  11. I have Spaceheadz and Little Giant too and need to get to them. They look so good.

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  12. I hope you enjoy Little Giant as much as I did! Happy reading!

    --Anna
    Diary of an Eccentric

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  13. I like may be a bit warped; I added Still Missing to my wish list AS I was reading your synopsis... Have fun with it -- and the other four, as well.

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  14. You have some serious reading to do.

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  15. I've had Little Giant on my TBR list for a while now and should bump it up. You have a great list of books there. Happy reading!

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  16. What a great group of books! Love to see that kind of variety and I can't wait to see what you think of them all. Happy reading!

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  17. Looks like you got some great books last week! Happy reading :)

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  18. Great mailbox! 'Still missing' sounds good. Happy reading!

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  19. I got The Little Giant a few weeks ago. I really need to get reading!

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  20. I'll be curious to see what you think of the Bunkie book.

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  21. We have the Little Giant in common this week. Thank you for your visit.

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