Monday, May 14, 2012

Mailbox Monday -- May 14th!


Welcome to Mailbox Monday which is hosted this month by Martha's Bookshelf. Below are the books I received this week:

1) White Horse by Alex Adams. Publisher's SummaryThe world has ended, but her journey has just begun.Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the president of the United States announces that human beings are no longer a viable species. When Zoe realizes that everyone she loves is disappearing, she starts running. Scared and alone in a shockingly changed world, she embarks on a remarkable journey of survival and redemption. Along the way, Zoe comes to see that humans are defined not by their genetic code, but rather by their actions and choices.White Horse offers hope for a broken world, where love can lead to the most unexpected places. 

 2) These Girls by Sarah Pekkanen. Publisher's Summary. Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance.
Cate has just been named the features editor of Gloss, a high-end lifestyle magazine. It’s a professional coup, but her new job comes with more complications than Cate ever anticipated.
Her roommate Renee will do anything to nab the plum job of beauty editor at Gloss. But snide comments about Renee’s weight send her into an emotional tailspin. Soon she is taking black market diet pills—despite the racing heartbeat and trembling hands that signal she’s heading for real danger.
Then there’s Abby, whom they take in as a third roommate. Once a joyful graduate student working as a nanny part time, she abruptly fled a seemingly happy life in the D.C. suburbs. No one knows what shattered Abby—or why she left everything she once loved behind.
Pekkanen’s most compelling, true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate the complications of careers and love—and find the lifeline they need in each other.


 3) Shelter by Frances Greenslade. Publisher's Summary.  For sisters Maggie and Jenny growing up in the Pacific mountains in the early 1970s, life felt nearly perfect. Seasons in their tiny rustic home were peppered with wilderness hikes, building shelters from pine boughs and telling stories by the fire with their doting father and beautiful, adventurous mother. But at night, Maggie—a born worrier—would count the freckles on her father’s weathered arms, listening for the peal of her mother’s laughter in the kitchen, and never stop praying to keep them all safe from harm. Then her worst fears come true: Not long after Maggie’s tenth birthday, their father is killed in a logging accident, and a few months later, their mother abruptly drops the girls at a neighbor’s house, promising to return. She never does.
With deep compassion and sparkling prose, Frances Greenslade’s mesmerizing debut takes us inside the devastation and extraordinary strength of these two girls as they are propelled from the quiet, natural freedom in which they were raised to a world they can’t begin to fathom. Even as the sisters struggle to understand how their mother could abandon them, they keep alive the hope that she is fighting her way back to the daughters who adore her and who need her so desperately.
Heartbreaking and lushly imagined, Shelter celebrates the love between two sisters and the complicated bonds of family. It is an exquisitely written ode to sisters, mothers, daughters, and to a woman’s responsibility to herself and those she loves.

All thanks to Simon & Schuster!

22 comments:

  1. I also have these; they sound pretty good I thought. Enjoy

    BTW...you were the winner of the John Irving audio book. (Please email me mailing info when you have a chance) Congrats.

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  2. Nice selection of books. Enjoy them all.

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  3. I hope you enjoy These Girls as much as I did! Have a great reading week.

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  4. I have These Girls, I'm hoping to get to it soon. Happy reading!

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  5. Haven'gt heard of these, but do enjoy!

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  6. You received fascinating and interesting books...and all very different!

    Enjoy and I will be watching for your thoughts on these books.

    Happy Reading!

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  7. Oh, you are in for such a treat with These Girls! Enjoy your new books!

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  8. Enjoy! your new reads, they sound great!

    http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/05/mailbox-monday_14.html

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  9. I have been hearing amazing things about These Girls. I will have to check it out soon. Enjoy

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  10. These all sound really interesting - especially White Horse (I love dystopias!). Have a great week :-)

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  11. Shelter sounds good, I've seen that a lot today. Have a wonderful week and happy reading!

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  12. Thanks for visiting earlier. I used a basic 1-2-3-4 cake recipe but I substituted coconut milk for milk. You could also used coconut cream instead of milk. I added a little bit of coconut milk to the buttercream frosting.

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    1. The 1-2-3-4 recipe is that the name? I guess I will have to google it, but thanks for the info!

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  13. Oh, wow! Each of your books sounds wonderful. I've heard good things about These Girls...and I've been wanting Shelter...White Horse sounds really good, too. Enjoy!

    Thanks for visiting my blog.

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  14. These Girls sounds really interesting, I've been eyeing it for awhile. Hope you enjoy it :)

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  15. Hi Kim,

    You have three great books there this week, although I particularly have my eye on 'Shelter'.

    This sounds like an emotional and moving read and is a definite for my reading list.

    I hope that you enjoy all of your books and have a good week,

    Yvonne

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  16. Looks like a good variety of books! Enjoy them all!

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  17. I have Shelter on my ereader. I bought it after seeing Frances Greenslade talk about it at a author event I attended.

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  18. Sounds like you have some great reading ahead of you; I want to read White Horse and These Girls, too. Happy reading!

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  19. I'm intrigued by the summary of White Horse. Enjoy your new books!

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  20. Those sound like good one. Enjoy!

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