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Monday, April 12, 2010

Mailbox Monday


Mailbox Monday at The Printed Page is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

Only a few books this week but that was plenty and they look so good! This might be the week the hammock comes out of storage too. I have plenty to read and that's the first place I'm going!

Keeper
by Kathi Appelt

From Simon & Schuster

Keeper
is a breathtaking, magical novel from National Book Award finalist and Newbery Honoree Kathi Appelt.

To ten-year-old Keeper the moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong ... and so much has gone wrong.

But she knows who can make things right again: Maggie Marie, her mermaid mother, who swam away when Keeper was just three. A blue moon calls the mermaids to gather at the sandbar, and that's exactly where Keeper is headed - in a small boat. In the middle of the night, with only her dog, BD (Best Dog), and seagull named Captain. When the riptide pulls at the boat, tugging her away from the shore and deep into the rough waters of the Gulf of mexico, panic sets in and the fairy tales that lured her out there go tumbling into the waves. Maybe the blue moon won't sparkle with mermaids and maybe - Oh, no ... "Maybe" is just to difficult to bear.

Incarceron
by Catherine Fisher


Won from Frenetic Reader

Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...

The Time Pirate
by Ted Bell

From Simon & Schuster

Here at a last is a new novel in the great tradition of grand adventure tales, the likes of which have seldom been seen since the works of Robert Louis Stevenson. This epic adventure is the story Nick McIver, a lad who sets out to become 'the hero of his own life'.

The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his sister Kate live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick, Kate and their father are engaged in a desperate war of espionage with the German U-boat fleets that are circling the islands prior to invasion. The information they provide daily to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion.

In a surprising twist, Nick discovers an old seachest sent to him by his ancestor, Captain Nicholas McIver of the Royal Navy. Nick returns to the year 1805 via a time machine and help save Captain McIver and, indeed, Admiral Nelson's entire fleet from the treachery of the French and the mutinous Captain Billy Blood.

In the climactic sea battle with Captain Blood, Nick's love of the sea, and his feats of derring-do, indisputably prove his courage and heroism.

His sister Kate, meanwhile, has enlisted the aid of two of England's most brilliant detectives, Lord Hawke, and Commander Hobbes, to thwart the Nazis. They prove themselves more than a match for England's underwater enemies, when they discover the existence of Germany's super-secret experimental submarine.

In the end, Nick and Kate prove themselves heroes in the eyes of two of England's greatest warriors: Admiral Nelson and Winston Churchill.

14 comments:

  1. Keeper is such a touching book! I read it for the Read a Thon and really enjoyed it!

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  2. All of these sound really interesting. I hope you enjoy them. Here's my loot:

    http://bookventuresbookclub.blogspot.com/2010/04/mailbox-mondays.html

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  3. I've seen Keeper on many blogs lately - I hope you like it! Have a great week.

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  4. I got Time Pirate also this week. As is it is the second book I downloaded the first on from Audible since it was on of the book on sale. Happy Reading

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  5. I want Incarceron!!!!! Happy reading. :) My mailbox is at The Crowded Leaf.

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  6. Keeper has been on my TBR/wishlist for a little while now. It sounds like a really good book. Can't wait to hear what you think of it.

    Happy reading

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  7. Incarceron is on my wishlist. Have a great week!

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  8. These are all new to me...enjoy your new books!

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  9. What a great mailbox! The Time Pirate looks like a lot of fun!

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  10. I have seen Keeper around the blog world. I'll be watching to see what you think of it. It looks interesting.

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  11. I just finished Incarceron and Loved it! Your in for a treat :) Great books this week! Enjoy!!

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  12. Nice mailbox! I received a copy of KEEPER as well...sounds interesting, right? Happy reading...

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