Mailbox Monday (started at
The Printed Page and now a traveling meme) is at
Amused By Books this month and 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.
Whew, it's been some time since I've been here and I have some catching up to do! I didn't get a lot of books over the summer but I still had plenty to read. These are the goodies I got recently. I hope your mailbox was full of goodies too!
The Stranger You Seek (ARC) by Kyle Williams
From
Random House for review
The papers
have called me a monster. You’ve either concluded that I am a braggart
as well as a sadist or that I have a deep and driving need to be caught
and punished.
In the sweltering heat of an
Atlanta summer, a killer is pushing the city to its breaking point,
preying on the unsuspecting, writing taunting letters to the media,
promising more death. Desperate to stop the Wishbone Killer before
another victim meets a shattering end, A.P.D. lieutenant Aaron Rauser
turns to the one person he knows can penetrate a deranged mind: ex–FBI
profiler Keye Street.
And you must certainly be wondering if I am, in fact, the stranger you seek.
Keye
was a rising young star at the Bureau until addiction derailed her
career and her life. Now sober and fighting to stay so, Keye picks up
jobs where she can get them: catching adulterers, serving subpoenas,
chasing down bailjumpers, and dodging the occasional bullet. With
multiple victims, little to go on, and an entire police force looking
for direction, the last thing Keye wants is to be pulled into the
firestorm of Atlanta’s worst nightmare.
Shall I convince you?
And
then it suddenly becomes clear that the hunter has become the
hunted—and the stranger she seeks is far closer than she ever dared
imagine.An electrifying thriller debut, The Stranger You Seek
introduces a brash, flawed, and unforgettable heroine in a complex,
twisting novel that takes readers deep into a sultry Southern summer, a
city in the grips of chaos, and a harrowing cat-and-mouse game no reader
will ever forget.
All These Things I've Done (ARC) by Gabrielle Zevin
From
Macmillan for review
In 2083, chocolate and
coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed,
and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya
Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city's most notorious
(and dead) crime boss, life is fairly routine. It consists of going to
school, taking care of her siblings and her dying grandmother, trying to
avoid falling in love with the new assistant D.A.'s son, and avoiding
her loser ex-boyfriend. That is until her ex is accidently poisoned by
the chocolate her family manufactures and the police think she's to
blame. Suddenly, Anya finds herself thrust unwillingly into the
spotlight--at school, in the news, and most importantly, within her
mafia family.
You Don't Sweat Much For A Fat Girl: Observations On Life From The Shallow End Of The Pool (ARC) by Celia Rivenbark
From
Wunderkind PR for review and giveaway
From the bestselling, award-winning author of "You Can't Drink All Day
If You Don't Start in the Morning" comes another collection of hilarious
observations that are sure to resonate with women, mothers, and
girlfriends everywhere.
Coming Up For Air (ARC) by Patti Callahan Henry
From
Wunderkind PR for review and giveaway
On the coast of Alabama, there is a house cloaked in mystery, a place that reveals the truth and changes lives...
Ellie
Calvin is caught in a dying marriage, and she knows this. With her
beloved daughter away at college and a growing gap between her and her
husband – between her reality and the woman she wants to be – she
doesn’t quite seem to fit into her own life.
But everything
changes after her controlling mother, Lillian, passes away. Ellie’s
world turns upside down when she sees her ex-boyfriend, Hutch, at her
mother’s funeral and learns that he is in charge of a documentary that
involved Lillian before her death. He wants answers to questions that
Ellie’s not sure she can face, until, in the painful midst of going
through her mother’s things, she discovers a hidden diary – and a window
onto stories buried long ago.
As Ellie and Hutch start speaking
for the first time in years, Ellie’s closed heart slowly begins to
open. Fighting their feelings, they set out together to dig into
Lillian’s history. Using both the diary and a trip to the Summer House, a
mysterious and seductive bayside home, they gamble that they can work
together and not fall in love again. But in piecing together a
decades-old unrequited-love story, they just might uncover the secrets
in their own hearts…
Firespell by Chloe Neill
From
Paperback Swap
New Girl.
New School.
Old Evil.
From the author of the Chicagoland Vampires novels.
A new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework.
Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago
filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn't bad enough, she's hearing and
seeing bizarre things on St. Sophie's creepy campus. Her roommate,
Scout, keeps her sane, but keeps disappearing at night. When one day
Lily finds Scout running from real-life monsters, she learns the hard
way that Scout is involved in a splinter group of rebel teens.
They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and dark magic users. It's too
bad Lily doesn't have powers of her own to help. At least, none that
she's discovered yet...
Scorched by Sharon Ashwood
From Paperback Swap
Ex-detective Macmillan
has a taste for bad girls, but his last lover really took the cake-and
his humanity. Now a half-demon, Mac's lost his friends, his family, and
his job. Then a beguiling vampire asks for his help to find her son.
Suddenly, Mac has a case to work-one that leads him deeps into the
supernatural prison where Mac learns that cracking the case will cost
him his last scrap of humanity.
Mailbox Monday (started at The Printed Page and now a traveling meme) is at Martha’s Bookshelf this month and 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.
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