October 11, 2010 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ October 11th

Mailbox Monday is touring through blogs. For the month of October it will be hosted by She Reads and Reads. Next month the tour moves to Knitting and Sundries where it will be hosted for the month of November.

Mailbox Monday was created by The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their home last week.

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New books in my mailbox last week:

The Peanuts Collection: Treasures from the World’s Most Beloved Comic Strip by Nat Gertler for review from Little, Brown and Company. I’m really excited about this one.

This fully authorized, one-of-a-kind illustrated bookcelebrates the 60th anniversary of the world’s most beloved comic strip characters. A compendium of rare materials from the Charles M. Schulz Museum and family archives, The Peanuts Collection comes in a sturdy slipcase and features high-quality reproductions of original sketches, comics, and photographs from the world of Peanuts.

Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold by Jennifer Ackerman, a Hachette Books Giveaway win from Rhodes Review. Just in time for the winter cold season.

In Ah-Choo!, Jennifer Ackerman explains what, exactly, a cold is, how it works, and whether it’s really possible to “fight one off.” Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year, resulting in 40 million days of missed work and school and 100 million doctor visits.

Get Out Of The Way by Daniel Dinges. A BBAW win from Stephanie Barko.

The 1960s are in full bloom and the Vietnam conflict had reached its precipice. Tom Daniels wants no part in fighting a war he doesn’t agree with. In an effort to avoid the seemingly black hole consuming thousands of American lives, he exhausts every resource to cling onto his personal freedom and refrain from picking up a weapon.