Mailbox Monday ~ November 25th

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. Currently on tour, it is hosted by a different blog each month.

The November host is Crystal @ I totally paused!.

This was a big week for books both print and audio. It felt like everything showed up at once. Most weeks I take my books outside for a photo shoot with some nice background scenery and good lighting. However, the past few days were freezing, and I mean below freezing temperatures, so the books stayed indoors with me.

I’ll be listening to a lot of audio the next few days as I get the house ready for Thanksgiving Day, do the grocery shopping and the cooking. It will be a small group, and no one will be leaving early to go shopping! Just a relaxing, stress free day.

Print Books

This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash from William Morrow.
A resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, involving two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.

Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson from She Reads.
At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father…

The Strange Birth, Short Life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl by Julian David Stone from Free Book Friday.
This fun, engrossing work of historical fiction transports readers back to a time when television shows were chaotic tightrope acts balancing the agendas of actors, studio executives, advertisers, and politicians, and all of it broadcast live to fifty million viewers without the security of a safety net.

Rivers by Michael Farris Smith a win from River City Reading.
Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.

City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts by Catie Marron
The spirit and beauty of the world’s most loved city parks, captured in breathtaking photographs and the evocative words of eighteen celebrated writers and influential figures.

Audiobooks

From Penguin Audio:

Mirage by Clive Cussler
In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax—but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure.

Game Change by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann take the reader into back rooms and closed-door meetings, laying bare the secret history of the 2012 campaign for a panoramic account of an election that was as hard fought as it was lastingly consequential.

George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade
The true story of the anonymous spies who helped win the Revolutionary War.

Dust (Kay Scarpetta #21) by Patricia Cornwell
A body, oddly draped in an unusual cloth, has just been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT and it’s suspected the identity is that of missing computer engineer Gail Shipton

 
What are you reading?

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