April 21, 2014 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ April 21st

Welcome to Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia of To Be Continued, a place where readers share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

After several years of being on tour with different blogs as the monthly host, the Mailbox Monday Blog is now the permanent home for the meme.

Tuesday is Earth Day and this week is Spring Cleaning Week in my town. Unlimited trash pick-up, a recycling extravaganza and clean-ups of the nature trails running through town are a few events that will keep me busy. I’m starting with my garage and garden shed and hopefully moving on to the closets in an attempt to get rid of years worth of clutter. It’s also a good excuse to listen to some audiobooks.

Here’s what arrived last week:

New Arrivals

Then and Always by Dani Atkins from Random House.
An absorbing and surprising debut novel about a young woman who, after an accident, gets a second chance at life . . . just not in one she remembers.

Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta from Harper Voyager.
An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin: Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian.

After the End by Amy Plum from Harper.
World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They’ve survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.

Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler from Macmillan Audio and Audiobook Jukebox.
Welcome to Little Wing. It’s a place like hundreds of others, nothing special, really. But for four friends—all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town—it is home. And now they are men, coming into their own, or struggling to do so.

Audio Downloads

From Simon & Schuster Audio

The Intern’s Handbook by Shane Kuhn
John Lago is a very bad guy. But he’s the very best at what he does. And what he does is infiltrate top-level companies and assassinate crooked executives while disguised as an intern.

New Giveaway

Win a copy of The Remedy by Thomas Goetz:

In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB – often called consumption – was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy — a remedy that would be his undoing.

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