July 20, 2015 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ July 20th

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.

Not much reading has been happening here the past few weeks although I’ve still been listening to my usual amount of audio. It’s not that I don’t want to read, it’s just that in the summer I have trouble sitting still.

And then there are the little tasks that manage to expand to eat up the entire day. I start out clipping a few stray branches on a shrub and the next thing I know I’ve got the loppers out and I’m trimming everything along the back fence because this is brush pick-up week. Or I’m rescuing baby birds. Or trying to troubleshoot a problem with my new laptop – it likes to freeze up for unknown reasons and is eating up hours of my time.

Anyway, a few books managed to trickle in . . .

New Arrivals

The Redeemers by Ace Atkins from Putnam.
He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless—voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he’s got one more job to do—bring down Stagg’s criminal operations for good.

Audio Downloads

From Random House Audio

The Night Sister by Jennifer McMahon
The latest novel from New York Times best-selling author Jennifer McMahon is an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets.

Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Set against the majestic landscape of early-twentieth-century Africa, McLain’s powerful tale reveals the extraordinary adventures of a woman before her time, the exhilaration of freedom and its cost, and the tenacity of the human spirit.