August 24, 2015 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ August 24th

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.

Another busy week, a few new books, and one gardening disaster. No, not the flowers or vegetables, they are all fine. But I managed to get bitten by a swarm of some nasty little insects while weeding (probably no see ums, since I never saw them) that have caused a week’s worth of bumps and itching. It’s extra annoying for me because I’m always so careful to use bug spray and treat my clothes with permethrin when I’m out monitoring birds in the woods, but I never thought they would get me in my own backyard!

Print Books

Mendocino Fire: Stories by Elizabeth Tallent fron Harper.
Tallent returns with a new collection of diverse, thematically linked, and deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for capturing relationships at their moment of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures.

All the Stars in the Heavens by Adriana Trigiani from Harper.
In this spectacular saga as radiant, thrilling, and beguiling as Hollywood itself, Adriana Trigiani takes us back to Tinsel Town’s golden age—an era as brutal as it was resplendent—and into the complex and glamorous world of a young actress hungry for fame and success.

The Courtesan by Alexandra Curry from Dutton.
The Courtesan is an astonishing tale inspired by the real life of a woman who lived and loved in the extraordinary twilight decades of the Qing dynasty. To this day, Sai Jinhua is a legend in her native land of China, and this is her story, told the way it might have been.

The Gates of Evangeline by Hester Young from Putnam.
When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte “Charlie” Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children she’s sure that she’s lost her mind. Yet these are not the nightmares of a grieving parent, she soon realizes. They are messages and warnings that will help Charlie and the children she sees, if only she can make sense of them.