Mailbox Monday (and a belated Happy Holidays!!)

Another Monday, Another Mailbox!! This is a feature where you all share with each other a tantalizing books which showed up during a doors! WARNING: Mailbox Mondays can lead to extreme envy as good as GINORMOUS wishlists!!

Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia during The Printed Page, though for a month of December MM is upon debate as good as hosted by Lady Q @ Let Them Read Books.
Hi all!!! we goal everyone had a fantabulous holiday! Ours was great...we spent Christmas with my family in Orlando as good as in shear Bruno family fashion, longed for a first White Christmas Georgia has seen since 1882!!! Ugh....I swear, though bad luck, you would have no fitness during all! But it was worth missing to see family for a holidays.
I additionally goal you all good a little good books underneath a tree! we perceived dual books as gifts as good as will include them here, along with a single we perceived from examination as good as 8 which we picked up during a integrate of bookstores upon a approach to Florida (some of a hardcovers were only $2!!).
Exit a Actressby Priya Parmar
Release Date: Feb 1, 2011Acquired via: Touchstone Publishing for review
SYNOPSIS: While selling oranges in a Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, sweet as good as sprightly Ellen "Nell" Gwyn impresses a theaters proprietors with a wit as good as flicker which belie her girl as good as poverty. She fast earns a place in a company, narrowly avoiding a hold up of prostitution to which her sister has already succumbed. As her roles evolve from supporting to starring, a range of her hold up broadens as well. Soon Ellen is ready to go ! in a exc ellent fashions, charming a theatrical, literary, as good as royal luminaries of Restoration England. Ellen grows up upon a stage, experiencing first adore as good as heartbreak as good as in a future apropos a chick upon a side of Charles II. Despite his repute as a libertine, Ellen wholly captures his heartand he hersbut even a many powerful adore isnt sufficient to wand off a gossip as good as sour court governing body which accompany a royal romance. Telling a story by a pick up of vibrant seventeenth-century voices ranging from Ellens diary to playbills, letters, gossip columns, as good as home remedies, Priya Parmar brings to hold up a story of an endearing as good as delightful heroine.
The Scarlet Contessaby Jeanne Kalogridis
Publication Date: July 6, 2010Acquired via: Santa
SYNOPSIS: What Philippa Gregory has finished for Tudor England, Jeanne Kalogridis does for Renaissance Italy. Her latest overwhelming chronological novel is about a countess whose passion as good as willfulness knew no boundsCaterina Sforza

Daughter of a Duke of Milan as good as wife of a conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was a bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, as good as plainly took lovers during your convenience she pleased.

Her conspicuous story is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea, a woman knowledgeable in celebration of a mass a triumph cards, a prototype of modern-day Tarot. As Dea tries to uncover a law about her husbands murder, Caterina single-handedly holds off invaders who would take her pretension as good as lands. However, Deas celebration of a mass of a cards reveals which Caterina cannot withstand a third as good as final invadernone other than Cesare Borgia, son of a corrupt Pope Alexander VI, who has an aged measure to settle with Caterina! . Trappe d inside a Fortress during Ravaldino as Borgias cannons bruise a walls, Dea reviews Caterinas scandalous past as good as struggles to understand their joint destiny, while Caterina valiantly tries to quarrel off Borgias unconquerable army.

Lists to Live By: The Third Collection: For Everything That Really Mattersby Alice Grey, Dr. Steve Stephens & John Van DiestPublication Date: October 20, 2004Acquired via: my smashing mum
SYNOPSIS: Lists Capture a Essence of Living Well Grab a single of these lists as good as go! The third pick up of Lists to Live By, compiled by three popular authors, offers some-more wisdom for successful living, with topics such as family, health, contentment, love, friendship, faith, parentingin short, all which unequivocally matters. This compress book organizes lifes lessons as good as important things to remember into fast accessible, suggestive packages of wisdom. They can be shared with others or used to motivate as good as expostulate us brazen in capricious timesnot trivia, though collection for changing your life!
An Echo In The Bone (Book 7, Outlander series)
by Diana Gabaldon

Publication Date: Sep 22, 2009
Acquired via: used book store

SYNOPSIS: In this brand brand brand brand new epic of imagination, time travel, as good as adventure, Diana Gabaldon continues a riveting story started in Outlander.

Jamie Fraser is an eighteenth-century Highlander, an ex-Jacobite traitor, as good as a reluctant rebel in a American Revolution. His wife, Claire Randall Fraser, is a surgeonfrom a twentieth century. What she knows of a future compels him to fight. What she doesnt know might kill them both.

With a single feet in Amer! ica as g ood as a single feet in Scotland, Jamie as good as Claires journey spans a Revolution, from sea battles to printshops, as their paths cranky with chronological total from Benjamin Franklin to Benedict Arnold.

Meanwhile, in a relative reserve of a twentieth century, their daughter, Brianna, as good as her father knowledge a maturation play of a Revolutionary War by Claires letters. But a letters cant warn them of a hazard thats rising out of a past to overshadow their family.

Shannon
by Frank Delaney

Publication Date: Feb 10, 2009
Acquired via: used book store

SYNOPSIS: In a summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a Marine clergyman as good as a immature American hero of a Great War, lands in Ireland. He still suffers from bombard shock, as good as his coach hopes which a journey Robert had regularly wanted to maketo find his family roots along a banks of a River Shannonwill restore his equilibrium as good as his vocation. But there is some-more to a story: On his return from a war, Robert had witnessed extraordinary corruption in a Archdiocese of Boston. He has been sent to Ireland to secure his silencepermanently. As Robert faces a dangers of a strife-torn Ireland roiling in polite war, a nations myths as good as people, a ideology as good as traditions, unfurl healingly before him. And a River Shannon gives comfort to a immature male who is desirous by a words of hismentor: Find your soul as good as youll live.


Cleopatra as good as Anthony: Power, Love, as good as Politics in a Ancient World by Diana Preston

Publication Date: March 31, 2009
Acquired via: used bookstore
SYNOPSIS: The story of a worlds best-remembered celebrity couple, set against a domestic backdrop of their time.

On a stiflingly prohibited day in August thirty b.c., a thirty-nine-year-old black of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own hold up rsther than than be paraded in chains by Rome by her conqueror, Octavianthe future first emperor, Augustus. A integrate of days earlier, her partner of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed self-murder as good as died in her arms. Oceans of mythology have grown up around them, all of which Diana Preston explores in her stirring story of a lives as good as times of a integrate whose namesmore than dual millennia laterstill plead passion, curiosity, as good as intrigue.

Preston views a play as good as intrigue of Cleopatra as good as Antonys personal lives as an integral part of a good military, political, as good as ideological onslaught which culminated in a bone-fide climb of a Roman Empire, assimilated east as good as west. Perhaps not until Joanna in fourteenth-century Naples or Elizabeth we of England would another woman show such domestic cleverness as good as staying power as did Cleopatra during her years atop a bench of Egypt. Her lengthy event with Julius Caesar related a might of Egypt with which of Rome; in a issue of a polite fight which erupted following Caesars murder, her fondness with Antony, as good as his subsequent split with Octavian, set a theatre for a finish of a Republic.

With a penetrating eye for detail, abundant insight, as good as storytelling skill which have won awards for her previous books, Diana Preston sheds brand brand brand brand new light upon a undeniably important duration in Western history. Indeed, had Cleopatra as good as Antony managed to win a battle of Actium, a centuries which followed, which included a hold up of Jesus himself, could good have played out differently.

All For Love: The Scandalous Life as good as Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson
by Amanda Elyot

Publication Date: Feb 5, 2008
Acquired via: Books A Million

SYNOPSIS: A confidant as good as bawdy chronological novel-from a acclaimed writer of Too Great a Lady.

Mary Robinson's talent, beauty, as good as expostulate led her from debtors' prison to a glorious as good as liaison of a London stage, where a star was born-and sole as society's darling, envied by women, as good as preferred by men. From her intolerable event with a Prince of Wales to heartbreaking betrayals as good as a nervous pursuit of loyal romance, this breathtaking novel paints a clear mural of a woman who altered story by you do as she pleased-for money, for fame, for pleasure, as good as on top of all, for love.
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey

Publication Date: November 29, 1995
Acquired via: used book store

SYNOPSIS: Josephine Tey re-creates a single of history's many important -- as good as vicious -- crimes in her classical bestselling novel, a must review for connoisseurs of fiction, now with a brand brand brand brand new introduction by Robert Barnard

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a damaged leg, becomes fascinated with a ? la mode mural of Richard III which bears no similarity to a Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, eminent face essentially belong to a single of a world's many heinous villains -- a vicious hunchback who might have killed his brother's young kids to have his climax secure? Or could Richard have been a victim, ! incited into a beast by a usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once as good as for all, with a help of a British Museum as good as an American scholar, what kind of male Richard Plantagenet unequivocally was as good as who killed a Little Princes in a Tower.

The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, as good as suspenseful tale, a supreme feat from a single of poser writing's many gifted masters.


The Spanish Bride: A Novel of Catherine of Aragon
by Laurien Gardner

Publication Date: Jan 2, 2008
Acquired via: Books A Million

SYNOPSIS: The black who married a Tudor as good as a tyrant.

Her name was Catherine. For over dual decades, she was Queen of England, until her disaster to bear a king a son, her some-more advanced age, as good as King Henry VIII's obsession with Anne Boleyn price Catherine a crown, her marriage, as good as her life. This is her story, told from a point of perspective of Estrella de Montoya, her trusted maid of honor, who traveled from Spain to England with her, as good as witnessed a triumphs as good as tragedies of her amazing life.


Bluebird, Or a Invention of Happiness
by Sheila Kohler

Publication Date: March 4, 2008
Acquired via: Books A Million

SYNOPSIS: Acclaimed writer Sheila Kohler's unconditional chronological novel, Bluebird, or a Invention of Happiness, is based upon a hold up of Lucy Dillon, an eighteenth-century French aristocrat. Wrenched from a court of Marie Antoinette by a Reign of Terror, a dauntless as good as resilient Lucy escapes with her family to a leisure as good as hard! ships of a newly independent America where, upon a dairy farm in a Hudson Valley, she discovers a brand brand brand brand new life-and her loyal self.

Daughters of Ireland: The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters as good as a Making of a Modern Nationby Janet ToddPublication Date: March 1, 2005Acquired via: used book store
SYNOPSIS: They were well known as a Ascendancy, a hastily aristocratic chosen which tranquil Irish governing body as good as multitude during a finish of a eighteenth centuryand during their pinnacle stood Caroline as good as Robert King, Lord as good as Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates as good as a immeasurable fortune, Lord as good as Lady Kingsborough appeared to be blessed with all though marital lovewhich only done a liaison which tore by their family some-more shocking. In 1798, during a tallness of a rebellion which was environment Ireland ablaze, Robert King was attempted for a murder of his wifes cousina crime born of passion which proved to have extraordinary domestic implications. In her brilliant brand brand brand brand new book, Janet Todd unfolds a erotically appealing story of how this powerful Anglo-Irish family became entwined with a rain not only of their class, though of their very approach of life.

Like Amanda Foremans bestselling Georgiana, Daughters of Ireland brings to hold up a universe of a glittering chosen in an age of international revolution. When her daughters, Margaret as good as Mary, were during their many impressionable, Lady Kingsborough hired a firebrand feminist Mary Wollstonecraft to be their governess, little realizing how in essence this would change both girls ideology as good as characters. The tall, striking Margaret went upon to provide crucial support to a United Irishmen in a days heading up to a Rebellion of 1798, while soft, pleasing ! Mary in dulged in an illicit, as good as all though incestuous adore event which precipitated multiple tragedies.

As a Kingsboroughs imploded, a many powerful as good as colorful total of a day were swept up in their dramathe hastily aristocrat incited insubordinate Lord Edward Fitzgerald; a liberal, cultivated Countess of Moira, a terrible posh notwithstanding her support of Irish revolutionaires; a notorious philanderer Colonel George King, whose sexual debauchery was suited only by his abominable cruelty; Britains cold calculating budding apportion William Pitt as good as a mad ruler King George III.

With overwhelming narrative expostulate as good as richly insinuate ancestral detail, Daughters of Ireland an positively spellbinding work of history, biography, passion, as good as rebellion.

Those are my brand brand brand brand new additions...did any tantalizing books have their approach to your house?

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