Mailbox Monday - January 24


Mailbox Monday is on tour this month at Rose City Reader. I feel like this should be a confessional post - it's been six weeks since my last Mailbox Monday post (I don't know how that happened) and I've received sixteen books. Normally I would include a cover image and full publisher's blurb for each book, but this time I'm going to give you a bunch of cover images and tiny little blurbs for the sake of not wearing you out with this post.

You may notice that the final two books are out of my normal reading comfort zone. I plan to pass them along to someone who will enjoy them more than I in a blog hop giveaway in February.

Here are the books:


Little Princes by Conor Grennan (Feb 1, 2011) - From LibraryThing. The author volunteers at an orphanage in Nepal only to find that the children are not orphans but abandoned by child traffickers, he then seeks to reunite them with their families.

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis - A Christmas gift. A lovely combination of time travel and historica! l fictio n.

Julia's Kitchen Wisdom by Julia Child - A Christmas gift. Just what it says - Julia's wisdom on working in the kitchen.

Nocturne by Syrie James - Unsolicited review copy. This one is described as an urban fantasy, which is not really my normal reading.

As Always, Julia The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto - A Christmas gift.

Dewey's Nine Lives by Vicki Myron - Part of a contest win package. More stories about Dewey and other special cats.

A Cup of Friendship by Deborah Rodriguez - Unsolicited review copy. A novel about an American woman who opens a coffee shop in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Left Neglected by Lisa Genova - A Christmas gift. A novel about a woman with an unusual brain injury.



The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly - A Christmas gift. Historical fiction set in the 1880s.

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights, Vol. 1 Anonymous - Traditional Arabian Nights tales.

The Vintage Book of American Women Writers ed. by Elaine Showalter - Unsolicited review copy. Anthology of writings by important American women.

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - Via Paperbackswap. A survival story of a man lost at sea in WWII.

The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan - Via Paperbackswap. Story of a 12 year old Welsh girl in the 1950s.

A Song for My Mother by Kat Martin - Unsolicited advance copy. The story of a woman returning to her hometown.

Right Hand Magic by Nancy A. Collins - Unsolicited review copy. Urban fantasy/romance.

Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh - Unsolicited review copy. Urban fantasy/romance.



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