In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren. Check her blog out for awesome reviews, contests, and of course, In My Mailbox.
Books Mentioned:
The Courtesan’s Scandal by Julia London
The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate
Random Magic by Sasha Soren
Websites Mentioned:
The Story Siren
Book Bloggers
Other Shelf Tours
In My Mailbox is an awesome weekly meme hosted by the awesome Kristi at The Story Siren. You can check out the great IMM posts by going to her site and checking out the Mr. Linky, or you can participate in your own IMM! 
Books Mentioned:
Random Magic by Sasha Soren (for Other Shelf Tours
Out of the Pumpkin Shell by Nancy Werking Poling (again, for Other Shelf Tours
Blogs/Sites Mentioned:
Other Shelf Tours – Great place to participate in book blog tours!
The Story Siren – one of my umpteen favorite book blogs!
Sorry I posted this so late, slipped my mind until the last minute. LOL! Enjoy!
In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren.
Yes, it is another vlog.
Websites mentioned:
The Story Siren
Tower of Books
Books mentioned:
Over the Holidays by Sandra Harper
Japan Took the J.A.P. Out of Me by Lisa Fineberg Cook
Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
Friday Finds is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
This week I found 2 finds, both books in the same series. I found these via GoodReads, descriptions and cover art from GoodReads.
Title: In the Shadow of Lions
Author: Ginger Garrett
Release date: Sept 1, 2008
Publisher: David C. Cook
Binding: Paperback, 311 pagesDescription:
“I am the first writer, The Scribe. My books lie open before the Throne, and someday will be the only witness of your people and their time in this world.”
So begins the narration of one such angel in this sweeping historical tale set during the reign of England’s Henry VIII. It is the story of two women, their guardian angels, and a mysterious, subversive book … a book that outrages some, inspires others, and launches the Protestant Reformation.
The devout Anne Boleyn catches the eye of a powerful king and uses her influence to champion an English translation of the Bible. Meanwhile, Rose, a broken, suicidal woman of the streets, is moved to seek God when she witnesses Thomas More’s public displays of Christian charity, ignorant of his secret life spent eradicating the Bible, persecuting anyone who dares read it.
Historic figures come alive in this thrilling story of heroes and villains, saints and sinners, angels and mortals … and the sacred book that will inspire you anew. Fans of Francine Rivers and Karen Kingsbury will love Ginger’s intriguing combination of rich character development, artful settings, and inspiring historical insights.
Title: In the Arms of Immortals
Author: Ginger Garrett
Release Date: Sept 1, 2009
Publisher: David C. Cook
Binding: Paperback, 320 pagesDescription:
In another heart-stopping historical fiction thriller from the author of In the Shadow of the Lions, critically acclaimed author Ginger Garrett paints a captivating portrait of a time when terror ruled and faith was hard to come by. In the Arms of Immortals (David C Cook, September 2009) travels a richly imagined journey into a key moment of history…the arrival of the Black Death in Europe.
This story of unseen battle, loving presence, and eventual redemption begins when a strange ship docks in a medieval Sicilian harbor. That night an old man falls ill… then the baker’s wife… then a street urchin. By morning half the townspeople are dead and more are dying—horribly. And no one has a clue what is happening or how to stop it. Not the local priest. Not the rich baron or his powerful knight. And not the three women at the heart of this book: the baron’s proud daughter, Panthea, the outcast healer, Gio, and Mariskka, an unwilling visitor from another time.
Though the Church fights to stand between the plague and the people, the sickness is too powerful for a Church that will not allow medicine to be studied outside its walls. The Church holds a monopoly on healing and on God, but when neither rescues the people, the people lose hope in both, and the conflict between Science and Faith begins its long burn. In a time when the faithful have no answers and the faithless terrorize the countryside, only the bravest will dare hold on to a silent God.
The Chronicles of the Scribe Series are thrilling tales of an angelic presence called “the Scribe, the first writer”—dictated to a series of twentieth-century strugglers, but lived out in the pages of history. Each of Garrett’s novels in the series targets a different significant moment of the past—both its mundane reality and supernatural significance—with a special emphasis on women’s experience. Tautly suspenseful and deeply moving, In the Arms of Immortals will deftly lift readers into its fascinating narrative of angels and demons, mortality and immortality.
That’s what I found this week, what did you find?
So here I finally got to actually make a vlog. Enjoy.
Books mentioned:
Role of a Lifetime – James Brown w/ Nathan Whitaker
Once a Witch – Carolyn McCullough
Breaking The Bank – Yona Zeldis McDonough
Triptych – Karin Slaughter
Fractured – Karin Slaughter
Beyond Reach – Karen Slaughter
Green – Ted Dekker
Dreaming Anastasia – Joy Preble
The Friday Night Knitting Club – Kate Jacobs
Blogs mentioned:
The Story Siren
The Symposium
The Book Pixie
So…what was in your mailbox?
