Mailbox Monday #138

Every time I do one of these posts lately I’m surprised by the number in the title above.  Even if it was just one book each time – that’s 138 books! And you know I typically get more than one book!

Ok, enough of that.  For books this week I received three – one for review and two were giveaway wins.

1) Dancing at the Chance by DeAnna Cameron – giveaway win from Unabridged Chick (thanks Audra).  I have wanted to read this one since I heard about it.  I love this time period, dancing, etc.

New York City in 1907 is a kingdom of endless possibilities for anyone who dares to dream. The Gilded Age has ended, and immigrants fill the bustling streets. The glamour of Broadway lures those who desire the limelight-but only a few are fortunate enough to thrive in the lights of a city that casts long, dark, and merciless shadows...

Pepper MacClair and her mother arrived penniless in New York thirteen years ago, and their fortune has not changed. A dancer of fluid grace and motion, Pepper is still only one chorus girl among many, struggling for an opportunity to prove herself worthy of something bigger.

For now, Pepper dances at The Chance, a rundown venue long past its prime. It is not only Pepper's workplace, where she has pushed her physical endurance to its limit, but also her home. And as the larger world changes around her and she is pulled into the intrigues of New York's elite, it is her last hope, not only to fulfill her dream, but to fulfill her heart.

2) Sonoma Rose by Jennifer Chiaverini – giveaway win from Unabridged Chick.  I hadn’t realized that this was the same author as Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker – but I was excited once I found that they were the same.  A different type of HF to be sure, but it sounds interesting.

As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Diaz Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the Federal purview.

Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease currently afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of another father are in perfect health. When an act of violence shatters Rosa’s resolve to maintain her increasingly dangerous existence, she flees with the children and her precious heirloom quilts to the mesa where she last saw her beloved mother alive.

3) Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell – received for review as part of the Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tour via Netgalley.  Also a slightly different one for me – I’m not the biggest Victorian era fan, but this sounds super atmospheric.

GASLIT LONDON IS BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES IN DAVID MORRELL'S BRILLIANT HISTORICAL THRILLER.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier.

The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.

In Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell plucks De Quincey, Victorian London, and the Ratcliffe Highway murders from history. Fogbound streets become a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer, whose lives are linked by secrets long buried but never forgotten.

So that is what I received – what about you?

Mailbox Monday is on a monthly blog tour and for the month of April it is being hosted by Mari Reads.

 

Copyright © 2013 by The Maiden’s Court