Mailbox Monday and Library Loot

Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday. I'm sorry I'm posting this on a Tuesday, but I was out of town over the weekend.     Lucan by Susan Kearney Received From Hachette Book Group for a blog tour later this month. Healer and high priestess of her people, Lady Cael is fated to life without a mate. But a mysterious explorer named Lucan Rourke doesn't know her secrets, and his touch makes her crave a future that her extraordinary birthright has forbidden her. Lucan has just one mission on Pendragon: to find the mythical Holy Grail, Earth's only hope for survival. His powerful attraction to Cael is a distraction he can't afford, unless he convinces her to join forces with him. Yet working so closely together only heightens their passion . . . even when the terrifying truth of Cael's heritage threatens to shatter Lucan's every belief-and the galaxy itself.   NurtureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman I won this at Wendy's Minding Spot. Thanks! In...
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Giveaways in Blogland

I thought I’d let you know some of the giveaways I ran across this week. As always, my current giveaway is listed on my sidebar and make sure you check out West of Mars- Win a Book! where there's always a ton of links to great contests, interviews and guest posts. Cleopatra's Daughter and The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran, at Books 'n Border Collies  (ends September 9, International) The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran and a beautiful pair of earrings, at Books 'n Border Collies  (ends September 9, International) Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran, at Walking on Sunshine (ends September 9, International) Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran with a pair of earrings and The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran, at Peeking Between the Pages (ends September 11, International) Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran, at Deb's Desk (ends September 12, US and Canada, no PO boxes) Killer Mousse by Melinda Wells, at Stacy's Books (ends September 15) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins and a limited edition t-shirt,...
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Booking through Thursday

Join in at Booking through Thursday. What’s the biggest book you’ve read recently? (Feel free to think “big” as size, or as popularity, or in any other way you care to interpret.) I don't know. I don't actually keep track of page counts, unless they are long enough to qualify for the Chunkster challenge, but the last one I read that fit that category was all the way back in May, Turning Angel by Greg Iles. Last year, I read The Count of Monte Cristo, which was just huge, but recently I haven't really read anything long. As far as popular books go, I'd have to say it was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It just seemed like everywhere I went, whether on-line or in real life, people were talking about it. What about you? Any big books recently?...
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D is for Devil

Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday. Today's letter is D. I hosted a guest post by David Liss back in July. I've had this book sitting on my shelf since then, but I want to get caught up on the series first.   The Devil's Company by David Liss From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London.This is the third thriller to feature the estimable Benjamin Weaver, one of fiction’s most enthralling characters.   The year is 1722. Thief-taker, ex-boxer, “ruffian for hire,” and master of disguise, Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, pitted against Jerome Cobb, a wealthy and mysterious schemer who needs Weaver’s strength and guile for his own dark purposes. Weaver is blackmailed into stealing documents from England’s most heavily guarded estate, the headquarters of the ruthless British East India Company, but the theft of corporate...
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