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Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!
BOUGHT:
by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton
-Historical, Humor, Retelling, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> Kepler's Books presented Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand and Brodi Ashton along with their latest book collaboration at Redwood City Public Library. It was fun to hear how they met and the writing process for the book. They read an excerpt from the book in character, hence the head gear.
(An Aimée Leduc Investigation)
by Cara Black
-France, Mystery
Amazon | Goodreads
From BEA:
GOT some YA...
-Romance, YA | Amazon | Goodreads
The Secret Diary of Lizzy Bennett by Natasha Farrant
-Jane Austen theme, YA | Amazon | Goodreads
This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills
-Romance, YA | Amazon | Goodreads
GOT some Fantasy...
-Fantasy, MG | Amazon | Goodreads
The Secret Keepers by Trenton Lee Stewart
-Fantasy, MG | Amazon | Goodreads
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
-Fantasy, MG | Amazon | Goodreads
GOT some Thriller...
-Thriller | Amazon | Goodreads
Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris
-Thriller | Amazon | Goodreads
Only Daugther by Anna Snoekstra
-Thriller, Mystery | Amazon | Goodreads
UNBOXING:
=====> Exciting! my first Chatterbox win which is part of the Keep Turning the Pages Goodreads group (here).
JUNE box includes:
- Enchanted Islands by Allison Amend (with discussion guide and a note from author)
- Neon sunglasses
- Tropical flower candle
- Luggage tag
- Tropical Umbrella drinking straws
by Allison Amend
-Historical, WWII
courtesy of Doubleday Books -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
Inspired by the midcentury memoirs of Frances Conway, Enchanted Islands is the dazzling story of an independent American woman whose path takes her far from her native Minnesota when she and her husband, an undercover intelligence officer, are sent to the Galápagos Islands at the brink of World War II.
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1882 to immigrant parents, Frances Frankowski covets the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel, who has everything Fanny could wish for—money, parents who value education, and an effervescent and winning personality. When, at age fifteen, Rosalie decides they should run away to Chicago, Fanny jumps at the chance to escape her unexceptional life. But, within a year, Rosalie commits an unforgivable betrayal, inciting Frances to strike out on her own.
Decades later, the women reconnect in San Francisco and realize how widely their lives have diverged. While Rosalie is a housewife and mother, Frances works as a secretary for the Office of Naval Intelligence. There she is introduced to Ainslie Conway, an intelligence operator ten years her junior. When it’s arranged for Frances and Ainslie to marry and carry out a mission on the Galápagos Islands, the couple’s identities—already hidden from each other—are further buried under their new cover stories. No longer a lonely spinster, Frances is about to begin the most fascinating and intrigue-filled years of her life.
Amid active volcanoes, forbidding wildlife and flora, and unfriendly neighbors, Ainslie and Frances carve out a life for themselves. But the secrets they harbor from their enemies and from each other may be their undoing.
Drawing on the rich history of the early twentieth century and set against a large, colorful canvas, Enchanted Islands boldly examines the complexity of female friendship, the universal pursuit of a place to call home, and the reverberations of secrets we keep from others and from ourselves.
Currently flipping through: from the library
by Rachel Khoo
-Cookbook, France
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> Crème brûlée is one of those fancy desserts I love to eat and not dare to make.
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