Stacking the Shelves - 10.5.13

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
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!

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Bought:

Touchstone
by Laurie R. King
-mystery
Inspired to get this after reading Bones of Paris. It is the first book with Agent Harris Stuyvesant.

For Review:

Ashes
by Ilsa J. Bick
-paranormal, zombies
courtesy of publisher
Thanks Casey!

Shadows
by Ilsa J. Bick
-paranormal, zombies
courtesy of publisher
Thanks Casey!

Monsters
by Ilsa J. Bick
-paranormal, zombies
courtesy of publisher
Thanks Casey!

Being Jamie Baker
by Kelly Oram
-paranormal, romance, YA
courtesy of author
Thanks Kelly!

More Than Jamie Baker
by Kelly Oram
-paranormal, romance, YA
-will be released October 15, 2013
courtesy of author
Thanks Kelly!

Game
Book 1 of the The Game Trilogy
by Anders de la Motte
-thriller
ARC courtesy of publisher
Thanks Judith!

Conjure
by Lea Nolan
-paranormal, YA
courtesy of Allure blog tour
Thanks Rockstar Book Tours!

Allure
by Lea Nolan
-paranormal, YA
courtesy of Allure blog tour
Thanks Rockstar Book Tours!
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Library:

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
by David Sedaris
-humor
I got the audio version because David's stories can be sooo hilarious. And it is so special to hear him actually reading his works.

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* most of these will be offered as giveaways within the next two months

* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

* per usual, check out the sidebar for my current giveaways offers

The Bones of Paris: A Novel of Suspense by Laurie R. King

The Bones of Paris:
A Novel of Suspense
by Laurie R. King

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Just released: September 10, 2013
Publisher: Bantam
Genre: 1920s, Historical, Mystery
Hardback: 432 pages
Rating: 5

Series:
Touchstone
Bones of Paris

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In this thrilling new book New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the Jazz Age—and reveals the darkest secrets of its denizens.

Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie de bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. Her family became alarmed when she stopped all communications, and Stuyvesant agreed to track her down. He wholly expects to find her in the arms of some up-and-coming artist, perhaps experimenting with the decadent lifestyle that is suddenly available on every rue and boulevard.

As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the expatriate community of artists and writers, he finds that she is known to many of its famous—and infamous—inhabitants, from Shakespeare and Company’s Sylvia Beach to Ernest Hemingway to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp, disturbing turn. At the Grand-Guignol, murder, insanity, and sexual perversion are all staged to shocking, brutal effect: depravity as art, savage human nature on stage.

Soon it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Here, amid the glittering lights of the cabarets, hides a monster whose artistic coup de grâce is to be rendered in blood. And Stuyvesant will have to descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer . . . sifting through The Bones of Paris.

PeekAbook:



My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): disturbing
A bit of the dark and creepy side of Paris in the late 1920s is described here as a mystery unfolds.

You will be guided in the story with the perspective of an American in Paris.

Loved how actual artists and entertainers of the time interact and take part in this story.

--~ Book Giveaway courtesy of tour ~--
WIN a copy of this book!
-for 5 winners

Open to US only.

Offer ends: September 20, 2013

TO DO: (2-parts)

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2. TELL me what you did in comments.
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* review copy courtesy of tour

* giveaway courtesy of Bones of Paris tour - check out the other stops for more details on this book and goodies sponsored by France Book Tours

Stacking the Shelves - 8.03.13

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
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!

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Bought:

Gisborne:
Book of Pawns
by Prue Batten
-fantasy
Free from Kindle: beware some free offers are limited

The Unearthly
(The Unearthly Series)
by Laura Thalassa
-paranormal
courtesy of fellow blogger's head's up
Thanks Freda!

For Review:

The Age of Desire
A Novel
by Jennie Fields
-biographical, historical
for book tour
sponsored by Historical Virtual Book Tours
Thanks Amy!
SIGNUP to win this here

The Bones of Paris:
A Novel of Suspense
by Laurie R. King
-France, suspense
ARC courtesy of France Book Tours
Thanks Emma!
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From Powell's Indiespensable club package (details):
Powell's subscription club delivers the best new books, with special attention to independent publishers. Signed first editions. Inventive, original sets. Exclusive printings.... Every six weeks, another installment to read and admire.

Plus, every package is stocked with exciting surprises!

This is package #41.

Brewster
by Mark Slouka
-coming-of-age
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In My Mailbox - 9.4.11

Bought:

Die for Me
(Revenants)
by Amy Plum
-paranormal, YA

Free from Kindle: beware some free offers are limited

The Nemesis Worm
by Guy Haley
-action, mystery, novella

For Review and giveaway:

Zombies Don't Cry
by Rusty Fischer
courtesy of the author
Thanks Rusty!
stay tuned: giveaway for this during September Zombies

Song of the Nile
by Stephanie Dray
courtesy of author
Thanks Stephanie & Shelly!
release date: Oct 4, 2011
stay tuned: giveaway goes up in October

Give Me
by LK Rigel
courtesy of author
Thanks LK!
-fairy tale

Free from Netgalley: got mine, get yours!

Dead of Night
A Zombie Novel
by Jonathan Maberry
release date: Oct 25, 2011

The Black Stiletto
by Raymond Benson
-thriller, YA

Pirate King
A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
by Laurie R. King

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Won from contest:

Vampire Bites
by Katie Salidas
Thanks to The Worm Hole

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Bookie Brunch schedule
Now follow me to the second Bookie Brunch meeting for a bit of chit chat and find out my answer to the Bookie Brunch Question of the day at Natalie of Songs and Stories.

Bookie Brunch Question of the day:

What is one book that made you cry, and what was it that affected you about that particular story?

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Watch out: Pirate King

Pirate King:
A novel of suspense featuring
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
by Laurie R. King
Release date: September 6, 2011

Here's one on my want list that comes out later this year...

Description from the amazon:
In this latest adventure featuring the intrepid Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King takes readers into the frenetic world of silent films—where the pirates are real and the shooting isn’t all done with cameras.

In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. Nevertheless, at the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate rumors of criminal activities that swirl around Fflytte’s popular movie studio. So Russell is traveling undercover to Portugal, along with the film crew that is gearing up to shoot a cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King. Based on Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance, the project will either set the standard for moviemaking for a generation . . . or sink a boatload of careers.

Nothing seems amiss until the enormous company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, where the thirteen blond-haired, blue-eyed actresses whom Mary is bemusedly chaperoning meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. But when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, Russell feels a building storm of trouble: a derelict boat, a film crew with secrets, ominous currents between the pirates, decks awash with budding romance—and now the pirates are ignoring Fflytte and answering only to their dangerous outlaw leader. Plus, there’s a spy on board. Where can Sherlock Holmes be? As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a final fadeout.

Pirate King is a Laurie King treasure chest—thrilling, intelligent, romantic, a swiftly unreeling masterpiece of suspense.

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