Mailbox Monday August 19, 2013

Welcome to Mailbox Monday.
For AUGUST: the Mailbox Monday Tour host is Bermudaonion (thanks Kathy).
Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs.  This Meme started with Marcia at A Girl and Her Books (fka The Printed Page) but is now hosted at Mailbox Monday and through various blog hosts.

Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

I received two print books for review, two print for survey and I picked up the final free audio titles from SYNC YA. 

Are your mailbox and TBR piles blooming?

Review Titles

I received these two print books from Sourcebooks for November reviews:

Don't Want to Miss a Thing

by Jill Mansell

and

To Have and to Hold
by Leigh Greewood

Received from Harlequin Tell
for survey/review
Not sure when I will fit these in but they look like quick reads.

Heir to A Dark Inheritance

by Maisey Yates

and

 

A Legacy of Secrets

by Carol Marinelli

Won

None.

Purchased

None

Free

Audios:

I downloaded the last of the summer free pair from SYNC YA August 15 – August 21, 2013:
Both of these sound interesting!

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By Patricia McCormick
Read by Justine Eyre
Published by Tantor Media
Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award

“Eyre delivers a stellar performance that embodies the main character’s quest in the utmost detail.” –AudioFile Magazine

Lakshmi, raised in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal, journeys to India to take a job to support her family.  There she is tricked into prostitution and must risk everything to reclaim her life.

and

Let Me Stand Alone:The Journals of Rachel Corrie
By Rachel Corrie
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Published by Talkbox / Blackstone Audiobooks
“Rachel gives us herself through her words;
Tavia Gilbert gives us her voice.” –AudioFile Magazine

Rachel Corrie, a young women with a striking gift for poetry, writing, and drawing, was determined to make a better, more peaceful world.  The twenty-three-year-old American activist died protecting a Palestinian family’s home.

I downloaded a couple of free Kindle Titles this week
linked through Bookbub, Bookfun, Free Par-tay, Inspired Reads, Pixel of Ink or Kindle Review.