Tag Archive: Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday, 8/2/10

Mailbox Mondays is on a blog tour! The popular meme started over at The Printed Page blog is being hosted by Chick Loves Lit for the month of August!

Books we received this past week:

Enjoy!

Mailbox Monday, 6/28/10

We’ve been away for a couple weeks, but here’s the Wonders and Marvels entry for Mailbox Monday, over at The Printed Page blog.

Books we received this past week:

Enjoy!

Mailbox Monday, 6/7/10

Here’s the Wonders and Marvels entry for Mailbox Monday, over at The Printed Page blog.

Books we received this past week:

Enjoy!

Mailbox Monday, 5/24/10

Here’s the Wonders and Marvels entry for Mailbox Monday, over at The Printed Page blog.

Books we received this past week:

The Finger: A Handbook, By Angus Trumble, (Farrar, Strauss Giroux)

Eleanor the Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine, By Norah Lofts (Touchstone)

The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War, By Roy Morris (Oxford UP)

The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge: A Novel, By Patricia Duncker (Bloomsbury)

The Pindar Diamond: A Novel, By Katie Hickman (Bloomsbury)

Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea, By David Sears (Da Capo)

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, By Bruce Watson (Viking)

Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster, By Jonathan Eig (Simon & Schuster)

Hitler’s Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, By Sidney Kirkpatrick (Simon & Schuster)

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici: A Novel, By C.W.Gortner, (Random House)

An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli, By Niccolo Capponi, (Da Capo)

A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, By James Horn, (Basic Books)

At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union, By Robert V.Remini, (Basic Books)

Enjoy!

Mailbox Monday, 5/10/10

Here’s the Wonders and Marvels entry for Mailbox Monday, over at The Printed Page blog.

Books we received this past week:

Diamond Ruby: A Novel, By Joseph Wallace, (Touchstone)

Mystery Cults of the Ancient World, By Hugh Bowden (Princeton UP)

How to Read Historical Mathematics, By Benjamin Wardhaugh (Princeton UP)

Tocqueville’s Discovery of America, By Leo Damrosch (Farrar, Strauss Giroux)

The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare, By Arliss Ryan (New American Library)

Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace, By Dominic Lieven (Viking)

Enjoy!

Mailbox Monday 4/19/10

Here’s the Wonders and Marvels entry for Mailbox Monday, over at The Printed Page blog.

Books we received this past week:

Aunt Epp’s Guide for Life: Miscellaneous Musings of a Victorian Lady, By Elspeth Marr, (Atria Books)

The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly, By Doug Stewart (Da Capo)

The Tulip Virus, By Danielle Hermans (Minotaur Books)

Leonardo’s Legacy: How Da Vinci Reimagined the World, By Stefan Klein (Da Capo Press)

My Name Is Mary Sutter: A Novel, By Robin Oliveria (Viking)

The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, By Anthony Brandt (Knopf)

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, By Daniel Okrent (Scribner)

Enjoy!

Welcome to Mailbox Monday!

The Wonders and Marvels powers that be have decided to participate in a wonderful meme that’s right up our alley! Mailbox Monday, started by Marcia, the author of The Printed Page blog, is a place for book lovers to share the titles they received over the past week.

We hope you enjoy this new feature and find some interesting books to add to your own collection!

Books we received this past week:

Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry’s Greatest Generation, By Daisy Hay, (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux)

Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols, By Barry J. Blake (Oxford UP)

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, By Nathaniel Philbrick (Viking)

The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History), By Thomas Kessner (Oxford UP)

Sources of Light, By Margaret McMullan (Houghton Mifflin)

Alchemy and Meggy Swann, By Karen Cushman (Clarion)

Take Me with You, By Carolyn Marsden (Candlewick)