Mailbox Monday

Sunday, April 27, 2014
Welcome to Mailbox Monday! Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

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

I received the following advance review copies from the publishers via NetGalley.  And with the forecast calling for a rainy week....I think I'll be quite busy!



The Glass Kitchen By Linda Francis Lee
St. Martin's Press
Pub Date Jun 17 2014
Description:
With the glass kitchen, Linda Francis Lee has served up a novel that is about the courage it takes to follow your heart and be yourself. A true recipe for life.

Portia Cuthcart never intended to leave Texas. Her dream was to run the Glass Kitchen restaurant her grandmother built decades ago. But after a string of betrayals and the loss of her legacy, Portia is determined to start a new life with her sisters in Manhattan . . . and never cook again. But when she moves into a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side, she meets twelve-year-old Ariel and her widowed father Gabriel, a man with his hands full trying to raise two daughters on his own. Soon, a promise made to her sisters forces Portia back into a world of magical food and swirling emotions, where she must confront everything she has been running from. What seems so simple on the surface is anything but when long-held secrets are revealed, rivalries exposed, and the promise of new love stirs to life like chocolate mixing with cream.

The Glass Kitchen is a delicious novel, a tempestuous story of a woman washed up on the shores of Manhattan who discovers that a kitchen—like an island—can be a refuge, if only she has the courage to give in to the pull of love, the power of forgiveness, and accept the complications of what it means to be family.

Thornbrook Park By Sherri Browning
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub Date Jun 3 2014
Description:
Edwardian romance fiction for Downton Abbey fans—a fresh new historical period in the romance category

Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this brand-new Edwardian-period romance series set at the grand estate of Thornbrook Park, seat of the Earl of Averford.
Disowned for marrying beneath her, Eve Kendal returns to England destitute after her husband's death and the mysterious disappearance of their savings. Her childhood friend, the Countess of Averford, takes her in, and sparks fly between Eve and the Earl's brother. But Captain Marcus Thorne has his own demons to face, and as they begin a steamy affair, secrets from the past threaten the whole estate...

Last Chain On Billie By Carol Bradley
St. Martin's Press
Pub Date Jul 22 2014
Description:
Left in the wild, Billie the elephant would have spent her life surrounded by her family, free to wander the jungles of Asia. Instead, she was captured as a baby and shipped to America where she arrived in the mid 1950s, long before circus and zoo-goers worried about animal living conditions. Billie spent her first years confined in a tiny zoo yard giving rides to children. At 19, she was sold and groomed for life in the circus. Billie mastered difficult stunts: she could balance on her hind legs, walk on her front legs and perform one-foot handstands. For twenty-three years she dazzled audiences, but she lived a life of neglect and abuse. As years passed, Billie rebelled. When she attacked and injured her trainer, a federal inspector ordered her taken off the road. For a decade she languished in a dusty barn. Finally, fate intervened. The U.S. Department of Agriculture removed Billie and fifteen other elephants as part of the largest elephant rescue in American history. Billie wound up at a sanctuary for performing elephants in Tennessee at 45, but she thundered with anxiety in her new environment and refused to let anyone remove a chain still clamped around her leg.

Last Chain on Billie charts the growing movement to rescue performing elephants from lives of misery, and tells the story of how one emotionally damaged elephant overcame her past and learned to trust humans again.

6 comments:

  1. THE GLASS KITCHEN sounds like my kind of book. Added to my wish list! Here’s my MAILBOX. Happy reading!

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  2. I love Downton Abbey era fiction! Definitely checking out the Sherri Browning book. Thanks for the heads up!

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  3. The Glass Kitchen has such a gorgeous cover. I hope the read is as beautiful.

    Have a wonderful week.

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My Mailbox Monday

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  4. The Glass Kitchen and The Last Chain On Billie look really good.

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  5. They all sound great, enjoy!

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  6. I'll be reading The Glass Kitchen in a few weeks - looking forward to it! Have a good week!

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