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Sunday, November 8, 2009

In My Mailbox!

In my mailbox is a weekly meme created by The Story Siren.

For Review:
How far would you go to protect your family?

Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight.

A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland.

And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches.

As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark.

Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear.

Carla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.

Bought: 

There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.




I already had this edition of Twilight but I let my little cousin borrow it and....So I had to but another copy along with New Moon!

From Paperbackswap.com


The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades -- with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal counter moves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.







Sixth in the Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series.
Spiked with a frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy, this bestselling series sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.

14 comments:

Rebecca said...

Great books you got this week. I really like the cover of Beautiful Creatures. Hope you enjoy reading all your books.

LovesSam said...

Great week! Beautiful Creatures is amazing, you will love it!!!

Becky said...

Shutter Island sounds interesting. I'll be looking out for your review. Beautiful creatures definitely on my wish list.

Lauren said...

Beautiful Creatures looks so good! I can't wait till it's in shops here.

Faye said...

BC!!! i so want that one. It might take a while*sad* Love the new twilight covers. Happy reading!!!

Book Chick City said...

Beautiful Creatures looks and sounds great and of course Definitely Dead. Enjoy! Happy Reading!

The Story Siren said...

awesome book week! i need to get a copy of BC!!! hope you enjoy! happy reading!

choco (In Which a Girl Reads) said...

You're so lucky that you got Beautiful Creatures!

Happy Reading :)

...MY NAME IS ELENI AND I AM A BOOKAHOLIC... said...

Great books this week! I wonder how Shutter Island is, look forward to your review :)

KatieDoll said...

Beautiful Creatures! Oh, I'm so jealous! Have to wait for my giftcards to come in before I can order it from amazon. :[ But I can't wait to read your review! Happy reading! :)

Lily Child said...

I love the Sookie Stackouse books! I just watched the first season of True Blood again and it totally made me want to re-read the books, even though I read them in April! Enjoy your books! :D

Book Crazy Jenn said...

OHH Beutiful Creatures, I cant WAIT to get mine, darn Amazon is SOO slow LOL :)

Tena said...

I adore Charlaine Harris
Happy Reading

Tricia said...

Sounds like some awesome reads this week! Can't wait to hear what you think of Beautiful Creatures!

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