The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard
Authors: Cherry Adair, Gena Showalter, Lorie O'Clare
Publication Date:  St. Martin's paperback
Publication Date: June 29, 2010


Donated by: Lori (Lori's Reading Corner)

“Temptation on Ice”

When paranormal operative Sebastian Tremayne heads to the Arctic Circle to keep an eye on red-hot physicist Michaela Giese, the polar ice cap isn’t the only thing in danger of melting. This beautiful brainy woman could spark a nuclear disaster he cannot stop—even with magic—and ignite a fiery passion he cannot resist…

“Temptation in Shadows”

Tall, lean, muscular—and definitely rough around the edges—Sean Walker is not your typical nightclub bodyguard. He’s a controller of shadows, able to wield darkness at will. But when a mysterious woman at the club turns out to have powers greater than his own, he has no choice but seduction…

“Hunting Temptation”

A manhunter by trade, Seth is on the trail of his most dangerous prey yet: a living, breathing, maneating werewolf. But the last thing he expects to catch in his trap is a beautiful, beguiling woman—with some wild animal urges of her own…

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail and STATE abbreviation in the comments.

• 10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!

PARTICIPANTS

Trust

Trust: A Novel
Author: Kate Vietch
Publisher: Penguin Plume
Release date: June 29, 2010

Donated by:  Penguin Plume

Susanna Greenfield has given her all to being a good daughter, sister, wife, and mother. Somehow, she's maintained her profession as a college art teacher, as well as rearing two headstrong teenagers and nurturing a twenty-year marriage to Gerry, a confident, ambitious architect. She's also the eternal peacemaker between her pretty younger sister Angie, former junkie turned born-again Christian, and their strong- willed mother, Jean.

Just when Susanna is struggling to revive her creative career, a devastating accident rips apart the fabric of her world, exposing secrets which threaten to destroy both a marriage, and a life. Plumbing the rich emotional vocabulary of faith and betrayal, loyalty and forgiveness, Trust is the story of a woman's challenge to find her self.

Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail and STATE abbreviation in the comments.

14 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON

Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!   

Participants:

Lori mailed to Shon 8/24:  DC# 9102150134711317413329
 

1. Shon - done

2. JHS - review due 

3. Leah - done

REVIEWS:

1. Shon - My Book and Couch

2. JHS - Colloquium

3. Leah - Amused by Books (couldn't finish book)

The Art of Devotion

The Art of Devotion
Author:  Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
Publication Date:  June 8, 2010
Publisher:  Gallery


Donated By:  Shonda (My Book and Couch)


In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjamin’s brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever.


Have we all not wished to keep forever the one person we love the most?


The secluded beaches of a sun-drenched Mediterranean island are the perfect playground for young Sebastian and Adora. Emotionally adrift from their mother, Adora shelters her sensitive older brother from the cruelties of the world. Sophie does not question her children’s intense need for one another until it’s too late. Her beloved son’s affections belong to Adora, and when he drowns in the sea, she has no one else to blame. 


Still heartbroken years later, Adora fills her emptiness with Genevieve, the precocious young daughter of her husband’s business associate and his jealous wife, Miranda. Thrilled to be invited into the beautiful and enigmatic Adora’s world, the child idolizes her during their summers together. Yet, as the years progress, Genevieve begins to suspect their charmed existence is nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion. Soon, she too is ensnared in a web of lies.


Stunningly told in the tragic voices of four women whose lives are fatefully entangled, The Art of Devotion is evocative and haunting, a story of deceit, jealousy, and the heartbreaking reality of love’s true power. 

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail and STATE abbreviation in the comments.

• 10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form! 
•  
• Tour Participants:
• 1.  Carrie - done
• 2.  Tiffany - received 9/20; mail by 9/30
•  
• Reviews:
• 1. Carrie:  NomadReader
• 2. Tiffany:  Tiffany's Bookshelf

Two Moon Princess

Two Moon Princess

Author:  Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban

Publication Date:  June 16, 2010

Publisher:  Tanglewood Press

Donated By:  Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books)

Andrea's life is thrown into chaos when she accidentally travels to an alternative world, from a cave on a forbidden beach in her family's kingdom to the warm and carefree life of Southern California.  Then a careless visit to the cave results in terrible consequences:  a brewing war between kingdoms, her sister's love for the wrong man, Andrea's own conflicted feelings for an enemy leader, and dark family secrets exposed.  Andrea faces many difficult choices, torn between duty and desire on so many levels.

Readers will love this mix of traditional fantasy elements with unique twists and will identify with Andrea and her difficult choices between duty and desire.

BOOK NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR TOUR.  MY APOLOGIES!

The Lion

The Lion (ARC)
Author: Nelson DeMille
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date:  June 8, 2010

Donated by:  Lori

In this eagerly awaited follow-up to The Lion's Game, John Corey, former NYPD Homicide detective and special agent for the Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is back. And, unfortunately for Corey, so is Asad Khalil, the notorious Libyan terrorist otherwise known as "The Lion." Last we heard from him, Khali had claimed to be defecting to the US only to unleash the most horrific reign of terrorism ever to occur on American soil. While Corey and his partner, agent Kate Mayfield, chased him across the country, Khalil methodically eliminated his victims one by one and then disappeared without a trace.

Now, years later, Khalil has returned to America to make good on his threats and take care of unfinished business. "The Lion" is a killing machine once again loose in America with a mission of revenge, and John Corey will stop at nothing to achieve his own goal -- to find and kill Khahil.

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail and STATE abbreviation in the comments.

• 7 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!  

Stay

Stay
Author:  Allie Larkin
Publisher: Dutton
Publication Date:  June 2010

 Donated by:  Dutton


Larkin debuts with a funny and touching story about love, loss, and dog ownership. Twenty-something Van Leone, fresh from serving as maid of honor at the wedding of her childhood best friend and the man Van's been in love with since college, impulsively buys a German shepherd puppy on the Internet while drowning her sorrows in vodka and a late-night Rin Tin Tin marathon. Van's surprised to discover, however, that the little ball of fuzz she's expecting is an enormous Slovakian police dog that she names Joe. The expected furniture-destroying and neighbor-terrifying antics ensue, but Joe quickly becomes Van's family, chief confidant, and romantic catalyst. The fresh start Van had envisioned turns out to be more complicated than she'd hoped—particularly after the newlyweds return from their honeymoon—but Joe nudges her ever forward. Though the support cast could be trimmed and the love interest lacks satisfying depth, Van's conflicts feel authentic, and her emotional frankness is refreshing.

• Tour Sign-ups CLOSED.

• 7 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON

Tour Participants:
Rebecca - done
Katy - done
Kiara - book lost in mail

JHS

Jen



REVIEWS:
1. Rebecca - Beck's Book Picks
2. Katy - A Few More Pages

One Season of Sunshine

One Season of Sunshine
Author:  Julia London
Publication Date: June 29, 2010
Publisher:  Pocket Books/ Simon & Schuster

Donated by: Simon & Schuster

Should some questions be left unanswered?

Adopted as an infant, Jane Aaron longs to know the identity of her birth mother and why she gave her up. Her only clue is the name of the small Texas town where she was born, so she’s come to Cedar Springs for answers.
Handsome ad executive Asher Price lost his wife, the beautiful, mysterious Susanna, in a terrible car crash eighteen months ago. When he hires Jane as the nanny for his two children, sparks fly. Jane finds herself falling in love with both Asher and his children, but begins to suspect that Susanna was not the perfect mother and wife the family portrays her to have been.
As Jane gets closer and closer to finding out the truth about both her own and Susanna’s past, devastating secrets begin to emerge that may be more than anyone can bear. Will the truth bring Jane and Asher closer together or tear them apart forever?

Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail and STATE abbreviation in the comments.

10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON

Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!  

Participants


1.  Tiger - done
2.  JHS  - done
3.  Heather - done

Reviews



Tiger - All Consuming Books
JHS - Colloquium
Heather - Proud Book Nerd

Justice In June

Justice in June
Author:  Barbara Levenson
Publication Date:  June 1, 2010
Publisher: Oceanview Publishing


Donated by:  Barbara Levenson, author

Miami in June: it's raining, it's pouring, but the life of criminal defense attorney Mary Magruder Katz is anything but boring-especially when she gets caught up in a whirlwind of three different cases. Judge Liz Maxwell's job, sanity, and reputation are at stake, and she needs Mary to ferret out wrongdoing in Miami's courts. Solving this case won't just mean going out on a limb; it will mean risking life and limb. Luis Corona, a family friend of Mary's boyfriend, Carlos, needs help with a legal matter that, to Mary's horror, turns out to be a terrorism charge. And this case will leave some catastrophic damage-and unwelcome notoriety-in its wake. Just when Mary thought things couldn't get worse, Carlos gets in his own nasty legal quandary-one that could cost him everything. Three cases. One Mary. One torrential downpour of turmoil. Can she weather the storm? Ride out the cold front that settles over her once-hot romance? Salvage what remains of her-and her clients'-reputations? For Mary Magruder Katz, this month's forecast calls for trouble.  

Read Lori's review HERE 

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form! 

Denial: A Memoir of Terror

Denial:  A Memoir of Terror

Author:  Jessica Stern

Publication Date:  June 22, 2010

Publisher:  Ecco

Donated By:  Jen (Crazy-for-Books)

"I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak."

One of the world's foremost experts on terrorism and post-traumatic stress disorder investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist, and in so doing, examines the horrors of trauma and denial.

Alone in an unlocked house in a safe neighborhood in the suburban town of Concord, Massachusetts, two good, obedient girls, Jessica Stern, fifteen, and her sister, fourteen, were raped on the night of October 1, 1973. The girls had just come back from ballet lessons and were doing their homework when a strange man armed with a gun entered their home. Afterward, when they reported the crime, the police were skeptical.

The rapist was never caught. For over thirty years, Stern denied the pain and the trauma of the assault. Following the example of her family, Stern—who lost her mother at the age of three, and whose father was a Holocaust survivor—focused on her work instead of her terror. She became a world-class expert on terrorism, a lauded academic and writer who interviewed terrorists around the globe. But while her career took off, her success hinged on her symptoms. After her ordeal she could not feel fear in normally frightening situations.

Stern believed she'd disassociated from the trauma altogether, until a devoted police lieutenant reopened the sisters' rape case and brought her back to that harrowing night more than three decades past. With the help of the lieutenant, Stern began her own investigation—bringing to bear all her skills as a researcher—to uncover the truth about the town of Concord, her family, and her own mind. The result is Denial, a candid, courageous, and ultimately hopeful look at a trauma and its aftermath. 

Read Jen's review HERE.

TOUR IS NOW CLOSED.  THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

Tour Participants:

1. Tracee - done

2. Nancy - done

3. Christa - done

4. Heather -done

5. Margaret -done

6. JHS - done

7. Tiffany - done

REVIEWS:

1. Tracee - Review from Here

2. Nancy - Amusing Reviews

3. Christa - Mental Foodie

4. Heather - Proud Book Nerd

5. Margaret - The Art of Reading

6. JHS - Colloquium (DNF - no review)

7. Tiffany - Tiffany's Bookshelf

Leaving the World

Leaving the World: A Novel 

Author:  Douglas Kennedy

Publication Date:  June 15, 2010

Publisher:  Atria Books

480 pages

Donated By:  Jen (Crazy-for-Books)

On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children.

But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise—but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world.

Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a decision—stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth.

Leaving the World is a riveting portrait of a brilliant woman that reflects the way we live now, of the many routes we follow in the course of a single life, and of the arbitrary nature of destiny. A critically acclaimed international bestseller, it is also a compulsive read and one that speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path. 

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 14 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!  

Jen mailed 7/21 ~ DC # 9102785091401613022423

Tour Participants

1. Leah - done
2. Cindy - done
3. Heather - done
4. Stephanie - rcv'd 12/1; mailed 1/14 DC# 0310 2640 0000 0587 5207
5. Kathy




Reviews

Leah - Amused By Books
Cindy
Heather - Proud Book Nerd
Stephanie
Kathy

The Truth About Delilah Blue

The Truth About Delilah Blue

Author:  Tish Cohen

Publication Date:  June 1, 2010

Publisher:  Harper Perennial

Donated By:  Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books)

Delilah Blue Lovett has always been a bit of an outsider, ever since her father moved her from Toronto to L.A. when she was eight, claiming Delilah's mother no longer wanted to be part of their family. Twenty now and broke, but determined to be an artist like her errant mom, Delilah attends art class for free—by modeling nude at the front of the room, a decision that lifts the veil from her once insular world. While she struggles to find her talent, her father, her only real companion, is beginning to exhibit telltale signs of early-onset Alzheimer's. And her mother, who Delilah always assumed had selfishly abandoned them, is about to reappear with a young daughter in tow . . . and a secret that will change everything. Delilah no longer knows which parent to trust—the only one she can really rely on is the most broken person of all: herself. 

In a new novel as witty, sparkling, and poignant as her acclaimed Inside Out Girl, author Tish Cohen uncovers the humor and heart within the most dysfunctional of families. 

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form! 

Tour Participants:

Mailed to Melanie 7/2 DC# 9102128882300215248363

1    Melanie  ~ mailed 7/19 DC # 0310 0480 0002 3345 8179
2    JHS ~ mailed 7/31 DC # 03100480000340230095
3    Tracee  --  book lost in mail  --  tour ends here
4    Shon
5    Erika

6.   Valorie 

Reviews:

Melanie

JHS 

Wind Warrior by Cynthia Roberts

 
Wind Warrior
Author:  Cynthia Roberts
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Publication Date:  June 15, 2010
Donated by:  Cynthia Roberts, Author
Leslie Michaels is a visionary, and only those close to her know of her special gift and the visions that come when her mind and body surrender to sleep. Fate has a way of righting many wrongs, and for Leslie it is a destiny that changes her life dramatically. But not before she is forced to flee into the wilderness to escape a murderous trapper bent on claiming her for his very own. Faith and a strong will to survive are her only companions, until she encounters Winnokin, the handsome Seneca war chief who first came to her in her dreams. Not only does he prove to be her rescuer and protector, he teaches her that tragedy can breed happiness and the passion to live and love deeply once again. Wind Warrior plunges readers into the intimate depths of a relationship that unfolds like a live drama before their eyes while painting an insightful and intriguing portrait of Native Indian life in the 1800s. It is a story of longing, of a wanton need to survive all odds, and a love so strong it conquers human evil. Wind Warrior expresses with cunning words the simple, raw human emotions that hold readers spellbound and captivate their hearts.

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form! 

 

Tour Participants:

1.  Damaris - done
2.  Ashley - done
3.  Jessica (GA) - done
4.  Heather - done
5.  Laura  - done
6.  Jessica (CA)- rcv'd 10/5 - keeping book - review due by 10/29

Reviews:


Damaris - Good Choice Reading (DNF)
Ashley - Ashley's Bookshelf (DNF)
Jessica - On a Pale Star
Heather - Proud Book Nerd
Laura - Book Snob
Jessica - A Fanatic's Book Blog

My Name is Memory

 
My Name is Memory

Author:  Ann Brashares

Publication Date:  June 1, 2010

Publisher:  Riverhead

Donated By:  Stephanie (StephTheBookworm)

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Last Summer (of You and Me) comes an imaginative, inspired, magical book-a love story that lasts more than a lifetime.

Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name and form) have been drawn together-and he remembers it all. Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize souls of those he's previously known. It is a gift and a curse. For all the times that he and Sophia have been drawn together throughout history, they have also been torn painfully, fatally, apart. A love always too short.

Interwoven through Sophia and Daniel's unfolding present day relationship are glimpses of their expansive history together. From 552 Asia Minor to 1918 England and 1972 Virginia, the two souls share a long and sometimes torturous path of seeking each other time and time again. But just when young Sophia (now "Lucy" in the present) finally begins to awaken to the secret of their shared past, to understand the true reason for the strength of their attraction, the mysterious force that has always torn them apart reappears. Ultimately, they must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are ever to spend a lifetime together.

A magical, suspenseful, heartbreaking story of true love, My Name is Memory proves the power and endurance of a union that was meant to be. 

Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form! 

Tour Participants:

Stephanie mailed 7/21 ~ DC # 0309 3220 0002 3271 3731

1    Marcie    Loves2Read  --  DONE
2    Cindy    Oodles of Books  --  DONE
3    Val    Truth Be Told  --  DONE ---> Need review link
4    Leah    Amused by Books  - DONE
5    TIffany    Tiffany's Bookshelf  - DONE
6    Melissa    Coffee Books & Laundry - DONE
7    Loren    From The Heart of A Bookworm - DONE
8    Andrea    So Many Books, So Little Time - DONE
9    Michelle    Book Addict - rec'd 3/19; mail by 3/29
10    Heather    Proud Book Nerd

11.  Julie   Knitting & Sundries
12.  Jen    Crazy For Books

REVIEWS:

Do not have:

3    Val    Truth Be Told
6    Melissa    Coffee Books & Laundry - DID NOT READ
7    Loren    From The Heart of A Bookworm - DID NOT READ
10    Heather    Proudbooknerd
11    Jen    Crazy For Books

Panic Zone by Rick Mofina

 
The Panic Zone (Jack Gannon)
Author:  Rick Mofina
Publication Date:  June 29, 2010
Publisher:  Mira


Donated by:  PlannedTvArts

A car crashes in Wyoming: A young mother is thrown clear of the devastating car crash. Dazed, she sees a figure pull her infant son from the flames. Or does she? The police believe it's a case of trauma playing cruel tricks on the mind, until the night the grief-stricken woman hears a voice through the phone: "Your baby is alive."

A bomb explodes in a Rio de Janeiro café: The heinous act kills ten people, including two journalists with the World Press Alliance news agency. Jack Gannon's first international assignment is to find out whether his colleagues were innocent victims or targets who got too close to a huge story.

A Caribbean cruise ends in horror: Doctors are desperate to identify the mysterious cause of a cruise ship passenger's agonizing death. They turn to the world's top scientists, who fear that someone has resurrected their long-buried secret research. Research that is now being used as a deadly weapon.
With millions of lives at stake, experts work frantically against time. And as an anguished mother searches for her child and Jack Gannon pursues the truth, an unstoppable force hurls them all into the panic zone.

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• UPCOMING RELEASE - 10 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form! 

Tour Participants

Lori mailed to Heather 7/20 ~ DC # 9102 1288 8230 0244 2513 65

1.  Heather - rcv'd 7/26; mailed 8/9 DC# 03091140000075134862
2.  Betty  - rcv'd 8/14

REVIEWS:

1. Heather
2. Betty 

Leaving Rock Harbor

Leaving Rock Harbor

Author:  Rebecca Chace

Publication Date:  June 2010

Publisher:  Scribner

Donated By:  Jason from Brain Candy Book Reviews

An unforgettable coming-of-age story and a luminous portrayal of a dramatic era of American history, Rebecca Chace’s Leaving Rock Harbor takes readers into the heart of a New England mill town in the early twentieth century.

On the eve of World War I, fourteen-year-old Frankie Ross and her parents leave their simple life in Poughkeepsie to seek a new beginning in the booming city of Rock Harbor, Massachusetts. Frankie’s father finds work in a bustling cotton mill, but erupting labor strikes threaten to dismantle the town’s socioeconomic structure. Frankie soon befriends two charismatic young men—Winslow Curtis, privileged son of the town’s most powerful politician, and Joe Barros, a Portuguese mill worker who becomes a union organizer—forming a tender yet bittersweet love triangle that will have an impact on all three throughout their lives. Inspired in part by Chace’s family history, Frankie’s journey to adulthood takes us through the First World War and into the Jazz Age, followed by the Great Depression—from rags to riches and back again. Her life parallels the evolution of the mill town itself, and the lost promise of a boomtown that everyone thought would last forever.

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 14 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!

Tour Participants


Jason mailed 7/28:  DC# 03092880000023852396 

1.  JHS - done
2.  Laurie  - done - DNF

Reviews

JHS

Three Delays

Three Delays

Author:  Charlie Smith

Publication Date:  June 2010

Publisher:  Harper Perennial

368 pages

Donated By:  Harper Perennial

Billy Brent and Alice Stephens are star-crossed like all great lovers. Their need for each other drives them from Istanbul to Miami, Venice to Mexico. After years of encounters and escapes, they lose themselves deep in a desert wilderness, searching for a way forward, only to learn that sometimes the trail simply forks. 

From Charlie Smith, author of three New York Times Notable Books, comes his long-awaited new novel, his first in more than a decade. An exploration of the true particulars of obsession, Three Delays is a book of the spirit, of how broken people love and persist from darkness to darkness.

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 14 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!

 Tour Participants


1.  Cindy

Her Fearful Symmetry

Her Fearful Symmetry

Author:  Audrey Niffenegger 

Paperback Publication Date:  June 29, 2010

Publisher:  Scribner

406 pages 

Donated By:  Regal Literary, Inc.

Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls’ aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie. 

The girls move to Elspeth’s flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth’s elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including—perhaps—their aunt. 

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 14 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form! 

Tour Participants

1    Kathy ~ done
2    Carolina ~ done
3    Leah ~ done
4    Laura ~ mailed 9/29 DC # 0310 0480 0002 9075 5341
5    Tiffany
6    Patricia
7    Michelle
8    Julie

Reviews

Kathy:  Mommy's Reading
Carolina:
Leah:  Amused by Books
Laura: Booksnob
Tiffany:
Patricia:
Michelle:
Julie:

The Starlet

The Starlet

Author:  Mary McNamara

Publication Date:  June 8, 2010

Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks

Donated By:  Regal Literary, Inc. 

When Mercy Talbot, strung out on any number of controlled substances, jumps from the top of King Triton into a famous Roman fountain, paparazzi capture it all.  Only 23, Mercy has been a star since childhood, and the world has watched her many breakdowns and failed rehab stints. Now co-star and lover Lloyd Watson is dead in an “accident” —shutting down production on their film and sending Mercy back to the drugs.

Juliette Greyson rescues the sodden young actress from the fountain. PR head for  a posh L.A. hotel, Juliette is well versed in the care and feeding of high-strung celebrities.  Having survived her own dissolute phase,  she is sympathetic to Mercy’s plight, and whisks her away to Cerreta, the two-hundred acre family farm near Siena that she and her cousin, Gabe, inherited.

But when Juliette’s ex-lover, fabulous (and determinedly not aging) movie star Michael O’Connor joins the cast, shooting resumes, and Juliette’s vain attempt to keep Hollywood away crumbles like fresh biscotti.  The entire production moves from Rome to Siena, and entangled relationships and heightened emotions overrun idyllic Cerreta’s bucolic charms.  Then a police detective arrives from Rome to say they are reopening the investigation into Lloyd Watson’s death…

Equal parts Jackie Collins, Michael Tolkin and Sue Grafton, The Starlet is an insider’s account of life on a film set – complete with an aging rock star rehab guru, a sexy young producer, locals clamoring to meet the stars, and one very messed up actress.  Throw murder and a massive drug operation into the mix and you have every tabloid’s dream come true.

BONUS:

Regal Literary is offering a contest open to everyone with these fabulous prizes:

• A weekend getaway in Los Angeles, complete with two nights at the Four Seasons, a four-star lunch at the Beverly Hills hotel, a guided tour of Hollywood, and more!
• Four days and three nights in the rolling Tuscan countryside at Spannocchia, Italy, for you and a companion, half price tickets for two from New York to Rome, and more!
• 100 signed copies of The Starlet

To enter the contest, please visit http://www.marymcnamara.com/starletcontest.html.

• Tour Sign-ups Open to USA Residents; Leave your name, e-mail, and STATE abbreviation in the comments! 

• 14 DAY LIMIT PER PERSON!   

• Make sure to fill out the Blogger Sign-Up Form!

 Tour Participants


1.  Kari  - done
2.  Carol  - MIA
3.  Crystal - DNF

Reviews ~

Kari