New Blog Tour: On Maggie's Watch by Ann Wertz Garvin

On Maggie's Watch
Author:  Ann Wertz Garvin
Publication Date:  November 2010
Publisher:  Berkley Trade

Donated by:  Author

Maggie Finley has returned with her husband from the big city to her Wisconsin hometown, where she reunites with her best friend and awaits the any-minute-now birth of her baby. She's determined to create a safe haven on Hemlock Road, a neighborhood that has always meant security, community, and love. One way to do that: resurrect the defunct Neighborhood Watch program.

The Watch folks are mostly concerned with dog poop and litterbugs. But Maggie's done some digging and discovered a potential threat living just around the corner-a threat that must be eradicated. And the more Maggie tries to take control, the more out of control she gets...

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Participants:

Shonda (VA)
Amy (NY)

Reviews:

The King's Daughter by Christie Dickason

The King's Daughter by Christie Dickason
Publication Date: November 2010
Publisher: Harper

Donated By:  Molly E.

The daughter of James I, the Princess Elizabeth would not be merely her father's pawn in the royal marriage market.

The court of James I is a dangerous place, with factions led by warring cousins Robert Cecil and Francis Bacon. While Europe seethes with conflict between Protestants and Catholics, James sees himself as a grand peacemaker—and wants to make his mark by trading his children for political treaties.

Henry, Prince of Wales, and his sister, Elizabeth, find themselves far more popular than their distrusted father, a perilous position for a child of a jealous king. When Elizabeth is introduced to one suitor, Frederick, the Elector Palatine, she feels the unexpected possibility of happiness. But her fate is not her own to choose—and when her parents brutally withdraw their support for the union, Elizabeth must take command of her own future, with the help of an unexpected ally, the slave girl Tallie, who seeks her own, very different freedom.


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Participants:
Tiffany ~ Received 3/21; mail by 4/4  DC: 0310 2010 0000 8805 3061
Andrea ~ Received 4/1; mail by 4/15
Michelle ~ Received 4/18; mail by 5/2; mailed 5/20 DC# 0310 2010 0002 0325 5394
Heather

Reviews:

Rescue Me: A Novel by Anita Shreve

Rescue Me:  A Novel by Anita Shreve
Publication Date:  November 30, 2010
Publisher:  Little, Brown

Donated by:  Rebecca

A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage. Sheila Arsenault is a gorgeous enigma--streetwise and tough-talking, with haunted eyes, fierce desires, and a never-look-back determination. Peter Webster, as straight an arrow as they come, falls for her instantly and entirely. Soon Sheila and Peter are embroiled in an intense love affair, married, and parents to a baby daughter. Like the crash that brought them together, it all happened so fast.

Can you ever really save another person? Eighteen years later, Sheila is long gone and Peter is raising their daughter, Rowan, alone. But Rowan is veering dangerously off track, and for the first time in their ordered existence together, Webster fears for her future. His work shows him daily every danger the world contains, how wrong everything can go in a second. All the love a father can give a daughter is suddenly not enough.

Sheila's sudden return may be a godsend--or it may be exactly the wrong moment for a lifetime of questions and anger and longing to surface anew. What tore a young family apart? Is there even worse damage ahead? The questions lifted up in Anita Shreve's utterly enthralling new novel are deep and lasting, and this is a novel that could only have been written by a master of the human heart.


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Participants:
Heather
Tiffany

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NEEDED:
Heather
Tiffany

Cleopatra

Cleopatra
Author:  Stacy Schiff
Publication Date:  November 1, 2010
Publisher:  Little, Brown and Company

Donated by:  Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.

Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator.

Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and--after his murder--three more with his protégé. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since.

Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatra's supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff 's is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life.

TOUR COMPLETE - THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

Participants:

Emily - done

Jennifer A. - done

Holly - done

Tiffany - done

Michelle - done

Reviews:

Emily:  The Many Thoughts of a Reader

Jennifer A.:  Girls Gone Reading

Holly:  Bippity Boppity Book

Tiffany:  Tiffany's Bookshelf

Michelle:  True Book Addict

The Wolves of Andover

The Wolves of Andover

Author:  Kathleen Kent

Publication Date:  November 8, 2010

Publisher:  Reagan Arthur Books

Donated By:  Jennifer (Crazy-for-Books)

In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone. Thomas Carrier labors for the family and is known both for his immense strength and size and mysterious past. The two begin a courtship that suits their independent natures, with Thomas slowly revealing the story of his part in the English Civil War. But in the rugged new world they inhabit, danger is ever present, whether it be from the assassins sent from London to kill the executioner of Charles I or the wolves-in many forms-who hunt for blood. A love story and a tale of courage, The Wolves of Andover confirms Kathleen Kent's ability to craft powerful stories of family from colonial history. 

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Participants

Jen mailed to Ashley DC# 9102128882300523370435 (1/24)

Ashley - mailed 2/7 DC# 0310 2640 0000 4617 5014

Katy - mailed 2/22 DC# 9102 1501 3471 1597 8009 18

Holly - mailed 3/11 DC# 03092880000137131660

Natalie ~ received 3/14; mail by 3/21

Michelle (end)

Reviews

Ashley - DNF
Michelle - 

Cross Fire

Cross Fire (Alex Cross)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Publication Date:  November 15, 2010

Donated by:  JHS (Colloquium)


Wedding bells ring
Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante?

A murderer returns

The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess.

Caught in a lethal cross fire 

As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action, deception, and suspense, Cross Fire is James Patterson's most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.

TOUR COMPLETE - THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

Participants:

Betty - done
Kendall - done
Jileen - done

Reviews
Betty
Kendall
Jilleen

An Object of Beauty

An Object of Beauty

Author:  Steve Martin

Publisher:  Hachette

Publication Date:  November 2010

292 pages

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.

TOUR CLOSED!

Tour Participants:

Jen mailed to Steph:  DC# 9102785091401592816334 (7/12):

1.  Stephanie  - done
2.  Teresa - done

Reviews:

1. Stephanie - StephTheBookworm

2. Teresa - Teresa's Reading Corner