Mailbox Monday, July 24

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It's been a long time since I've done a Mailbox Monday post, but I've gotten some fun arrivals, so I thought I'd share.

Have you gotten your hands on any of these? What new arrivals are you excited about?



The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle



The Velveteen Daughter by Laurel Davis Huber
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa



Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon



Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker



The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
Yesterday by Felicia Yap

Comments

  1. Laura at Library of Clean ReadsJuly 24, 2017 at 8:56 AM

    What a great mailbox! I'm curious about several of your titles, especially The City of Brass. Enjoy your new books!

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  2. bermudaonionJuly 24, 2017 at 9:14 AM

    I have a couple of those and would like a couple more, like The Velveteen Daughter. Enjoy!

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  3. MysticaJuly 24, 2017 at 12:41 PM

    You have a gorgeous mailbox. Enjoy them all.

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  4. ElizabethJuly 24, 2017 at 9:49 PM

    The Velveteen Daughter and A Secret Sisterhood are catching my eye. :)

    I read Emma in the Night. I enjoyed it, but it has ODD characters. I hope you like it.

    Nice mailbox....ENJOY!!

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My Mailbox Monday

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  5. MGJuly 25, 2017 at 9:08 AM

    I just finished Joan Ashby and liked it. A writer mus re-find herself 9and her craft) after the children are gone and the marriage isn't working.
    I have an ARC Anatomy of a Scandal in my stack for August. Of the ones I don't have, Little Fires. But really, I like the sound of almost all of these.
    congrats on a fine mailbox!

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  6. Mary (Bookfan)July 25, 2017 at 12:31 PM

    Really curious about the Velveteen Daughter.

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  7. Martha EskuchenJuly 25, 2017 at 9:31 PM

    Really nice mailbox! I like the look of The City of Brass. Glad you linked at MM. Happy Reading!

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  8. Jenny @ Reading the EndJuly 28, 2017 at 10:38 AM

    Ooh, wonderful haul! I'm so so SO excited for Unkindness of Ghosts in particular. I am in a reading slump right now so I haven't started it yet but soon!

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