Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page, but for the month of September MM is on tour and hosted by Kathy at Bermudaonion Weblog.
Hey everyone! How's this Monday finding you? Me, I am still on the prowl for a job and thankfully a few packages came my way last week from publishers to bring a wee smile to my face. I also picked up a few at my local Goodwill store.

by Annemarie Selinko
Release Date: October 1, 2010
SYNOPSIS: To be young, in France, and in love: fourteen year old Desiree can't believe her good fortune. Her fiance, a dashing and ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte, is poised for battlefield success, and no longer will she be just a French merchant's daughter. She could not have known the twisting path her role in history would take, nearly breaking her vibrant heart but sweeping her to a life rich in passion and desire.
A love story, but so much more, Désirée
An epic bestseller that has earned both critical acclaim and mass adoration, Désirée

by Susan Fletcher
Release Date: November 15, 2010
SYNOPSIS: A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland, and the portrait of an unforgettable heroine accused of witchcraft.
February 13, 1692. Thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clan's hospitality. Many more die from exposure. Forty miles south, the captivating Corrag is imprisoned for her involvement in the massacre. Accused of witchcraft and murder, she awaits her death. Lonesome, she tells her story to Charles Leslie, an Irish propagandist who seeks information to condemn the Protestant King William, rumored to be involved in the massacre. Hers is a story of passion, courage, love, and the magic of the natural world. By telling it, she transforms both their lives.
And here is what I picked up at Goodwill...
by Keith Donohue
Moving from a realistic setting in small-town America deep into the forest of humankind’s most basic desires and fears, this remarkable novel is a haunting fable about identity and the illusory innocence of childhood.
by Arthur Golden
We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha
The Blood of Flowers
by Anita Amirrezvani
SYNOPSIS: Both a sweeping love story and a luminous portrait of a city, THE BLOOD OF FLOWERS
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
SYNOPSIS: Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.
Well, that's my mailbox....what about yours?

That's a great book haul from Goodwill - congrats! I'm very interested in "Corrag" - I had definitely not heard of it before and it looks great!
ReplyDeleteKatherine
Historical Fiction Notebook
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I read Blood of Flowers years ago and thought it was an excellent read.
ReplyDeleteCorrag sounds wonderful. The books from Goodwill are a perfect haul - a rug maker from Isfahan and Virginia Woolf! Have a good week.
ReplyDeleteJealous! I so wanted Desiree - but I was just to late. I hope you really love it!
ReplyDeleteOh Amy, I LOVED Memoirs of Geisha!I hope you enjoy it too!
ReplyDeleteLove the cover of Desiree!
Desiree! Oh, that's one I need to revisit -- I haven't read it since I was, like, 14!
ReplyDeleteI like the sound of Corrag, and thanks for the recommendation of Blood of Flowers Marg, that appeals to me too.
ReplyDeleteDeborah
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I'm all over Corrag! Witches and Scotland....oh stop. too much. Every time I visit this blog my floors dip a bit more from the weight of books. They are going to find me buried under a pile of books.
ReplyDeleteIt's been several years since I read it, but I remember loving Memoirs of a Geisha. Enjoy your new books!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous haul! Corrag sounds especially good to me too. And well Mrs. Dalloway is definitely worth reading (and then read The Hours, if you haven't already.) Enjoy your books!
ReplyDeleteI loved Memoirs of aa Geisha and Mrs Dalloway - enjoy
ReplyDeleteWow, they all sound good. How are you ever going to decide which to read first?
ReplyDeleteLOVED Memoirs of a Geisha. The unfortunately sucked big time.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Dalloway has been on my list forever, so I look forward to your thoughts.
Corrag sounds awfully familiar...hope it's as good as the description. Enjoy all of your lovely reads my friend :)
Great mailbox hun, Memoirs is one of my favorites! So detailed and beautiful, enjoy it.
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