Mailbox Monday (on Tuesday)

Another Monday, Another Mailbox! This is a feature where we all share with each other the yummy books that showed up at our doors. WARNING: Mailbox Mondays can lead to extreme envy and GINORMOUS wishlists!

Mailbox Monday, originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page and now located here, is now a traveling meme and for the month of June the new host for MM will be Mari @ Bluestocking's Thoughts on Books.

Hey everyone!  I'm a little late with my Mailbox Monday post, but I assure you it was for a good cause.  My new book tour company, Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours, has really taken off and been keeping me quite busy lately, but I have to admit that I am really enjoying myself!  

This past week I received three new books, two of which are for tours that I am working on and the third is the new novel by Elizabeth Chadwick, which I have been dying to read!

by Elizabeth Chadwick

Release Date:  September 1, 2011

SYNOPSIS

Royal wives and royal widows, Queen Adeliza and her stepdaughter, Empress Matilda, are the only two women to be titled "Lady of the English," a title that does not come cheap. Adeliza, widowed queen and peacemaker, is married to a warrior who supports Stephen, grandson of the Conqueror. Matilda, daughter of the last king and a fierce fighter, is determined to win her inheritance against all odds and despite all men, including Stephen. Both are women who, in their different ways, will stand and fight for what they know is right. But for Matilda, pride comes before a fall. And for Adeliza, even the deepest love is no proof against fate.

by Melanie McDonald

Publication Date:  March 11, 2011

SYNOPSIS

Eros and Thanatos converge in the story of a glorious youth, an untimely death, and an imperial love affair that gives rise to the last pagan god of antiquity. In this coming-of-age novel set in the second century AD, Antinous of Bithynia, a Greek youth from Asia Minor, recounts his seven-year affair with Hadrian, fourteenth emperor of Rome. In a partnership more intimate than Hadrian s sanctioned political marriage to Sabina, Antinous captivates the most powerful ruler on earth both in life and after death.

This version of the affair between the emperor and his beloved ephebe vindicates the youth scorned by early Christian church fathers as a shameless and scandalous boy and sordid and loathsome instrument of his master s lust. EROMENOS envisions the personal history of the young man who achieved apotheosis as a pagan god of antiquity, whose cult of worship lasted for hundreds of years far longer than the cult of the emperor Hadrian. 

In EROMENOS, the young man Antinous, whose beautiful image still may be found in works of art in museums around the world, finds a voice of his own at last.

by Sandra Byrd

Release Date:  August 9, 2011

SYNOPSIS

To Die For, is the story of Meg Wyatt, pledged forever as the best friend to Anne Boleyn since their childhoods on neighboring manors in Kent. When Anne’s star begins to ascend, of course she takes her best friend Meg along for the ride. Life in the court of Henry VIII is thrilling at first, but as Anne’s favor rises and falls, so does Meg’s. And though she’s pledged her loyalty to Anne no matter what the test, Meg just might lose her greatest love—and her own life—because of it.  

Meg's childhood flirtation with a boy on a neighboring estate turns to true love early on. When he is called to follow the Lord and be a priest she turns her back on both the man and his God. Slowly, though, both woo her back through the heady times of the English reformation. In the midst of it, Meg finds her place in history, her own calling to the Lord that she must follow, too, with consequences of her own. Each character in the book is tested to figure out what love really means, and what, in this life, is worth dying for.

Though much of Meg’s story is fictionalized, it is drawn from known facts. The Wyatt family and the Boleyn family were neighbors and friends, and perhaps even distant cousins. Meg’s brother, Thomas Wyatt, wooed Anne Boleyn and ultimately came very close to the axe blade for it. Two Wyatt sisters attended Anne at her death, and at her death, she gave one of them her jeweled prayer book—Meg. 

That's my mailbox...what goodies came your way?


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8 comments:

  1. Amy what a beautiful box you have LOL! Good ones man I got the Chadwick one and I can not wait for it. Enjoy them Amy.

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  2. I am especially intrigued by To Die For as the synopsis clearly explains Meg's story. While watching the series, The Tudors, many things were unclear. I loved the series and it only made me yearn to read even more about the Tudors. I would love to read this book!
    Connie Fischer
    conniecape@aol.com

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  3. Oh Eromenos sounds delish! Enjoy yit an dI look forward to your review.

    Yea!!!! for the HFVBT taking off like crazy bananas! I am very happy for you.

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  4. Wow, these all look interesting. Happy reading!

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  5. Wow, they all sound delicious! I am looking forward to reading the new EC. I`m a bit tired of the Tudors but `To Die For` sound intriguing.

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  6. Wow, these books look great! Love the new Elizabeth Chadwick cover. I know you are thrilled with your books. I sure would be. =O)

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  7. You've got some great ones here. To Die For really intrigues me. Enjoy!
    2 Kids and Tired Books

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