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 was originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page and now located here, but is now a traveling meme and for the month of July your new host for MM will be Gwen @ A Sea of Books.
Mailbox Monday was originally hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page and now located here, but is now a traveling meme and for the month of July your new host for MM will be Gwen @ A Sea of Books.
Bonjour, dear readers and welcome to yet another edition of Mailbox Monday! I have two new books that I received for review and both look particularly enticing!
by Gabrielle Kimm
Release Date: October 1, 2011
SYNOPSIS
The chilling story of Lucrezia de Medici, duchess to Alfonso d'Este, His
Last Duchess paints a portrait of a lonely young girl and her marriage
to an inscrutable duke. Lucrezia longs for love, Alfonso desperately
needs an heir, and in a true story of lust and dark decadence, the
dramatic fireworks the marriage kindles threaten to destroy the duke's
entire inheritance–and Lucrezia's future. His Last Duchess gorgeously
brings to life the passions and people of sixteenth-century Tuscany and
Ferrara.
by Jane Aiken Hodge
Release Date: August 1, 2011
SYNOPSIS
An internationally bestselling phenomenon and queen of the Regency romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists of our time. She wrote more than 50 novels, yet her private life was inaccessible to any but her nearest friends and relatives.
Lavishly illustrated, and with access to private papers, correspondence and family archives, this classic biography opens a window into Georgette Heyer's world and that of her most memorable characters, revealing a formidable, energetic woman with an impeccable sense of style and, beyond everything, a love for all things Regency.
Well, that's my mailbox...what about yours?
Hi, Amy! I wish my mailbox was as full of goodies as yours. I love Georgette Heyer's books and now having a book to tell us about the author herself is terrific. While I am a huge fan of fiction, this is the type of non-fiction that appeals to me. Thank you for the heads-up about this upcoming book. I know I shall enjoy reading it.
ReplyDeleteConnie Fischer
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Georgette Heyer looks so sad on that cover...
ReplyDeleteI haven't decided if I want to read His Last Duchess yet. Isn't Alfonso the duke in The Second Duchess? So doesn't that mean that Lucrezia was not his last duchess? I read so many books, sometimes they run together!
ReplyDelete"His Last Duchess" sounds so good! I'll have to add that to my "to read" list.
ReplyDeleteHis Last Duchess has such a gorgeous cover!
ReplyDeleteThat Georgette Heyer bio sounds terrific, but you asked about my mailbox, so...I'm reading the Ron Hansen historical that More magazine recommended as one of its 35 great summer reads, a 1920's noir called "A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion".
ReplyDeleteNext Monday, August 1 I'll be hosting Ron Hansen at my blog. Ron wrote the book that the movie "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" is based upon. Join me to learn how Ron's latest title came about on August 1at http://www.stephaniebarko.com/blog.
I got His Last Duchess, too! It looks so good.
ReplyDeleteI got the Last Duchess as well. Would be interesting to read about Heyer's life. Look forward to what you think about it.
ReplyDeleteMy mailbox is here: http://tbfreviews.net/2011/07/25/mailbox-monday-07-25-11/
Enjoy your latest books!
The biography is a new one for me! I haven't seen it anywhere. Looks gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThe synopsis of the novel, "His Last Duchess" sounds like it could be sad in some ways. During that time period, many young girls were bartered into marriage not knowing what their lives would be like. I enjoy reading and learning more and more about this time in history. It shows how far we have come in just a couple hundred years and makes me wonder where we will be in that amount of time in the future.
ReplyDeleteConnie Fischer
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Two good books.
ReplyDeleteThe Georgette Heyer book should be most interesting.
can't wait to hear what you think of the heyer biography!
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