Mailbox Monday, July 13, 2009

Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. Here is what it is all about.

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

RECEIVED VIA BACK POCKET MONEY :)
When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
Edited by Norman R. Yetman




From the jacket flap:

Thirty-four gripping testimonies are included, with all slave occupations represented-from field hand and cook to French tutor and seamstress. Personal treatment reported by these individuals also encompassed a wide range-from the most harsh and exploitive to living and working conditions that werre intimate and benevolent.

All for the Union, The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

From the jacket flap:

All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23 year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Runn to Appomattox. (excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War.

The Slaves' War by Andrew Ward
"This is a riveting book" quote by Ken Burns.

From the jacket flap:

...here is the Civil War as seen from not only battlefields, capitals, and camps, but also slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, farms, towns, and swamps. Speaking in a quintessentially American language of wit, candor, and biblical power, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to vivid life.

ARCs RECEIVED:

The Widow's War by Mary Mackey
Publication Date: 9/1/09

From the jacket flap:

In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant when her fiancé, abolitionist Dr. William Saylor, disappears. Grieving and desperate, Carrie is easy prey for William's stepbrother, Deacon Presgrove, who convinces her that William is dead-and offers to marry her to give her baby a father.

South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Tentative publication date 9/15/09

See patconroy.com for more information

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Hardcover)
William Kamkwamba (Author)
Bryan Mealer (Author)
25.90
October, 2009
978-0-06-173032-0


From the jacket flap:
He was mocked and called misala-crazy. But young William Kamkwamba struggled against the odds to fulfill a dream that would change his life in Malawi, a famine-stricken, landlocked nation on the southeastern tip of Africa. With the help of his best friend and the support of his father, William forged a handmade contraption that created ..."electric wind"..." "William has become a worldwide sensation, offereing hope, opportunity, and inspiration to millions everywhere."

William says..."If you want to make it, all you have to do is try--"

The Last Day: A Novel
James Landis
Steerforth (2009),
Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date 2009
ISBN 1586421654/9781586421656



From the jacket flap:
....the spellbinding story of Warren Harlan Pease, a young US Army sniper freshly returned from the Iraq War to his native New Hampshire. What follows is a page-turning adventure that is also a powerful and poetic meditation on religion and war, love and loss."

Hope you enjoy your week. I also went on a spending spree thanks to the BEA event I read about on The Devourer of Books blog. Thanks Jen...I spent oodles. I'll post some pictures tomorrow. LOL I must be nuts.