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Comments for In My Mailbox: August 29, 2010
In My Mailbox: August 29, 2010: 08/28/10
The idea behind IMM was not only to put new books on your radar but to also encourage blogger interaction. IMM explores the weekly contents of my mailbox & books bought. And sometimes other fun goodies.
Anyone can participate in IMM and you are not limited to only sharing books that arrive via your mailbox. You can also share books that you've bought or books that you've gotten at the library.
I received some books for review, purchased two and got one as a gift.
The Eleventh Hour Can't Last Forever by Alison Johnson (received from author)
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Two tons of silver and gold coins, hundreds of thousands of nickels, dimes, quarters, and gold pieces. They were under our beds, in the kitchen cupboards, up in the attics, in the bottom of dresser drawers, in holes in the ground. My father was obsessed with gathering up these coins and hiding them away in any likely spot in the houses and garages and store buildings he owned in our tiny town on the mid-Western prairie. Nothing could shake his belief that the total collapse of the American economy and government was just around the corner, a collapse that would bring anarchy and rioting in the streets.
With this shadow of Armageddon always hanging over him, Dad believed that he could save his family from disaster only by collecting as much gold and silver as he could lay his hands on.
Vanished: Morlah's Quest by David Daigle (received from the author)
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An Epic Fantasy Adventure Morlah the Druid suddenly awakes from over six hundred years of Druid Sleep to find the entire community of the Druid Keep in Parintia gone. The Elven capitol city of Mildra is deserted. Everyone he knows has died while he was in his slumbers, except his chief nemesis, the Black Mage, Daektoch. He seeks comfort among the remaining Elves before going off in search of answers. The Dwarves refuse him, Breezon is a ruined city, and the provincial capitol is not far behind. Star, a prostitute from Breezon, flees the city to avoid hanging for killing a customer who beat her. She makes for Heros, but trouble soon finds the one who is carrying the Elfstones that the Druid needs. Easom, a young Druid from Breezon, seeks the Elfstone that will lead them to soiccat, the stone needed to restore the lost population of Mildra. He travels with three Dwarves, and his trials become pivotal to the resolution of the tale. Also, a unique and unexpected ending for our beloved villain, Daektoch.
How to Crash a Killer Bash by Penny Warner (purchased)
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Presley Parker is hosting a Murder Mystery party thrown by a notorious yet benevolent curator, Mary lee Miller. But when the role play becomes terrifyingly real, and Mary Lee is found dead, Presley kicks her sleuthing into high gear-only to find that someone wants the life of the party dead too...
Gallop by Rufus Butler Seder (purchased)
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There's never before been a book like Gallop! Employing a patented new technology called Scanimation, each page is a marvel that brings animals, along with one shining star, to life with art that literally moves. It's impossible not to flip the page, and flip it again, and again, and again.
A first book of motion for kids, it shows a horse in full gallop and a turtle swimming up the page. A dog runs, a cat springs, an eagle soars, and a butterfly flutters. Created by Rufus Butler Seder, an inventor, artist, and filmmaker fascinated by antique optical toys, Scanimation is a state-of-the-art six-phase animation process that combines the "persistence of vision" principle with a striped acetate overlay to give the illusion of movement. It harkens back to the old magical days of the kinetoscope, and the effect is astonishing, like a Muybridge photo series springing into action—or, in terms kids can relate to, like a video without a screen.
Hidden Walks in the East Bay & Marin by Stephen Altschuler (birthday gift from my mother)
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Thirty walking tours in the San Francisco Bay Area. The tours follow paths, lanes, stairways, and streets. Walkers encounter creeks, waterfalls, redwood groves, and enchanting homes that blend into the landscape. Commentary on architecture, local & regional history, and flora and fauna. Half the tours have added historical essays. Each tour has a detailed map.
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