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Stuff and Nonsense

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

While I was away...

...I didn't receive as many books as I expected to.  But what I did get was amazing, and I can hardly wait to start reading!

Here's what was waiting for me when I returned from my vacation:





Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis (Soho Press hardcover, 9 September 2014).

Publisher's summary:

Greenwich Village, 1970s: Rainey Royal, fourteen years old, talented, and troubled, lives in a once-elegant, now decaying brownstone with her father, a jazz musician with a cultish personality. Her mother has abandoned the family, and Rainey fends off advances from her father’s best friend while trying desperately to nurture her own creative drives and create a substitute family. She’s a rebel, even a criminal, but she’s also deeply vulnerable, fighting to figure out how to put back in place the boundaries her life has knocked down, and more than that, struggling to learn how to be an artist and a person in a broken world.


Juliet's Nurse by Lois Leveen (Atria/Emily Bestler hardcover, 23 September 2014).

Publisher's summary:

In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappellettis’ darkest secrets. Those secrets—and the nurse’s deep personal grief—erupt across five momentous days of love and loss that destroy a daughter, and a family. 


The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5) by Tana French (Viking hardcover, 2 September 2014).

Publisher's summary:

Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin’s Murder Squad—and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. “The Secret Place,” a board where the girls at St. Kilda’s School can pin up their secrets anonymously, is normally a mishmash of gossip and covert cruelty, but today someone has used it to reignite the stalled investigation into the murder of handsome, popular Chris Harper. Stephen joins forces with the abrasive Detective Antoinette Conway to find out who and why.


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