This week, I obained nine new books to add to be TBR pile. Two books were sent to me for review, two books were purchased at Barnes and Noble, three books were ordered used from Alibris, and two books were purchased from Joseph-Beth Booksellers (my local independent shop).
Title: The White Forest
Author: Adam McOmber
Publication Date: 11 September 2012
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Pages: 303
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Cover: Hardback
Price: $25.00 US/$28.99 Canada
Free Review Copy Provided by: Simon and Schuster
From the inside flap, "Young Jane Silverlake lives with her father in a crumbling family estate on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secret - an unexplainable gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objects - and this talent isolates her from the outside world. Her greatest joy is wandering the wild heath with her neighbors, Madeline and Nathan. But as the friends come of age, their idyll is shattered by the feelings both girls develop for Nathan, and by Nathan's interest in a cult led by Ariston Day, a charasmatic mystic popular with London's elite. Day encourages his followers to explore dream manipulation with the goal of discovering a strange, hidden world, a place he calls the Empyrean. A year later, Nathan has vanished, and the famed Inspector Vidocq arrives in London to untangle the events that led up to Nathan's disappearance. As a sinister truth emerges, Jane realizes she must discover the origins of her talent, and use it to find Nathan herself, before it's too late."
Title: After the Rising
Author: Orna Ross
Publication Date: 16 January 2012
Publisher: Font Publications
Pages: 293
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Cover: Paperback
Price: $11.99 Paperback/$4.50 Kindle Edition
Free Review Copy Provided by: Orna Ross
From the back flap: "Jo Devereaux returns to Mucknamore, the seaside Irish village she fled twenty years before, and astonishes herself by agreeing to her mother's dying request that she should stay on and write a family history. Family pride has caused Jo nothing but heartreak - and shattered her relationship with Rory O'Donovan, the only man she ever truly loved. In unearthing seventy-year old secrets of love and revenge in a time of war, and a killing that has haunted three generations, Jo reveals some astonishing truths, not only about her mother and her grandmother, but also about herself and Rory, who still lives in the village. Could a reluctant mission to exhume the past actually redeem Jo's future?"
Title: The Princes of Ireland
Series: Book One of The Dublin Saga
Author: Edward Rutherfurd
Publication Date: 1 March 2005
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages: 765
Genre: Historical Fiction
Cover: Paperback
Price: $11.53 Paperback / $12.99 Kindle Edition
Purchased from: Alibris
From the back flap, "Brilliantly weaving impeccable historical research with stirring storytelling, Edward Rutherfurd explores our shared Cletic roots in a magnificent epic of Ireland spanning eleven centuries. While vividly conveying the passions and struggles that shaped particularly the character of Dublin, Rutherfurd portrays the major events in Irish history: the tribal culture of pagan Ireland; the mission of St. Patrick; the coming of the Vikings; the making of treasures like the Book of Kells; and the trickery of Henry II, which gave England its first foothold in medieval Ireland. Through the interlocking stories of a memorable cast of characters - druids and chieftains, monks and smugglers, noblewomen and farmwives, laborers and orphans, rebels and cowards - Rutherfurd captures the essence of a place and its people in a thrilling story steeped in the tragedy and glory that are Ireland."
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Publication Date: 31 December 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pages: 367
Genre: Classical Literature
Cover: Paperback
Price: $8.00 US / $10.00 Canada
Purchased from: www.bn.com
From the back flap, "When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lovely mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life."
