Received some gift cards to the bookstore for my birthday and now I can't wait to start reading away...
The False Prince: Sage is a street-savvy orphan, and along with two other boys he is recruited by
Conner, a nobleman who wants to remake them in the image of their country’s lost
prince, a victim of pirates and presumed dead. The task is urgent, as the rest
of the royal family has been murdered and civil war seems imminent. As the boys,
chosen for their passing resemblance to Prince Jaron,who was killed by pirates, compete to assume a new
identity and the throne, Sage discovers some unpleasant truths about their host,
beyond his treasonous plans to pass one of them off as royalty.
Since taking this picture, I have read this book and it only took me three days. It was a page turner and had several plot twists...which I love! It is written for fourth to seventh grade level, but as an adult, I pleasantly surprised by the excellent twits that I didn't see them coming! It is actually a trilogy and after I finished this book, I headed straight to the library for the second book,
The Runaway King.
(Well, I really didn't run straight to the library. I had to wait a few days until it was bring a can for every dollar you owe on a library fine. i was glad to see that I wasn't the only one carry a sack full of non-perishable goods around that library that evening.)
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The Shoemaker's Wife:
The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Soon, Enza's family faces disaster and she, too, is forced to go to America with her father to secure their future.
Unbeknownst to one another, they both build fledgling lives in America, Ciro masters shoemaking and Enza takes a factory job in Hoboken until fate intervenes and reunites them. But it is too late: Ciro has volunteered to serve in World War I and Enza, determined to forge a life without him, begins her impressive career as a seamstress at the Metropolitan Opera House that will sweep her into the glamorous salons of Manhattan and into the life of the international singing sensation, Enrico Caruso.
I love epic novels that spans over many years...I think this may need to be my summer read! I can read with one hand and throw balls to Moose with the Sam-a-pult in the other hand!
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The Light Between Oceans:
After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom’s judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them.
My mom read this and said it was very interesting and grabs your attention...
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Reconstructing Amelia: Litigation lawyer and harried single mother Kate Baron is stunned when her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn, calls with disturbing news: her intelligent, high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, has been caught cheating.
Kate can't believe that Amelia, an ambitious, levelheaded girl who's never been in trouble would do something like that. But by the time she arrives at Grace Hall, Kate's faced with far more devastating news. Amelia is dead.
Seemingly unable to cope with what she'd done, a despondent Amelia has jumped from the school's roof in an act of "spontaneous" suicide. At least that's the story Grace Hall and the police tell Kate. And overwhelmed as she is by her own guilt and shattered by grief, it is the story that Kate believes until she gets the anonymous text:
She didn't jump.
Sifting through Amelia's emails, text messages, social media postings, and cell phone logs, Kate is determined to learn the heartbreaking truth about why Amelia was on Grace Hall's roof that day-and why she died.
This book is said to be the
Gone Girl book of this summer.
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The Twelve: A small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. In the second volume of this epic trilogy, this same group of survivors, led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals: the first offensives of the Second Viral War.
To do this, they must infiltrate a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the end of book one into a half human, half viral—but whose side, in the end, is she really on?
This is the second book of a trilogy. The first book, T
he Passage, is one of my top 5 books! I can't wait to read this one!!
Happy Reading!!!
