Mailbox Monday August 1, 2011

It's Monday again! Time for another Mailbox Monday post. Mailbox Monday is the creation of Marcia from A Girl and Her Books. The meme is on tour and this month's host is Staci at Life in the Thumb. Visit Staci's blog and check it out.

I received two books this week for review. Both books look very good. One is the first book in a new series and the other is a book of short stories, something very different for me. Also I am hosting a giveaway this month, my very first so be sure to check that out too.

Southern Fried Women by Pamela King Cable

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Satya House Publications (August 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935874071
ISBN-13: 978-1935874072

Pamela King Cable has woven together the music, the language, the religions, and the traditions of the South. The result is Southern Fried Women, a collection of nine short stories about Southern women, and a few men, struggling to find answers to unanswerable questions, hoping for forgiveness, seeking righteousness, and questioning the existence of God in their lives. Cable writes Southern fiction in the true spirit of the rural South. She can ruffle the feathers of the most stoic, mess with the beliefs of the strictest fundamentalists, and reel you into her stories like a stubborn catfish meant for the fryer. In stories with themes ranging from flea markets to coal mine strikes, once you have met her Southern Fried Women, they will be with you forever.

Thank you Julia at Satya House Publications

Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer


Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (August 30, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031253955X
ISBN-13: 978-0312539559

From the internationally bestselling author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in an ambitious new series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph.

The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1920, with the words “I was told that my father was killed in the war.” A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he’s left school. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys’ school, and his life will never be the same again.

As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line?

This introductory novel in Archer’s ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler’s Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined.

Thank you to Ashley at St. Martin's Press

I am giving away three copies of Only Time Will Tell so be sure to check out the giveaway here. Enter on my giveaway post. The giveaway is open to US/Canada and ends August 19 at midnight. Go enter!

What wonderful books made their way into your home?