Mailbox Monday – November 24, 2008

Nov 24th, 2008

The best part of Monday is Mailbox Monday – a weekly event hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. Here are the goodies that showed up in my mailbox this week:

The Lost City of Z, by David Graunn arrived as an Advance Reader’s Edition from Doubleday. This nonfiction adventure book is Grann’s account of the mystery surrounding Percy Fawcett’s disappearance during his quest for the Lost City of Z – an ancient civilization believed to be hidden deep within the Amazon. The book is due for release in February 2009.

After the Floods, by Bruce Henricksen arrived directly from the author. Published earlier this year, the novel begins in post-Katrina New Orleans and moves to a small Minnesota town which has suffered its own devastating flood. Billed as “lyrical, funny, sad, and thoroughly engaging,” it is a novel I am looking forward to reading.

Breathing Out The Ghost, by Kirk Curnutt also arrived from the author via TLC Book Tours (the tour is scheduled for January 2009). First published by River City Publishing in 2007, the novel is a psychological, noir thriller centered around a father’s search for the man he believes is responsible for his son’s disappearance. Stewart O’Nan writes (on the book jacket): “Curnutt knows how loss can curdle and turn into obsession, and how far off-track a man can go searching for what he thinks is justice.”