Mailbox Monday, 5/24/10

Here’s the Wonders and Marvels entry for Mailbox Monday, over at The Printed Page blog.

Books we received this past week:

The Finger: A Handbook, By Angus Trumble, (Farrar, Strauss Giroux)

Eleanor the Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine, By Norah Lofts (Touchstone)

The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War, By Roy Morris (Oxford UP)

The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge: A Novel, By Patricia Duncker (Bloomsbury)

The Pindar Diamond: A Novel, By Katie Hickman (Bloomsbury)

Such Men as These: The Story of the Navy Pilots Who Flew the Deadly Skies over Korea, By David Sears (Da Capo)

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, By Bruce Watson (Viking)

Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster, By Jonathan Eig (Simon & Schuster)

Hitler’s Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, By Sidney Kirkpatrick (Simon & Schuster)

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici: A Novel, By C.W.Gortner, (Random House)

An Unlikely Prince: The Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli, By Niccolo Capponi, (Da Capo)

A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke, By James Horn, (Basic Books)

At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union, By Robert V.Remini, (Basic Books)

Enjoy!

Share this:

• Share

• Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
• Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
• Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)