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In My Mailbox 7.22.09

I think I've finally discovered the appropriate meme I've been looking for!

I am "stealing" this from The Story Siren. If you want to find out more about it click
here . Anyway, these are books I got this week at the bookstore, library, and in the mail, of course.

Last week I received in my mailbox three books! I am very excited!

For Review:

Thanks to Bostick Communications, I received a personally signed copy of "Elemental Shaman: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Humanity, Spirituality & Ecology". Thank you!

From Amazon.com...

"This fascinating true story chronicles one man's journey into the mysteries of spiritual consciousness and the indigenous healing practices of four shamanistic traditions: Toltec, Cherokee, Maya, and Buddhist.
In his travels around the globe, Rosales witnesses the powerful channeled spirit Niño Fidencio, receives messages and healing from a Toltec shaman, and experiences a dramatic soul retrieval from a Cherokee spiritwalker. Rosales travels to Guatemala, where he meets a Mayan high priestess, or a'j' r'ij, and the secret brotherhoods called cofradias, whose mission is to guard Maximón, the last living Mayan god. Rosales's last journey is to Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, where he spends time with a holy lama."

Again,thanks to Bostick Communications, I received a copy of "Sugar Time" by Jane Adams. Thank you!

From Amazon.com...
"What if you got one last chance at both love and success but getting one meant giving up the other? Sugar Kane hasn't created a hit TV series in years but now she's older, wiser, and ready to prove she can still deliver — unless her young, scheming assistant doesn't steal her new show out from under her. Then Sugar faces a crisis that threatens her career, her health, and the unconditional love she's finally found, long after she stopped hoping she ever would."
Won:
I won a copy of "The Imposter's Daughter" from Sheila at One Person's Journey Through a World of Books.

From Amazon.com...

"In this delightfully composed graphic novel, journalist Sandell (Glamour) illustrates a touchingly youthful story about a daughter's gushing love for her father. Using a winning mixture of straightforward comic-book illustrations with a first-person diarylike commentary, Sandell recounts the gradual realization from her young adulthood onward that her charming, larger-than-life Argentine father, bragging of war metals, degrees from prestigious universities and acquaintances with famous people, had lied egregiously to his family about his past and accomplishments. Growing up with her two younger sisters and parents first in California, then in Bronxville, N.Y., the author records signs along the way that her father, a professor of economics with a volatile temperament and autocratic manner, was hiding something, from his inexplicable trips out of town, increasing paranoid isolation, early name change from Schmidt to Sandell, to massive credit-card fraud."

From the library:

"Suspense and Sensibility"
"Cotillion"

I am very much excited to read these books.

Definitely look up Sheila at One Person's Journey Through a World of Books. She has an amazing blog and is always reading something interesting. Thank you Sheila for the book!

Until next week — Happy Reading!

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In My Mailbox 7.22.09 + TIME