Showcase Sunday (1)

Welcome to Showcase Sunday, hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea. The aim of this event is to showcase our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed form the libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week. For more information about how this feature works and to join in, click here.

As you can see, I will no longer be participating in In My Mailbox due to the recent controversy. I'm not going to waste your time with it since I'm sure you have read about it all over the place, but I do just want to say that I am very, very disappointed in that particular blogger. Her site was one of my favorites and I'm sad to see what it has come to. Anyway, I've decided to start participating in Books, Biscuits. and Tea's new Sunday meme, Showcase Sunday!

Bought:

172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad

Revived by Cat Patrick

Thumped by Megan McCafferty

The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott

My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares

Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green

The Whole World Over by Julia Glass

The Slow Moon by Elizabeth Cox

The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld

Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman

The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits

This Is Not The Story You Think It Is by by Laura Munson

Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen

The Good Mother by Sue Miller

Flipped by Wendelin Van Drannen

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood

As you can see, I had quite the successful shopping week. I picked up three new releases that I've been anxious to read along with some other good looking books from Goodwill. The only problem with having a million books and having two Goodwills nearby is that I sometimes forget what books I already have. Once again I picked up a few duplicates. Bad for me, good for you since a few will probably be making their way into the box of books that I'm sending out to one lucky winner :)

For Review:

I Couldn't Love You More by Jillian Medoff

I am incredibly excited to have the chance to review this book. It looks like a book I would rush out to buy on release day and when I was asked to participate in a blog tour I jumped at the chance. I can't wait to sit down with it!!

Won:

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield - Thank you Random House!!!

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage - Thank you Penguin!

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan and Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick - Massive thanks to Nicole at The Book Bandit for these two awesome books that I've been wanting to read for way too long :)

Way To Go by Tom Ryan - Big thanks to Tom Ryan himself for sending me this lovely copy of his new book and also to Tracy Bilen for holding this fantastic giveaway!

The Atria International Book of Mysteries (sampler) - Thank you Atria!

The Good Dream by Donna VanLiere - Thank you St. Martin's Press!

Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge - Thank you Putnam Books!

Coming Up For Air by Patti Callahan Henry - Major thanks to Bless Their Hearts Mom, this has been on my wish list for way too long!

The Night Season by Chelsea Cain - Thank you to Tethered Mommy for a possible new author to obsess over!

Dead to You by Lisa McMann, The Story of Us by Deb Caletti and Where It Began by Ann Redisch Stampler - Biggest thanks go out to Shanyn at Chick Loves Lit for another fantastic giveaway. I was expecting three ARCs and instead the publisher sent me three brand spankin' new hardcovers! I did a seriously embarrassing happy dance when this came!

It has been an amazing week for books both read and received. I am incredibly thankful to all the wonderful authors, bloggers and publishers listed above that sent me these amazing goodies. I am also pretty thankful to my husband who works harder than anyone I know and doesn't say a word when I hit up three different bookstores and spend a little too much of his hard earned paycheck :)

What came for you this week? Leave me a link in the comments and I'll be sure to stop by and check it out!