Mailbox Monday - February 9

Mailbox Monday is a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week. It now has a permanent home at the Mailbox Monday blog.

Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles, and humongous wish lists.

Guess what? It is snowing again. The kids are home again. The hubby is home again. Can I just say something? I am ready for spring! I love my family being home, but the kids have had only one full week of school since Christmas break ended. It is getting a bit crazy.

Good thing the mailman is still able to get through. Here's what he brought me. The first one is for a virtual book tour. The second is something I won.

Combining the best of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth, and Moberg's The Emigrants, Lindberg's saga spans nearly a millennium beginning with the last of the Crusades... nineteenth-century Norse immigrants to America...cultural acclimatization...struggle to maintain their faith in an increasingly hostile climate... A connecting thread throughout the saga...three interlocking golden Rings... (from the Forward by John Eidsmoe)

The owner of the Novel Idea Literary Agency is thrilled when former local boy and popular television show host Damian York returns to Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, to launch his new gardening book. But Lila is less than excited about the hubbub when she sees her mounting to-do list. Between planning York’s gala and sprucing up her yard for another event, she’s spread too thin—especially after she finds a skull buried in her flowerbeds.

As Lila’s macabre discovery leads to other secrets hidden in Inspiration Valley’s past, a member of the local garden club is found slumped over her prize roses—murdered. Now it’s up to Lila to dig through old mysteries and new clues to unearth a murderer before someone else is found pushing up daisies…

What did you receive this week?