Mondays: Mailbox/Whereabouts/Musings

Started by Marcia, this August, Monday Mailbox is hosted by Shanyn at Chick Loves Lit.

I received the following two books (Click on the image for larger picture), thanks to the authors/publicists:

1) Never Wave Goodbye by Doug Magee

Everything seems in order when nine-year-old Sarah Trainor is picked up for her first away-from-home summer camp: a Camp Arno van arrives with an appropriately clad counselor bearing parental consent forms. But when another Camp Arno van stops minutes later at their Westchester home, Lena Trainor discovers that her daughter and three other children have been kidnapped; a $1 million ransom is eventually demanded. It seems a well-executed scheme, with no single perpetrator having all the critical information, until the inevitable mistake is made. First-novelist Magee has an intriguing premise here, with his narrative alternating between the children in the wilderness of the Adirondacks and their desperate parents fending off the media as they unite to take action.

2) Grace Under Pressure by Julie Hyzy

Everyone wants a piece of millionaire Bennett Marshfield, owner of Marshfield Manor, but now it's up to a new curator Grace Wheaton and handsome groundskeeper Jack Embers to protect dear old Marshfield. But to do this, they'll have to investigate a botched Ponzi scheme, some torrid Wheaton family secrets-and sour grapes out for revenge.

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In the past week:

I finished:

Literally nothing!

I am in the midst of reading:

The Prince of Tebron by C S Lakin

I posted reviews of:

Still Missing by Chevy Stevens

The Journey of Om by Chandru Bhojwani

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If your house was burning down –and you could SAFELY grab a book on your way outside to safety– what book would you make sure you ‘rescued’? Why?

Firstly, the very thought of my books burning is unthinkable. I would want to rescue each and every one of those. However, to 'rescue' only one, I would pick all my poetry collection. These include Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, e e cummings, and lot more. I can't think of leaving those behind.