The trick is to narrow down a book you are anticipating, to just one.
It is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane Release date June 9, 2009
"A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history-the Salem witch trials.
Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.
As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined.
Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation. "
I tried to get an ARC copy of this but I guess I failed since it never showed *whimper whine*
And then Barnes & Noble has it as one of their "First Look" early reviewer program but I can't keep up with all these different boards and totally missed that too.
So enough of my whining, I'll find this eventually. What books are you waiting for?
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