Saturday, July 23, 2022

This OR That #Giveaway Week 66 ~ Two Winners! Dark Tides by Philippa Gregory OR Inheriting Edith by Zoe Fishman #DarkTides #InheritingEdith

 

I have sooooo many books!

The This or That Giveaway! feature that I post every Saturday is a way for me to cull my collection and to share some of the many books I have. I get to clear off some of my shelves to make room for more books and give someone else the chance to enjoy these treasures.

Good luck and be sure to stop back next week!

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Dark Tides
The Fairmile #2
by Philippa Gregory
ARC ~ Published November 2020

Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor has the one thing his money cannot buy—his son and heir.

The second visitor is a beautiful widow from Venice in deepest mourning. She claims Alinor as her mother-in-law and has come to tell Alinor that her son Rob has drowned in the dark tides of the Venice lagoon.

Alinor writes to her brother Ned, newly arrived in faraway New England and trying to make a life between the worlds of the English newcomers and the American Indians as they move toward inevitable war. Alinor tells him that she knows—without doubt—that her son is alive and the widow is an imposter.

Set in the poverty and glamour of Restoration London, in the golden streets of Venice, and on the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire: for love, for wealth, for a child, and for home.

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Inheriting Edith
by Zoe Fishman
Paperback ~ Pub date October 2016


A poignant breakout novel, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Elin Hilderbrand, about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house with a caveat—she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it.

For years, Maggie Sheets has been an invisible hand in the glittering homes of wealthy New York City clients, scrubbing, dusting, mopping, and doing all she can to keep her head above water as a single mother. Everything changes when a former employer dies leaving Maggie a staggering inheritance. A house in Sag Harbor. The catch? It comes with an inhabitant: The deceased’s eighty-two-year old mother Edith.

Edith has Alzheimer’s—or so the doctors tell her—but she remembers exactly how her daughter Liza could light up a room, or bring dark clouds in her wake. And now Liza’s gone, by her own hand, and Edith has been left—like a chaise or strand of pearls—to a poorly dressed young woman with a toddler in tow.

Maggie and Edith are both certain this arrangement will be an utter disaster. But as summer days wane, a tenuous bond forms, and Edith, who feels the urgency of her diagnosis, shares a secret that she’s held close for five decades, launching Maggie on a mission that might just lead them each to what they are looking for.


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I'm giving away 2 ARCs this week. Two winners!


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10 comments:

  1. My summer is going fine so far. I am enjoying the wonderful summer tomatoes and yellow squash from the farmer's market.

    Nancy
    allibrary (at) aol (dot) com

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  2. Good. Early morning are nice to go for a long walk. Dry and hot so spending afternoon and evenings indoors.

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  3. It's okay but I wish it wasn't so hot.

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  4. Alright. Summer has been spent watching water polo.

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  5. My summer is going pretty well. But I stay in a lot because of the heat.

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  6. My summer has been lovely. I enjoy summer since I love the warmth and walks in the early a.m. and evening.

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  7. The summer is like a cornfield. The seeds of spring sprout into warmer days and then in a blink of an eye the stalk of corn is 5 feet tall and the days are warm. All of seems to pass by in a blink of an eye! All this corn talk makes me want to eat an ear of corn...!

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  8. In the hospital with an infestion

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  9. Our summer has been fun! We took a trip to Denver for a wedding and sightseeing in June/July. And we live at the beach, so have had many guests come to visit!

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  10. Our summer is going fast but pretty uneventful. Lots of visits from the kids and grands. We took a big trip in the spring and then we have a couple of trips planned for the fall so there is that to look forward to.

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