Mailbox Monday has returned home to Mailbox Monday’s site this year.
Quite a few this week. Two new purchases, four from a Paperbackswap box-of-books trade and one ARC for review!
I’ll start with the ARC, sent from the publisher after requesting it through an ad in Shelf Awareness:
On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, a cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century; it’s the kind of place where children twirl sparklers across the lawn during cocktail hour. Mabel falls in love with the midnight skinny-dips, the wet-dog smell lingering in the air, the moneyed laughter carrying across the still lake, and before she knows it, she has everything she’s ever wanted: wealth, friendship, a boyfriend, and, most of all, the sense, for the first time in her life, that she belongs.
But as Mabel becomes an insider, she makes a terrible discovery that leads to shocking violence and the revelation of the true source of the Winslows’ fortune. Mabel must choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family’s dark secrets and redefine what is good and what is evil, in the interest of what can be hers.
Then I purchased these two new (hey, they were both on sale!)
And these four came from a PBS Box-of-Books swap. I have a feeling a couple of them will get traded again pretty soon (unread, too)…
Tales of a Book Addict 
I think I’ve read The Edge but it’s been awhile. I like Coulter but I tend to find her books forgettable,