Received book :: "2024: A History of the Future"

Hello! I'm here today to share with you my newest book, won on Goodreads: 2024: A History of the Future, gently sent by its author, Chris Oswald. The book looks very interesting, once it addresses the issue to the past and the future of Britain.
I guess I will have a challenging reading, since the book has 401 pages written in English, but I will read it as soon as I can so I can tell you what I think about it.

I must thank Chris Oswald for sending me this copy with a very special message on it! 🙂

Title: 2024: A History of the Future

Author: Chris Oswald

Publisher: Newmore Publishing

Year: 2017 (2^nd edition)

Synopsis:
Something had to change.
Someone had to lead that change.
But was he up to the task?
George was an intellectual, a journalist, a writer: more theory than practice. Could he lead the country to a new beginning?
Someone had to stand up to the tyranny, the controlling force that had crept up to overtake their lives. Someone who could espouse the principles they all believed in.
But George had always been on the sidelines, involved but not committed. A product of the establishment but not a driving force.
Until now. Until he made the ultimate decision. A decision that would dramatically alter the fate of their country.
Britain was a sorry state; controlled, whittled down, oppressed and depressed.
Until now.
2024: A History of the Future is an engaging tale of the struggle to make change to a nation and to all those involved. Both historical novel and political thriller, it will take you into the future and back into the past, tying the two together in one story. One drama to fashion our future.
Through the Past.

Received book :: "Carson"

Hello everybody! Today I have a new book to show you, won on Goodreads: Carson (Bad Boys After Dark - Bad Billionaires After Dark series), by Melissa Foster. This romance has a misterious synopsis and a story that I really want to meet soon!
By the way, after winning, I was looking forward to receive the book because I was really interested on it. Thank you so much, Melissa! I'll try to read and review it as soon as possible. ☺

Title: Carson (Bad Boys After Dark)
Author: Melissa Foster
Publisher: World Literary Press
Year: 2017

Synopsis:
Second chances really do exist...
As the founder of a multimillion-dollar international security business, Carson Bad exposes secrets for a living. He knows better than to forge relationships built on them. But for years he did just that with his best friend, and secret lover, Tawny Bishop. She brought a sense of calm and understanding to his life—in and out of the bedroom. Until one fateful night when a knock at the door changed everything.
Tawny is no longer a naive college student. She’s a sought-after perfumer living in Paris. She has plenty of resources at her fingertips, and lots of lonely nights to think about the only man she’s ever loved—the one she ran away from all those years ago. She needs to move forward with her life, but how can she when Carson still owns her heart?
Maybe showing up in the middle of the night unannounced isn’t the best route to unraveling the past and figuring out her future, but Tawny has played it safe for ten long years, and it's only made her long for the man she never should have walked away from. Now she's back in Carson’s life, and he’s determined not to make the same mistake twice. If only he knew what that mistake was.

Received book :: "Sense & Sensibility"

Hello! Recently I received a new book: Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen. I won this book in a giveaway ran on Maggie's Books' blog.
This is a classic from the early 19th century which depicts the English society in a comic way.
Have you already read this book?

Title: Sense and Sensibility

Author: Jane Austen

Publisher: Dover Publications

Year: 1996 (first published in 1811)

Synopsis:
Within the insular world of the English countryside, among struggling clerical families, husband-hunting mothers and daughters, country fools and snobs, Jane Austen found the raw material she needed to write brilliant novels widely admired for their satiric wit, subtlety and perfection of style. Sense and Sensibility is one of the best of these. It is the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, who represent sense and sensibility, respectively. When both appear to be deserted by the young men they had intended to marry, the stage is set for a delicious comedy of manners that not only showcases Austen's perception humor and incomparable prose, but offers a splendid glimpse of upper and middle-class English society of the early 19th century.

Received book :: "Logos"

Hello, everybody! I want to show you my new book: Logos, by John Neeleman. This is another book won on Goodreads and I was looking forward for it. Now that I have it finally in my hands, I must say that this book looks amazing! I love historical novels and I'm eager to start reading this one, but I confess it'll be a challenging read, since it's a big book, with a strong subject, in English. Anyways, of course I'll review it once I'm finished! ☺

Title: Logos: a novel of Christianity's origin

Author: John Neeleman

Publisher: Homebound Publications

Year: 2015

Synopsis:
Logos is a bildungsroman about the anonymous author of the original Gospel, set amid the kaleidoscopic mingling of ancient cultures.
In A.D. 66, Jacob is one of Jerusalem's privileged Greco-Roman Jews. When Roman soldiers murder his parents and his beloved sister disappears in a pogrom led by the Roman procurator, he joins Israel's rebellion against Rome. The rebellion he helps to foment leads to more tragedy - personal and, ultimately, cosmic: Jacob's wife and son perish in Rome's siege of Jerusalem, and the Romans destroy Jerusalem and the Temple, and finally extinguish Israel at Masada. Jacob wanders, and in Rome, he joins other dissidents - plotting vengeance not by arms, but by the power of an idea.
Paul of Tarsus, Josephus, the keepers of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the historical Jesus himself each play a role in Jacob's tumultuous fortunes, but the women who have loved him compel the transforming and subversive climax.

Received book :: "Jais"

Hello, readers! Recently I received a new book won in a Goodreads' giveaway: Jais, by Jason Kasper. I'm not used to read this genre, but of course I'll review it just after finishing my reading.
By the way, this copy came autographed by the author! Thank you so much!

Title: Jais (David Rivers Series #1)

Author: Jason Kasper

Publisher: Jason Kasper

Year: 2016

Synopsis:
Welcome to the war.
David Rivers returns from combat to find the silence of peace deafening. Escaping into the thrill of BASE jumping keeps a darkness growing within him at bay, until a discharge from military service pushes him over the edge.
After brutally settling his final score, David is confronted by three men who emerge from the shadows, having watched unseen as he committed ruthless, cold-blooded murder.
Now, they want him to do it again.
David undertakes the single most dangerous assignment of his life, earning admission into the dark underworld of ex-special operators for hire and plunging headlong into a new war, where victory is defined by profit and the rules are set by the highest bidder.
But as the stakes - and the payoff - continue to rise, his pursuit of the impossible is turning into a battle for survival, and David must confront the growing realization that his greatest enemy may not be within after all. 
Jais, the debut novel by Jason Kasper, is the first book in the David Rivers Series.

Received book :: "The Quiet Way - Selected Poems"

Hi there! Recently, a new book has come to my shelf: The Quiet Way - Selected Poems, by Chris Lilley. I had won this copy on Goodreads and the author gently sent me the book! I'm very grateful!

Title: The Quiet Way - Selected Poems

Author: Chris Lilley

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Year: 2016

Synopsis:

Following his debut collection, 'je suis noir [i am black]', Chris releases his sophomore poetry project entitled 'The Quiet Way'. This collection features poetry celebrating childhood innocence, dealing with depression and deepening thoughts of suicide, and ultimately rises into redemption and reconciliation.

"You are more than the pill.
You are more than the blade.
You are more than the mistake.
You are more than the diagnosis.
You are more than the suicide attempt."

Received book :: "Forever More: A Love Story from the Edge of Eternity"

Hi! Today I'm going to show you my newest book: Forever More: A Love Story from the Edge of Eternity, by Michele DeLuca. This one was also won on Goodreads and after reading this book I'll publish my review.
I must say that I'm looking forward to read it, because it seems very interesting!
What do you think? Have you already read this book?

Title: Forever More: A Love Story from the Edge of Eternity

Author: Michele DeLuca

Editor: Joyride Press

Year: 2016

Synopsis:
As passings go, he told me his was a good one. When they found his body, there was a slight smile upon his face as if he were happily dreaming in his favorite armchair. It wasn't long after his carthly remains had been dispatched to the cemetery, that his spirit started showing up in my life. And while I know it sounds odd that anyone could fall in love with a dead man, I have to tell you that his energy was more alive than anyone I've ever known in physical form.
In the beginning, I thought he had come to me for help to heal the hearts of his daughter and granddaughter. Though that part of it, he also saved my life and led me to finally understand what it felt like to be truly known and exquisitely loved. His presence helped to unfold in me an astounding late-life blossoming of which I could't have dreamt. Much later, when I was an old woman, I realized it was all of that and so much more. My name is Rebecca St. Claire, and this is my story of Sebastian.
From "Forever More: A Love Story from the Edge of Eternity"

Received book :: "Between Before and After"

Hello everybody! Today's post is about a new book: Between Before and After, by Amanda Dick. Actually I did not receive the paperback copy. In fact, a few time ago I started following this author and I subscribed her site. This week I received an email saying that I could get a free Kindle ebook copy of this book and, of course, I could not miss this oportunity!
I want to discover this author and her writing. I'm still starting reading big books in English and, despite the long time I take to read, I think I'm going to enjoy this book. The synopsis is very interesting and so the country it takes place: New Zealand (our antipodes!).
What about you? Do you know Amanda Dick? Did you also get this free copy? :)

Title: Between Before and After

Author: Amanda Dick
Publisher: Amanda Dick
Year: 2014

Synopsis:

Five friends. Three days. One heart-stopping discovery.

Three years ago, Danny Morris left behind a gun, a tonne of questions and a gaping hole in the lives of those who loved him. What he didn’t leave was a suicide note. 

On the anniversary of his death, his closest friends gather at his parents’ beach house in New Zealand's idyllic Marlborough Sounds. Danny’s girlfriend, Kate, is fighting valiantly against her blossoming feelings for his best friend, Finn, afraid she is somehow betraying his memory by moving on. Max is self-medicating with alcohol, fighting off nightmares he refuses to talk about as the memory of finding Danny’s body continues to haunt him. While Finn is finally ready to admit to himself that he is drawn to Kate, trying to save Max from himself dredges up long-buried anger and frustration that threaten to overwhelm him.

Three years ago, a single bullet ricocheted through all of them. But instead of time easing the pain, it has created a new set of problems.

How do you leave the past behind when it's right in front of you?

Received book :: "Robot Coconut Trees"

Hello! Today I'm writing my first post in English because I just received the book Robot Coconut Trees, by Kelsey Horton, who sponsored a giveaway on Goodreads. I truly love this platform because there we can create our own bookshelves, rate books, write opinions and find new authors - mostly on giveaways. This is my second prize won on Goodreads (the first one was a pair of books by Cassia Cassitas, whose opinions you can find here and here).
When I got this book, I loved its colours, as well as the cover texture. It is also a dimensionally small book, so I found it cute.
What am I expecting from Robot Coconut Trees? Well, as I am a blogger and I like to write, I hope it gives me some advices to develop my way of thinking and writing.

Title: Robot Coconut Trees

Author: Kelsey Horton

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Year: 2016

Synopsis:

In Robot Coconut Trees, Kelsey Horton helps fiercely jump-start your writing practice through stories, exercises, inspiration, and fun writing prompts. As a blogger who reaches readers around the world, Kelsey tells how she went from keeping her writing dreams buried under the weight of "Real Life" to creating finished writing pieces and sharing them with the world. You'll discover how to:

• Daydream, journal, and freewrite your way to fresh new writing ideas
• Tap into your innate childlike creativity
• Muster the courageousness to begin - over and over again
• Break through sticky limiting beliefs of guilt, doubt, perfectionism, and writer's block
• Unapologetically share your finished work with the world

You are capable of moving from hiding to shining, from apathetic to empowered, from "Maybe I could write someday..." to "I am a writer." The world needs your light, your heartbreak.your dazzling stories, and your unprecedented self-expression. Now is the time to begin.