Added to the Bookshelf - 1/27/13

Sharing the week's bookish news and the books & bookish goodies that I've bought, borrowed, won, or been gifted and have added to my bookshelves over the past week!

(Inspired by Mailbox Monday, IMM, Clock Rewinders and the like)

Notes From Melissa:

Happy Sunday!  Hope you all are enjoying your weekend! I know that I sure am...temperatures have been in the teens all week and we got a nice dusting of snow on Friday...so this weekend is perfect for curling up with a good book and a cup of hot tea!  

And of course catching up on some blogging...I'm still putting in almost all 11 hour days so weekends are my time to try to get caught up and scheduled for the week ahead!

Recently on Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf:

Discussion Posts:
Novel Notions: Do You Read/Review Indie or Self Published Books Differently?

Guest Posts:
A Character Study by Blair McDowell, Author of Sonata (Plus Giveaway)

Memes:
Teaser Tuesdays - The Giver by Lois Lowry
Cat Thursday - Piper Plays in Pants!

Reveals:
Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Kiss of Fire by Rebecca Ethington

Promo Posts:
Spotlight On: Obsession by Tamaria Soana (On Sale for Stalking Awareness Month)
Book Blast & Giveaway: Daynight by Megan Thomason

Other:
Who is Marcus Finch?? Indigo Spell (Bloodlines) Two Week Event & Giveaway!! 

What I Read Last Week:

• Midwinterblood - Marcus Sedgwick 
• The Giver - Lois Lowry

What I Am Reading Today:

• Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver (audiobook)  
• Happier at Home - Gretchen Ruben

Ongoing Giveaways:

See the upper right sidebar for all ten (10) current giveaways!

Added to the Bookshelf This Week:

Clicking on book titles will take you to Goodreads.

E-ARC of WHAT'S A WITCH TO DO? (A Midnight Magic Mystery #1)

by Jennifer Harlow

Courtesy of Midnight Ink Books via NetGalley

A suspenseful brew with a dash of passion

High Priestess might sound like an ’80s hair band, but its Mona McGregor’s life. She runs the Midnight Magic shop in Goodnight, Virginia, and leads a large coven. She’s also raising two nieces and hasn’t been with a man for fifteen years…until a handsome doctor takes an interest in her. But Mona’s life really heats up when Adam Blue, a sexy werewolf, arrives at her door. Adam informs her that someone wants her dead and he is there to protect her. Hell’s bells! When a demon begins stalking her, Mona has to suspect her coven members, and even her family.

With two handsome men and a determined demon after her, Mona teams up with Adam to find out who really wants her dead . . . and who really wants her.

Audiobook of ON LOOKING: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes 

by Alexandra Horowitz

Courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio

You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in the distance and right in front of you. In reading these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to bombard all of your senses. The hum of the fluorescent lights; the ambient noise in the room; the feeling of the chair against your legs or back; your tongue touching the roof of your mouth; the tension you are holding in your shoulders or jaw; the constant hum of traffic or a distant lawnmower; the blurred view of your own shoulders and torso in your peripheral vision; a chirp of a bug or whine of a kitchen appliance.

On Looking begins with inattention. It is not meant to help you focus on your reading of Tolstoy; it is not about how to multitask. Rather, it is about attending to the joys of the unattended, the perceived "ordinary." Horowitz encourages us to rediscover the extraordinary things that we are missing in our ordinary activities. Even when engaged in the simplest of activities-taking a walk around the block-we pay so little attention to most of what is right before us that we are sleepwalkers in our own lives. So turn off the phone and portable electronics and get into the real world, where you'll find there are worlds within worlds within worlds.

E-Book of SONATA 

by Blair McDowell

Book received for participating in blog tour

When renowned concert artist Sayuri McAllister returns to the west coast of Canada after an absence of five years, she discovers her family home has been a broken into and jewelry worth two million dollars is missing. Michael Donovan, Sayuri’s old high school flame, now a detective with the Vancouver Police Department, is the officer in charge of the case.

Michael takes one look at Sayuri and falls in love with her all over again. But they parted in anger years ago and Sayuri is no longer the innocent girl he once knew. What chance can there be for a Vancouver cop with someone as famous as Sayuri McAllister? Especially when that cop is investigating her family and friends?

Then Sayuri’s widowed father, Sean, marries Alyssa James, a woman Sayuri has never even met. The three live uneasily together in the Point Grey mansion until the unexpected arrival of Alyssa’s brother, Hugh James, a devastatingly handsome, charming Irishman who immediately begins a campaign to bed and wed the delicious and wealthy Sayuri.

Accidents begin to happen. Or are they accidents? Nothing is as it seems. Michael distrusts Hugh James and fears that Sayuri’s life may be in danger.

ARC of THE OFFICE OF MERCY 

by Ariel Djanikian

Courtesy of Penguin/Viking

Weaving philosophy and science together into a riveting, dystopian story of love and adventure, The Office of Mercy illuminates an all-too-real future imagined by a phenomenal new voice in fiction.

Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five—a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the first time, Natasha’s allegiances to home, society, and above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may put the people she loves most in grave danger and change the world as she knows it.

FREEBIES:

DIGGING UP DEATH by Gina Conroy

DAYNIGHT by Megan Thomason

LOOSE SCREW (Dusty Deals Mystery #1) by Rae Davies

DOUBLE CROSSED (Heist Society #2.5, Gallagher Girls #5.5)
by Ally Carter

That's all for me this week!

What new goodies have arrived on your doorstep?

Leave me a link in the comments and I'll come check out your post!