Waiting on Wednesday II

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.  Today I'm featuring The King's Sisters by Sarah Kennedy. It's the third in the Cross and the Crown series, set in Tudor England, following Henry VIII's dissolution of the Catholic religious houses.

The King's Sisters features Catherine Havens, a former nun who married and had children when the nunnery she lived in was dissolved. Now a widow with two young children, as she faces the constant changes at court and the threat of being accused of heresy. The book will be released in late September.

Waiting On Wednesday: The Predictions

"Waiting On" Wednesday is an event hosted by the book blog Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we are waiting for. This week's book that I'm eagerly waiting for is "The Predictions" by Bianca Zander.

From Amazon:

From the author of the acclaimed The Girl Below comes a stunning novel of one woman’s attempt to outrun the destiny that is predicted for her, moving from a remote New Zealand commune in the waning days of 1970s free-love experimentation to the heady music scene of 1980s London.
Gaialands, a bucolic vegan commune in the New Zealand wilderness, is the only home fifteen-year-old Poppy has ever known. It’s the epitome of 1970s counterculture—a place of free love, hard work, and high ideals…at least in theory. The reality is complicated and sometimes fraught, especially as its children reach adolescence. Poppy is drawn to handsome sixteen-year-old Lukas, who’s increasingly skeptical of Gaialands and the adults who shape its rules.
To help ‘heal’ the commune’s energy, new arrival Shakti harnesses her divination powers in a Predictions ceremony. All of Gaialands’ teenagers receive a card outlining their futures. Poppy, predicted to find her true love overseas, joins Lukas when he follows his dream of starting a punk rock band first in Auckland and then on to London, where punk has given way 80s pop and hair metal. Struggling simply to survive as they navigate the city’s squats, pubs, and burgeoning clubs, she and Lukas drift apart. Poppy finds a life that looks very like the one her prediction promised, but is it the one she truly wants? And if not, can she define her own happiness, even if it takes her in unanticipated directions?
The Predictions is a mesmerizing, magical novel of fate, love, mistakes, and finding your place.

What book are you waiting for? Does this sound like one you'd read? 

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.

This week's anticipated book: 

Publisher: Plume

Publication Date: July 29, 2014

From Goodreads: A fearless and spirited pilot conquers Hollywood. Now can she survive movie stardom?

In 1945 Velva Jean Hart is a bona fide war heroine. After a newsreel film of her triumphant return to America, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promises to make her a star. They give her a new life story and a brand-new name. As Kit Rogers, she navigates the movie sets, recording sessions, parties, staged romances, and occasional backstabbing that accompany her newfound fame. She also navigates real-life romance, finding herself caught between a charismatic young writer and a sexy and enigmatic musician from her past. But when one of her best friends dies mysteriously and the most powerful studio in the world launches a cover-up, Velva Jean goes in search of the truth risking her own life, as well as her heart, in the process.

Set during Hollywood s Golden Age and peopled with a cast of unforgettable characters, "American Blonde" will mesmerize readers of "The Chaperone "as well as fans of the Velva Jean series."

Actually, this is no longer anticipated as it just came in the mail 20 minutes ago. 

What book are you waiting to get your hands on?