Onsdags ønskeliste - uke 46

På onsdagene deler jeg bøkene jeg har lagt til på ønskelisten min den siste uken med dere. Lenkene i titlene fører til Goodreads eller lignende side hvor man kan lese litt om boken, navnet på forfatteren sender deg til side med informasjon om forfatteren. Denne uken er det noen ungdomsbøker på listen(jeg kan nevne vampyrer, havfruer og enhjørninger) og tre historiske romaner.

Kommende titler:

Jeg holder på med min første ungdomsbok som handler om havfruer nå, har ikke helt latt meg overbevise selv om havfruer i seg selv er spennende skapninger. Tempest Rising av Tracy Deebs(kommer ikke ut før i mai 2011) oppdaget jeg på bokbloggen Teens Read and Write. Boken høres faktisk ut til å ha et utrolig likt plott til The Mermaid's Mirror av L.K. Madigan som jeg holder på med nå, men jeg har lyst til å finne ut av om Deebs klarer dette bedre enn Madigan:

Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her—and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance.

Allerede utgitt:

Jeg oppdaget The Winter Sea(også utgitt med tittelen Sophia's Secret) av Susanna Kearsley på bloggen til den australske bokbloggeren Alaine. Jeg er veldig glad i bøker hvor det veksles mellom å fortelle en historie fra nåtiden og en fra fortiden. Her er bokomtalen:

It is 2008 and Carrie McClelland can't hit the right note for her next novel, but an unplanned detour in Scotland, and a stop at the castle that inspired Count Dracula, sets her on a different path; a path that took her back in back exactly 300 years, to that same castle, and to a rebellion doomed to failure. Alternating between the contemporary setting and the past, The Winter Sea takes us at every turn into little known worlds; historical footnotes writ large, a history of Scotland and the Jacobite rebellion of 1708 and the possibility of genetic memory. Historical fiction at its best and Susanna Kearsley at hers, The Winter Sea evokes the writing of Thomas Raddall, Daphne Du Maurier, and Mary Stewart. 

Jeg husker rett og slett ikke hvor jeg oppdaget The Greatest Knight av Elizabeth Chadwick, men historien høres fengende ut:

A penniless young knight with few prospects, William Marshal is plucked from obscurity when he saves the life of Henry II's formidable queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. In gratitude, she appoints him tutor to the heir to the throne. However, being a royal favourite brings its share of conflict and envy as well as fame and reward. William's influence over the volatile, fickle Prince Henry and his young wife is resented by less favoured courtiers who set about engineering his downfall.

In a captivating blend of fact and fiction, Elizabeth Chadwick resurrects one of England's greatest forgotten heroes, restoring him to his rightful place at the apex of the Middle Ages, reflecting through him the tumults, triumphs, scandals and power struggles that haven't changed in eight hundred years.

Katrina The Beginning av Elizabeth Loraine oppdaget jeg på bokbloggen Gripped into Books. Markedet burde kanskje være mettet av vampyrbøker nå, men når noen skriver at "dette var orginalt" så klarer jeg liksom ikke å holde meg unna jeg da. Handlingen i boken foregår på Europa på den tiden de første europeerne begynte å bosette seg i Amerika. Her er bokomtalen:

The High Regent has called members of each royal vampire family to council. Katrina Von Dracek wonders what this will mean to her.

Does the council really intend to start a new covern in the Americans or is there something else?

All Katrina's vampire senses tell her evil is around them and that she will be the one called upon to save them all. 

The Last Unicorn av Peter S. Beagle oppdaget jeg på Hildes engelske bok blogg, The Turn of the Page. Den har jeg lyst til å lese rett og slett fordi det høres ut til å være en magisk historie. Her er bokomtalen hentet fra Amazon:

The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.

This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. --Nona Vero

Det var min ønskeliste denne uken. Har du funnet noen spennende titler i det siste?