It's Tuesday, Where Are You? | Teaser Tuesdays {5-19-09}

I am back in the City of Elua in the country of Terre d'Ange. I'm a 17 year old young woman. This is a strange land for me, having grown up in the wilds of Alba with my mother.

• Grab your current read
• Let the book fall open to a random page
• Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from ... that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!
• Please avoid SPOILERS.

This week's Teaser comes from Naamah's Kiss by Jacqueline Carey (it is her 7th book set in this sort of alternate reality, but the 1st of a new trilogy). These sentences come from page 136.

The oak tree remembered centuries. It was only a blink of time ago that Prince Imriel had scrambled into it's branches, digging out a hidden gem stone.

I'm really enjoying this book so far. The main character, Moirin, is actually the great great grandniece of Prince Imriel of the previous trilogy.

For more travels visit raidergirl's blog an adventure in reading. For more teasing visit MizB's Should be Reading.

An extra note for my mom!

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It's Tuesday, Where Are You? | Teaser Tuesdays {5-12-09}

I am in far eastern Vralia, I've almost reached my current destination of the city of Miroslas. I'm hunting for Berlik, the bear-man who killed my wife.

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• Please avoid SPOILERS.

This week's Teaser comes from KUSHIEL'S JUSTICE by Jacqueline Carey. These sentences come from page 551.

I'd been two days and the better part of three nights on the road, with naught to eat but a quarter-loaf of bread. If I chanced to waiting for another, farther village and it proved to be more than a day's ride, I'd starve.

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It's Tuesday, Where Are You? | Teaser Tuesdays {4-28-09}

I'm a grad student bouncing between Marblehead, Salem and Boston, MA. Trying to find a book from the 17th century, but strange things keep happening and my advisor at Harvard is acting not himself.

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This week's Teaser comes from THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE by Katherine Howe. They are from the ARC version and may differ from the final published version which is being released Tuesday June 9. These sentences come from page 288.

She assumed Chilton had gone back to the history building but could not be sure. The threat that he had uttered when he left her in the library now hovered in her mind, ominous yet imprecise.

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Teaser Tuesdays {4-14-09}

I'm somewhere in the countryside of England. I'm at the home of Gregory Matthews. He is unmarried, but his house is not empty. His unmarried sister Harriet, his widowed sister-in-law Zoe and her 2 (grown) children also live in the house, called The Poplars. After Mr. Matthews is found dead by Beecher, the butler, chaos ensues.

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This week's Teaser comes from BEHOLD, HERE'S POISON by Georgette Heyer. These sentences come from page 39.

In consequence to the gloom reigning over the library and the dining-room the family had been forced to sit in the drawing-room, a large and cheerless apartment at the back of the house, elegantly but uncomfortably furnished in the style of Louis XV. Mrs Lupton was discussing with her sister what had best be done with Gregory Matthews' clothing, and Janet, a pale, earnest-looking young woman of five-and-twenty, was trying to be bright and intelligent over her cousin Guy's sketch of the overmantel for the house in Dorking.

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It's Tuesday, Where Are You? | Teaser Tuesdays {3-31-09}

I'm somewhere in the countryside of England. I'm at the home of the Billington-Smith's. General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith is very rude to most everyone in the house, including the invited guests!

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This week's Teaser comes from THE UNFINISHED CLUE by Georgette Heyer. These sentences come from page 33.

Every annoyance of this disastrous week-end was Fay's fault, from the unwelcome arrival of Dinah to the ill-assorted party assembled for dinner in half an hour's time. Anyone but a fool would have had the wit to wire regrets both to Dinah and (Stephen) Guest.

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It's Tuesday, Where Are You? | Teaser Tuesdays {3-24-09}

I'm still in Paris, just like last week. I'm not anyone in particular, but I interested in finding out more of what the Bonnot Gang is up to.

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This week's Teaser comes from THE CRIMES OF PARIS by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. These sentences come from the ARC so they may vary slightly from the finished version (out April 3, 2009).

He was sent back to a cell at La Santé Prison to think things over. He would remain there for fifteen months before a trial began.

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It's Tuesday, Where Are You? | Teaser Tuesdays {3-17-09}

I am presently in Paris, France. Time is a bit fluid at the moment, but is staying mostly between 1880 and the 1910's.

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This week's Teaser comes from THE CRIMES OF PARIS by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. These sentences come from the ARC so they may vary slightly from the finished version (out April 3, 2009).

Shortly after Picquet passed through the Salon Carre, a door to a storage closet opened and a man (or men, for it was never proved whether the thief worked alone) emerged. He had been in there since the previous day -- Sunday, the museum's busiest, as that was the only day most Parisians had off from work.

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