Thursday, May 15, 2014

BOOK BLAST: Curses and Smoke A Novel of Pompeii by Vicky Alvear Shecter

Curses and Smoke

Publication Date: May 27, 2014 
Arthur A. Levine Books 
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
Genre: YA Historical

When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?
TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.
LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air...
When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?


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About the Author

Vicky Alvear Shecter


Vicky Alvear Shecter is the author of the young adult novel, CLEOPATRA'S MOON (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic, 2011), based on the life of Cleopatra's only daughter. She is also the author of two award-winning biographies for kids on Alexander the Great and Cleopatra. She is a docent at the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Antiquities at Emory University in Atlanta.


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Monday, May 12
Bibliophilia, Please
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Tuesday, May 13
Broken Teepee
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  Wednesday, May 14
CelticLady's Reviews
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  Thursday, May 15
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Historical Fiction Obsession
  Friday, May 16
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  Saturday, May 17
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  Sunday, May 18
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  Monday, May 19
Caroline Wilson Writes
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  Tuesday, May 20
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  Wednesday, May 21
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  Thursday, May 22
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History Undressed
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  Tuesday, May 27
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Giveaway

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