April books received

Wow! This came fast -- I'm creating the thread! Hope that is okay.

Title: The Angel's Game
Date arrived: 5/04
Method of Delivery: UPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: New Jersey
Book format: paperback ARC, uncorrected proof
Publisher: DoubleDay
Inserts: Index card insert with compliments from DoubleDay and website information

Title: Looking after Pigeon
Date arrived: 4/28
Method of Delivery:
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from:
Sent to: Philadelphia
Book format: paperback ARC, uncorrected proof
Publisher:
Inserts:

Very incomplete info but FYI, I did receive it the day after I got the notice. Crazy fast shipping!

Very excited to read this--it happens to be my reading group's pick for July (it's due out in June) and I loved Shadow of the Wind.

Title: The Angel's Game
Author: Zafon
Date arrived: 5/05
Method of Delivery: UPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Virginia
Book format: paperback ARC, uncorrected proof
Publisher: DoubleDay
Inserts: Index card insert with compliments from DoubleDay and website information

Oooh oooh! I got my April book today too! ( borrowed your format, hope you don't mind):

Title: The Angel's Game
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Date arrived: 5/06
Method of Delivery: UPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: FL
Book format: paperback ARC, uncorrected proof
Publisher: DoubleDay
Inserts: Index card insert with compliments from DoubleDay and website information

I got mine today, just started reading!!

Title: The Mine and the Well
Author:Gin Phillips
Date Arrived: 5/06
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: PA
Book format: paperback
Publisher:Penguin Group
No inserts-just the book

The Angel's Game hasn't made it quite this far west yet; c'mon UPS!

Title: Looking After Pigeon
Author: Maud Carol Markson
Date Arrived : 5/4/09
Sent From: Sag Harbor, NY
Sent To : Deltona, FL
Book Format : Paperback ARC uncorrected proof
Publisher: The Permanent Press
Inserts: Letter from managing editor

Received:

Title: Adopted for Life
Author: Russell D. Moore
Date Arrived: May 6, 2009
Sent to: Ruston, LA
Book Format: Paperback
Publisher: Crossings
Inserts: Letter from editor

I have already read about 1 1/2 chapters. I hope to post my review in a few days.

Title: The Mine and the Well
Author:Gin Phillips
Date Arrived: 5/06
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Middletown, OH
Book format: paperback
Publisher:Penguin Group
No inserts-just the book

Title: Afraid
Author: Jack Kilborn
Date Arrived : 5/6/09
Sent From: Lebanon, IN
Sent To : Merrillville, IN
Book Format : Paperback ARC
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Inserts: Letter from Hachette Book Group USA
Method of Delivery: UPS - padded envelope

This actually arrived a couple of days ago, but got misplaced in our condo office.

Title: The Unit
Author: Ninni Holmqvist
Date Arrived: 5/05/09
Method of Delivery: UPS
Packaging: large cardboard envelope (no padding)
Sent from: Random House, New York, NY
Sent to: Alexandria, VA
Format: paperback ARC (marked "Advance uncorrected proof")
Publisher: Other Press
No inserts-just the book

Title: Heaven and the Afterlife
Authors: James L. Garlow with Keith Wall
Date Arrived: 5/07/09
Method of Delivery: First Class mail
Packaging: Bubble mailer envelope
Sent from: Bethany House, Bloomington MN
Sent to: Burlington, ON, Canada
Format: paperback ARC (marked "unedited manuscript")
Publisher: Bethany House
No inserts-just the book

Title: Saints in Limbo
Author: River Jordan
Date Arrived: 5/7/09
Method of Delivery: USPS Media Mail
Packaging: Padded Mailer
Sent from: Waterbook Multnomah Publishing Group, Colorado Springs, CO
Sent to: Howard, OH
Format: Paperback, marked Advance Reading Copy - Not For Sale
Publisher: WaterBrook Press, imprint of Doubleday, division of Random House
Inserts: None

My book arrived today. It's my first ARC from Library Thing. I plan to start it tonight! It sounds like a great book.

Title: Afraid
Author: Jack Kilborn
Date Arrived : 5/7/09
Sent From: Lebanon, IN
Sent To : White Lake, MI
Book Format : Paperback ARC
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Inserts: Letter from Hachette Book Group USA
Method of Delivery: UPS - padded envelope

Title: The Mine and the Well
Author:Gin Phillips
Date Arrived: 5/07
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Lincoln, NE
Book format: paperback
Publisher:Penguin Group
No inserts-just the book

It doesn't seem to be an ARC - there's a price tag on the back of mine.

Title: Afraid
Author: Jack Kilborn
Date Arrived : 5/7/09
Sent From: Lebanon, IN
Sent To : Murfreesboro, TN
Book Format : Paperback ARC
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Inserts: Letter from Hachette Book Group USA
Method of Delivery: UPS - padded envelope

Title: Afraid
Author: Jack Kilborn
Date Arrived : 5/7/09
Sent From: Lebanon, IN
Sent To : Montezuma, GA
Book Format : Paperback ARC
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Inserts: Letter from Hachette Book Group USA
Method of Delivery: UPS - padded envelope

Received today,
Title:Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church.
Author: Julie Lyons
Date arrived: 5/7/2009
Sent To: Odessa, TX
Book Format: hardcover
Publisher: WaterBrook

Title: Eyes Wide Open
Author: Jud Wilhite
Date Arrived : 5/7/09
Sent From: Colorado Springs, CO
Sent To : Boston, MA
Book Format : Paperback
Publisher: Waterbrook Multnomah Publishing Group
Packaging: Jiffy mailer

Title: Gold of Kings
Author: T. Davis Bunn
Date Arrived : 5/8/09
Method of Delivery: USPS Delivery Confirmation
Packaging: Cardboard mailer
Sent from: Bristol, PA
Sent to: Tennessee
Book format: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Howard
Inserts: None

Ditto #20 except that it arrived in Florida. (:
I was surprised (and a little disappointed) that it's a hardcover.

#21: Why are you disappointed by it being hardcover? Those are the nicer, more expensive editions!

#22 - I for one prefer paperbacks because they are much easier to cart around, and I do a lot of reading on the bus.

I also have marathon reading sessions and my arms can tire from holding hardcovers for hours. Maybe this just means I should work on my upper arm strength, but for now I'll continue to use the much lighter paperbacks.

Title: The Angel's Game
Author: Zafon
Date arrived: 5/06
Method of Delivery: UPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Boulder, CO
Book format: paperback ARC, uncorrected proof
Publisher: DoubleDay
Inserts: Index card insert with compliments from DoubleDay and website information

Title: The Mine and the Well
Author:Gin Phillips
Date Arrived: 5/08
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Colorado
Book format: paperback, not an arc
Publisher:Penguin Group
No inserts - just the book

#22:
I like the feel of paperbacks. I like the size - not for carrying around so much as the way they fit and look on my shelves. I like the way the corners get round and soft as they are loved and handled. It's a tactile thing for me.

Title: From Polders to Postmodernism: A Concise History of Archival Theory
Author: John Ridener
Date Arrived: 5/08
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent to: Illinois
Book format: Paperback, Pre-Publication Run Copy
Publisher: Litwin Books
Inserts: Small thank you and a request to let them know where the review is

I've read the prologue and this looks really good!

Title: A Flickering Light
Author:Jane Kirkpatrick
Date Arrived: 5/07
Method of Delivery: Media Mail
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: Colorado Springs, CO
Sent to: Pensacola, FL
Book format: paperback
Publisher:Waterbrook Multnomah Publishing Group
No inserts

Gold of Kings arrived today for me too--ditto #20, except mailed to Fort Atkinson, WI.

Received Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church today, May 9, 2009. Looking forward to a good read.

Received Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie several days ago. (Sorry, forgot 'til now!)

The Pursuit of Perfect by Tal Ben-Shahar arrived yesterday (May 9) in California, a 6-CD unabridged audiobook, very nice!

Has anyone received The Night Watchman yet? I got my other books so quickly, a day or two after my note that I snagged them. Just wondering...

Received this morning as I went out the door to work. What a great way to start the day!

Title: The Mine and the Well
Author: Gin Phillips
Date Arrived: 5/11/09
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Healdsburg, California
Book format: paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group, New York, NY
No inserts - just the book

The Pursuit of Perfect: Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life arrived to my home in North Carolina on 5/11/09 via USPS.

Got home from work and my book had arrived!

Title: The Night Watchman
Author: Mark Mynheir
Date arrived: 5/11/09
Method of delivery: USPS Media Mail
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: Colorado Springs, CO
Sent to: Euless, TX
Book format: ARC paperback
Publisher: Waterbrook Multnomah/Random House
Inserts: none

Title: The Pursuit of Perfect
Author: Tal Ben-Shahar
Date arrived: 5/11/09
Method of delivery: Media Mail
Packaging: cardboard mailer
Sent from: Minneapolis, MN
Sent to: Hillsboro, OR
Book format: Audio CD, unabridged on six CDs
Publisher: Highbridge
Inserts: postcard

Title: The Unit
Author: Ninni Holmqvist
Date Arrived: 5/11/09
Method of Delivery: UPS
Packaging: large cardboard envelope (no padding)
Sent from: Random House, New York, NY
Sent to: Portland, OR
Format: paperback ARC (marked "Advance uncorrected proof")
Publisher: Other Press
No inserts-just the book

Has anyone gotten The Indifferent Stars Above yet?

Title: The Gnostic Mystery
Author:Randy Davila
Date Arrived: 5/11
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: San Antonio, TX
Sent to: Washington
Book format: paperback, not an arc
Publisher:Hierophant Publishing
No inserts - just the book

Title: The Mine and the Well
Author: Gin Phillips
Date Arrived: 5/11/09
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Clovis, CA
Book format: paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group, New York, NY
No inserts - just the book

Title: Enduring Justice
Author: Amy N. Wallace
Date Arrived: 5/12
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: Colorado Springs, CO
Sent to: Delaware
Book format: paperback, finished copy
Publisher: Waterbrook Multnomah
No inserts - just the book

Do you think I should be worried that my Angel's Game hasn't been received yet? It seems like alot of others have received already. Do they ever send them out at different times to different people? I live on the East Coast so it shouldn't be a geography thing?

Title: Assegai arrived on the 7th but I didn't get it till the 11th because I live in a co-op with crazy mail rules. There was an insert, and I emailed the publisher thanking her for the book.

Got this the other day, sorry for the late post

Title: Gold of Kings
Author: T. Davis Bunn
Date Arrived : 5/8/09
Method of Delivery: USPS Delivery Confirmation
Packaging: Heavy Cardboard mailer
Sent from: Bristol, PA
Sent to: Upstate NY
Book format: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Howard
Inserts: None

Received on May 9
Title: Work Hard, Be Nice
Author: Jay Mathews
Method of Delivery: USPS
Format: Audio CDs
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Producer HighBridge Company

Title: Burnt Shadows
Author: Kamila Shamsie
Date Arrived: 5/13/09
Method of Delivery: UPS Ground
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Half Moon Bay, CA
Book format: paperback, finished copy
Publisher: Picador
Insert: Card asking that review be sent to Picador marketing department.

Title: Forbidden Bread
Author: Erica Johnson Debeljak
Date arrived: 14 May 2009
Method of Delivery: Media Mail
Packaging: Fitted cardboard mailer
Sent from: Berkeley, CA
Sent to: Charleston, SC
Book format: Paperback, finished copy
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Inserts: Two press releases, one for the book and one for the publishing house

Title: Through the Fire
Author: Shawn Grady
Date Arrived: 5/14/09
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: Bubble mailer
Sent from: Bethany House Bloomington, MN
Sent to: New Brunswick, Canada
Format: paperback ARC
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
No inserts-just the book

Title: Slow Reading
Date Arrived: 05/14
Shipped: UPS/Canada Post
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: Duluth MN
Sent to: London ON, CANADA
Book format: paperback
Publisher: Litwin Books

Title: Saints in Limbo
Author: River Jordan
Date Arrived: 5/14/09
Method of Delivery: USPS Media Mail
Packaging: Padded Mailer
Sent from: Waterbook Multnomah Publishing Group, Colorado Springs, CO
Sent to: Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia
Format: Paperback, marked Advance Reading Copy - Not For Sale
Publisher: WaterBrook Press, imprint of Doubleday, division of Random House
Inserts: None

Received 5.14.09
Title:Holy Roller: Finding Redemption and the Holy Ghost in a Forgotten Texas Church.
Author: Julie Lyons
Sent To: Macon, GA
Book Format: hardcover
Publisher: WaterBrook

Title: Forbidden Bread
Author: Erica Johnson Debeljak
Date arrived: May 15
Method of Delivery: Media Mail
Packaging: Fitted cardboard mailer
Sent from: Berkeley, CA
Sent to: Cambridge, MA
Book format: Paperback, finished copy
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Inserts: Two press releases, one for the book and one for the publishing house

#48 & #53 - Oh good. Maybe mine will arrive soon! :o)

(And it showed up about 3 minutes after I posted this! LOL!)

Seeing #s 48, 53 and 54 gives me hope that I will get mine today as well.
Enjoy!!

I received Reasoning OtherwiseLeftists and the people's Enlightment in Canada 1890-1920 by Ian Mckay last week. May 5

My dad informed me that I got Last Last Chance.

I just got my copy of Love in Condition Yellow today.

I just found this thread so I will quickly note all of my ER books received to date, dates received, and from here on out note them properly.
1) Conscience Point by Erica Abeel received approximately 10/15/2008
2) The Fireman's Wife by Jack Riggs received approximately 11/08/2008
3) The Moment Between by Nicole Baart received 3/20/2009
4) Shanghai Girls by Lisa See received 4/06/2009
5) The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne received 4/22/2009
6) How Sweet It Is by Alice J. Wisler received 4/14/2009
7) Looking After Pigeon by Maud Carol Markson received 5/06/2009

Title: Saints in Limbo
Author: River Jordan
Date Received: Sometime in the past week (just found this thread)

Basically same other info as #51

My padded envelope was ripped and had been out in the rain. The book was damp and now the pages have swelled as damp books do. However, I still look forward to getting into it (my first Early book)

#39 SpongeBobFishpants - Yes.

Title: The Indifferent Stars Above
Author: Daniel James Brown
Date Arrived: 5/15/09
Method of Delivery: UPS Ground
Packaging: Padded Mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Houston, TX
Format: Trade Paperback, marked Uncorrected Proof - Not For Sale
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Inserts: None

Received today

Title: Forbidden Bread
Author: Erica Johnson Debeljak
Date Arrived 5.18.09
Method: Media Mail
Packaging: Cardboard mailer
Sent from: Berkeley, CA
Sent to: NJ
Format: Trade paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Inserts: Book press release and publisher press release

Arrived 5/19
Threads from the Web of Life
Stephen Daubert, author
Chris Daubert, illustrator
Media mail
Padded envelope
Mailed from Nashville, Tennessee
Hard cover
from Vanderbilt University Press
No inserts

~~~~Adding this 5/21: I'd wondered why no one else had this, and found a note (at profile page) stating "MemberGiveaway". . . . So thanks to whoeversent it. . . it seemed to have come from publisher.

Title: The Gnostic Mystery
Author: Randy Davila
Date Arrived: 5/19
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: San Antonio, TX
Sent to: Abington, PA
Book format: paperback
Publisher: Hierophant Publishing
Inserts: None

This is the first ER book I've received that didn't have an insert. I'm not sniffing at a free book, but at least a business card would be nice.

64 > Only one or two of the books I've received had an insert. I don't really mind either way, but my inserts always end up in the recycling.

Received The Night Watchman today.

I think this is the first report of this book - woo!

Title: Lost Boy
Author: Brent W. Jeffs
Date Arrived: 5/21
Method of Delivery: FedEx
Packaging: stiff cardboard mailer
Sent from: New York, NY
Sent to: Chicago, IL
Book format: Bound Galley
Publisher: Broadway Books
Inserts: "Dear Library Thing Winner". Also talks about the YouTube video of the author.

Title: The Gnostic Mystery
Author:Randy Davila
Date Arrived: 5/21
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent from: San Antonio, TX
Sent to: Ottawa, Ontario
Book format: paperback
Publisher:Hierophant Publishing
No inserts

I think this was an April book. I lose track.

This Will Kill You by HP Newquist & Rich Maloof arrived yesterday via USPS in a large, paddy envelope w/a letter from the Marketing Manager @ St. Martin's press.

Title: This will kill you

Packaging: padded mailer

Sent to: Irving, TX
Book format: paperback
Insert: note from publisher with link to a death widget.

Title: Through the Fire
Author: Shawn Grady
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: Padded Mailer
Sent From: Bloomington, MN
Sent To: Vale, NC
Book Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bethany House
Inserts: None

I'm still waiting for Blood Bayou and don't see any postings here, but do see that 35 members already have it in their libraries, and 13 reviews are already posted-even mentioning received from ER program.

Is anybody else waiting? how long should I wait before bugging Abby?

I got Afraid by Jack Kilborn, the first book I ever received from this program. I wasn't expecting it, since I didn't check the site, so it was a nice surprise.

Title: Road to Damascus by Elaine Rippey Imady
Date arrived: 01 -6 - 09
Method of Delivery: UPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: Marina CA USA First Class Mail International.
Sent to: United Kingdom
Book format: paperback
Publisher: MSI press
Inserts: none

Title: Road to Damascus by Elaine Rippey Imady
Date arrived: 03 - 06 - 09
Method of Delivery: mail
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: Marina CA USA First Class Mail International.
Sent to: United Kingdom
Book format: paperback
Publisher: MSI press
Inserts: none

Title: Road to Damascus by Elaine Rippey Imady
Date arrived: 04 - 06 - 09
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: Marina CA USA First Class Mail International.
Sent to: United Kingdom
Book format: paperback
Publisher: MSI press
Inserts: none

Title: Road to Damascus by Elaine Rippey Imady
Date arrived: June 1
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: Padded mailer
Sent from: Marina CA
Sent to: Arlington, VA
Book format: paperback
Publisher: MSI press
Inserts: none

Glad to finally receive it!

My first Early Reviewers' Book!

Title: The Gnostic Mystery
Author:Randy Davila
Date Arrived: 5/25
Method of Delivery: USPS
Packaging: padded mailer
Sent to: Milton, Fl
Book format: paperback, not an arc
Publisher:Hierophant Publishing