It's All About Love at the Strongsville Library This Week

Love drives the characters in these three new books for your reading enjoyment. We hope to see you at the soon. Happy reading!

Illusion: a Novel By Frank Peretti.  March 2012, 498 pages.

Christian author Peretti turns his hand to a time travel romance when Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, are tragically separated by a car wreck that claims Mandy's life-or so everyone thinks. Then Dane discovers a nineteen year young woman who is identical to his Mandy performing illusions that he can’t explain. Fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife should definitely try this one.

The Snow Child: a Novel By Eowyn Ivey.  February 2012, 389 pages.

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart, he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.  As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place, things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them. Fans of Cecilia Ahern and Sarah Addison Allen will certainly enjoy this debut novel that falls under the category of magic realism.

Whatever you Love: a Novel By Louise Doughty, March 2012, 336 pages.

When the hit-and-run incident that claimed her 9-year-old daughter's life is ruled an accident, Laura decides to take matters into her own hands and track down the man responsible, which has disastrous consequences and drives her to a dangerous breaking point. This book has been optioned to become a film.  This emotionally gripping new novel will give readers a look into how far one will go for love and revenge.

Reviews brought to you each week by librarians Jennifer Niederhausen, Dona Stein and Heather Timko, Adult Services Division, Strongsville Branch Library.