Some Nighttime Reading, Courtesy of the Strongsville Library

Looking for a good book to read before you go to bed at night? Why not try one of these great new books available now at your local library. 

We hope you have a good night with a great book.  Happy reading!

The Night Circus By Erin Morgenstern, September 2011, 384 pages.  

Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways. Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart. Fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife should enjoy this book.

Night Strangers: A Novel By Christopher Bohjalian, October 2011, 400 pages.  

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, and Skeletons at the Feast, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story.  After he crashes his plane into Lake Champlain, killing most of the passengers, Chip Linton moves into a new home with his wife and twin daughters and soon finds himself being haunted by the dead passengers, all while his wife wonders why the strange herbalist denizens of the town have taken such an interest in her daughters. This is a powerful, frightful story with a great cast of characters.

Nightwoods By Charles Frazier, September 2011, 259 pages.

The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s.  Named the guardian of her murdered sister's troubled twins, Luce struggles to build a family with the children before being targeted by the twins' father--her sister's killer--who believes that the children are in possession of a stolen cache of money.  Frazier is known for his historical literary odysseys, and for making figures in the past come vividly to life. Set in the twentieth century, Nightwoods resonates with the timelessness of a great work of art.

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