March into April with a New Book!

Everyone knows their ABC’s, but do you know your "XYZ’s?" These three new titles featuring letters in the alphabet are great new novels. We hope you will come visit your local Strongsville Branch Library to check these out. Happy Reading!

Extinction: a Thriller
By Mark Alpert. February 2013, 384 pages.

Veteran Science writer Alpert’s new techno-thriller combines zombies and a machine takeover set in a near-future China. Jim Pierce is estranged from his hacker daughter but finds out she is being targeted by an assassin who want to stop her from exposing Chinese military secrets. Pierce sets out to find out why her daughter is a target and discovers that the Chinese military has developed an artificial life form that is threatening to destroy humanity. Fans of Daniel Wilson’s Robopocalypse and Michael Crichton will not want to miss this exhilarating page-turner.

Y: a Novel
By Marjorie Celona, January 2013, 272 pages.

This is debut novel follows the life a foster child named Shannon.  It’s a coming of age story about a girl that was abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of the local YMCA.　 She bounces around through foster homes until she finds some stability with single mother Miranda.  Shannon doesn’t give up on finding the answers to her past and why she was abandoned all those years ago as an infant. This novel is told through alternating chapters narrated by Shannon and her birth mother, Yula. Y tells an unforgettable story of identity and forgiveness.  This novel is a stunning debut and fans of Leah Stewart will most likely enjoy it. 

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
By Therese Anne Fowler, March 2013, 352pages.

Southern bell, Zelda Sayre meets a young army lieutenant, F. Scott Fitzgerald, at a country club dance in 1918 Alabama. Zelda falls hard for Scott who is aspiring to be a writer, but Zelda’s father is not impressed. When Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Parade, Zelda boards a train and heads north to marry her love. Set at the dawn of the Jazz Age, this novel will please readers who want to learn more about the romance between Zelda and Scott in this engrossing biographical novel. Fans of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife will want to pick up this new novel.

Reviews brought to you each week by Librarians – Jennifer Niederhausen, Dona Stein, & Heather Timko
Adult Services Division
Strongsville Branch Library