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Celebrate the Freedom to Read a Good Book!
Librarians Heather Timko, Dona Stein, & Jennifer Niederhausen bring you three great new books to check-out at your local Strongsville Branch Library. Enjoy!
Celebrate our country’s Independence holiday with a great new book. You have the freedom to explore a great variety of new titles. Check-out these and many more books at your local Library. Happy Reading!
Center of the World By Thomas Van Essen, June 2013, 300 pages.
Alternating between 19th century Europe and present day New England, this novel follows painter JMW Turner and a contemporary, middle aged man in a disappointing marriage named Henry who stumbles onto a long lost and erotic Turner masterpiece of Helen of Troy called “The Center of the World”. Henry is also captivated by the painting, but an unscrupulous art dealer will do anything to get his hands on it. Art lovers will especially enjoy this look at Turner’s life and art.
Loyalty By Ingrid Thoft, June 2013, 416 pages.
The Ludlow family members, led by patriarch Carl Ludlow, are high powered attorneys in Boston. The black sheep of the family is Carl’s daughter Fina who is a law school dropout but now works for her father as a private investigator. When her sister-in-law turns up missing, Fina is on the case. Her father doesn’t want to get the police involved and her brother and niece start to distance themselves from the family. Fina finds out the more digging she does in this case, the more she gets caught up in the case and is determined to find out the truth. This fast moving debut novel is sure to please fans of detective novels.
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells By Andrew Sean Greer, June 2013, 320 pages.
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In 1985, Greta Wells finds herself in a deep depression after the death of her twin brother and the break-up of her relationship with her longtime lover. She decides to go see a doctor who recommends electroshock therapy. Her therapy treatments take her back in time to 1918 and 1941 – at the end and beginning of the world wars. In Greta’s time travels, her alter egos come in contact with her brother who is still alive and her boyfriend is her husband in one era. What would you do if you could go back in time and live three different lives? This is a thought-provoking and imaginative debut novel.
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Adult Services Division
Strongsville Branch Library