Great Reads for Fall

Now that the weather is getting cooler, why not stop in to Strongsville Branch Library to check-out some new books to cuddle up with on the couch?  We hope you will enjoy these latest selections.  Happy Reading!
                                                                                

Fallen Women By Sandra Dallas, October 2013, 352 pages.

Sandra Dallas has set her latest historical novel in the old west when socialite Beret Osmundsen discovers to her shock not just that her younger sister has been brutally murdered, but that she had been living as a prostitute in a brothel.  Determined to find Lily’s murderer, she arrives in Denver and boldly insists on partnering with Detective Mick McCauley to expose the truth.   This page-turner of a mystery should appeal to fans of Anne Perry.

Guests on Earth By Lee Smith, October 2013, 368 pages.

Veteran novelist Smith provides a fictional account of Zelda Fitzgerald’s 1948 time and eventual death in a mental hospital fire through the lens of a young, gifted patient named Evalina Toussaint.  Asheville’s Highland Hospital was noted for innovative treatment of mental illness and addiction using exercise, diet, art and occupation therapy, and experimental shock therapy.  Readers who enjoyed Z by Therese Fowler or of other books by Lee Smith should enjoy this historical novel.

Sister Weiss By Naomi Ragen, October 2013, 320 pages.

In Ragen’s latest, two Brooklyn sisters from an ultra-Orthodox family are torn apart by the older sister’s rebellion.  Forty years later, pious Pearl’s sheltered daughter, Rivka, discovers the truth about her outcast aunt, now a famous photographer.  With her actions, Rivka reawakens family ghosts and sets a new future in motion.  Fans of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Allegra Goodman might enjoy this new novel.

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Strongsville Branch Library