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New Books by Popular Authors

Librarians Heather Timko, Dona Stein, & Jennifer Niederhausen bring you three great new books to check-out at the Strongsville Branch Library.

This week’s book selections are great new books by popular authors.  Fans of these authors will be pleased to check-out these latest releases.  We hope you will visit the Strongsville Branch Library today to pick-up these and many more new books.  Happy Reading!

The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion By Fannie Flagg.  November 2013,  368 pages. 

Fannie Flagg’s latest is a fun comic mystery about an Alabama woman named Sookie who discovers with a shock how little she knows about her formidable mother’s past.  In her quest for answers she uncovers the story of the All-Girl Filling Station run in the 1940’s by an irrepressible woman named Fritzi.   Fritzi’s adventures inspire Sookie to reinvent herself.  This book is highly recommended for readers who have enjoyed Flagg’s other works as well as fans of Anne George and Haywood Smith. 

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Bellman and Black: a Ghost Story By Diane Setterfield, November 2013, 224 pages.

By the best selling author of The Thirteenth Tale comes this story about William Bellman, a wealthy family man who has long forgotten about his cruel act from boyhood when he killed a bird with a slingshot.  His past comes back to haunt him when a mysterious stranger named Mr. Black, enters his life and his good fortune begins to turn.  He now must make a rather strange bargain with Mr. Black in hopes to change his fate.  Readers will be intrigued by this dark novel.  Fans of Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe will want to check this one out.

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The First Phone Call From Heaven By Mitch Albom, November 2013, 366 pages.

Mitch Albom brings us a new novel full of hope and faith that takes place in a small town on Lake Michigan.  The residents of the town start receiving phone calls from the afterlife.  The big question is whether or not these phone calls are real or is someone playing a cruel hoax on the residents.  Sully Harding in particular wants to find out the truth.  His wife died while he was in prison and now his young son is hoping to get a phone call from his deceased mother.  This is a truly spiritually uplifting story that fans of The Five People You Meet in Heaven will be excited to read.   

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

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