3 New Books to Check Out at Library

Here’s to a new month and three great new books! We hope you will check one out today. Happy reading!

The Book of Madness and Cures: a Novel By Regina O’Melveney, April 2012, 320 pages. 

Dr. Gabriella Mondini, a strong-willed, young Venetian woman, has followed her father in the path of medicine. She possesses a single minded passion for the art of physick, even though, in 1590, the male-dominated establishment is reluctant to accept a woman doctor. So when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, Gabriella's own status in the Venetian medical society is threatened.  Gabriella searches across Europe for her missing father, without whom she can no longer continue to treat her Venetian patients, who need her desperately.  Gorgeous written, and filled with details about science, and medicine, this is an unforgettable debut novel.

The Cove By Ron Rash, April 2012, 255 pages.

Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton, a lonely young woman branded as a witch, finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love might not be enough to protect them from a devastating secret.  This is a powerful, haunting new novel for fans of literary fiction.

Mudwoman By Joyce Carol Oates, March 2012, 428 pages.  

From the author of the bestseller A Widow's Story comes a riveting psychological horror story about the crackup of an Ivy League university president haunted by her secret past as the child of a poor, mentally ill religious fanatic who tried to drown her in a riverside mudflat. This is an intense masterfully written new novel. Margaret Atwood fans might also want to take note of this latest novel by Oates. 

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