More New Books at the Strongsville Library

The new books just keep coming in! Stop in to your local Strongsville Branch to pick-up one of these and many more new books. Happy reading!

The Expats By Chris Pavone, March 2012, 336 pages.

Newly arrived in Luxembourg, mother and expat Kate Moore suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be and as her paranoia grows, she becomes increasingly terrified that her own past is catching up with her. So Kate begins to dig, to peel back the layers of deception that surround her. She discovers fake offices and shell corporations and a hidden gun, a mysterious farmhouse and numbered accounts with bewildering sums of money, and finally unravels the mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family, her marriage, and her life.  This new international thriller is an expertly crafted novel for fans of suspense novels.

The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac By Kris D’Agostino, January 2012, 352 pages.

Calvin Moretti can't believe how much his life sucks. He's a twenty-four-year-old film school dropout living at home again and working as an assistant teacher at a preschool for autistic kids. His insufferable go-getter older brother is also living at home, as is his kid sister, who's still in high school and has just confided to Cal that she's pregnant. What's more, Calvin's father, a career pilot, is temporarily grounded and obsessed with his own mortality, and his ever-stalwart mother is now crumbling under the pressure of mounting bills and the imminent loss of their Sleepy Hollow, New York, home: the only thing keeping the Morettis moored. Can things get worse? Oh, yes, they can. This funny debut novel is sure to please readers who have enjoyed the books of Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta.

Spin By Catherine McKenzie, February 2012, 438 pages.

Kate is a gossip reporter and woman in her 30s who likes to party hard and is still living like a college student. When she is hired by her favorite music magazine The Line to follow a young female celebrity into rehab and get the inside story, gossip reporter Kate “Sober” Sandford, a notorious lush, finds her assignment getting complicated when she realizes that she may be in rehab for a reason. Fans of the series Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella will enjoy this new “chick lit” title by Canadian author McKenzie.

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