New Books for Every Taste

These new books are sure to please many readers. Stop in to your local library branch to pick-up one of these new titles.  

We hope to see you soon. Happy reading!

All Woman and Springtime By Brandon W. Jones, May 2012, 372 pages. 

This spellbinding debut follows two Korean orphan girls, Gi and Il-Sun, who escape from North Korea’s forced labor camps only to find themselves trapped in the brutal underworld of human trafficking. How Gi and Il-sun endure, and  how they find a path to healing, is what drives this absorbing and exquisite novel. This tale of female friendship should appeal to readers who loved Memoirs of a Geisha or books by Lisa See.

Capital By John Lanchester, June 2012, 544 pages.

Celebrated novelist Lanchester returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. It's 2008 and things are falling apart: Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers are going under, and the residents of Pepys Road, London are receiving anonymous postcards reading “We Want What You Have.” Who is behind it? What do they want? Epic in scope yet intimate, capturing the ordinary dramas of very different lives, this is a novel of love and suspicion, of financial collapse and terrorist threat, of property values going up and fortunes going down, and of a city at a moment of extraordinary tension.

The Shoemaker’s Wife By Adriana Trigiani, April 2012, 475 pages.

This intricately woven tapestry of love and family, war and loss, risk and destiny follows star-crossed lovers Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who, after their first meeting in the Italian Alps, find their destinies inexplicably entwined as they build their lives in America. From the stately mansions of Carnegie Hill, to the cobblestone streets of Little Italy, over the perilous cliffs of northern Italy, to the white-capped lakes of northern Minnesota, these star-crossed lovers meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Trigiani fans will be highly anticipating this stand alone novel that was 23 years in the making. For readers that enjoy family history and romance this book is a true delight. 

Reviews brought to you each week by librarians Jennifer Niederhausen, Dona Stein and Heather Timko
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