New Books You Won't Want to Put Down

This week’s book selections will certainly be hard to put down.  If you are looking for a great new book to read, than you must stop in to the Strongsville Branch Library to check these out.  Happy Reading!
                                                                               

Blowback By Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett, October 2013, 288 pages.

Former CIA ops officer Plame and thriller writer Lovett have teamed up with this new espionage thriller novel.  The story follows a covert CIA officer named Vanessa Pearson who has just escaped a sniper attack that left a fellow officer dead.  Now she is determined to track down the nuclear arms dealer responsible with the help of another officer whom she is romantically involved with.  How far will she go and what risks will she take to track down the killer.  This is a fast paced new book that will surely please readers who enjoy a good spy novel.

How to Be a Good Wife By Emma Chapman, October 2013, 288 pages.

Marta Bjornstad cannot remember much about her childhood or even her life before she met her husband.  All she knows is that she’s spent the last eighteen years as a devoted housewife and mother, raising their son.  Her son has now gone on to university and she misses him terribly.  She stops taking her daily medications and then begins to have weird memory lapses and visions that are making her question everything she has known about herself and her life.  This a spellbinding and intriguing story reminiscent of S.J. Watson’s novel Before I Go to Sleep.

Melody of Secrets by Jeffrey Stepakoff, October 2013, 272 pages.

By the author of Fireworks Over Toccoa, this historical novel is set during the 1960s U.S. space program, when deeply-buried secrets could threaten not just a marriage, but a country.  Maria and James first met during WWII when the fighter pilot was shot down and sought shelter in her cottage.  Fifteen years later, they meet again in Huntsville Alabama where she is married to a German rocket scientist and he is an astronaut candidate responsible for reporting on the rocket engines and the scientists developing them.  Then James learns secrets that could shatter her world.  Recommended for fans of Nicholas Sparks or Anita Shreve.

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