Big Titles This Month

2012 has been a great year for fiction and November keeps the trend going.  Check out these notable November reads coming soon to your Community Library.

• Literary darling Alice Munro, winner of several awards including the International Man Booker Prize, pens Dear Life, a series of short stories set in towns and countryside around Lake Huron.

• Author Whitney Otto is best known for her novel, How to Make an American Quilt.  After years on hiatus, she returns to the literary scene with Eight Girls Taking Pictures, the story of women photographers in cities around the world during the twentieth century.

• Flight Behavior by bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver takes place in rural Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who discovers wonder in a valley, but when she tries to share it,discovers that she is at odds with her community.

Big Titles This Month

Publishers often release big name book titles in the fall and this year is no exception.  Check out these heavy hitters available at your Community Library!

Though John Grisham has branched out from legal thrillers, it is exactly this type of book his fans crave.  Now, he returns to this genre with The Racketeer which tells the story of the murder of a federal judge through the eyes of an attorney who knows who the killer is.  

The Twelve is Justin Cronin's second book in the trilogy started with The Passage.  A far cry from Twilight and romantic vampire novels, this one is sure to send chills down your spine.

While Dennis Lehane is known for his crime fiction,  Live By Night is his second foray into historical fiction.  The book takes place during the Prohibition Era and rumor has it that the story is in development for a feature film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.