Book to Broadway Alert!

The internationally best-selling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is coming to Broadway! 

As reported by Early Word, the play will be coming to Broadway this fall, "after a long run in London, where it won the most Olivier Awards (the equivalent of the Tony’s here) for any play in the history of the award." 

Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears's dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain and is exceptional at maths, but he is ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and he distrusts strangers. But Christopher's detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that turns his world upside-down. (Publisher's Summary)

View the official trailer for the show below. 

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Fiction into Film

This month in the library you'll find two displays featuring books that have gone Hollywood. Here are just a few of the many titles you'll find:

Austenland by Shannon Hale: Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice which no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined. 

Austenland was adapted into a film starring  Keri Russell, Jane Seymour, Jennifer Coolidge and J.J. Feild was released in United States in August 2013.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer: Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, and pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. 

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was made into a film with the same name starring Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock which was released in 2011. 

Under the Skin by Michael Faber: Isserley is tiny, scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening as she cruises the roads of the Scottish Highlands sizing up male hitchhikers with big muscles. As she drives them deep into the Scottish wilds, they open up to her, revealing a complex and varied picture of life on earth - but Isserley is listening for clues such as who might miss them if they should disappear. If she decides they're worth the risk, she takes them farther than they ever dreamed of going. But takes them where?

Under the Skin has been adapted into a film starring Scarlett Johansson which will be released in the United States on April 4, 2014.

For more "Fiction into Film" titles, stop by the display in the alcove by the New Book collection, see the "From Page to Screen" display in the Video Room and stop by the reference desk to speak with a librarian.

Non-Spooky Ghost Stories

Who says that Halloween reading needs to be frightening and gory? Here are two former bestsellers narrated by the recently-departed, exploring the often taboo topics of death and the afterlife with curiosity and compassion.

The Lovely Bones (2002) by Alice Sebold

The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.

The Peony Pavilion (2007) by Lisa See

Peony, the cloistered daughter of a wealthy scholar in seventeenth-century China, returns after her death as a well-meaning ghost to haunt her former fiancé, who has married another.