Were you mesmerized by the plot twists in the Movie Shutter Island? Did you know that it was a book written by Dennis Lehane? Lehane is back with a new prohibition-era, guns and mobsters shoot em up thriller titled Live by Night. Follow the life of a stick-up kid as he moves from the slums of South Boston to become the crime boss during the bloody turf wars and abundant sunshine of Ybor City, Florida. If you like the flash and glitz of the Jazz Age 20’s with a gritty plot, double-crossed characters, robbery, assassins and the character arc of a simple criminal who eventually controls the entire bootlegging operations of the Gulf Coast, pick up this book.    

Live By Night - Dennis Lehane (Book) (Ebook)

On the way to meet her paramour, an Appalachian housewife, suffering from ennui, discovers a giant swarm of monarch butterflies. Once the discovery becomes public, the town is flooded by tourists who have different conceptions as to what it all means. Considered a sign of grace by the local congregation, a natural disaster by the scientists who study the phenomena, and a way to escape the boredom of her hum-drum existence, the story is a study of a small-community and their relationship to environmental changes in our lifetime. When outsiders begin to question small-town ways, she’s left to question (and defend) her own relationship to the community. From Kingsolver, Orange Award Winner.

Did you know that Brentwood carries Flight Behavior as an Ebook? If you have a compatible tablet (Ipad, Nexus, etc.) or Ereader (Kindle, Nook, Sony, etc.) you may borrow it from our Ebook Library. Click on the link below to download it. Do you need some help figuring out how to download the Ebook? Go to Help.Overdrive.com for step by step guides and video tutorials on how to download Ebooks, as well as audiobooks, to your devices.

Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behavior (Hardcover , Large print, or as an Ebook)

Did you know the hottest Summer bestsellers are available as Ebooks from your library? Check out: 

• Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (Link to Ebook)

Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. Mystery, Thriller (Goodreads)

• Fifty Shades of Grey - E.L. James (Link To Ebook)

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms. Erotic Fiction, Formerly Twilight Fan Fiction (Goodreads)

• Friends Forever - Danielle Steele (Link to Ebook)

Five children meet on the first day of kindergarten. In the years that follow, they become friends and more than friends. Together, they will find strength, meet challenges, face life’s adventures, endure loss, face stark realities, and open their hearts. (Goodreads)

• Fallen Angels - Daniel Silva (Link to Ebook)

Gabriel learns that the dead woman had uncovered a dangerous secret—a secret that threatens a global criminal enterprise that is looting timeless treasures of antiquity and selling them to the highest bidder. But there is more to this network than just greed. A mysterious operative is plotting an act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions… . (Goodreads)

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And the Winners of the 2012 National Book Awards are: 

Young Peoples Literature: 
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets 
(Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)

Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.

Poetry: 
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
(University of Chicago Press)  (Not in Brentwood, but could be requested and sent to Brentwood)

The main thing, I guess, is that I’m older, you might say even older, than in my previous books, and the fact that this is so shows up in a number of ways in these poems, the self-spooking of old age, sometimes amused at itself, sometimes not, the anxiety about getting it done, the experience of how one’s fate is like that of others and must feel as if it were not. - David Ferry, Interview with National Book  Foundation

Nonfiction:
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 
(Random House) (Large Print) (eBook) (Audiobook Download)

The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.

Fiction:
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) (Large Print) (eBook)

When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.

Annotations by Novelist unless noted. 

Click here to view interviews with authors on the longlist, provided by the National Book Foundation.