Lakeland Public Library discussion

Check out the four books that are arriving in theaters this month. Be sure and read the novel before you see the movie.

The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
About the book: Flying together on a storm-ravaged night, a gifted surgeon facing a painful separation from his wife and a young magazine writer on her way to her wedding are plunged into a life-and-death ordeal. As the days turn into weeks on the unforgiving mountain, the two heal from their physical wounds even as they are forced to confront surprising and painful truths about their lives.

Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall
About the book: Recounts how one co-author suffered through plantation-style slavery until the 1960s and homelessness before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
About the book: In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally.

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
About the book: Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.