An electrifying new novel from Alice Hoffman – with a librarian

Cortez writes “Alice Hoffman seems to have scored well, with her latest novel “The Ice Queen,” reviewed in the Chicago Sun Times.

“The child, who loses her mother at a far too early age, grows up to be a young librarian who retreats to the safety of books and caring for her grandmother while her older brother, Ned, becomes a meteorologist, professor and project adviser for a study of lightning.”

Books are safe?