Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Nancy Sissom Author: Lisa See Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Foreign, World War II 374 pages, published March 5, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Set on the Korean island of Jeju, The Island of Sea Women tells the story of Mi-ja and Young-sook, two young girls who work together as sea divers […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: John Grisham Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime 420 pages, published October 23, 2018 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Reckoning tells the story of Pete Banning, a decorated World War II hero who survived the Bataan death march. Shortly after returning home to his hometown of […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Caroline Kepnes Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery 422 pages, published August 28, 2018 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary When the beautiful young writer Guinevere Beck meets Joe Goldberg at the East Village bookstore where he works, she has no idea what she has gotten into. The two develop a relationship and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein Genre: Non Fiction, Science, Business, Sociology, Economics, Psychology 454 pages, published May 18, 2021 Reading Format: Book Summary In Noise, Economist, Social Scientist and Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman, along with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein, explore the concept of noise, i.e. why […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: John Grisham Genre: Fiction, Legal, Thriller, Suspense, Crime 480 pages, published October 13, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary In A Time for Mercy, author John Grisham revisits Jake Brigance, the protagonist from A Time to Kill, and many of the same characters from that incredibly popular book. In […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Liane Moriarity Genre: Fiction, Romance, Mystery 466 pages, published October 1, 2011 Reading Format: Book Summary Ellen O’Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist with a home office on an Australian beachfront. With a history of relationship failures, she is excited and hopeful when she begins dating widower Patrick who is an […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Nelson Mandela Genre: Non Fiction, Foreign, History, Memoir, Race 497 pages, published Reading Format: Audiobook Summary Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s memoir for the first part of his life, from childhood, his years as a freedom fighter, his long years of imprisonment to finally his realease and election […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Pam Dupont Author: Kristin Hannah Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 464 pages, published February 2, 2021 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary The Four Winds takes place in Texas, during the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression, and follows the story of Elsa Martinelli. Elsa, who never felt good enough for her […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Alan Paton Genre: Fiction, Foreign, Historical Fiction 316 pages, published 1948 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary Cry, the Beloved Country is a classic novel about South Africa during the Arpatheid period about Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom, who is charged with murdering a white man. Quotes “The […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Tiffany Dufu Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement, Memoir 304 pages, published February 14, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary In Drop the Ball, Tiffany Dufu the changes she made after realizing that trying to do it all as a working mother and wife wasn’t working for her and was causing […]