Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Stock Author: Alka Joshi Genre: Fiction, Cultural, Foreign 384 pages, published March 3, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary On the run from an abusive marriage during the 1950’s, 17 year old Lakshmi settles in the vibrant pink city of Jaipur, India. Self taught, she becomes the city’s most […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ross Douthat Genre: Non Fiction, Sociology, Cultural, Economics, Politics, History, Philosophy 272 pages, published February 25, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In The Decadent Society, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat explores his thesis that the Western world is facing a crisis of decadence. Douthat describes how the combination of […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Suzanne Collins Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance 517 pages, published May 19, 2020 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel to the wildly popular Hunger Games Trilogy. The book opens with the reaping in advance of the tenth annual Hunger […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Stock Author: Janelle Brown Genre: Fiction, Romance, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense 496 pages, published April 21, 2020 Reading Format: e-Book on Overdrive Summary Pretty Things tells the story of two very different women. Nina is a grifter who grew up bouncing from town to town with her less than honorable single […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Meris Delli-Bovi Author: Antoine Laurain Genre: Fiction, Romance, Foreign 159 pages, published April 7, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary When Parisian bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on the street there is nothing in it to indicate who it belongs to. However, there are all sorts of other things […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Adam Carolla Genre: Non Fiction, Humor, Memoir, Cultural, Politics, Essays 256 pages, published November 2, 2010 Reading Format: e- Book on Overdrive Summary In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks is basically a humorous rant by Adam Carolla against many things PC. He rips into an absurd culture that demonizes […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Leigh Bardugo Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy 459 pages, published October 8, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary Galaxy “Alex” Stern was raised in Los Angeles by a hippie mom and dropped out of school into a world of drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and worse. At 20, she […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Vivek Murthy Genre: Non Fiction, Health, Psychology, Self Improvement, Public Policy 352 pages, published April 28, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In Together, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy argues that loneliness is at the root of our current mental health and drug abuse crisis’s. In response, he advocates social and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Drue Emerson Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Genre: Fiction, Romance 342 pages, published July 7, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary 29 year old Hannah Martin is at a crossroads in her life. Spending her twenties bouncing from city to city and job to job, she returns to her hometown of Los Angeles […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Scot Reader Author: Shelby Steele Genre: Non Fiction, History, Politics, Sociology, Public Policy 208 pages, published May 29, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against him, accused […]