Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Joni Renee Zalk Author: Deborah Harkness Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance 579 pages, published February 2011 Reading Format: Book Summary The protagonist of A Discovery of Witches is, no surprise, a witch named Diana Bishop. Diana is a professor at Yale who specializes in the study of alchemy. Descended from a prominent […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Steve Martin Genre: Fiction, Art 304 pages, published November 23, 2010 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Lacey Yeager is an attractive, ambitious young woman who comes to New York to make her way in the art world during its heyday from the late 1990s through today. Starting out at Sotheby’s, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Blake Crouch Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller 336 pages, published June 11, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary New York City cop Barry Sutton is perplexed as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome, a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Chris Voss Genre: Non Fiction, Psychology, Self Improvement, Business 274 pages, published May 17, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary Chris Voss, a former hostage negotiator for the FBI, explains his approach to negotiating. He takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations, discussing the skills that helped […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Kent Haruf Genre: Fiction 301 pages, published August 22, 2000 Reading Format: Book Summary Plainsong tells the story of several residents of Holt, a small town in the high plains of rural Colorado. We meet a high school teacher who is left to raise his two young boys alone, a […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Darla Scheuth and Sue Deans Author: Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund Genre: Non Fiction, Science, Psychology, Economics, History, Public Policy 342 pages, published January 25, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary Factfulness is an exploration of how the world is doing so much better than people think. When asked simple […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Arthur C. Clarke Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction 234 pages, published August 1953 Reading Format: Book Summary Written in 1952, Childhood’s End describes a world in which a group of beings from outer space appear in spaceships over every city on earth. Called the Overlords, the extraterrestrial beings are intellectually, technologically, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: David Epstein Genre: Nonfiction, Business, Psychology, Self Improvement, Science 352 pages, published May 28, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary In Range, author David Epstein takes on the accepted wisdom that the key to success in most fields involves singular focus from a young age combined with thousands […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: David and Tammis Matzinger Author: Adam Higginbotham Genre: Non Fiction, History, Science, Foreign 561 pages, published February 12, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Midnight in Chernobyl is an exhaustive look at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster which follows individuals from many different facets of the story, from those working in […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Karin Slaughter Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime 496 pages, published May 21, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary Pieces of Her is a twisty thriller that follows two tracks. In the present day track, Andrea Cooper is on the run after watching her mother Laura professionally kill a […]