Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Joni Renee Zalk Author: Marlena de Blasi Genre: Non Fiction, Travel, Foreign, Memoir 290 pages, published June 3, 2003 Reading Format: Book Summary A Thousand Days in Venice tells the story of Marlena de Blasi, a divorced, middle aged American chef and restaurateur, who meets the Italian banker Fernando on the […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Donald A. Norman Genre: Non Fiction, Business, Psychology, Design 240 pages, published September 19, 2002 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Design of Everyday Things is about how the design of objects and systems can help or hinder users. Author Donald Norman explores how bad design can be avoided and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Arthur C. Brooks Genre: Non Fiction, Public Policy, Politics, Philosophy, History, Economics 261 pages, published July 14, 2015 Reading Format: e-Book on Hoopla Summary In The Conservative Heart, former American Enterprise Institute President and author Arthur C. Brooks writes about his vision for conservatism as a movement for happiness, unity, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Lisa Stock Author: Jeanine Cummins Genre: Fiction, Foreign 400 pages, published January 21, 2020 Reading Format: e-Book on Overdrive Summary American Dirt tells the horrific story of Lydia Pérez and her eight-year-old son Luca who must flee for their lives in Acapulco after Lydia’s journalist husband Javier and her entire family […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Karen Reader Author: Lee Strobel Genre: Non Fiction, Theology, Christian 90 pages, published March 26, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary The Case for Easter is a very short book that focuses on empirical arguments for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Author Lee Strobel interviews experts from a number of disciplines to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Lisa Jewell Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller 352 pages, published April 25, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary Middle aged, single mom Alice Lake finds a man on the beach outside her house. He is suffering from amnesia and has no idea who he is or what he is […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult 870 pages, published September 1, 2004 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is book number five in the classic Harry Potter series. Harry is growing up and as an emerging young adult/wizard is facing greater and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Jancy Campbell Author: Hyeonseo Lee Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Foreign 304 pages, published July 2, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary The Girl with Seven Names is written by Hyeonseo Lee and tells the incredibly story of her escape from North Korea and her efforts to get her mother and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jon Krakauer Genre: Nonfiction, Theology, Crime, History 399 pages, published July 10, 2003 Reading Format: Book Summary In Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer explores the story behind two horrific murders of a young woman and her baby daughter by brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty. The Lafferty’s were caught […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Marianne Boeke Author: Hope Jahren Genre: Nonfiction, Science, Memoir 290 pages, published March 1, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary Lab Girl is written by acclaimed scientist and geobiologist Hope Jahren who has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Jahren writes about both […]