Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Aileen Schwab, Katy Fasset Author: Jojo Moyes Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 400 pages, published October 8, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Set in the Depression, The Giver of Stars is the story of five women who become the Packhorse Librarians, delivering library books to the residents of rural Kentucky and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Ashley Christianson Author: Liz Moore Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime 482 pages, published January 7, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary Long Bright River takes place in Kensington, a rundown Philadelphia neighborhood that has been decimated by the opioid crisis. Mickey is a single mother and a beat police officer trying to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Alex Michaelides Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery 325 pages, published February 5, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary The Silent Patient is a psychological thriller written from the point of view of Theo Faber, a criminal psychotherapist whose latest patient is Alicia Berenson, a famous painter who is in […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Katy Fassett Author: Amaryllis Fox Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Foreign 240 pages, published October 15, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA is the memoir of Amaryllis Fox who writes about her life as a young woman in the CIA. Fox was an undergraduate at […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Ben Emerson Author: Stephen E. Ambrose Genre: Nonfiction, World War II, History, Biography 299 pages, published August 14, 2001 Reading Format: Book Summary Written by World War II military historian Stephen Ambrose, The Wild Blue tells the story of the courageous young men who flew the massive B-24 bombers over Germany […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Marlys Lietz Author: Toni Morrison Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 216 pages, published September 6, 2005 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel and tells the story of 11 year old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola, a poor black child from a dysfunctional family, prays for her eyes […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Clare Telleen Author: Ann Patchett Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 337 pages, published September 24, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary The Dutch House is a book about a family that purchases an unusual and luxurious estate in the suburbs of Philadelphia in the late 1940’s. The house proves to […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Jo Nesbø Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller 273 pages, published February 16, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Midnight Sun tells the story of Jon, a hitman for Oslo’s biggest crime lord The Fisherman, who is on the run after he betrays his boss. Jon flees to a small, isolated […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Scott Adams Genre: Nonfiction, Psychology, Self Improvement, Politics 256 pages, published November 5, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Loserthink is famed Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams take on why people make bad decisions, like letting your ego have too much control, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Alan Brennert Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 439 pages, published May 24, 2011 Reading Format: Book Summary In the book Honolulu, author Alan Brennert tells the story of Jin, a young girl who leaves behind her family in Japanese occupied Korea to journey to Honolulu in 1914 as a picture bride. […]