Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Tana French Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Foreign 480 pages, published August 28, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary A year after the discovery of a teenaged boy’s murder at a girlsʼ boarding school, Detective Stephen Moran is brought in with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case. Moran […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult 734 pages, published September 28, 2002 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire takes place during Harry’s fifth year at Hogwart’s. The book begins with a trip to the International Quidditch Cup where Harry and the Weasly family […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Foreign 450 pages, published April 30, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In one of the half-abandoned luxury developments that populate Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children have been murdered. Mick “Scorcherˮ Kennedy of the Dublin Murder Squad investigates the case and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Valerie Flores Author: Lori Gottlieb Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Psychology, Self Improvement 432 pages, published April 2, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is written by Lori Gottlieb, a therapist in Los Angeles who also writes an advice column for the Atlantic. Gottlieb takes you inside her […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Aubrey Shick Author: Phil Knight Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir, Business, Sports 400 pages, published April 26, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Shoe Dog is the memoir of Phil Knight, founder and still majority shareholder of Nike. He shares the story of the founding and rise of Nike that went from importer […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Mike Brady Author: David Goggins Genre: Nonfiction, Self Improvement, Psychology, Memoir 366 pages, published December 4, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary After surviving a nightmarish childhood, David Goggins entered his early twenties overweight, unmotivated and depressed. Deciding that something had to change, Goggins set his sights on being accepted to the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Tana French Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Foreign 416 pages, published July 13, 2010 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In 1985, 19 year old Frank Mackey was from a dysfunctional family living in a poor part of Dublin in small flat named Faithful Place. He and his girl, Rosie Daly, were […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Jonathan Haidt Genre: Nonfiction, Psychology, Politics, Theology, Philosophy 419 pages, published March 13, 2012 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our cultural polarization and explores way to bridge the chasms that divide us. Haidt mixes his own […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Mike Brady Author: Ryan Holliday Genre: Nonfiction, Business, History, Politics, Biography 331 pages, published February 27, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary Conspiracy tells the tale of Peter Theil, Paypal founder and billionaire investor, and the conspiracy he funded to exact revenge on Gawker Media. In 2007, in a short blogpost on […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Monica Hesse Genre: Nonfiction, Crime, Mystery 255 pages, published July 11, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary Intrigued by a five-month arson spree across the rural coast of Virginia in Accomack County, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse decided to check out the scene. She discovered a compelling story of rural life […]